Sen. Tim Scott: S.1 is not a voting rights bill, it's a partisan power grab that will harm faith in elections

With S.1 Democrats are attempting to rewrite the rules to take control away from state and local officials and put the federal government in charge.

As I said in my speech: I support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. So do my fellow Republicans, and so do voters. But the Democrats so-called "For the People Act" would actually make it easier to cheat and harder to vote. It is not a voting rights bill. It is a partisan power grab that would destroy confidence in our election system. Democrats are attempting to rewrite the rules to take control away from state and local officials and put the federal government in charge. This unethical approach to nationalizing elections is inconsistent with the Constitution and inconsistent with commonsense. It doesn’t take an expert to realize the needs of New York are different from the needs of South Carolina.