Senator Jon Ossoff:
“I take exception to the comments that you just made, Mr. Rokita, …public concern regarding the integrity of the recent election is born of …a deliberate and sustained misinformation campaign led by a vain former president unwilling to accept his own defeat.”
“At a contentious hearing on Capitol Hill, Democratic leaders made a passionate case for a bill that would mandate automatic voter registration nationwide, expand early and mail-in voting, end gerrymandering that skews congressional districts for maximum partisan advantage and curb the influence of money in politics….
Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, the top Republican on the Senate Rules Committee, which convened the hearing…
said that if Democrats were allowed to rush through changes on the national level, “chaos will reign in the next election and voters will have less confidence than they currently do.”
The suggestion piqued Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota and the committee chairwoman, who shot back that it was the current elections system — an uneven patchwork of state laws and evolving voting rules — that had caused “chaos” at polling places.
“Chaos is what we’ve seen in the last years — five-hour or six-hour lines in states like Arizona to vote. Chaos is purging names of longtime voters from a voter list so they can’t go vote in states like Georgia,” she said. “What this bill tries to do is to simply make it easier for people to vote and take the best practices that what we’ve seen across the country, and put it into law as we are allowed to do under the Constitution.”
www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/us/politics/democrats-voting-rights.html
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