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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency.

We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America and we'll be asking if normalcy, which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American politics.

The answer, of course, is no.

I'm joined today by John Fund, who is a columnist at National Review and foxnews.com, And we're going to be asking if HR1 is an existential threat to American democracy.

John, you've written a couple of pieces for us on this subject.

HR1 is House Resolution 1, which is the Democrats' extremely ambitious plan to reform electoral processes in America in a way that

would massively advantage them in the future. Can you, for our listeners who might not know about it,

can you give us a sort of brief outline of what the reform is, how extensive it is, and why you

think it may be so dangerous?

Well, reform, as you know, Freddie, is a word that is often misused to describe what you want to do

and how you want to do it. I would call this a deform. I don't think there is anything in this

legislation that improves American democracy, perhaps except for a few passages on the margins.

This would basically make fraud easier by forcing every state, which currently has its own election laws, as the Constitution allows,

to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration,

and no-fault absentee balloting. Without any guarantees that there would be safeguards against

fraud or misrepresentation, it would degrade the accuracy of registration lists by requiring states

to automatically register any person on any

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