Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Sunday defended Texas’ controversial new voting legislation in a Fox Information interview, announcing that it “doesn’t do loads of issues the Democrats says it does.”

“It just cleans things up, it cleans up the method,” Crenshaw instructed host Trey Gowdy. “It does things like make all of the early vote casting times the same across counties so that people don’t get perplexed, put further ID necessities on mail-in ballots.”

Many Democrats have fought in opposition to voter ID requirements, and Senate Democrats’s Freedom to Vote Act (which is unlikely to move given their failed try to change the filibuster) contains a ramification of ideal ID, in addition to prohibition on voter ID for absentee ballots.

Crenshaw countered that mail-in ballots are ripe for fraud and the Texas law is “simply cleaning up a few of these issues, so there’s much less alternatives for fraud.”

“Doesn’t make it more difficult to vote, makes it more straightforward to vote in many cases,” he introduced. “We’ve got weeks of early vote casting in Texas, it’s extraordinarily simple to vote.”

The Justice Department has sued Texas over the legislation, focusing its its implications for non-English talking and disabled voters who rely on help casting their pollas well as ID requirements for mail-in vote casting. The go well with alleges that the law restricts these offering assistance from answering questions, clarifying translations, and explaining the voting course of.

Ballots with ID numbers that do not suit may be tossed, something that the DOJ claims violates a provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act which prohibits blocking somebody from voting because of an error on a paper or report that’s unrelated to their skills to vote.

Asked with the aid of Gowdy about comparisons of the regulation to Jim Crow regulations, Crenshaw spoke back that “this is how Democrats work.”

“They expose a problem after which they exaggerate the issue very much…then they provide these excessive solutions,” he stated, later adding, “Why do they want this? It’s truthfully arduous to inform, the very best we can give you is they do want it to be easier for people to cheat.”

“They omit one thing though, elections are competitions and in a competition it’s a must to be very certain of who won,” Crenshaw said. “In the event you’re not sure of who received then you definately get consternation, you get division, you get the more or less years that we’ve had here on this usa.”

“Look when Democrats lose they are saying the election is illegitimate and Republicans do the same thing,” he endured. “How about we make sure that elections have clear ideas, nonetheless make it easy to vote…and make the procedures simple and clear.”

Gowdy then said that President Joe Biden appeared to counsel all over his news conference “that if the midterms don’t prove neatly, that it is as a result of something nefarious.”

“Yeah, I noticed the identical thing and I’m ailing of this pendulum swinging this manner,” Crenshaw answered. “It’s clear that Democrats are atmosphere this up, as a result of they recognize they’ll get blown away in 2022.”

“They want so to say that the one purpose they misplaced is as a result of they couldn’t cross these laws that principally mean you could pressure through at 3 a.m. and vote,” he said.” They get mad on the Texas legislation because hi there there’s no extra 2 a.m. drive-thru balloting.”

“I mean who the heck needs to vote at 2 a.m. or three a.m.?” he introduced. “And if you can’t vote at three a.m. does that imply you’re suppressed? No, in fact now not. But they want with the intention to say that, I believe that’s why they’re teeing this up.”

Crenshaw supplied Texas voters to name his office for assistance in the event that they face obstacles balloting, but delivered he’s “beautiful certain nobody has that difficulty.”

He later added that with reference to voter ID necessities, the focal point will have to be on helping folks get IDs “since you want an ID for the whole lot.”

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