I have a feeling this will irritate a lot of people (including a lot of people here).
The inaccurate buzz word of “States rights” will be uttered. (see Note below)
I am not going to take a side on this, either as to imposing national standards or as to what those standards’ should be.
I will simply observe that I am surprised to see a candidate on the right make this proposal at all, when, in the past, certain elements of the right have bitterly opposed national standards for voting.
Politically, this probably doesn’t help him, even if he was a viable candidate at this point.
(Note: Of course, there is no such thing as “States rights”, just reserved powers, but as we see in Article I, Section 4, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution:)
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
The Constitution only partially reserves the power to write election law to the States, allowing Congress to go so far as enact a uniform national code of elections. It is certainly constitutional for Congress to do as Ramaswamy suggests, the only question is if it is the prudent thing to do.
And, again, I take no position at this time on Ramaswamy’s comments.