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groundloop

(11,519 posts) Thu Oct 24, 2019, 01:03 PM Oct 2019

House Democrats pass bill to prevent foreign interference in elections, Trump threatens to veto it

Source: CBS News

Washington — The House approved legislation on Wednesday to better protect the country's elections from foreign interference, the third major bill the Democratic-controlled chamber has passed this year addressing problems that arose in the 2016 presidential election.

But President Trump threatened to veto it, and on the same day, Republicans blocked three election security bills from being voted on in the Senate, according to The Hill.

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The Stopping Harmful Interference in Elections for a Lasting Democracy, or SHIELD Act, would require that candidates and political committees notify the FBI and other authorities if a foreign power offers campaign help. It also tightens restrictions on campaign spending by foreign nationals and requires more transparency in political ads on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

And it would explicitly prohibit campaigns from exchanging campaign-related information with foreign governments and their agents. The latter provision was aimed at reports that officials in Trump's 2016 campaign shared polling data with a person associated with Russian intelligence.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-democrats-pass-bill-to-prevent-foreign-interference-in-elections-trump-veto-today-2019-10-24/

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House Democrats pass bill to prevent foreign interference in elections, Trump threatens to veto it (Original Post) groundloop Oct 2019 OP

I thought it was more than a "report" TheRealNorth Oct 2019 #1

If it DENVERPOPS Oct 2019 #3

What a blithering, self incriminating idiot. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 #2

Just more nothing from the Allowed To Do Nothing Democrats William Seger Oct 2019 #4

That seems completely reasonable. docgee Oct 2019 #5

If he did veto it, i'm thinking he would be GUILTY of bluestarone Oct 2019 #6

He knows he has to cheat. truthisfreedom Oct 2019 #7

Moscow Mitch won't bring it up for a vote in his duma anyway. PSPS Oct 2019 #8

TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)

1. I thought it was more than a "report"

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Thu Oct 24, 2019, 01:13 PM

Oct 2019

That Manafort shared polling data with Deripaska. Mueller just couldn't prove the purpose that it was shared was to allow the Russians to target Democratic voters with misinformation.

Fucking MSM.

DENVERPOPS

(8,838 posts)

3. If it

Reply to TheRealNorth (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 24, 2019, 01:35 PM

Oct 2019

If it truly was the Dems guilty of election interference, as Trump and Republicans are telling the people in the U.S. they would jump at the chance to make it illegal.

By Vetoing it, they clearly show WHICH party is doing the election tampering........

That, along with castrating the Federal Election Commission and Mitch taking all money away from the three Federal groups investigating the election fraud, it pretty well is a slam dunk case of who is doing all the corrupt election things.