{"id":1202487,"date":"2022-01-09T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1202487"},"modified":"2022-01-09T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T23:05:26","slug":"watch-ga-secretary-of-state-spars-with-cbs-host-over-voter-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-ga-secretary-of-state-spars-with-cbs-host-over-voter-id\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: GA Secretary Of State Spars With CBS Host Over Voter ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-ga-secretary-of-state-spars-with-cbs-host-over-voter-id%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1202487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Sunday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger appeared on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace The Nation\u201d with host Margaret Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>During a segment on voting legislation, Raffensperger and Brennan sparred over voter ID requirements, as well as citizen voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we should have a constitutional amendment, a U.S. constitution amendment that only American citizens vote in our elections. I think we should have also photo ID,\u201d Raffensperger said.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan jumped in, saying&nbsp;that \u201conly U.S. citizens do currently vote in elections,\u201d to which Raffensperger replied: \u201cBut we don\u2019t have a constitutional amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Secretary of State continued, noting that \u201ccities are trying to push non-citizen voting,\u201d and that majorities of Americans support both citizenship requirements and voter ID.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan claimed the latest voting laws being pushed by Democrats \u201cpromote a national standard for states that have an ID requirement for in-person voting. You could use a bank statement or utility bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not have photo ID, and photo ID is the most secure way of using \u2014 making sure that you can identify who the voter is, and I think that\u2019s very important,\u201d Raffensperger said. \u201cAnd then they also want same-day registration, and that\u2019s just, you know, very difficult for any election official to manage. And I think that undermines trust in elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/polling-institute\/reports\/monmouthpoll_us_062121\/\">June poll<\/a> by Monmouth University, a strong majority of Americans believe that ID should be required to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, do you support or oppose requiring voters to show a photo I.D. in order to vote?\u201d the poll asked. 80% of respondents supported voter ID, while just 18% opposed it.<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p><em>RAFFENSPERGER: I think that we should have a constitutional amendment, a U.S. constitution amendment that only American citizens vote in our elections. I think we should have also photo ID. We now have photo ID for all forms of voting in Georgia\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BRENNAN: Only U.S. citizens do currently vote in elections, but go on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RAFFENSPERGER: But we don\u2019t have a constitutional amendment. Now you see cities are trying to push non-citizen voting, and I believe that only American citizens should be voting in our elections, that\u2019s supported by a wide variety \u2014 a wide majority of all Americans, just like photo ID is supported by all demographic groups and a majority of both political parties. And that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been using in Minnesota for over 11 years for their absentee balloting. So that\u2019s another, you know, solid, common sense federal reform measure if they really want to get serious about election reform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BRENNAN: I assume there you\u2019re referring to the president and the vice president, who will be traveling to your state in the coming days. They are doing so to campaign for two laws: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RAFFENSPERGER: Right, and\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BRENNAN: The Freedom to Vote Act actually does promote a national standard for states that have an ID requirement for in-person voting. You could use a bank statement or utility bill. I wonder, why do you think Republicans\u2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>RAFFENSPERGER: It does not have \u2014 it does not have photo ID, and photo ID is the most secure way of using \u2014 making sure that you can identify who the voter is, and I think that\u2019s very important. And then they also want same day registration, and that\u2019s just, you know, very difficult for any election official to manage. And I think that undermines trust in elections. And right now, we need to restore trust wherever we can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger appeared on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace The Nation\u201d with host Margaret Brennan. During a segment on voting legislation, Raffensperger and Brennan sparred over voter ID requirements, as well as citizen voting. \u201cI think that we should have a constitutional amendment, a U.S. constitution amendment that only American citizens vote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}