Tim Graham: Election ‘reform’ fight — mainstream media’s overwhelming Democrat bias on full display

Democrats at all times appear to be the heroes within the copy of so-called “mainstream” media shops. Republicans typically emerge because the villains who squash every little thing noble and good. Leftists are usually described because the “reformers” who one way or the other lack an ideology.

Take a March 15 story that led the nationwide part of The New York Times. The headline was “For Voting Rights Advocates, a ‘Once in a Generation Moment’ Looms,” with the subheading “Opposition to restrictive Republican voting laws — and support for a sweeping Democratic bill — fuels a movement like none in decades. But can it succeed?”

Leftists are described as “voting rights advocates” who’re having their “moment.” That’s as a result of Democrats are in charge of every little thing; they’ve a “sweeping” proposal to fight these “restrictive” Republicans.

You can witness extra of this careening tilt within the opening paragraph, written by supposedly goal reporters Nicholas Fandos and Michael Wines: “State and national voting-rights advocates are waging the most consequential political struggle over access to the ballot since the civil rights era, a fight increasingly focused on a far-reaching federal overhaul of election rules in a last-ditch bid to offset a wave of voting restrictions sweeping Republican-controlled state legislatures.”

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So, Republicans are pushing “restrictions” that may be slimed as curbing “access to the ballot,” as occurred throughout “the civil rights era” (ahem, “racist”).

The reporters then laud the Democratic invoice as a “landmark national expansion of voting rights.” Democrats typically suggest “landmark” laws. That’s a part of how The New York Times and different shops promote — lower than subtly — for Democrats.

Out of 35 paragraphs on this story, the overwhelming majority describe how “advocacy groups” reminiscent of Progress Arizona and Black Voters Matter are lobbying for the invoice. President Joe Biden’s “got to have his Lyndon B. Johnson moment,” the Black Voters Matter govt director says. (Republicans had been once more tagged as voter-repressing bigots.)

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Only one paragraph incorporates a Republican argument towards H.R. 1: that the invoice is a “cynical attempt by the left to put their thumb on the scales of democracy and engineer our laws to help them win elections.”

That quote was preceded by a warning to not imagine the GOP: “Republicans are still inflamed by Mr. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election and the party’s unified message that voting restrictions, many of which fall most heavily on minorities and Democratic-leaning voters, are needed to prevent fraud, which studies have repeatedly shown to barely exist.” 

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These scribes do not apply the phrase “controversial” to H.R. 1. There aren’t any polls cited to indicate the place the voters land on the matter. A latest survey by the Honest Elections Project, for instance, discovered that 77% of respondents imagine voters needs to be required to indicate a photograph ID once they vote. A McLaughlin & Associates ballot discovered 81% help a photograph ID requirement. H.R. 1 scraps that.

The McLaughlin ballot additionally discovered 85% help for “requiring signature verification for any mail-in ballot voting.” H.R. 1 would guarantee states couldn’t implement any witness signature or notarization requirement for mail-in voters.

The Times vaguely mentions “the Republican voting agenda,” saying that it included “curbs on mail-in and early voting and stiffer voter ID requirements.” They favor “curbs” and “stiffer” necessities, not ballot-integrity measures. 

This Times story would not actually clarify what’s on this almost 800-page invoice. But it passes alongside the Democratic flatulence about “the rollback of voting rights” being “an existential threat to the democracy on which all other liberal causes, from gun control to health care reform, depend.”

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Is this a “rollback of voting rights”? Or simply the left’s agenda?

“Repressive voting bills” are supported by the vast majority of voters, however liberal journalists actually do not care what the polls say. Journalism and liberalism are inevitably linked.

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