The National Conference of State Legislatures says 36 states require voters to show ID. But Democrats and liberal advocacy groups are aiming to wipe out the state requirements with the federal legislation.
“You are just adding this ridiculous burden for a nonexistent problem,” said Sylvia Albert, director of voting and elections for the liberal Common Cause.
Liberals say a voter-signed declaration is necessary as part of the Democrats’ bill to protect minority voters, who say they often don’t have access to driver’s licenses or other forms of identification. They charge that state voter ID laws disenfranchise Black and Hispanic voters.
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Why Kentucky Just Became the Only Red State to Expand Voting Rights
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April 7, 2021, 11:56 AM·8 min read
A polling station during the primary election in Louisville, Ky., on June 23, 2020. (Erik Branch/The New York Times)
Jennifer Decker has solid conservative credentials. A first-term Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who used to work for Sen. Rand Paul, she represents a county that voted for Donald Trump last year by nearly 30 percentage points.
Yet at a time when many of her Republican counterparts around the country are racing to pass stringent new restrictions on voting fueled in part by Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election Decker’s first major bill swerved.
Democrats plan to wipe out the 10th Amendment.
Voter ID will be gone along with other forms of election security with HR-1. They believe they can pass it based on the Parliamentarian’s opinion.
DOOR OF FRAUD SWINGS WIDE OPEN
“This swings the door for fraud wide open,” said Rep. Ashley Hinson, Iowa Republican. “It’s just common sense that a valid form of voter ID should be required to cast a ballot in an election.”
The National Conference of State Legislatures says 36 states require voters to show ID, but Democrats and liberal advocacy groups hope to wipe out those state requirements with the federal legislation.
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