Republicans lie and steal elections

Seriously. Why else would Republicans who said they'd support a bill to help local governments do recounts vote against letting it come up on the House floor?

When New Jersey Democratic Rep. Rush Holt’s Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act came up for a vote in the House Administration Committee on April 2, the Republicans on the committee gave it their unanimous support. But two weeks later, those same Republican members voted against moving the bill to the House floor. It would have taken a two-thirds vote to push the bill to the floor; with most House Republicans opposed, the bill didn’t make it that far.

Let's just say it again: the Republicans are refusing to even vote on whether election results should be verifiable. Why?

The White House and its lackeys say that it's because of the cost. The logic of that: they aren't willing to spend government money ensuring the basic foundations of democracy.

As if there were any purer use of government funds.

The real reason, of course, is because they want to be able to continue to talk a lot about bullshit like flag pins without actually having to *do* anything patriotic. And possibly, as Apo says, because they fully intend to cheat.

But I have to admit, I actually am more outraged by the rationalization--that free and fair elections are too expensive--than I am by the probable explanations.

And of course this news comes out on a Friday.

Fuckers.