The liberal media are so desperate to find a single instance of so-called “voter suppression” that they’re resorting to suggesting voters incorrectly filling out forms and clerical snafus were evidence of Republicans stealing the right to vote from black Americans. Or, as they ridiculously call it, “Jim Crow 2.0.” This was the case on Tuesday afternoon's CNN Newsroom as they spoke with a Texas voter.
The segment was helmed by co-host Alisyn Camerota, who leaned on hyperbole to drive the narrative. She suggested “[t]he controversial voting law passed in Texas last year is already creating problems for voters,” and declared: “the worst fears are already coming to pass…”
For the supposedly blatant example of voter suppression, Camerota brought on Pam Gaskin of the League of Women Voters who had her application for a mail-in ballot rejected twice.
Oh, how horrible! She must the victim of a targeted effort to prevent her from voting!
But according to her own account, Gaskin filled the form out incorrectly. The first time, the elections officials for Fort Bend County had put up the form from 2021 instead of 2022:
The first rejection was because I downloaded the form from my county, Fort Bend County’s website and they had posted last year's form. So, the letter said “through no fault of yours, your application has been rejected.”
As NewsBusters described in our explainer video on the media’s big lie about “voter suppression,” this is a procedural mishap.
The second rejection was convoluted as Gaskin contradicted her own testimony. “This time because I did not include the form of ID that was used when I originally registered to vote which was 46 years ago in this county,” she explained.
Gaskin admits that “they wanted me to include the last four digits of my social security number” but she instead used her driver’s license number despite knowing that “my driver's license number was not in my original voter record. I didn't use that to register to vote.”
“I mean, this is bureaucracy at its worst but it's also possible it's intentional impediments,” Camerota clownishly declared while shaking her head, after she herself couldn’t get Gaskin’s story straight:
CAMEROTA: Right! They want – Just be clear, they wanted you to include the same, I think, driver's license number from 46 years ago that you had used then, is that right?
GASKIN: No, they wanted me to include the last four digits of my social security number.
CAMEROTA: And had that changed in the past 42 years?
GASKIN: No. The problem is that my driver's license number was not in my original voter record. I didn't use that to register to vote.
Gaskin went on to argue that “the application is in-artfully and, I think, deliberately misleading.” And she then admitted she did end up getting her ballot after she filled the form out in its entirety:
It says you must include one of the following. The first one is your driver's license. I put that in. The next line says if you do not have a Texas driver's license, then put in the last four digits of your social. Well, I did that and guess what, I got rejected. The next time I filled it out, I just filled in every blank. Every blank that there was, I put an answer in it.
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