House Republicans don’t like how municipal officials run elections in the nation’s capital and aim to do something about it.
The GOP-controlled House is pushing a reform bill called the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act which would ban Washington’s practice of automatically mailing actual ballots to every registered voter, the use of mail-in ballot drop-boxes, ballot harvesting, same-day voter registration, and noncitizens voting in city elections.
The bill would require a photo ID to vote or request an absentee ballot, and it mandates regular voter registration roll maintenance.
At a June 7 joint hearing of the House Committee on Administration and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Republicans laid out their case for reform while Democrats denied there are any problems with the existing system….