Sen. Johnson Rejects Dem Argument for Elex Reform, Voting ‘Incredibly Easy’
January 23, 2022 | Wisconsin
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., on Sunday asserted voting is “incredibly easy” and that Americans don’t want or need election reform.
In an interview with radio host John Catsimatidis on Cat’s Roundtable on WABC 770 AM-N.Y., Johnson declared “There’s nothing racist about voter ID.”
“Show me somebody in the recent past that has wanted to vote that couldn’t,” he said, according to remarks released ahead of the airing, The Hill reported.”We’ve made voting incredibly easy. Nobody’s suppressing the vote.”
The remarks come in the wake of a defeat of House-passed voting rights legislation in the Senate, where a GOP filibuster stopped the effort in the evenly divided upper chamber.
Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Krysten Sinema of Arizona joined all 50 Republican senators in voting against a rules change that ultimately stymied the legislation… (Excerpts from Newsmax)
