ICYMI: House Administration Committee's First American Confidence in Elections Act Hearing

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"In Oklahoma, you have to show an ID when you show up at the polls, even as a member of Congress that's been going to the same polling location for 16 years. The poll workers know who I am and get excited to see me when I actually get to go vote in person they still say "Congresswoman Bice, would you please show us your ID.' That being said, I want to make a distinction. A student ID is different from a hunting license, in that it is not government issued. The student ID is not government issued and so there is that distinction there, which I think is why there are certain laws protecting those ID's. I'm not suggesting a student ID is invalid, I'm saying the laws, especially in Oklahoma, it has to be a government-issued ID. It can be tribal, it can be federal, it can be state, and there is that distinction."

"My question is, first of all, Mr. Warner, when you sign your name on a document, do you sign your name the same every single time?... The question is important because, Mr. Gloria, in the state of Nevada, the only way that you have to verify a ballot is through signature verification. Is that correct?"


"How can you have any sort of sense of accuracy or confidence in the ability to accept a ballot when almost everyone on this panel today, and I would add myself into this mix, would tell you that their signatures vary sometimes widely when they sign a document, especially as we age? My voter registration from when I was 18 years old is probably pretty different than the signature I now have at almost 50. How can we have any certainty that these ballots are valid?"

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