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Texas State Representative Harold Dutton Jr. on returning home from the group of Democratic lawmakers that fled to Washington D.C. to protest a GOP election reform bill.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman lashed out against voter ID requirements Friday and said voter fraud is a “fiction.”<\/p>\n
The Democrat was speaking virtually Friday morning to Texas House lawmakers who fled to Washington D.C. to thwart new election legislation from passing by Republicans in Texas, according to KDKA-TV. <\/p>\n
Fetterman called the universal voter ID requirements that Republicans are trying to enact “insidious and unnecessary.” He said voter fraud is a “fiction” being used by the GOP to rationalize voter suppression laws. <\/p>\n
“Universal ID and some of these other measures are a solution for a nonexistent problem \u2026 of voter fraud,” Fetterman said in his remarks. “And it\u2019s simply voter suppression because they don\u2019t want people voting that they believe aren\u2019t going to ultimately elect them.”<\/p>\n
Fetterman said the voter ID requirements risk disenfranchising residents who don\u2019t have access to ID and he downplayed the existence of fraud. <\/p>\n
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