Republicans are highlighting states that have tightened voting laws — especially with added voter identification requirements — like Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Ohio as models to increase election integrity, drawing a fight with Democrats over what constitutes a successful election.
At the first meeting this Congress of the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections, majority members on Friday invited a panel of election officials from some of those states to speak about the ways they’ve fortified elections and increased voters’ faith in the process.
“Ultimately, I hope more states will follow the lead of Florida, Ohio, Louisiana, those states that have set the standard even higher and higher and continue to review their own processes to identify ways we can make elections better and better,” said Rep. Laurel Lee, who chairs the subcommittee and who was Florida secretary of state for three years before her election to Congress in November.
