An MSNBC commentator highlighted what he described as a “telling conversation” between a North Carolina Republican and a witness at a House hearing, who claimed her vote is now in jeopardy due to the GOP.
House Republicans conducted a hearing on Tuesday centered onstate voter roll purgesand initiatives aimed at simplifying the process for states to eliminate voters from registration rolls. The House Administration Committee conducted the hearing, which included statements from conservative nonprofit leaders and individuals impacted by voter removals.
Republican committee members claimed that the voter registration lists are not strict enough and advocated for more rigorous removals from the voter rolls, such as easing federal rules that stop states from removing names from the lists within 90 days of a federal election.
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MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones criticized the hearing as a “right-wing event promoting voter suppression.” He stated that the hearing motivated Republicans to “push forward with voter purges and more stringent voter identification laws — both of which arevoter suppressionstrategies that have been identified as significantly undermining the voting rights of minority voters.
House Republicans, he continued, “as one would anticipate, didn’t appear to mind.”
“In a revealing exchange, Rep. Greg MurphyA representative from North Carolina told Mary Kay Heling — a witness from her state who stated that her vote was at risk as Republicans attempted to invalidate thousands of ballots in last year’s North Carolina Supreme Court election — that her vote being potentially removed wasn’t the worst outcome, wrote Jones.
Murphy offered a surprising remark.
The experience you endured, ma’am, was terrible,” Murphy stated, continuing: “It is far more concerning if someone who should not be voting casts a ballot than someone—regrettably—who had to face what you went through.
Jones hit Murphy with the response.
Feels very much like ‘sorry, not sorry’ to me. And that attitude reveals everything you need to understand about the compromises Republicans are ready to make in order to promote their false claims about election fraud and alter the voting system to their advantage.
“That’s a clearly illiberal attempt to seize power right in front of everyone,” he concluded.
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