"I disagree with every single word in HR1, including the words 'but' and 'the,' said Utah Senator Mike Lee. "Everything about this bill is rotten to the core. It was written and held by the devil himself."
Reading that quote from Lee, one quickly wonders about his level-headedness. Democrats simply set out to write a law making it easier for everyone to vote. Could they really have strayed so far from that goal -- that they suggest every word in the legislation may as well have been penned by the devil, himself?
Forever, gerrymandering voting districts has been a problem. It is clearly corrupt -- at least clear to me and others. This new law seeks to finally clean that up. And, you are telling us this law was written by the devil, himself, and every word in it is of the devil? No more allowing politicians to draw maps to favor their own political party is somehow evil? Wires are crossed, there.
The law makes it illegal to prevent or interfere with someone registering to vote. That certainly sounds like a virtuous endeavor. How do we claim the devil is behind that?
I will wonder about some provisions in the bill. It says the voter shall only be required to provide the last four digits of the social, as opposed to the whole thing. I don't know what is wrong with having them provide their full social.
Other elements, though, seem clearly virtuous. Right now, the addresses of voters are available to all, right there as part of the public record. Did we ever consider that domestic violence victims, and people who are being stalked, can be traced down by their assailants by simply accessing their voting records? The For the People Act would protect their privacy. Is that not wonderful? Is that not even essential? And, this law is being called the work of the devil, every word penned by Satan, himself?
Yes, I will wonder about Sen. Lee. What would prompt him to make such a statement? How is it that some things which are clearly good, he cannot see, and he ends up calling them evil?
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