EXCLUSIVE – Win. Bob Correct, R.-Va., informed Fox News in a usual interview he’s going to introduce election reform legislation Thursday designed to construct it “easy to vote, and exhausting to cheat.”
Correct, a member of the conservative Condo Freedom Caucus, informed Fox News that maintaining the integrity of U.S. elections is paramount, and the funds Democrats tout as voting rights and election reform are the leisure however.
Correct’s One Citizen One Vote Act would prohibit the federal Election Assistance Commission from allocating funding to any articulate or municipality that doesn’t require voter identification for both in-particular person and absentee voting, as smartly as blocking funds if the jurisdiction permits pollharvesting — the act of partisan officials gathering totally different voters’ ballots for submission — permits non-residents to vote, or sends unsolicited mail-in ballots to residents.
“One citizen, one vote. We’re looking to construct it easy to vote and exhausting to cheat,” Correct mentioned. “And we characteristic out imagine in states’ rights. The Constitution says the states bear the authority to manipulate and to feature their have elections, however the federal government does provide some funding for elections.”
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“When there used to be a bipartisan commission years ago that did a search to search, OK, what’s this menace for fraud in elections — what they identified used to be unsolicited mail-balloting, lack of voter ID and non-residents voting,” Correct persisted.
Correct known as a Fresh York Metropolis policy allowing proper non-residents to vote in native elections a “test case” for Democrats to search in the occasion that they’ll “salvage away with” allowing non-residents to vote in articulate and municipal elections.
If Democrats are winning in defending the Fresh York policy, it could well in point of fact perhaps well presumably unfold to federal elections, Correct predicted.
He additionally known as Democrats’ election legislation like the John Lewis Balloting Rights Pattern Act and H.R.-1, “Gentle to Cheat” funds.
“What [the One Citizen One Vote Act] would carry out would be to be clear that no federal funding goes to jurisdictions that prohibit voter ID, that enable pollharvesting … [and] these jurisdictions which bear mass unsolicited mail balloting, which will enable illegal aliens to vote,” he mentioned.
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Win. Bob Correct, R-Va. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc by technique of Getty Images)
Correct illustrious that voter ID legal pointers are supported by over 80% of Individuals, along side that election security must be a bipartisan danger amongst congressional lawmakers as smartly.
He informed Fox News Digital he wasn’t looking at for any instant enhance from his Democratic colleagues, however that the policy is standard amongst Republican lawmakers.
“We’re already getting loads of co-sponsors to label on,” he mentioned, along side that nearly all Individuals construct now not know anyone who doesn’t bear an ID.
Democrats normally look to “hijack” disorders, he claimed, to construct the final public imagine that procuring a voter ID is “somehow racist or somehow suppressing vote when it is if truth be told gorgeous the reverse.”
Correct characterised a few of Democrats’ objections to election reform legislation as “the bigotry of low expectations,” along side beliefs that it is miles discriminating against racial minorities to require voters to bear an ID.
He illustrious that commence air his win of job in Washington, D.C., as smartly as totally different cities like Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Fresh York, these related Individuals want a vaccination card and ID to eat in a cafe, enter a store or totally different internal most constructing.
Democrats bear claimed funds like Correct’s are comparable to Jim Crow legal pointers, however the lawmaker mentioned such comparisons are the “default” response to any GOP reform efforts.
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Democrats search for such opposing policies “by a racist lens and to pretend The United States is both institutionally racist or systemically racist; that we haven’t made the incredible development that we bear to worship the Extra Ideal Union; the Founders’ dreams of inalienable rights of every citizen,” Correct mentioned.
Individuals are turning into numb to those accusations, he predicted, pointing to Republican waves in deep-blue Fresh Jersey and his Commonwealth of Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin defeated inclined Gov. Terry McAuliffe in November.
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Correct predicts a unfavorable reaction from mainstream media once his legislation is launched.
“The media will obviously cast us in a racist lens — they are COVID forever, Jan. 6 forever, and the entirety-is-racist, so I believe that our chums on the left in the media will potentially are attempting and order it as, ‘Hello, we are in a position to’t bear election integrity or construct it easy for folk to vote thanks to COVID,'” he mentioned.
He mentioned that conversely, the media has infamous Democrats’ voting legislation.
“[Democrats] bear to ascertain out to sofa the risk in dishonest phrases, and unfortunately a long way too many in the media are prepared to comply and follow their lead.”
