Ohio secretary of state challenges House Democratic voting bill

Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose is all for improving election administration procedures across the country and protecting the right to vote. But he rejects arguments that the massive election overhaul of H.R. 1 is the voting rights bastion Democrats make it out to be.

Many provisions in H.R. 1, also called the For the People Act, are “not about protecting any fundamental rights,” LaRose told the Washington Examiner in an interview. Instead, Democrats are “just micromanaging certain tactics and techniques for how elections are to be run.”

The bill...