OPINION
Vote Buying, Biden Style
Cal Thomas | Oct 08, 2024
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Vote buying is illegal in the United States. The law says: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote--Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
For fact checkers that's 18 U.S. Code 597 - Expenditures to influence voting.
Politicians have managed to circumvent the law by calling what they do by another name and offering incentives other than direct cash payments to voters to check the box for a certain candidate. "Walking around money" on Election Day has long been a tradition, especially in some big cities with large minority populations.
Some critics say President Joe Biden is engaging in a more sophisticated type of vote buying in his attempt to forgive student loan debt.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Randal Hall in Georgia (appointed by George W. Bush) announced that he will let a temporary restraining order that had frozen the Biden plan expire. The ruling had more to do with the plaintiffs' lack of "standing" than with the president's constitutional authority to forgive loans, which the Supreme Court has ruled he does not have. That has not stopped Biden from trying to circumvent the high court. Judge Hall directed the case be transferred to Missouri, since the states that sued claim Biden's plan would most harm student loan servicer Mohela, or the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority.
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