Congressional Witness Calls Red State Election Reforms ‘Voter Suppression’

“The 2022 election failed black voters,” said National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) attorney Deuel Ross in a May 24 Congressional subcommittee hearing on elections.
Ross testified that since the 2020 election 400 bills were introduced in state legislatures around the country to “restrict the franchise.”
He said 24 states had actually enacted 45 laws that “roll back voting rights” and “interfere” with election administration by shifting authority over elections from executive agencies or non-profit bodies to the legislature.
Members of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus bow their heads in prayer with local faith leaders at the end of a news conference about voting rights at Unity Baptist Church in Washington on July 26, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Ross bemoaned new laws that he said “criminalize” good faith mistakes or decisions by election workers….}