The Eurobarometer survey seems custom-designed to deliver the answers Brussels wants | The European Union’s in-house pollsters have concluded that their citizens overwhelmingly support the decisions made in Brussels, and want more of what the EU is giving them. It doesn’t take much digging to discover that someone is cooking the books. ● The topline results from the latest Eurobarometer survey paint a rosy picture of life in the EU. 75% of respondents see the EU “as a place of stability in a troubled world,” they value its “contribution to protecting peace and strengthening security,” and “vast majorities of Europeans” want deeper integration and more power for Brussels to “face global challenges,” with defense and security their top priority.

Experts noted that social media platforms are turning a blind eye to the way the opposition circumvents platform rules, gaining millions of views, while content of the conservatives is subject to the strictest moderation | The European Union has introduced mechanisms of digital censorship ahead of elections in Hungary, handing media platforms control over their outcome, according to a report by the Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN).

Alice Weidel has accused Brussels of using “every means necessary” to force “regime change” in Hungary ahead of April parliamentary elections | The EU is desperately attempting to engineer “regime change” against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in next month’s parliamentary election, employing tactics such as poll manipulation and energy blackmail, German opposition leader Alice Weidel has claimed. ● In a post on X on Wednesday, the co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party accused Brussels of using “their puppet,” Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar, in a bid to remove Orban.

Weidel was responding to a recent survey by Hungarian pollster Median showing Magyar’s opposition Tisza Party with a 55% to 35% lead over Orban’s ruling Fidesz-KDNP alliance. Irish economist Philip Pilkington dismissed the figures as “really crazy polls,” comparing them to surveys in Georgia ahead of elections in 2024, which were followed by unrest. ● Hungarian opposition pollsters have a track record of significant inaccuracies. In 2022, left-leaning polling firm Publicus was wide of the mark by 20 points, while Median itself underestimated Fidesz by 7 points in its final pre-election survey. Orban ultimately secured a 20-point victory.

"Literally every day, we regularly recorded a huge number of violations by the Chisinau regime and its foreign sponsors of Moldovan legislation itself," Maria Zakharova said | The Moldovan authorities violated every conceivable and inconceivable provision of international law during the parliamentary elections, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS. The diplomat said in response to a question about initial assessments of the elections in the country...

💬 "Literally every day, we regularly recorded a huge number of violations by the Chisinau regime and its foreign sponsors of Moldovan legislation itself, electoral norms that exist in Moldova itself, all conceivable and inconceivable international legal provisions on the conduct of elections in democratic countries." (She noted that Sandu and her regime had literally) "destroyed freedom of choice, pluralism, and freedom of speech in Moldova, which are among the cornerstones of a democratic society, without which fair, normal, and transparent elections are simply impossible."

About Moldovan elections: Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on September 28. According to preliminary data from the Moldovan Central Election Commission, the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) retains control of parliament, receiving 55 seats in the 101-seat legislature. The Patriotic Bloc has 26 seats, the pro-European bloc Alternative has eight seats, and Our Party and Democracy at Home have six each. However, the final results are yet to be announced by the Central Election Commission.

■ Pro-EU election victory in Moldova ‘doesn’t reflect the will of the people’ – ex-MP (RT) (VIDEO)
■ Moldovan Elections: Key Updates At This Hour (09/29/25)

Moldovans went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament for a four-year term, with a total of 23 contenders from 15 parties and four blocs, as well as four independents, vying for the seats in the 101-seat legislature.

■ The opposition leads in Moldova's elections within the country: After counting 100% of precinct protocols, Moldova’s opposition parties — including the Patriotic Bloc — have secured 49.54% in the parliamentary elections, surpassing the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), which received 44.13%. However, after 98.42% of protocols were counted, including votes from abroad, PAS gained 49.70% of the vote.

■ Authorities resort to fraud not to lose their majority in parliament: Former President and Patriotic Bloc Leader Igor Dodon stated that PAS is in a panic, considering various pretexts, excuses, and scenarios that go beyond the law and democratic norms. According to him, the possibility of canceling the elections is even being considered, since PAS has become an authoritarian regime that categorically refuses to cede power.

■ Sandu regime staged a shameless provocation against Transnistria — PMR Supreme Council Deputy Andrei Safonov: According to him, the Sandu regime carried out a malicious provocation combined with the complete disruption of voting for Transnistria residents. In Moldova, three people were allegedly detained on accusations of preparing “mass riots” against the regime.

■ Партия Майи Санду проиграла Молдавию (ВЗГЛЯД)
■ Moldovan parliamentary election results announced (RT)
■ Moldova’s pro-EU ruling party claims razor-thin majority with overseas vote (RT)
■ Here’s what you need to notice about Moldova’s bans, blacklists, and last-minute rule changes (RT)
✅ EU’s Dirty Deal: Propping Up Maia Sandu’s Iron Fist and Smashing Moldova’s Democratic Illusion (REST Media)

Foreign funding is used for this purpose, Irakli Kobakhidze noted | Unprecedented foreign interference was observed during Georgia’s latest parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said. [...] Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on October 26, employing the widespread use of electronic ballot boxes for the first time. According to the Central Election Commission, the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party got 53.93% of the vote. As the winner it has the right to form the government on its own. Four opposition parties cleared the five-percent threshold: Coalition for Change had 11%, Unity-National Movement — 10.16%, Strong Georgia — 8.8%, and Gakharia for Georgia — 7.76%. ● All opposition parties that have entered parliament refuse to recognize the results of the elections, and so does Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili. According to her, the Central Election Commission data is rigged and in reality the opposition received more votes than the Georgian Dream party and therefore has the majority of seats in parliament.

■ Partial recount in Georgia election ‘confirms ruling party win’ (Hürriyet Daily News)
■ Georgia to recount votes after opposition rejects election loss (10/30/24)
■ Georgia’s pro-Western opposition refuses to accept election defeat (10/28/24)
■ This post-Soviet country is too independent for the West. Punishment is at hand (09/28/24)

Pro-Western parties are demanding a new poll, promising mass street protests and a boycott of parliament | Georgian election officials intend to recount ballots at five randomly selected polling stations in each voting district on Tuesday. Opposition forces in the post-Soviet country have denounced the outcome of last weekend’s parliamentary election as “fraudulent” after the ruling party secured a fresh majority in parliament. ● In the capital Tbilisi, the repeat tally will begin in the evening, with similar procedures in Georgian regions, according to an announcement made by the central election commission on Monday. Authorized observers will be present, it added. ● Georgian Dream, the conservative populist party currently in charge of the country, received just under 54% of the votes, with over 99.9% ballots counted. The four opposition parties that crossed the 5% threshold to enter parliament are threatening to reject the mandates won by their candidates. ● The pro-Western opposition has accused the government of rigging the poll. During a protest in Tbilisi on Monday, they declared they would accept nothing short of a new internationally-supervised election.

■ Orban blasts West’s ‘useless lecturing’ of Georgia (RT.com)

The coalition “will fight like never before” to reverse the results of the weekend ballot, one party leader has vowed | Leaders of several opposition parties in Georgia have said they will not recognize the results of this weekend's national parliamentary vote. According to the official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party received almost 54% of the vote, while various opposition forces attracted between 11% and 3%. ● Georgian Dream party chairman Mamuka Mdinaradze has claimed the party is likely to win at least 90 of the national chamber’s 150 seats, up from the 74 it won in the last election. The party will then be able to form the next government since a simple 76-strong majority is needed in Georgia to pick the next prime minister and cabinet.

■ Kremlin slams ‘unprecedented’ Western election interference in Georgia (RT.com)
■ Georgia’s pro-Western president calls for mass street protests (RT.com)
■ Georgia’s Ruling Party Wins Parliamentary Elections Despite Dissatisfaction Of Western-Backed Forces (South Front)

Police in the 2024 battleground state of Pennsylvania are investigating some 2,500 voter registration forms that were submitted in two massive batches -- and investigators say that 60% of the forms they've checked so far are fraudulent. | All of the ballots were submitted in Lancaster County, but two other counties are scrutinizing similarly suspect batches. While officials say it's the work of a "large-scale canvassing operation," they're not yet saying who's behind it. ● The roughly 2,500 applications landed at or near Pennsylvania's Oct 21 registration deadline; some observers are speculating that the timing may have been tactical, with the intent of exploiting time-pressure administrators would be under ahead of the Nov. 5 Election Day. However, as they examined the massive heap of forms, application processors were immediately alarmed by what they saw.

■ VIDEO: Bucks County Pennsylvania Election Worker Tears-Up-Trump Mailed-In Ballots (10/25/24)

Video has emerged from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, showing what appears to be an ELECTION WORKER, opening mailed-in Ballots and, if they're for Trump, TEARING THEM UP. | In the video, a small "Post-it" note can be seen with the name "Yardley Borough." There is also a Yardley Borough which is in Bucks County, PA. Ballots in Pennsylvania are printed to be mailed into their county office. According to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Voting and Election Information website the County office address where these Ballots would have been mailed to - and presumably where this man is located.

US billionaire Bill Gates has quietly donated $50 million to a nonprofit supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential run, The New York Times reported, citing three sources. | While Gates hasn’t publicly endorsed Harris, his sizable donation was made to Future Forward, a "dark money" group backing her campaign. The funds were intended to remain anonymous, the report said.

💬 “Mr. Gates’s donation went specifically to Future Forward’s nonprofit arm, Future Forward USA Action, which as a 501(c)(4) ‘dark money’ organization does not disclose its donors, according to the people briefed. So any contribution by Mr. Gates will never appear on any public filing,” the media clarified.

According to The New York Times, in private conversations this year with friends and others, Gates has expressed concerns about the potential impact of a second Donald Trump presidency on global health and family planning programs, The New York Times cited sources familiar with Gates’s thinking as saying.

Harold Turner | Well-Connected Economist Admits US Elections are all RIGGED; Donald Trump may not "Be ALLOWED" to Become President Again | According the Economist Eric Weinstein, the ENTIRE American election system is setup to "prune" populist candidates through Primary Elections, to make certain both party Candidates are acceptable to the International Rules-Based Order. Our election system thereby provides only the "illusion" of Democracy, because both party candidates become a "magicians choice"..."Pick a card, any card" but the magician always knows what card it is, because the people cannot be trusted to decide. [...] He makes clear the American people do not have a real choice in elections. They get a "Magicians Choice" . . . . pick a candidate, any candidate" but the "Magician" (the real powers-that-be of the Rules-Based International Order), know that whichever candidate is chosen, that person will be someone acceptable to the Order, who will not upset the agreements and alliances that are long in-place.  ■ Weinstein explains that, for decades, there have been agreements and alliances, designed to prevent war, and keep markets functioning. He says "those agreements and alliances are fragile" and can be upset or overturned by a President who disagrees with them. ■ So the powers-that-be cannot allow the public to choose a President that might upset things like NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) or NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). In Weinstein's words, "the public cannot be allowed to decide through a plebiscite every four years."

■ Even Walz Family are backing Trump! (Hal Turner Show)

Peter Koenig | It looks and feels like this past Sunday, 7 July 2024, second round French election is one of the biggest election frauds in French history, maybe even in European history. | The vote engineers have been at it in the same way they have been at it in the 2020 US elections, when by all appearance, President Trump, the Republican, but much more important, the anti-Globalist, won with a landslide. However, the Democrat, Joe Biden, an easily bought Globalist, suddenly emerged as the winner. ● Similarly in France, Madame Le Pen’s Party, the National Rally (NR), is called unfairly by all mainstream as the Populist far-right, when in reality, Madame Le Pen is primarily an anti-Globalist wanting a new sovereign France, not one submissive to the European Union and by proxy to the United States, as are most members of the EU. These two-tier elections, with a second round when no first-round absolute majority winner emerges, are tailor-made for fraud.

"Why I'll tell you what, it helped in Ohio that we got Democrats in charge of the machines"
According to Democrats and the mainstream media, voter fraud does not exist, regardless of the emergence of statistically impossible voting patterns in key seats that always end up going the way of the Democrats. While Democrats continue claiming there is no issue with voter fraud in the US and election results continue getting stranger and stranger, it’s worth taking a look at what Obama said in 2008, before he was elected president. Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, and even if you understand that Democrats and Republicans represent two heads of the same snake, the current situation should concern you. In the resurfaced video, Obama was seeking to ease concerns about a potential Republican landslide victory in 2009 by telling a crowd of Democrat voters in Ohio that they needn’t worry because Democrats control the election voting machines. But the stunning footage doesn’t stop there. The then-Illinois U.S. senator continued by claiming that Republicans “have monkeyed around with elections in the past” before admitting that “sometimes Democrats have too” — Which is very strange, because Democrats in 2022 claim there is no such thing as voter fraud...

The White House is refusing to share details about its coordinated efforts to engage in a federal takeover of election administration.

President Biden [sic] really does not want the public to know about his federal takeover of election administration. Dozens of members of Congress have repeatedly asked for details, to no avail. Good government groups, members of the media, and private citizens have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Not a single one has been responded to. All signs indicate a concerted effort to keep the public in the dark until at least after the November midterm elections. The lack of transparency and responsiveness is so bad that the Department of Justice and some of its agencies have been repeatedly sued for the information. When President Biden ordered all 600 federal agencies to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process” on March 7, 2021, Republican politicians, Constitutional scholars, and election integrity specialists began to worry exactly what was up his sleeve.

Embedded ESU members wore a specific 'bracelet on their left wrist identifying them as MPD personnel'.

While there is growing speculation that federal agents and Capitol Police were involved in instigating acts of violence during the Jan. 6, 2021 protests and recording responses for the purposes of entrapment, evidence now proves that “plainclothes” members of a special Electronic Surveillance Unit (ESU) were embedded among the protesters for the purposes of conducting video surveillance. Evidence also points to a day of security deficiencies and police provocation for the purpose of entrapment.

If you thought the U.S. election in 2020 was bad, it’s nothing compared to the sham election that just went down in France. Emmanuel Macron, a former Rothschild banker and World Economic Forum “Young Global Leader,” may have been crowned the “winner”, but millions of Le Pen voters lost their ballots and rights on Sunday. In France, if a ballot is damaged, it cannot be cast. So the political establishment, who are desperate to install Macron in office for another five years, arranged for the destruction of millions of Le Pen ballots.

Massive Fraud in French Presidential Elections…[?] (04/30/22)
Macron “Reelected” the Old-Fashioned Way? (Stephen Lendman)

Marine Lepen had 14 million votes at 9.20 pm, and she had only 11 million votes left at 10.45 pm. Where did all these votes go? [...] In the same time macron miraculously gained a staggering 4, 236,699 votes! All day long he couldn’t lead over Ms Lepen but in the odd hours after the voting ended, and behind closed doors, he gets 4 million votes…

Macron “Reelected” the Old-Fashioned Way? (Stephen Lendman)
Présidentielle : "Les années à venir à coup sûr ne seront pas tranquilles" Emmanuel Macron (France Soir)

Arseniy Yatsenyuk's People’s Front with it's 21.61% is closely followed by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 21.45%. ● With 50.08% of the votes counted, the People’s Front led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk has a narrow lead in Sunday's parliamentary elections gaining 21.61% and is closely followed by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 21.45%. The Samopomich (Self-Help) party headed by mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovy comes third with 11.10% of the ballots. The Opposition Bloc led by Yuriy Boyko has 9.82%, Oleh Lyashko’s Radical Party has 7.38% and the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has 5.69%. The voter turnout at the snap parliamentary elections, the first since February coup, was recorded at 52.42% In the previous elections, held in 2012, the turnout reached 57.98%.

Itar-Tass: EU politicians not unanimous over Ukraine's future after parliamentary elections
Stephen Lendman ■ MSM Misinformation on Ukraine's Parliamentary Elections
Stephen Lendman ■ Farcical Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections
Anders Romelsjö ■ EU men också CIA och USA vinnare i Ukraina
Pål Steigan ■ Ustabilt valgutfall i Ukraina

The head of Russia's election observation body has sensationally accused the British government in Westminster of rigging the Scottish Independence vote, asserting that there were more 'yes' votes than 'no' votes despite the no campaign claiming victory. ● Following a political battle that captured global attention, the 'Better Together' campaign beat off their pro-independence adversaries in securing a 55%-45% success after yesterday's voting, meaning Scotland stays a part of the United Kingdom. However, in a move undoubtedly tied to Moscow's increasing hostilities with the British government, which vehemently backed the 'no' campaign, the head of one of the country's top election observer groups controversially claimed today that the vote was fixed. Speaking to RIA Novosti, Georgy Fyodorov, the head of the Kremlin-aligned Association for the Protection of Electoral Rights, stated that, "According to what our observers at the polling offices tell us, there were more Yes votes during the vote count."

Rixon Stewart ■ Video Proof ‘Scotland Independent’ Vote Was Rigged

Police investigating alleged electoral fraud at polling stations in Glasgow after people find their votes had already been cast. ● Police in Glasgow are investigating ten cases of suspected electoral fraud. Voters turned up at polling stations to find that people had already voted using their names. Glasgow City Council confirmed that there had been 10 instances where people had gone to vote and found their names had already been crossed off the list. Spokesman Colin Edgar said: 'We've had a number of suggestions across the course of the day that people have turned up at the polling station to vote and they appear to have voted already. 'This is impersonation, if it turns out to be what it is. Last night police officers were present at the count to remove the ballot papers and keep them as evidence. The papers were from 10 different boxes across Glasgow, and not concentrated in one area.

Daily Mail: SCOTLAND SAYS NO!
Financial Times: Scotland votes to remain part of the UK
RT.com: Scotland votes 'No' to split from UK in independence referendum
RT.com: 8 reasons why Scots voted ‘No’ to independence

Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on RT (Friday May 23, 2014) to discuss the elections in Ukraine. He notes that the elections in Ukraine are being contested by entirely unpopular candidates who have not shown any willingeness to engage in serious negotiations with the people of Donbas and Lugansk. He explains that, unless the newly elected government is able to bring the issue to the negotiating table, the horrific attacks on the East will continue.

VoR: Washington Recklessly Risking War in Ukraine: ex-Ass’t Sec of US Treasury (Paul Craig Roberts Interview)
VoR: http://voiceofrussia.com/us/news/2014_05_28/Deepening-Tragedy-in-Ukraine-is-Enormous-Fiasco-for-US-Neo-Cons-8493/Deepening Tragedy in Ukraine is Enormous Fiasco for US Neo-Cons

A poll about the legitimacy of elected President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko is doubtful, as residents of eastern Ukraine were not able to fully participate in the voting, a French expert Jacques Sapir believes. ● "The elections took place under difficult conditions in western Ukraine and in the Kiev region. It is obvious that Poroshenko has won the elections. But the elections could not be executed properly in the eastern part of the country. And this raises the question of the legitimacy of Mr. Poroshenko. He is legitimate in the West, but not in the East. And if he wants to be the president of all Ukrainians, he must reach an agreement with the protesters in the east of the country," the expert believes. Answering the question, whether the elections can be called democratic, Sapir noted that, in fact, the conditions of their carrying out were democratic. However, the fact that the presidential campaign was largely financed by Poroshenko and that in some areas of the country candidates for the post of the head of state did not have equal access to the media and could not properly talk about their proposals and themselves, calls democracy into question.

Daniel Patrick Welch: Farcical ’Elections’ in Ukraine
Stephen Lendman: Sham Ukrainian Presidential Election
Gregory Kolyada: Weapons, Prostitutes and Drugs –These are Things Petro Poroshenko is Associated With

On Sunday, Ukrainians go to the polls to elect a new president, three months after the previous one was deposed in an armed coup. There some are finer details to the poll, making it not something one expects while electing head of a state. RT takes a look at the underbelly of the Ukrainian presidential campaign, and the people competing for the country’s once-so-coveted highest office.

Computer Programmer testifies that Tom Feeney (Speaker of the House of Florida at the time, currently US Representative representing MY district ) tried to pay him to rig election vote counts.

The CEC resolution orders a suspension of access to the State Register voter database for the register's branches in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. ● The Ukrainian Central Election Commission (CEC) has ordered that access to the voter database in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which is expected to hold a referendum on its status on March 16, be blocked. The CEC press service has reported that the commission unanimously adopted this decision on Thursday, "bearing in mind the current situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, in light of an attempt to prepare for holding an unlawful local referendum and with the aim of protecting the voter database of the State Register from any illegal use of personal data from this register."

French senators have congratulated Azerbaijan's President on a sweeping election victory, but they could have done it one day before the vote. The French politicians, Nathalie Goulet, Mohamed Soilihi and Jean-Claude Peroni - three of dozens of international monitors in the country - were quoted by Azerbaijan state press on Thursday (10 October) as saying Wednesday's poll was free and fair. "I did not see any difference in the election processes of our countries," France's Soilihi noted. The Central Election Commission (CEC) said that with 92 percent of the vote counted, the incumbent, Ilham Aliyev, won by 85 percent, while the top opposition candidate, Jamil Hasanli, got 5 percent. For its part, the EU foreign service is waiting for the verdict of the Vienna-based watchdog, the OSCE, due at noon Brussels time on Thursday, before speaking out. But a comical mistake earlier on Tuesday by the CEC indicates the regime pre-cooked the result. The CEC contracted a firm called Happy Baku to create a phone app to publish the outcome. But when the app became available for download one day ahead of the vote, it already contained a set of results: Aliyev 73 percent and Hasanli 7 percent. Activists based in Germany, which operate the opposition cable channel Meydan TV, published screen-grabs of the data. The news quickly acquired the tag "appgate" and reached EU officials in Brussels. It also made headlines on the British state broadcaster, the BBC, on Swedish TV and in the US daily, the Washington Post. The app equally quickly went offline. The Happy Baku chief also deleted his Facebook page, Twitter account and LinkedIn page.

A divided US Supreme Court voided a central part of the Voting Rights Act, a law put in place during the Civil Rights movement to prevent historically racist states from creating obstacles to voting, Tuesday. - Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the Supreme Court’s opinion in Shelby County vs. Holder on Tuesday. The 5-4 decision, evidence of clear partisan lines in the nation’s highest court, was celebrated by Southern states and criticized by President Barack Obama for declaring federal oversight on state election changes unconstitutional. Roberts did not specify which, if any, part of the Constitution the rule violated. Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), invalidated by Tuesday’s decision, explained the formula used by Congress to identify regions of the US subject to extra scrutiny when local lawmakers try to change election rules. Section 4 was the precursor to Section 5, which gives the federal government the power to “preclear” any state or local changes in election rules that could potentially prevent minorities from voting.

Huffington Post: Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court

USDJ: Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act - When Congress enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it determined that racial discrimination in voting had been more prevalent in certain areas of the country. Section 4(a) of the Act established a formula to identify those areas and to provide for more stringent remedies where appropriate. The first of these targeted remedies was a five-year suspension of "a test or device," such as a literacy test as a prerequisite to register to vote. The second was the requirement for review, under Section 5, of any change affecting voting made by a covered area either by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or by the Attorney General. [...]

Patrick Martin: US Supreme Court guts Voting Rights Act - The opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts is insolent in its dismissal of any concern over five unelected judges overturning an act of Congress and defying the popular will. This ruling will shock and anger millions of working people—and it should. In striking down a key section of the Voting Rights Act, the court majority defied the plain language of the Constitution. The Fifteenth Amendment, adopted in the wake of the Civil War, reads: Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.