Direct election of president requires uniform standards. But HR 1 won't get us there.

Congressional Democrats are particularly proud of their election reform bill, H.R. 1, which they call the For the People Act.

They regard it as a necessary federal intervention to override efforts by Republicans in state legislatures to enact laws that allegedly suppress the vote, particularly in low-income and minority communities.

Republicans loathe the bill, regarding it as a federal takeover of decisions about the conduct of elections which, in our federal system, were intended to be made by the states. And the mandate of procedures that are vulnerable to election fraud.