‘There’ll be blood on your hands,” said one caller. “You better watch out,” said another. The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s office has been receiving phone calls like these
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Here s why: With Georgia lawmakers adopting new voter identification requirements, CNN’s Jake Tapper sought perspective from a politician who’s witnessed a similar push for election security in the South: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper.
North Carolina lawmakers in 2013 passed a voter ID law that was later struck down, and then enacted new voter ID laws after a voter referendum in 2018.
Cooper, who witnessed the state’s initial voter ID push while serving as attorney general, told Tapper he believes photo ID requirements are unnecessary. You do need security to make sure that people’s votes count and that people aren’t cheating. But the problem is you don’t see widespread problems with things they’re trying to attack, like voter ID, Cooper said in the segment, which he tweeted on March 26.
i said what if you came across the name carlos mergea? he said that s probably a foreign name. i said you re aware, are you not, carlos margea is the name of a federal judge who sits in the same courthouse that this trial is taking place? reporter: and this science is being used to pull the ear of the president? this science is being used to advocate for these restrictions on voting all around the country. reporter: kobach was held in contempt of court repeatedly during proceedings. and after two weeks of arguments the judge struck down his restrictive voting law. he got laughed out of federal court. the judge came down hard on him. it exposed the fraudulence behind the claim that voter impersonation and non-citizen voting, it really doesn t exist in any meaningful numbers at all, much less being rampant. reporter: with the court ruling kansas residents no longer have to show proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
foreign-sounding names. i said, what if you came across the name carlos mergia. he said, that s probably a foreign name. i said, you re aware that s the name of a federal judge in this courthouse. and this science is being used to pull the ear of the president? this science is being used to advocate for these restrictions on voting all around the country. kobach was held in contempt of court during proceedings. then the judge struck down his voting law. the judge came down hard on him, it exposed the fraudulence behind the claims of voter impersonation, it doesn t exist in any meaningful numbers at
abbott and myself spending $1 billion a year of taxpayer money to secure the border, doing the best we can, the president doing the best he can, he has to have congress back him up. shannon: they can t seem to get together to come up with a more complete solution. i want to ask you why we still have time about the tweet by governor abbott that texas democratic party asked noncitizens to register to vote sending applications with citizenship boxes pre-checked, this is being investigated. of true there will be serious consequences. i talked to him about this when he was attorney general, talked about the number of cases prosecuted in texas, the brennan center for justice in a document about voter fraud examination after examination claims reveal fraud is rare. voter impersonation is nearly nonexistent in the problems associated with alleged fraud are related to unintentional mistakes by voters or election administrators. a real problem or not? it is a real problem.