Rep. Sheri Biggs (R-S.C.) floated a wildly undemocratic idea for getting her state’s electoral map to look how she wants.
While discussing the Palmetto State’s failed scheme to scrub its only Democratic congressional district off the map, Biggs argued during a Thursday morning appearance on Newsmax that any representation for the opposing party was an affront to South Carolina “views and values.”
“South Carolina is very red. We’re very strong in our beliefs and I think our map should reflect that,” she told “Wake Up America Early” anchor Alex Kramer, adding that she hoped the state senate could “regroup” and get the President Trump-backed gerrymander “across the line.”
Asked how South Carolina, which has seven seats in the House of Representatives, factors into the broader redistricting battles happening across the country, she continued to fixate on her state’s sole blue district.
“Right now, we have one congressman that’s Democrat. And I think a 7 and 0 would definitely reflect our values,” Biggs continued, saying that passing the GOP-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE America Act, is crucial to the nation’s election integrity.
Though the first-term Republican was adamant that South Carolina is red to its core, voter registration data reveals a different picture.
Numbers from the Independent Voter Project, a nonpartisan election reform nonprofit, show that while 48.79% of the state’s voters are registered as Republicans, a hearty 41.08% are registered Democrats and 10.13% registered as independent or other.
South Carolina uses an open primary process, meaning voters can vote in any party’s primary, no matter their own affiliation.
Election fraud is exceedingly rare in the state. According to the Election Fraud Map from the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, the last instance of verified voter meddling in the state was in 2007.
Mayor Christopher Campbell of Eastover, a town of 822 people, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for pressuring 16 locals to mark his preferred candidates for town council on their absentee ballots.
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