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By Hans von Spakovsky –
The Judiciary Committee of the West Virginia House of Representatives held a virtual hearing on an election reform bill on April 5. What took place was like a story from the parody site The Babylon Bee.
I was invited to testify in support of the bill by some West Virginians, so I made a serious, but very short presentation on why this is a good bill that makes needed changes to West Virginia’s election laws.
While waiting to testify, I had to listen to a whole line of liberals who were speaking out against the legislation. If it had not been such a serious topic, I would have been laughing at the ridiculous claims and assertions made about the bill.
So what is in this bill that is supposedly so repressive and restrictive?
Several years ago, West Virginia implemented automatic voter registration to register anyone who comes into the Department of Motor Vehicles to apply for a driver’s license. The election reform bill simply clarifies that an applicant will be automatically registered unless she “affirmatively declines” to be registered.
But in the liberal fantasy world that equates any election reform with “Jim Crow,” asking someone if they want to register to vote—giving them an option—rather than just registering them without their permission or knowledge, is considered “voter suppression.”
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