WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Jon Husted issued the following press release:

Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) penned this op-ed (https://washingtonreporter.news/op-ed-sen-jon-husted-senate-republicans-want-to-make-it-easy-to-vote-and-hard-to-cheat-in-america/) in the Washington Reporter to outline how photo ID provisions would help make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in America.

Key excepts include:

"Before joining the U.S. Senate, Ohioans trusted me to serve as their chief elections officer, electing me two times as Ohio Secretary of State."

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"My mission was simple: to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat."

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"As Secretary of State, I championed voter roll maintenance - making sure individuals are not registered in multiple...