Schumer Calls ‘Bull’ On Noem’s Voter Fraud Fearmongering | EUROtoday

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) doesn’t assume Immigrations and Customs Enforcement “thugs” have any enterprise being close to polling locations, it doesn’t matter what Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says.

The Senate Minority Leader was blunt throughout a Sunday look on CNN’s “State of the Union” the place he addressed current remarks Noem made about utilizing her company to ensure solely the “right people” solid ballots by implementing a nationwide voter ID regulation and different measures.

“That’s a lot of bull,” Schumer advised Jake Tapper, ensuring so as to add how uncommon election irregularities are within the U.S.

The New York senator additionally talked about Senate Democrats’ push to bar ICE officers from polling places, calling the brokers “thugs” and saying that patrolling voters “flies in the face of how democracy” has labored for the reason that nation’s founding.

“It makes no sense at all,” he went on, earlier than claiming ballot staff don’t need immigration enforcement wherever “near them” or “intimidating them.”

Schumer additionally spelled out the distinction between voter ID legal guidelines and the SAVE America Act, which might require proof of U.S. citizenship and never simply state IDs to register to vote.

“It’s like Jim Crow 2.0,” he mentioned of the laws, which handed the House on Wednesday and has been skewered by critics who declare it might disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of authorized voters, together with ladies whose married names don’t match their passports or beginning certificates.

On Friday in Arizona, Noem earned vital blowback whereas advocating for the regulation, and saying her company must “make sure that we have the right people voting” and “electing the right leaders.”

Schumer scoffed on the concept in a Saturday X put up, saying, “This is Trump’s idea of democracy: leaders get to select their voters instead of the other way around.”