law that wasn t needed because there was no fraud. the georgia election was exactly as you reported it. this revised law my favorite item is really going away from signature match. . so go to driver s license number, date, and they have been using ta in minnesota for ten years now. texas followed our lead and now they will be using it also, and that is very good. we increased the number of days for early voting and we have 17 mandatory days of early voting. that is more early voting than we have in new york, new jersey, and delaware. there is still a lot of koers about that law. we ll have to leave it there. thank you for being with us
about that. yes. and i want to ask you about the democrats new voting rights legislation, this compromised the freedom to vote act. in light of your conversation with senator cruz earlier this u week, what do you think of the new bill s id requirements? flexible id requirements, but thanks to joe manchin s requirement, it does involve some form of voter id. what do you think of that? that s part of my point to the senator. every voter id is not the same. texas has chosen to go down a path that adopted a restrictive law. some states allow a signature match. some allow an affidavit if you can t get the appropriate id anh still allow you to vote. so there are other ways to do voter id. but even more importantly, i think we have to stop putting the burden on voters to try to hop over all these different obstacles and burdensome restrictions in order to cast the ballot. if the rights to vote is truly fundamental, then we have to start acting accordingly and
legitimacy. we have to be really careful about that. yes. and i want to ask you about the democrats new voting rights legislation, this compromise bill dubbed the freedom to vote act. in light of your conversation with senator cruz earlier this week, what do you think of this new bill s i.d. requirements, flexible i.d. requirements, but thanks to joe manchin s involvement, it does involve some form of voter i.d. what do you make of that? well, i think that s part of my point to the senator, right? every voter i.d. law is not the same. texas has chosen to go down a path of a very restrictive i.d. law when there were other options. some states allow you to do a signature match. some allow you to do an affidavit if you can t get the appropriate i.d. and still allow you to vote. so there are other ways to do voter i.d. but even more importantly, i think we have to stop putting the burden on voters to try to hop over all these different obstacles and burdensome restrictions in order to
these restrictive voting laws that were put in place after the election after a fair, free election. should the state of georgia have done that? oh, we ve actually expanded early voting. there were some bills that were going to restrict it and reduce the number of days of early voting. what came out was adding an additional day. we ve also required to have drop boxes at all of our counties. last year 35 counties didn t have them. so there were many improvements. in fact, perhaps one of the best ones is that we ve moved away from signature match. we ve been sued by both the democrat party and the republican party on signature match. they said it was subjective, and they re correct on that. and that s why in 2018 when i ran, i said we need to move to driver s license number and that s what they ve been using in minnesota for over ten years, and that s obviously a democratic secretary of state, democratic governor and general assembly. they love it up there.
moved we now using signature match a good solid process it was just very but here s my question for you. here s the thing and i heard you say before. that this is restoring confidence. i read other republicans say. thirties and say for the erosion of complications. which are talking about. we re gonna change diversification procedure. from signature match to the new procedure. and the reason why their star confidence, the confidence is taken away by lies. constantly told about the election. if i go around saying brad wrap and the bergen is a gambler, you have to keep an out of the casino. and if we do that we have to say why? because people think you re an inveterate gambler. and there s a perception. that s not a good enough reason. you can point to the misinformation and rebuilding contacts just for those who