Stephen Richer

And I say it does.

This is not voter ID.

Again, voter identification is what you do when you show up to vote and you take usually a driver's license and you say, I am the person who is registered to

to vote.

SAVE Act is about when you first register to vote, whether or not you have proof of citizenship, which might, as David said, be a passport or it might be a birth certificate.

So the MEGA Act does things like it's this whole laundry list of sort of

things that the Republicans have talked about in the elections context for a while, stuff like banning ranked choice voting, stuff like banning states from sending out mail ballots to all registered voters, things like banning states from allowing mail ballots to come back after election day if they've been postmarked on election day.

So my complaint against this isn't necessarily policy item for policy item, but it is very much a federalization of election administration.

And if there's one thing that separates sort of the Trump camp from the McConnell camp is the McConnell camp would say,

It was wrong when Democrats tried to do it with H.R.

1 in 2021.

It was wrong when I probably looked at this way back earlier in my political career.

And it's wrong now.

And the Trump people would say, we want to change election administration.

We want to do it through executive order even.

And even if we if we can't do it through executive order, then we want to do it through federal legislations.

Yeah, so the irony – well, this is an irony.

And in Arizona, it was the McCain machine that we used to call it that really, really got mail voting down to a science for a while.

And it was all the people we like to say in Sun City or out in Gilbert, which are sort of –

towns further removed from the central core of Phoenix who didn't want to go into a voting location, who didn't want to get out of their 55 plus communities, who wanted to mail in their ballots.