Ignore the hysteria. It’s never been easier to vote.

Is there no ridiculous, pandering statement that some people won’t swallow as long as it’s uttered by one of their favored pols?

Is there no claim that compliant, sometimes proudly “biased” journalists won’t amplify without even a moment’s pause?

Apparently not, given President Joe Biden’s hysterical claim that voting reform efforts in GOP states constitute “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.”

A bigger test than World War II?

A bigger test than 9/11? A bigger test than a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan?

A bigger test than that posed by global communism during the Cold War?

As Biden himself might say, c’mon, man.

Any change in voting laws and procedures in any state is something to watch carefully, but the Dems are shamelessly blowing things way out of proportion for their own political gain.

They’ll tie any GOP voting reform efforts to former President Donald Trump’s challenges to the 2020 election. They’ll throw in references to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in order to turn the flame up even higher among partisans. But the plain fact is that voting is easier today than it’s ever been in American history.

We have weeks of early voting. We’ve have expanded absentee voting, where no excuse is needed for someone to vote by mail. You can even fix your ballot if you make a mistake.

Washington state, Oregon and Colorado automatically send actual ballots to all registered voters for mail-in voting. Voters don’t even have to ask.

Other states allow voters to apply for mail-in voting for every election in a particular year.

We have same-day registration. We have open primaries where all voters can take part regardless of party affiliation.

We have states that automatically register people to vote, through Department of Motor Vehicle offices or other government agencies.

Voters don’t even need to go to actual poll sites anymore. In many states, they can just leave their ballots in drop-off boxes.

Voting booths for years have been placed in public housing complexes, meaning residents need only walk down the stairs or take the elevator in order to vote.

We have ranked-choice voting, which allows you to vote for more than one candidate in a race.

The only way voting could be easier is if Board of Elections officials came to your door with a ballot. And even then some people might not answer.

The only person stopping you from voting is you.

But that doesn’t stop the Democrats from pandering to their base with a lot of hot-air talk about Jim Crow and the Voting Rights Act.

Meanwhile, the Dems are at the same time pushing to federalize how we vote with their “For the People” legislation, taking crucial decisionmaking power away from the individual states.

The law would thrust a boatload of new voting requirements for federal elections on all 50 states, including mandated automatic and same-day registration; blanket, no-excuse mail-in voting; vastly expanded use of paper ballots, and extended early-voting periods. All of which is supposedly being done to make voting easier and to boost turnout.

Forget for the moment that decades of reforms already in place in various states aimed at increasing voter participation, including early voting, mailin voting and same-day registration, have failed draw more voters to the polls.

More importantly, the individual states have the latitude to decide how to conduct elections, including federal elections. They set the dates. They decide the rules governing mail-in voting. One size does not fit all.

The Dems would usurp that power and give it to the federal government.

Talk about a test of democracy.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) has urged Biden to revamp Senate filibuster rules in order to get the voting package through Congress without GOP support.

Clyburn said that if the legislation fails, “Democrats can kiss the majority goodbye.”

At last, some truth.