Amanda Carpenter
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Now, that visual was so bad, I think, that they didn't end up showing.
And that's because none of those people have any business with election administration or process.
Kristi Noem, as the head of DHS, has no business getting involved in voter rolls or what Secretary of State is doing because there's no threat at all.
And if you look at the SAVE Act legislation, which Donald Trump made a huge push for after he declared J.D.
Vance the new head of the War on Fraud,
There's a provision in the SAVE Act to give DHS access to voter rolls.
I mean, it's supposed to be about voter ID, but if you look inside any effort that they're pushing, they're trying to find a way to do that.
And sure enough, J.D.
Vance is going to end up targeting the Somali communities, the Haitian communities, because they think if they can find an immigrant population to scream voter fraud, that is their access into those states and cities to do bad stuff.
The biggest threats are going to be blue cities and red states for the reasons that you outlined.
And so I think it's incredibly important for the mayors of those cities and other people in election administration to be very clear.
Yeah, yeah.
To understand what is going to come at them.
But in terms of what Democratic states can do, it's just you really got to be on the ball about the election process stuff.
Really be protective of voter data, anything that can be turned against you by the federal government.
And I think people are pretty keen on this.
But being fiercely protective of your data and keeping it secure and not giving any kind of opening.
Be very clear about the process.
If you're going to do mail-in ballots, understand that those are going to be more closely scrutinized than anything else.
And just be really active talking with people about the process and how it's safe.