U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett from Texas blasted Republicans for their efforts to use voter fraud as a way to limit Black voters.
The representative’s statements juxtaposed the amount of time the GOP focuses on gun privileges with their lack of interest in enforcing America’s constitutionally protected voting rights.
During a congressional hearing on election integrity on Wednesday, June 7, the freshman congresswoman decided to do a fact-check test on the Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
A narrative that some Republicans have promoted heavily since former President Donald Trump’s administration is that voter fraud, perpetrated by Democrats, has been used to steal elections and injure the candidacies of Republican politicians.
At the joint hearing titled the American Confidence in Elections: The Path to Election Integrity, Crockett supported her argument by providing articles showing the many times the fraud claims have been disproved.
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The hearing consisted of members of Congress and witnesses, who gathered to examine the lack of confidence Americans have in local elections and discuss ways to create election integrity reforms. The presumption of the hearing is that due to “a lack of election safeguards, outdated voter rolls, and rampant ballot harvesting tactics,” citizens are disenfranchised and insecure about participating in the electoral process.
First, Crockett asks if voting was a constitutionally protected right, to which all of the panel said “Yes.”
Then she challenges each witness to give the number of the multiple amendments dedicated to protecting Americans’ rights to vote.
The four-person panel of witnesses included Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at Brennan Center for Justice; Monica…
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