James Talarico

The main concern is voter impersonation, which is the idea that I would show up to vote as if I was someone else.

Like I was going to go and impersonate Joe Rogan and vote for Joe Rogan.

That does happen though, right?

vanishingly few incidences of this happening.

Because it requires, you know, sure.

Yes, of course.

And Ken Paxton, you know, decides to, he's our attorney general here in Texas, decides to spend millions of dollars trying to find voter fraud, right?

To try to prove that this is a widespread problem.

And, you know, if he comes up with anything, it's usually like one or two cases of some mom who made a mistake on her form.

I mean, the Secretary of State here in Texas, a Republican, said that our elections are safe and secure.

So I'm all for making sure that our elections have integrity.

I think you have to have that in democracy.

My concern, though, is when some of these bills are adding—

unnecessary regulations on top of that just to make it harder for some folks to be able to vote rather than make everyone have the same opportunity to vote.

I think young people.

I mentioned this issue of colleges and universities and those student IDs not being eligible.

Two, in Texas, you've got to change your registration every time you move counties.

Not necessarily if you move within a county, but every time you move counties.

This is something we don't have to do.

There are logistical systems in place where we could track voter registration across counties.