Tomorrow, the Tennessee House Elections Subcommittee meets again and I have a question that I really really hope someone can answer because I really really can’t make any sense of it. OK. Here goes. How can Rep. Curry Todd (R-Collierville) introduce one bill that supposedly prevents cheating during an election and another that would make it easier to actually cheat during an election?
Todd’s HB1838 “requires citizenship status to be proven prior to registration to vote and requires certain procedures to ensure identity and citizenship status prior to voting,” and his HB1421 would allow “a person to email a transfer of voter registration or email a request for an application to vote absentee” with a scanned signature.
Absentee ballots, by the way, are also exempt from any photo ID law, which was recently passed in the Senate, introduced by Rep. Todd’s colleague, Rep. Debra Maggart (R-Hendersonville).
So the question is, why does Rep. Todd want to pollute our equitable voter registration system with inherently inequitable legislation? Especially when there’s no proof of an actual “voter fraud” problem?
Seriously, it’s hard enough to get people to vote once let alone risk jail time by voting a second time in someone else’s name. And really, if you’re in this country illegally, is voting in the Tennessee gubernatorial election really going to be the thing you’ll risk getting caught for?
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