Donna Brazile: We Can Not "Criminalize Voting" Or "Criminalize The Election Process"

Former N.J. Republican Gov. Chris Christie and former DNC Chair Donna Brazile debate new GOP-backed state voting laws that Democrats say restrict the right to vote for minorities. <blockquote>CHRIS CHRISTIE: You're adding more days of early voting, you're adding more drop boxes? That's all in the Texas law. BRAZILE: It's when you make it criminal. CHRISTIE: That is not an existential -- Donna... BRAZILE: Come on. CHRISTIE: ... not being able to drive-through vote or vote in 24-hour periods is an existential threat to voting? BRAZILE: When... CHRISTIE: This is not -- that -- that's not this. Now, look, you want to have a fight about when the feds should control this, then let's have a -- let's have a vote on it. (CROSSTALK) BRAZILE: HB-3 is draconian. I'm an election official, OK, and if I began to give people access to the ballot through online applications for absentee ballots, I can be arrested. It's criminalizing voting in ways that we should not criminalize voting. STEPHANOPOULOS: To that... CHRISTIE: No. It's... BRAZILE: And it's not just who can drive up to the polls and when. It's about criminalizing the election process when you disagree with it.</blockquote>