#The right fix for voting laws and other commentary

Election expert: The Right Fix for Voting Laws

“It’s easy to see why” the Democrats’ S1 bill — the “For the People Act” — stalled, snarks Honest Elections Project director Jason Snead at Townhall: It’s an “unconstitutional overreach that risks plunging democracy’s foundations into disarray.” S1’s policies weren’t just “unwise” but ­“unpopular.” They would have scrapped voter-ID laws, though polling shows “more than three-fourths of Americans favor” them. Dems have claimed Republican states are passing discriminatory new voting laws. Yet their “corrosive” rhetoric has only resulted in “increased distrust” in the system. Now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the Dems’ backup, HR4, goes “even further.” If Americans want “a true bipartisan solution that ­secures voting rights and strengthens our democracy,” then just let states “keep working to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.”

Foreign desk: The TikToking China Threat

Despite President Joe Biden’s warnings about China at the G-7, “tens of millions of Americans” see him as “weak” on Beijing, reports John Mac Ghlionn at The American Conservative — and his “executive order revoking Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat, two spy tools favored by the Chinese Communist Party,” helps explain why. TikTok has introduced “new US-based privacy policies” that will collect “face-prints” and “voice-prints.” Why might it want such information? Is it collecting data for the CCP? “China has a history of weaponizing biometric data. . . . Why would it not use TikTok” to collect such information? “Team Trump issued executive orders on TikTok and WeChat for a very specific reason”: Both are national-security concerns. These apps “need to be banned.”

Conservative: Dems Spread Urban Chaos

Americans around the country are concerned about rising crime, the newest “monster brought to you by the Democratic Party and the leftists who control them,” sighs Tammy Bruce at The Washington Times. By signaling to society “that there is no law and order, and no repercussions for criminal behavior,” Democrats have destroyed the “quality of life and the American Dream” in blue-misruled localities. As chaos mounts, citizens generally turn to government for safety, yet the “policies Democrats pursue in cities they control are exactly what they want to inflict on the entire country.” The left may believe that America deserves all this destruction as punishment “for being systemically racist,” but we must stop putting up with domestic violence “writ large from politicians and activists.”

Legal take: The NCAA’s Indefensible ‘Monopoly’

Dismantling the NCAA’s “monopoly” over college sports is “long overdue,” and the Supreme Court appears to agree, cheers Scott Lemieux at NBC News Think. On Monday, the justices unanimously ruled that restrictions on covering college athletes’ educational costs violate antitrust law. Under NCAA rules, “the only form of remuneration” players, as amateurs, can receive is a scholarship; even providing such things as computers is banned. Though the ruling was narrow, Justice Brett Kavanaugh “all but invited players to sue to challenge all of the NCAA’s limits” on compensation, suggesting they would have “a strong case.” That’s good: After all, a system where everyone can make as much as possible, “except for the players,” who put their bodies on the line to “generate enormous revenues for everyone else,” is indefensible.

Money watch: Bitcoin Madness in El Salvador

“Why bitcoin in El Salvador?” ask Steve H. Hanke and Manuel Hinds at The Wall Street Journal. The Central-American nation became the first to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender after passing a law “in the middle of the night.” It’s a strange turn of events: Two decades ago, it “mothballed its currency, the colón,” and adopted the US dollar instead. “Dollarization has worked,” with El Salvador’s inflation rate “the lowest in Latin America,” its economic growth outpacing the regional average. “So why try to fix the dollarized system with the dangerous and fundamentally flawed Bitcoin Law?” The law mandates all must accept bitcoin; such forced-tender laws “are a Communist staple” that eliminate “traders’ freedom of currency choice.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board