Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer likened basic election integrity measures embraced by several states, such as voter ID, to the era of Jim Crow and accused the GOP of attempting to suppress voters.
Speaking to his colleagues during the hearing, Schumer blasted Republican state legislatures, such as Georgia's, for pursuing basic election integrity measures, calling it "Infuriating" and accusing Republicans of being "Afraid" of democracy and trying to prevent people from voting.
"Some of these voter suppression laws in Georgia and other Republican states smack of Jim Crow rearing its ugly head once again. It is 160 years since the 13, 14, and 15th amendments abolished slavery, and Jim Crow stills seems to be with us," the New York progressive said.
According to the Washington Post, these laws could strain every available method of voting for tens of millions of Americans, the most sweeping contradiction of ballot access in the United States since the end of Reconstruction.
If one political party believes that when you lose an election the answer isn't to win more votes but rather to try and prevent the other side from voting, we have an existential threat to democracy on our hands.
"We've been down this road before," he said, contending that opponents of voting rights throughout history have always said "Leave it to the states."
"It shouldn't matter if a state wants to do it if it's so, so wrong. If it's so against the grain of our democracy. Voting rights are sacrosanct," Schumer said, promising that S 1 "Will be a priority in this Congress."
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Chuck Schumer: State Voting Laws 'One of the Greatest Threats We Have to Modern Democracy in America'
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