Major Garrett smears citizens for policing voter rolls

Opinion

Quin Hillyer, Deputy Commentary Editor

December 05, 2023 04:20 PM

Opinion

Major Garrett smears citizens for policing voter rolls

Quin Hillyer, Deputy Commentary Editor

December 05, 2023 04:20 PM

Books Major Garrett — FILE – In this Feb. 26, 2010 file photo, Major Garrett speaks from the White House Press Briefing Room in Washington. Garrett is writing a book about covering Donald Trump called, “Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride” which will be released next fall. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Decades of excellent reporting by CBS’s Major Garrett show that he should know better than to put forth the near-slanderously one-sided story he did on Dec. 4 on citizen efforts to ensure the integrity of voter rolls.

Despite the clear insinuations otherwise from the 7-minute, 23-second CBS Mornings report, voter fraud and substantive voter irregularities actually are a real problem. Likewise, despite the CBS report, efforts to clean up voter lists usually are not intended to keep eligible citizens from voting, nor are they particularly meant to disenfranchise minority voters.