Democrats Push Big Lie of Voter Suppression to Make It Easy to Cheat in Elections
Narratives of “voter suppression” are a “big lie” used by Democrats and the broader left as pretexts for undermining election integrity, Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, observed on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Jerome Hudson.
Democrats and the broader left regularly frame “racism” as American social pathology informing policies of “voter suppression” to undermine and violate the voting rights of black citizens they characterize as racial victims. Spakovsky remarked that Democrats use this false narrative as a justification for legislation they frame as an advancement of “voting rights.”
“It’s just a big lie,” von Spakovsky declared, “and why are they perpetuating that lie? Well, to push through legislation in Congress that would take over the election process across the country and basically get rid of every safety and security protocol that states have put in place like voter ID — they want to make it easy to cheat in elections.”
He continued, “The Voting Rights Act has been in place since 1965; if and when there’s actual racial discrimination going on in a voting context, there are laws that prevent it.”...
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RNC Warns Against Democrat Election Reform: ‘Freedom to Cheat Act’ Will ‘Eviscerate’ Voter ID Laws, Breitbart, 12 January 2022:
“We call it the Freedom to Cheat Act,” McDaniel said of the Freedom to Vote Act, which Senate Democrats are hoping to pass against Republican wishes by changing the 60-vote filibuster rule.
“It eviscerates state voter ID laws, which 36 states have passed,” the chairwoman said. “This bill eliminates states’ more secure voter ID requirements, replacing them with a process that is rife with fraud.”...
The sweeping bill would order states with voter ID laws to widen their accepted forms of voter identification to allow for several alternatives, including forms of identification that do not contain a photo....
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