We noticed national Democrats were fundraising online last week and imploring their media mouthpieces to detail the horrors of the Make Elections Great Again bill, which was introduced in the United States House.
We’re sure many thousands sent checks, used PayPal or their favorite online methods to fund the perceived outrage, but they ought to have saved their money.
The Make Elections Great Again Act (MEGA), and its cousin, the SAVE America Act, aren’t going anywhere because, even should they scrape by and pass the Republican House, they would run into a Senate where the filibuster effectively means 60 votes are needed to pass (and Republicans alone don’t have the votes).
That being said, we think the bills have some merits, but we still lean largely to the states having sway over their own elections, the way they always have.
Both bills would: