Last updated June 30, 2022
Quick Facts:
- 165 members of the House of Representatives made statements that could be viewed as seeking to undermine the credibility of the 2020 presidential election.
- Some statements directly questioned the legitimacy of the election, claiming issues such as “corrupted election technology, illegal counting practices, [and] dead voters.”
- Other statements appear innocuous but could suggest an illegitimate result, such as “make sure only all legal votes are counted.”
- 139 U.S. Representatives voted against certification of the electoral votes in Arizona, Pennsylvania, or both. Eight senators also voted to reject the electoral votes from one or both states.
- Many statements used the hashtag “StoptheSteal” and some directly accused Democrats of stealing the election and outright stated “this election was stolen.”
- Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) made the most claims, a total of 78, followed by Mo Brooks (R-AL), with 77.
Many of the statements below can be read as an attack on the legitimacy of the 2020 election, such as assertions that a state’s election process was unconstitutional, noncitizens voted, and ballots sent to dead people were returned and counted. Other statements may appear to be correct at face value, but could suggest that the election result was inaccurate. Stating that only legal votes should be counted, for example, implies that illegal votes were cast and might have been included in some states’ totals, unfairly giving Biden the Electoral College win.
To date, no third party has judged these fraud claims to be true in any way that could have impacted the election outcome.[1]PBS NewsHour, “Exhaustive Fact Check Finds Little Evidence of Voter Fraud, But 2020’s ‘Big Lie’ Lives On,” pbs.org, December 21, 2021
Of the 221 Republican members of the House, 139 voted against certification of the electoral votes in Arizona, Pennsylvania, or both.[2]Reuters, “The Republicans Who Voted to Overturn the Election,” reuters.com, February 4, 2021 The number of statements made by each representative is shown in brackets. Quotes with three or more authors are listed under “multiple representatives.” Click to jump to methodology.
- Robert Aderholt (R-AL) [12]
- Rick Allen (R-GA) [10]
- Jodey Arrington (R-TX) [20]
- Brian Babin (R-TX) [45]
- Jim Baird (R-IN) [2]
- Jim Banks (R-IN) [13]
- Cliff Bentz (R-OR) [4]
- Jack Bergman (R-MI) [9]
- Stephanie Bice (R-OK) [1]
- Andy Biggs (R-AZ) [43]
- Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) [2]
- Dan Bishop (R-NC) [21]
- Lauren Boebert (R-CO) [27]
- Mike Bost (R-IL) [4]
- Kevin Brady (R-TX) [2]
- Mo Brooks (R-AL) [77]
- Vern Buchanan (R-FL) [1]
- Ken Buck (R-CO) [6]
- Ted Budd (R-NC) [23]
- Tim Burchett (R-TN) [7]
- Michael Burgess (R-TX) [3]
- Ken Calvert (R-CA) [5]
- Kat Cammack (R-FL) [6]
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)[2]
- Jerry Carl (R-AL) [8]
- Buddy Carter (R-GA) [6]
- John Carter (R-TX) [1]
- Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) [24]
- Ben Cline (R-VA) [13]
- Michael Cloud (R-TX) [18]
- Andrew Clyde (R-GA) [3]
- Tom Cole (R-OK) [1]
- James Comer (R-KY) [16]
- Rick Crawford (R-AR) [12]
- Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) [6]
- Warren Davidson (R-OH) [15]
- Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) [8]
- Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) [2]
- Byron Donalds (R-FL) [3]
- Jeff Duncan (R-SC) [31]
- Neal Dunn (R-FL) [2]
- Tom Emmer (R-MN) [3]
- Ron Estes (R-KS) [7]
- Pat Fallon (R-TX) [4]
- Randy Feenstra (R-IA) [1]
- Michelle Fischbach (R-MN) [3]
- Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) [2]
- Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN)[22]
- Virginia Foxx (R-NC) [6]
- Scott Franklin (R-FL) [5]
- Russ Fulcher (R-ID) [6]
- Matt Gaetz (R-FL) [41]
- Mike Gallagher (R-WI) [5]
- Mike Garcia (R-CA) [4]
- Bob Gibbs (R-OH) [12]
- Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) [1]
- Louie Gohmert (R-TX) [36]
- Tony Gonzales (R-TX) [3]
- Bob Good (R-VA) [12]
- Lance Gooden (R-TX) [31]
- Paul Gosar (R-AZ) [78]
- Garret Graves (R-LA) [1]
- Sam Graves (R-MO) [4]
- Mark Green (R-TN) [25]
- Marjorie T. Greene (R-GA)[50]
- Morgan Griffith (R-VA) [4]
- Michael Guest (R-MS) [7]
- Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) [3]
- Andy Harris (R-MD) [11]
- Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)[5]
- Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) [13]
- Kevin Hern (R-OK) [6]
- Yvette Herrell (R-NM) [6]
- Jody Hice (R-GA) [56]
- Clay Higgins (R-LA) [10]
- French Hill (R-AR) [1]
- Richard Hudson (R-NC) [12]
- Bill Huizenga (R-MI) [3]
- Darrell Issa (R-CA) [2]
- Ronny Jackson (R-TX) [12]
- Chris Jacobs (R-NY) [1]
- Bill Johnson (R-OH) [12]
- Mike Johnson (R-LA) [12]
- Jim Jordan (R-OH) [35]
- John Joyce (R-PA) [21]
- Fred Keller (R-PA) [26]
- Mike Kelly (R-PA) [17]
- Trent Kelly (R-MS) [3]
- David Kustoff (R-TN) [3]
- Darin LaHood (R-IL) [2]
- Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) [7]
- Doug Lamborn (R-CO) [5]
- Jacob LaTurner (R-KS) [1]
- Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) [14]
- Billy Long (R-MO) [14]
- Barry Loudermilk (R-GA)[16]
- Frank Lucas (R-OK) [2]
- Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) [6]
- Nancy Mace (R-SC) [3]
- Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) [8]
- Tracey Mann (R-KS) [3]
- Brian Mast (R-FL) [3]
- Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) [7]
- Lisa McClain (R-MI) [5]
- Tom McClintock (R-CA) [9]
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA) [22]
- Mary Miller (R-IL) [8]
- Carol Miller (R-WV) [4]
- John Moolenaar (R-MI) [3]
- Alex Mooney (R-WV) [19]
- Barry Moore (R-AL) [13]
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) [22]
- Gregory Murphy (R-NC) [11]
- Troy Nehls (R-TX) [3]
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA) [5]
- Ralph Norman (R-SC) [26]
- Jay Obernolte (R-CA) [2]
- Burgess Owens (R-UT) [4]
- Steven Palazzo (R-MS) [10]
- Gary Palmer (R-AL) [5]
- Greg Pence (R-IN) [2]
- Scott Perry (R-PA) [26]
- August Pfluger (R-TX) [10]
- Bill Posey (R-FL) [22]
- Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) [19]
- Tom Rice (R-SC) [4]
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) [5]
- Hal Rogers (R-KY) [1]
- Mike Rogers (R-AL) [8]
- John Rose (R-TN) [31]
- Matt Rosendale (R-MT) [2]
- David Rouzer (R-NC) [16]
- Chip Roy (R-TX) [11]
- John Rutherford (R-FL) [4]
- Steve Scalise (R-LA) [7]
- David Schweikert (R-AZ) [1]
- Austin Scott (R-GA) [4]
- Pete Sessions (R-TX) [10]
- Mike Simpson (R-ID) [1]
- Adrian Smith (R-NE) [7]
- Jason Smith (R-MO) [11]
- Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) [7]
- Victoria Spartz (R-IN) [1]
- Pete Stauber (R-MN) [4]
- Elise Stefanik (R-NY) [18]
- Greg Steube (R-FL) [18]
- Chris Stewart (R-UT) [7]
- Van Taylor (R-TX) [1]
- Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA)[8]
- Tom Tiffany (R-WI) [15]
- William Timmons (R-SC) [11]
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ) [7]
- Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) [5]
- Tim Walberg (R-MI) [5]
- Jackie Walorski (R-IN) [5]
- Mike Waltz (R-FL) [6]
- Randy Weber (R-TX) [8]
- Daniel Webster (R-FL) [3]
- Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) [6]
- Bruce Westerman (R-AR) [3]
- Roger Williams (R-TX) [17]
- Joe Wilson (R-SC) [7]
- Rob Wittman (R-VA) [6]
- Ron Wright (R-TX) [6]
- Lee Zeldin (R-NY) [16]
| 1. REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT ADERHOLT (R-AL) | |
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| 1. | 4/8/2020 “This morning I went on with @TheDaleJackson to discuss the current COVID-19 situation. One topic, the Democrat proposal to Federalize elections and demand all voting by mail. I think this would be a recipe for widespread fraud.” -Robert Aderholt, Twitter.com, April 8, 2020 12:43 pm |
| 2. | 11/6/2020 “If our Democracy is to last, then every legal vote should be counted. And every vote cast in error, or illegally, should be thrown out. Period… To that point, there is also no excuse for so many votes to still not have been counted days after the election… When states are slow to count votes, and when that slowness is centered around Democrat leaning counties, it leads to questions that undermine people’s faith in our election process. Americans must have faith in the outcome of the election… That’s why until the votes are finally counted, we must remain vigilant that every American who casts a legal vote, has their vote counted.” -Robert Aderholt, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 6:40 pm |
| 3. | 11/7/2020 “As I stated Friday, every legal vote should be counted. Presidential Elections are over when the votes are certified, and the Electoral College meets in December. President Trump has every right to legally challenge any state results and to seek a recount where appropriate.” -Robert Aderholt, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 11:55 am |
| 4. | 11/10/2020 “It’s been a whole week since the election and votes are still being counted. That is unacceptable. This slow count undermines the integrity of this election, especially since these votes are still trickling in from Democrat leaning counties.” -Robert Aderholt, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 1:06 pm |
| 5. | 12/10/2020 “I’m proud to support this amicus brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure the 2020 Presidential election was conducted fairly and without voter fraud… I support this lawsuit 100%. Our democracy depends on free, fair and accurate elections. That is the bedrock of our democracy.” -Robert Aderholt, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 8:18 pm |
| 6. | 1/2/2021 “[T]here are too many reports of serious fraud [in the 2020 election] for this not to be debated in the House and Senate… In addition, I also support the efforts by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, newly elected Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, and other Senators, to go a step further and create a bi-cameral commission to more closely examine the election results. Furthermore, I call on other members of the House of Representatives to join these efforts as well. We owe it to the American people to investigate what exactly transpired during this election year, and if state laws were broken by activist judges who decided to make election law on their own. No matter who is sworn in on January 20th, whether it be Joe Biden or Donald Trump, the winner needs to know, and should want to know, if the process was carried out fairly and according to individual state law, which the Constitution demands.” -Robert Aderholt, “Aderholt Statement on the Congressional Role in Certifying the Electoral Process,” aderholt.house.gov, January 2, 2021 |
| 7. | 1/3/2021 “I also call on my colleagues in the House to support the plan put forward by @tedcruz, @TTuberville and others in the Senate to create a bicameral commission to examine this election.” -Robert Aderholt, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 9:13 am |
| 8. | 1/5/2021 “I plan to challenge the electoral votes of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin… Because of the COVID pandemic, some elected officials decided to change laws in their states. However, the US Constitution clearly states that state legislatures are to set the laws regarding the selection of electors from their states.” -Robert Aderholt, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 2:16 pm |
| 9. | 1/5/2021 “I have also decided to challenge the electoral votes of Arizona and Nevada. So, that is six states (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) I will be challenging tomorrow.” -Robert Aderholt, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 4:50 pm |
| 2. REPRESENTATIVE RICK ALLEN (R-GA) | |
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| 10. | 11/6/2020 “The right to vote is sacred and must be protected through a fair and transparent election. We must count all legal votes and investigate any cast improperly.” -Rick Allen, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:26 am |
| 11. | 12/2/2021 “On November 6th, I joined 38 of my colleagues in asking Attorney General Barr to use all @TheJusticeDept resources to ensure the integrity of the 2020 election. If the DOJ has launched any investigative activity into election fraud, it has not been made public – The American people deserve transparency and confidence in our election process. That’s why 37 of us have followed up in a new letter demanding action now.” -Rick Allen, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 3:26 pm |
| 12. | 12/11/2020 “I am proud to join over 100 of my colleagues in filing this amicus brief. It is critical that the Supreme Court carefully consider the Texas suit [challenging election results in four states]. We must ensure the integrity of our elections now and moving forward.” -Rick Allen, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 10:47 am |
| 13. | 1/5/2021 “Fighting to make sure every legal vote is counted, Mr. President! We will #HoldTheLine!” -Rick Allen, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 1:36 pm |
| 3. REPRESENTATIVE JODEY ARRINGTON (R-TX) | |
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| 14. | 11/4/2020 “All votes legally cast should count, but there are legitimate concerns regarding the potential for fraud that must be addressed in order for the country to move forward.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 6:16 pm |
| 15. | 11/5/2020 “Elected officials in Philadelphia are suing to prevent oversight of Pennsylvania vote count. Why would someone obstruct transparency??” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:31 pm |
| 16. | 11/6/2020 “In order for our country to move forward, we must verify every legal ballot and further examine our voting process.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:28 pm |
| 17. | 11/6/2020 “From the outset, because of the lax voting laws and rules in these states and cities, it [the 2020 election] was going to be fraught with abuse, with corruption and mass fraud and error. That doesn’t mean in fact that’s the case, it just means the potential was tremendous. And then you’ve got allegations firsthand, you’ve got other sort of irregularities throughout the country and various states. All of these things suggest that in order to get the public’s confidence, and in order for our country to move forward in the most productive way, we have to validate, verify, we have to further examine the votes and the voting process in these various states and in this election.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:28 pm |
| 18. | 11/7/2020 “Friday, I joined my colleagues calling on AG Barr & the @TheJusticeDept take every measure to ensure the integrity of this election. Election integrity is foundational to our democracy, essential to the public’s confidence & critical to empowering whomever is ultimately elected.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 11:07 am |
| 19. | 11/8/2020 “With the pattern of irregularities, with the races so tight, with the unprecedented, lax voting laws and rules with respect to the states that are in discussion… I think it’s patriotic to just have faith in the process, let it play out.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 2:23 pm |
| 20. | 12/11/2020 “Article II of the Constitution unambiguously delegates to state legislatures the responsibility and authority for establishing the rules and parameters of their elections. In the months leading up to the election and in the weeks following, entities outside of state legislatures including governors, secretaries of state, and unelected officials made material changes to rules dictating election practices… Regardless of whether or not they alter the outcome of the election, addressing these concerns is paramount to upholding the Constitution, ensuring the integrity of our elections, and protecting our democratic process.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 8:29 pm |
| 21. | 12/12/2020 “The Constitution has always been the cornerstone of our great republic. Article II undeniably gives state legislatures the sole authority to establish election laws, and that principle must never be compromised. While there are other complaints being considered by the courts, that [states changing election laws outside the legislature] was the focus of our concern in the amicus brief that I co-signed… I am deeply disappointed the petition was rejected on standing by the Supreme Court; however, the actual claims [that some states altered election laws by non-legislative means] were not dismissed or rejected on their merits. Therefore, I will continue to press SCOTUS to give the people their day in court and give these issues the serious consideration they deserve.” -Jodey Arrington, “Arrington Responds to SCOTUS Rejection of Texas Election Suit,” arrington.house.gov, December 12, 2020 |
| 22. | 12/12/2020 “The [election] laws were changed in a state in a way that, really, I hope we never do that again because it has left the public with very little confidence. It has opened things up for widespread fraud. I can’t tell you how widespread. There is fraud in every election. But I think that whenever irregularities or whatever allegations and eyewitnesses with affidavits … all of this thing together, I think these are serious matters. It’s the foundation of our democracy and it’s the only way our country is going to move forward.” -Jodey Arrington via Greg Jaklewicz, “Arrington explains why he joined Republican push to investigate election irregularities,” reporternews.com, December 12, 2020 |
| 23. | 12/15/2020 “Given the widespread and unprecedented changes to election laws, voting irregularities, and allegations of fraud, it is important for all claims to be examined and resolved by the courts before declaring a winner.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 3:12 pm |
| 24. | 1/4/2020 “I will object on January 6th and voice my constitutional concerns with the 2020 Presidential Election, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.” -Jodey Arrington in a letter to Nancy Pelosi via Jamie Burch, “Congressman Jodey Arrington criticizes Pelosi, says he will oppose electoral vote count,” ktxs.com, January 4, 2021 |
| 25. | 1/5/2021 “The law is clear about my authority and responsibility in tomorrow’s proceedings, and the Constitution and prior court rulings are unambiguous: only state legislatures can make election laws, – not Governors, Secretaries of State, courts, or election officials. Tomorrow I will object to certifying votes from states I believe clearly violated the Constitution in the Presidential election of 2020.” -Jodey Arrington, “Rep. Arrington Statement on Electoral College Certification Vote,” arrington.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 26. | 1/5/2021 “Tomorrow, I will object to certifying votes from states I believe clearly violated the Constitution in the 2020 Presidential Election.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 7:59 pm |
| 27. | 1/6/2021 “States certainly have broad delegated powers to administer Federal elections, but they still must operate within the bounds of the Constitution. Despite receiving numerous petitions—to the detriment of the country, I might add—the Supreme Court failed to answer the most important question of the 2020 election: Can entities outside of the State legislatures make election law? The plain language of Article II of the Constitution answers the question unequivocally no… [T]he horrible precedent that will be established if we don’t act will have lasting impact on our beloved Republic… I cannot support certifying votes from any State that violated the Constitution.” -Jodey Arrington, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 28. | 1/7/2021 “The Law and the Constitution give Congress not only the authority, but I believe the responsibility to serve as the last check on the integrity of our presidential elections. We either believe, according to statute, that every elector was ‘lawfully certified’ and ‘regularly given,’ or we don’t. States certainly have broad delegated powers to administer federal elections, but they still must operate within the bounds of the Constitution. Despite receiving numerous petitions, to the detriment to the country I might add, the Supreme Court failed to answer the most important question of the 2020 election: ‘Can entities outside of state legislatures make election law?’ The plain language of Article II of the Constitution answers the question unequivocally: NO. I take no pleasure or pride in making my objection today, nor do I wish for any state electors to be disqualified. However, based on the law, the Constitution, and my conscience, I cannot support certifying votes from any state that violated the Constitution.” -Jodey Arrington, “Video & Transcript: Arrington Objects to Electoral College Certification,” arrington.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 29. | 1/15/2021 “Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our constitutional republic. We must restore America’s confidence in the integrity of our elections, which was seriously undermined by the weak and unreliable voting rules in the 2020 Presidential Election.” -Jodey Arrington, Twitter.com, January 15, 2021 2:30 pm |
| 4. REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN BABIN (R-TX) | |
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| 30. | 11/5/2020 “There’s a BIG DIFFERENCE in every vote counting vs. ensuring every LEGAL vote is counted. The American people deserve transparency. The American people deserve a fair election.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:47 pm |
| 31. | 11/6/2020 “What Americans are actually worried about is the risk of a fraud-filled election. Wake up, #MSM & stop spinning this into something it’s not.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 6:15 pm |
| 32. | 11/7/2020 “The media’s projected winner is not the actual winner. The fight isn’t over. We must ensure every LEGAL vote was counted – FAIRLY!” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 12:28 pm |
| 33. | 11/9/2020 “I have asked AG Barr & @TheJusticeDept to investigate the MANY reports of voter fraud coming in all across the country. The American people deserve a transparent election. I’ll fight to maintain election integrity in order to have full confidence in the results – win or lose.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 3:10 pm |
| 34. | 11/9/2020 “We cannot sweep this election under the rug – no matter how hard the Left tries. Let’s get to the bottom of the mass reports of voter fraud and maintain Americans’ faith in our democratic process.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 7:47 pm |
| 35. | 11/12/2020 “‘There’s a reason why 72 million Americans think something doesn’t smell right here.’ @Jim_Jordan hit the nail on the head. It doesn’t add up. We aren’t going to stop fighting until our questions are answered & we’re certain the election results are honest.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 7:29 pm |
| 36. | 11/12/2020 “This shouldn’t happen. No one should be able to vote using a dead person’s name and information. This is voter fraud whether the Democrats want to acknowledge it or not.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 2:45 pm |
| 37. | 11/17/2020 “I support President @realDonaldTrump 100% and will not stop fighting until our questions are answered and election integrity is ensured. I will not give up.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 11:57 am |
| 38. | 11/17/2020 “The American people want to have a fair, transparent, and open election. And we don’t feel like that’s happened here. There’s too many anomalies. We’ve got over 400 sworn affidavits from witnesses who have witnessed things like postmasters stamping mail-in ballots with a previous day’s date, and witnessing boxes coming in at all hours of the night, after the election has closed… We’ve got this Dominion Voting Systems, which my state of Texas rejected, and criticized, we’ve got a lot of anomalies and suspicions there… There’s still a lot of folks that believe this President, there’s no way he could’ve lost.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 11:57 am |
| 39. | 11/18/2020 “This is why we cannot stop fighting to ensure that this election is 100% transparent. If we don’t fight for this now, we will never see an honest election again.” [Note: The tweet links to an article titled “More Than 2,500 Uncounted Ballots Found in Fayette County, Georgia.”] -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 5:43 pm |
| 40. | 11/24/2020 “It’s interesting how strongly the Left is fighting against GOP efforts to investigate the results of an election that’s full of allegations of fraud & that > 73M Americans don’t feel confident about. This is about election integrity. If they’re so confident – why not join us?” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 24, 2020 6:53 pm |
| 41. | 11/25/2020 “If we don’t fight for a transparent election now – we will never see an honest election again. No matter what’s pushed by Democrats and the #MainStreamMedia, this isn’t over yet. We will not allow them to sweep this election under the rug.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 5:55 pm |
| 42. | 12/2/2020 “The ease w/ which someone is able to steal the ballot of a deceased person & cast an illegitimate vote should disturb, alarm & outrage every American citizen, no matter what side of the aisle they sit on.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 6:28 pm |
| 43. | 12/4/2020 “I’m leading the effort in Congress to put a stop to people illegally casting ballots using the names of the deceased. My bill, the You Must Be Alive to Vote Act, guarantees this type of voter fraud is never successful. Without election integrity – our democracy will fail.” -Brian Babin interview on OAN, video via Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 6:39 pm |
| 44. | 12/4/2020 “We’ve uncovered some fraudulent plans to register a bunch of dead people to vote down in south Florida.” -Brian Babin interview on OAN, video via Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 6:39 pm |
| 45. | 12/7/2020 “We are all very discouraged and frustrated by what we’ve seen in the November 3 national elections… Yes, I have lost my confidence in our national elections, we have seen some of the worst stuff that I believe I have ever seen in my life. We’re being told we’ve got to disbelieve our own eyes when we see the video, some of the things that went on in the ballot counting in Georgia.” -Brian Babin interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 10:25 pm |
| 46. | 12/9/2020 “I joined my colleagues in asking @POTUS to order @TheJusticeDept to appoint a special counsel to investigate the many irregularities that occurred in the Nov. elections. Americans deserve the truth & unfortunately AG Barr has been unwilling to step up.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 5:18 pm |
| 47. | 12/17/2020 “This election has shown that trusting in our democratic process is just as important as having the right to vote. Millions of Americans, myself included, have lost faith in the integrity of our system.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, December 17, 2020 6:57 pm |
| 48. | 12/18/2020 “The #MainStreamMedia is not to be trusted and Big Tech’s biased censorship can no longer be tolerated. Section 230 must be repealed. I will not turn a blind eye to what the #MSM and Big Tech have done to protect Joe Biden – they’ve lied to us and corrupted this election.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 5:36 pm |
| 49. | 12/21/2020 “Confidence in our election process must be restored. It is my duty to do everything in my power to ensure that every legal vote is counted, every illegal vote is not, and our elections remain transparent. Our democracy will not survive otherwise. If Congress refuses to act before January 6, I will object to the electoral college vote submissions on the House floor on behalf of the millions of Americans, myself included, who do not trust the validity of this election.” -Brian Babin, “Babin Commits to Jan. 6 Electoral College Objections and Demands Action,” babin.house.gov, December 21, 2020 |
| 50. | 12/22/2020 “The president’s team, those of us who really think—and that’s about 50% of the population—think that this was an election that was full of irregularities and some fraud, possibly, and I don’t say that with tongue in cheek.” -Brian Babin interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com/newsmax, December 22, 2020 3:15 pm |
| 51. | 12/22/2020 “With the information that I’ve gotten at the White House yesterday, it’s [dead people voting] not a minimal problem. In some of these states, President Trump only lost by 10,000 votes in the whole state. In three of these states that are battleground states, there’s over 17,000 dead people who voted. That’s not insignificant.” -Brian Babin interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com/newsmax, December 22, 2020 3:15 pm |
| 52. | 12/27/2020 “I‘ve formally requested House and Senate leadership investigate and conduct hearings regarding voter fraud and election theft before January 6, so that Congress is fully equipped to address the legality of the November 3, 2020 election. Confidence in our election process must be restored. It is my duty to do everything in my power to ensure that every legal vote is counted, every illegal vote is not, and our elections remain transparent. Our democracy will not survive otherwise. If Congress refuses to act before January 6, I will object to the electoral college vote submissions on the House floor on behalf of the millions of Americans, myself included, who do not trust the validity of this election.” -Brian Babin, “Babin Bulletin,” babin.house.gov, December 27, 2020 |
| 53. | 12/31/2020 “Next week, I will object to the Electoral College vote submissions on the House floor on behalf of every American who believes in a free and transparent election process. If we don’t stand for election integrity now – we may never see an honest election again.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 7:52 pm |
| 54. | 12/31/2020 “I’m fighting very, very hard to stop the steal [of the election] for every freedom-loving American in this country, and I’m very proud and ready to stand up and object to the Electoral College vote submissions on the House floor on January 6… The Georgia hearings today, they just show so much that there was some weird, very strange and very unethical things that were going on [in the Georgia election]. I hope that we do get this forensic audit of Fulton County (Georgia), and that we will investigate this switch of 12,173 votes that were flipped from Trump to Biden.” -Brian Babin in an interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 7:52 pm |
| 55. | 1/2/2021 “Had a call w/ @realDonaldTrump, @GOPLeader, & TONS of Jan. 6 election objectors. Talked strategy – VERY encouraged! @HouseGOP /@SenateGOP: time to stand up & be counted. This is a pivotal moment. Those who aren’t with us are against us – history will be unforgiving. #StopTheSteaI” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 10:37 pm |
| 56. | 1/4/2021 “On #JAN6, I will proudly be joining @Jim_Jordan, @RepMoBrooks, and many other patriots in the fight to #StopTheSteaI. The American people’s day in Congress is fast-approaching.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 7:05 pm |
| 57. | 1/5/2021 “60 million Americans believe the 2020 election was stolen. Instead of joining in the fight for election integrity – Democrats lied and ignored damning evidence, alarming testimonies from witnesses, and footage of election fraud. #Jan6 is the day we stand up to #StopTheSteal.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 5:04 pm |
| 58. | 1/5/2021 “Election Integrity matters. That’s why I will be challenging the electoral college certification.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 7:14 pm |
| 59. | 1/5/2021 “Tomorrow, I will carry out my constitutional obligation and object to counting the electoral votes from a handful of fraud-ridden states. This is the same right that Dems have exercised in RECENT years. To the millions who feel this election was stolen – I’m fighting for YOU!” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 8:25 pm |
| 60. | 1/5/2021 “I joined @newsmax to break down what tomorrow will look like in Congress as I fight to #StopTheSteal” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 10:18 pm |
| 61. | 1/5/2021 “Some of the irregularities and anomalies that took place, enormous spikes [of ballots for Biden] at 2:30 in the morning, you know, the Dominion Voting Systems and switching of votes. Creases not being present [in mail-in ballots], hundreds of thousands of ballots that are supposed to have been folded up and put in secrecy envelopes… It’s been just one thing after the other. Taking and using the excuse of COVID to, really, illegally change state voting laws, which can only be changed by those states’ legislatures… You’re going to see so many of us, probably 100 plus in the House, trying to keep this thing from going through and trying to stop the steal.” -Brian Babin interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 10:18 pm |
| 62. | 1/6/2021 “Today, I fight for the tens of millions of Americans who were disenfranchised in the 2020 election. The ability to trust in our election process is critical if our freedom-loving democracy is to endure well into the future.” -Brian Babin in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:17 am |
| 63. | 1/6/2021 “There are millions and millions of Americans out there who feel that they have been disenfranchised by what has happened on November the 3rd, and we’re planning on objecting to various states that we think— in fact, it’s clearly shows they violated the Constitution. The prerogative of the state legislatures, constitutionally, is to choose these electors. And the election laws of these states, Sandra, were changed in a clear violation, as I said, by not legislatures but by governors, by secretaries of state, by local election officials, and even private entities.” -Brian Babin in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:17 am |
| 64. | 1/6/2021 “How can you help #StoptheSteal? Share this post to let your friends know election integrity is critical to our democracy.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:02 pm |
| 65. | 1/6/2021 “I have no doubt that there was widespread election fraud this past November, and I am not alone. I stand here today speaking for 75 million Americans whose voice was unconstitutionally silenced.” -Brian Babin, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 66. | 1/7/2021 “I stand by my objections to the Electoral College count from certain states in the November 2020 election… If SCOTUS had properly acted and heard the Texas lawsuit, we might have prevented frustrations from festering into the tragic events of yesterday. The American people deserved a decision on the merit of numerous claims of unconstitutionality, irregularity, and fraud. It was their duty. They failed.” -Brian Babin, “Babin’s Statement on U.S. Capitol Protests and Electoral College Certification,” babin.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 67. | 1/8/2021 “To the millions who were told to sit down, shut up, and blindly accept the unconstitutionality of the 2020 election: I stood and objected. To abdicate that responsibility is a surrender to tyranny.” -Brian Babin, Twitter.com, January 8, 2021 11:50 am |
| 5. REPRESENTATIVE JIM BAIRD (R-IN) | |
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| 68. | 1/7/2021 “I have heard from countless Hoosiers concerned with how the 2020 election was conducted… I share some of these concerns. With this in mind, and at the strong urging of the Hoosiers who sent me to Congress, I have decided that I will join a large group of my fellow members of Congress in objecting to the certification of Electoral College slates from certain states. While I condemn the violent protests that occurred today at the U.S. Capitol in the strongest terms possible, it doesn’t change the fact that concerns remain on how several states enacted new election rules without the consent from their state legislatures… The Framers were clear with their intentions, and the Constitution lays out in Article II, Section 1, clause 2, that state legislatures are the only entities that have the authority to establish the rules on how their states choose Presidential Electors… Unfortunately, prior to this election several state governors, secretaries of state, election officials, and judges exceeded this constitutional authority – neglecting to follow proper procedure in changing election laws in response to the disruptive nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Allowing these improperly founded changes to stand is a dangerous precedent that deteriorates the strength of our democracy and American trust in our election system, and I cannot stand idly by.” -Jim Baird, “Congressman Baird Statement on Objection to Certification Votes,” baird.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 6. REPRESENTATIVE JIM BANKS (R-IN) | |
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| 69. | 11/5/2020 “Last time, we know from Peter Strzok that Democrats had an insurance policy if Trump won the election… What was Democrats’ plan this time around? And does it include the shady ballot counting happening in WI, MI and PA?? Impossible to believe they didn’t have one.” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:19 am |
| 70. | 11/5/2020 “It’s in GOP’s AND Dems’ interest to make sure this election is conducted legally and without fraud. We don’t want Biden to forever have an asterisk next to his name & his legacy remembered as an ‘illegal president.’ That would be terrible for our country! Count every LEGAL vote!” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:52 am |
| 71. | 11/5/2020 “Count every legal vote!!” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 11:13 am |
| 72. | 11/7/2020 “I’ve joined 38 of my colleagues in writing a letter to AG Bill Barr requesting he investigate claims of voter fraud and make sure only all legal votes are counted in this election. The American people need to have confidence that the outcome of this election is legitimate!!” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 6:58 am |
| 73. | 12/10/2020 “Hunter Biden is being investigated for dealings with CEFC China founder Ye Jianming. Their relationship was uncovered in @nypost’s story & censored by Big Tech weeks before 2020. Election interference!” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 11:28 am |
| 74. | 12/11/2020 “Every *legal* vote should be counted, and every *illegal* vote should be dismissed.” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 11:28 am |
| 75. | 12/18/2020 “The Constitution says state legislatures set the time, place and manner of elections. But there are countless examples of state legislatures being circumvented in the 2020 election.” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 1:06 pm |
| 76. | 1/3/2021 “Article II, Section 1, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states that Presidential Electors must be appointed according to rules established by each state’s legislature. But in the months before the 2020 election, these rules were thwarted in some states not by their legislatures—but by governors, secretaries of state, election officials, judges and/or private parties… I will vote to uphold the Constitution and send a message to states that they must adhere to our founding document’s instructions—so I will vote against [electoral vote] certification in disputed states.” -Jim Banks, Facebook.com, January 3, 2021 8:05 pm |
| 77. | 1/4/2021 “We must protect our elections from foreign interference & illegal votes!” -Jim Banks, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 2:40 pm |
| 7. REPRESENTATIVE CLIFF BENTZ (R-OR) | |
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| 78. | 12/18/2020 “I have joined many of my colleagues in asking for a congressional investigation and review into what has happened in states where election irregularities have been observed.” -Cliff Bentz, Twitter.com, December 18, 2021 6:12 pm |
| 79. | 1/7/2021 “As the Representative of Oregon’s Second District, I am committed to listening to the opinions of my constituents, upholding the Constitution, and engaging in the deliberative process entrusted to the United States House of Representatives. I have heard many speak of distrust in the elections that were facilitated by several states. That is why I wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi last month, urging for a prompt and thorough congressional investigation into voting irregularities during the 2020 presidential election. So far, my request has fallen on deaf ears. Therefore, the duty has fallen on Congress to begin restoring faith in our representative form of government and to ensure the voice of the American people is heard through the Electoral College certification process.” -Cliff Bentz, “Congressman Cliff Bentz Statement on Electoral College Certification,” bentz.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 80. | 1/7/2021 “I cast my vote in support of the objection to the certification of the Electors from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In doing so, my goal was to protect the integrity of our elections and to prompt all states to uphold election laws as determined by their state legislatures – all in accordance with our Constitution. Article II of the Constitution sets forth that each state legislature is entrusted with the authority to establish and facilitate elections within that state. In Pennsylvania, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the state’s Supreme Court did not adhere to the statutes set forth by the legislature when they extended deadlines for the return of absentee ballots. This action violated the principles of Article II of the Constitution because the state legislature had not previously delegated broader authority to the Secretary. Ultimately, this change in voting procedures by a non-legislative body contributed to a widespread loss of faith by many Americans in the integrity of the 2020 election – including many in my district. Such a violation of our Constitution must be discouraged in the strongest terms possible.” -Cliff Bentz, “Congressman Cliff Bentz Statement on Electoral College Certification,” bentz.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 8. REPRESENTATIVE JACK BERGMAN (R-MI) | |
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| 81. | 11/6/2020 “When the votes were tallied in Antrim County, my team immediately recognized irregularities and we got to work sounding the alarm to the Antrim County clerk and party officials… While I applaud the clerk for working to identify the software problem and remedy the situation in Antrim, we have now learned that 47 Michigan counties used this software. This is clear proof that the issue requires further scrutiny… Election observers must not be shut out of the process. All legal votes need to be counted, and all evidence of fraud must be thoroughly investigated.” -Jack Bergman, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:08 pm |
| 82. | 12/10/2020 “This week, I signed onto the Amicus Brief in support of State of Texas v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al… In this Amicus Brief, we outline multiple occasions where the state of Michigan – specifically the Secretary of State – subverted Michigan election law and constitutional precedent which in turn created a crisis of confidence in Michigan. Every American needs to know that every legal vote is counted – and only legal votes.” -Jack Bergman, “Bergman Statement on Signing Amicus Brief,” bergman.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 83. | 1/4/2021 “The very foundation of our Democracy lies in the tenets of a free, fair, and secure election. Americans deserve to know only legal votes are counted and reports regarding irregularities, fraud, and failure to follow election laws are thoroughly investigated. Poll challengers have raised valid concerns about election integrity across our Nation that brings into question the results of the 2020 election and puts faith in future elections in jeopardy.” -Jack Bergman and Tim Walberg, “Bergman, Walberg to Object to Certain Presidential Electors on January 6th,” bergman.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 84. | 1/4/2021 “In Arizona – Plaintiffs contest that over 75,000 absentee ballots were reported as unreturned when they were actually returned. These absentee ballots were then either lost or were replaced with blank ballots filled out by election workers or other third parties.” -Jack Bergman, “Bergman, Walberg to Object to Certain Presidential Electors on January 6th,” bergman.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 85. | 1/4/2021 “In Pennsylvania – Lawmakers have alleged that the numbers don’t add up, and the certification of Presidential results were premature and in error… Additionally, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court usurped and contravened state legislative power by adopting a presumption that even non-postmarked ballots were timely and against state law- poll-watchers were denied access to voting stations. Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Commonwealth violated Article II of the U.S. Constitution when she usurped legislative power by unilaterally abrogating Pennsylvania statutes that mandate signature verification on mail-in and absentee ballots.” -Jack Bergman, “Bergman, Walberg to Object to Certain Presidential Electors on January 6th,” bergman.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 86. | 1/4/2021 “In Georgia – More than 300,000 individuals were permitted to vote who had applied for an absentee ballot more than 180 days prior to the Election Day. This is a clear violation of state law. Additionally, video has shown poll workers counting ballots after poll watchers were asked to leave the location.” -Jack Bergman, “Bergman, Walberg to Object to Certain Presidential Electors on January 6th,” bergman.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 87. | 1/6/2021 “I made it very clear this week that I intended to stand for my belief that irregularities, discrepancies, and usurpation of state election laws demanded an investigation into the 2020 election. After all, this is a duty that Congress has been given and a lawful way to challenge concerns with state electors. As prescribed by the 12th Amendment, a joint session of Congress is to meet to ‘count electoral votes’ and make a final determination on the 2020 Presidential Election. The Electoral Count Act of 1887 gives Congress the opportunity to object to any state where any member believes votes were either ‘unlawfully certified’ or ‘not regularly given.’” -Jack Bergman, “Bergman Statement on Electoral College Certification Process and Lawlessness at Capitol,” bergman.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 9. REPRESENTATIVE STEPHANIE BICE (R-OK) | |
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| 88. | 1/6/2021 “Today, I will be voting to challenge the electoral votes of certain states to ensure the security of our nation’s election process. Unfortunately, some states did not follow their own state election laws, jeopardizing their citizens’ confidence in our election process. In my home state of Oklahoma, we conducted a fair and transparent election that should be a model for states across the nation. All Americans deserve to have the same level of confidence that Oklahomans have in our state’s electoral system. While I understand these actions will not alter the outcome of this election, I intend to cast my vote to shine a light on these issues and to ensure the integrity of the nation’s elections. As a former state senator, I voted to uphold the security of our 2020 elections, and I will do the same in Congress today. Americans must have a fair and secure voting process.” -Stephanie Bice, “Bice Statement on Electoral College Vote,” bice.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 10. REPRESENTATIVE ANDY BIGGS (R-AZ) | |
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| 89. | 11/4/2020 “There are hundreds of thousands of votes yet to be counted in Arizona. @realDonaldTrump may still win Arizona’s electoral votes in a fair & free election – devoid of any shenanigans… If it [the election] is free of any kind of shenanigans, and if this is done right and fairly, I believe President Trump will emerge victorious when all the ballots are counted.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 12:06 am |
| 90. | 11/4/2020 “I optimistic that President @realDonaldTrump will win AZ when all legal ballots are counted.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 12:33 pm |
| 91. | 11/4/2020 “President @realDonaldTrump will win Arizona’s electoral votes when all legal votes have been processed and tabulated.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 7:19 pm |
| 92. | 11/4/2020 “Arizona’s presidential race NEVER should have been called last night – before a single Election Day vote had been tabulated. Those who have called Arizona for Biden must retract that prediction until all legal votes have been processed and tabulated.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 4, 2020 7:27 pm |
| 93. | 11/5/2020 “Every legal vote should be counted in our elections. Nothing more, nothing less. The integrity of our elections is on the line, and Americans need maximum transparency and accountability from state and local officials.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:22 am |
| 94. | 11/5/2020 “So much is on the line in this election. All Republicans should fight for complete transparency and accountability with all elections across the nation. We cannot turn a blind eye to fraud or rule breaking. Count every legal vote!” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 1:00 pm |
| 95. | 11/5/2020 “NOT ONE REPUBLICAN should give up on this fight to ensure that EVERY LEGAL VOTE is counted. There is too much at stake for our future if we quit now. We must fight to – and through – the finish line to protect the integrity of our elections.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 3:35 pm |
| 96. | 11/5/2020 “The same people on the left and in the media who praised Stacey Abrams’ ‘principled’ refusal to concede her 2018 LOSS are the same people screaming for President Donald J. Trump to concede before every legal vote is tabulated & all efforts are taken to ensure a free and fair election… So the left and the mainstream media can say whatever makes them happy. President Trump and I are going to keep fighting for the people and to ensure that every legal vote is tabulated. We’ve come too far to surrender to the mob.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 5, 2020 5:27 pm |
| 97. | 11/6/2020 “The election isn’t over until every legal vote is counted – and only the legal votes. I’m standing with President @realDonaldTrump to ensure that this happens. Are you?” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:19 am |
| 98. | 11/7/2020 “For five years, the radical left and their allies in the mainstream media have sought to delegitimize, undermine, and overthrow President Donald J. Trump from office. They have lost all credibility and moral highground to declare a new president before all legal votes have been counted and all lawsuits have been settled. President Donald J. Trump, keep fighting. The American people support you and stand with you in your endeavors to expose and eradicate the corruption of the deep state and establishment, and to ensure integrity across all of our election systems in every state and locality.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 4:18 pm |
| 99. | 11/7/2020 “President Donald J. Trump is fighting for every legal vote. We stand with this worthy fight. Mr. President, do not give up. Do not concede until every option has been extinguished.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 4:30 pm |
| 100. | 11/7/2020 “There really is no other choice but to fight to preserve our nation. While the Left is assiduously stealing the presidency (with the almost ironic twist that Republicans are gaining seats in Congress and around the country), we must not acquiesce to their efforts.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 7:41 pm |
| 101. | 11/7/2020 “Those who demand grace from Trump supporters as we watch the nation stolen from us, deny the peril from a ravenous beast that will consume our freedoms and chain the American people. We must urge legislators to confirm Trump’s electors when there is demonstrable tampering of electoral outcomes by the vote thieves on the Left.” -Andy Biggs, “The Only Way Forward Is to Fight,” townhall.com, November 7, 2020 |
| 102. | 11/9/2020 “Count every legal vote. Remove every fraudulent vote. I stand with President Donald J. Trump as he fights for the integrity of ALL of our election systems in every state.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 9, 2020 11:06 am |
| 103. | 11/9/2020 “GREAT news from the Department of Justice and Attorney General William Barr. President Donald J. Trump’s administration is committed to ensuring the integrity of ALL of America’s election systems. Every legal vote should be counted. Every fraudulent vote should be removed.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 9, 2020 7:44 pm |
| 104. | 11/9/2020 “In Arizona, you have literally a thousand people who have signed affidavits saying that their vote was canceled wrongly by poll workers in Arizona… You’ve got Michigan, you’ve got a county that the software automatically changed 6,000 votes to Joe Biden. That is the same [voting] machine that’s used in 28 states.” -Andy Biggs in a news interview, video via Facebook.com, November 9, 2020 11:06 am |
| 105. | 11/11/2020 “Nearly 10,000 voters disenfranchised by the green button. If you voted on Election Day in Maricopa County and either you or a poll worker pressed the green button, go to DontTouchTheGreenButton.com Every single legal vote MUST be counted.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, November 11, 2020 7:48 pm [Note: Arizona officials presented evidence that 191 ballots had more than one vote in the presidential race, not 10,000. Source: Laurie Roberts, “Trump campaign has won … when it comes to undermining Arizona’s election,” azcentral.com, November 12, 2020] |
| 106. | 11/12/2020 “How about if we fight in every way to make sure every legal vote is counted, and every fraudulent vote is disallowed? How about if Republican-controlled state legislatures provide an alternative Trump slate of electors to the Electoral College in states where the Democratic apparatus of counting votes has produced questionable results?… Americans must demand nothing less than the absolute integrity of our elections systems — in every state, in every county and in every municipality. If you’ve seen or heard of fraud or irregularities, you should report those to your state or county Republican Party office or your local Trump Team. Be loud and vocal on social media and other forms of communication. If you’ve seen something, say something.” -Andy Biggs, “Demand election integrity, do not acquiesce to Democrats’ leftist radical agenda,” washingtontimes.com, November 12, 2020 |
| 107. | 11/13/2020 Lou Dobbs: “We’re being told by a lot of hacking experts that these [voting] machines are absolutely vulnerable to hacking. Your thoughts and how concerned are you about it?” “I am really concerned about it. I’ve requested that we go through to test the machines to determine whether there was an opportunity to hack, or if there might have even been a feature put in there, was something algorithmically put in there that could switch votes. We need to find that out and get to the bottom of this… So many questions have been raised around the country.” -Andy Biggs interview on Fox Business, video via Facebook.com, November 13, 2020 9:27 am |
| 108. | 11/16/2020 “This election is a joke. You’ve seen it, we’ve all seen it. Story after story after story of glitches, upload errors, and ballot dumps that sow distrust in our voting process… In one county in Michigan, a [voting machine] software glitch caused 6,000 votes to switch from President Trump to Joe Biden… Unfortunately, 47 countries in Michigan used this same software.” -Andy Biggs via Arizona Republican Party, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 8:00 pm |
| 109. | 12/2/2020 “We’ve gone from generic allegations of fraud or misconduct in the election to actual evidence. You have affidavits from people who were denied the right to vote, or affidavits from people who witnessed misconduct. In Arizona, in our hearing, they produced evidence of 8,000 votes that they believe were inappropriately cast… Then you have additional evidence come out about failure to verify and authenticate signatures from the ballots, and there’s two million of those in Arizona cast.” -Andy Biggs interview on Fox Business, video via Facebook.com, December 2, 2020 9:44 am |
| 110. | 12/3/2020 “There have been all kinds of reports [of fraud]. We had a hearing in Arizona where evidence was alluded to that more than 6,000 ballots had been cast for people who are not on the voter rolls. Another 2,000 ballots had been cast when there was no address or indication of residence of those ballots. In a state of 3.3 million votes cast and about 10,400 votes separating the two parties, you can imagine when you start talking about evidence like that, that it narrows this thing so considerably, as well as additional evidence, investigations that are going on in Arizona.” -Andy Biggs, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 111. | 12/3/2020 “Every legal vote should count, and every fraudulent vote should be removed… There’s been some auditing going on this week [in Arizona]… there was error there… The separation [between Biden and Trump] right now is about 10,400 ballots, 0.3 percent, very narrow… There is more than enough votes to actually counter and overturn the separation between the two candidates right now.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 4:39 pm |
| 112. | 12/5/2020 “If U.S. Attorney General Barr does not conduct a transparent investigation into the allegations of election fraud in the 2020 election, millions of Americans may always have doubts about the legitimacy of the next president. We need answers and clarity. I’m calling for Attorney General Barr to release the findings of his election fraud investigation.” -Andy Biggs, Facebook.com, December 5, 2020 2:03 pm |
| 113. | 12/6/2020 “On behalf of the millions of concerned citizens and Arizonans who have lost confidence in the integrity of our election system, and on behalf of candidates for public office who campaign hard with the expectation that every lawful vote will count — and every illegal ballot will be thrown out — we write to share our support for the pending litigation [requesting a vote audit]… We have seen various reports of irregularities, variances, statistical improbabilities, and unorthodox measures occurring in the general election for 2020.” -Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, Letter to a court posted on Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 3:08 pm |
| 114. | 12/6/2020 “Immediately prior to the election, voters in Chandler and Mesa were solicited by community organizers to turn over their ballots so they could ‘turn it in for them.’ This is illegal ballot harvesting… The massive fraud people are concerned about is the data shifting. Why trifle with hundreds of ballots if you can change tens of thousands effortlessly? One insider whistleblower states that 35,000 votes were manipulated in Pima County.” -Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, Letter to a court posted on Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 3:08 pm |
| 115. | 12/10/2020 “Millions of Americans have expressed grave concerns about many claims of election fraud and irregularities. That’s why I joined 105 of my House colleagues in support of TX v PA. Every legal vote should be counted, & every illegal vote should be removed.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 7:06 pm |
| 116. | 12/11/2020 “I won’t ever apologize for working to ensure the integrity of our elections. Every legal vote should be counted. And every illegal vote should be removed. The American people deserve officials who take election integrity as seriously as they do.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 8:19 pm |
| 117. | 12/11/2020 “By preventing the audit of the AZ election, Gov Ducey allows the questions surrounding the election to remain under a cloud of skepticism.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 7:40 pm |
| 118. | 1/2/2021 “Members of the House & Senate are responding to legitimate claims of election fraud & issues that were raised during the 2020 election. Many in the media may call this ‘undermining democracy.’ Americans call this ‘protecting our constitutional republic.’” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 4:39 pm |
| 119. | 1/5/2021 “Millions of Americans have lost complete faith in the integrity of our nation’s elections systems. I’m fighting around the clock to restore that trust. Whatever the outcome, Americans must have confidence that every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is removed.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 9:10 am |
| 120. | 1/6/2021 “In a representative form of gov’t we must be able to trust that our elections accurately represent the will of the American voter. This is the appropriate forum, from our founders, to debate whether this election complied w/ the Constitution that we have all sworn to protect.” -Andy Biggs, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 2:47 pm |
| 121. | 1/6/2021 “I join the objections to counting votes of electors from my home state of Arizona, as well as, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Nevada because election integrity is the heart of our American Constitutional republic. In a representative form of Government we must be able to trust that our elections accurately represent the will of the American voter… The debate as to the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election has been suppressed by the left and its propogandists [sic] in the media….until today.” -Andy Biggs, “Congressman Biggs Stands for Election Integrity,” biggs.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 122. | 1/6/2021 “The Federal District Court decided that since other states have a deadline later than Arizona’s and some even allow for registration when voting, that Arizona’s new deadline would be at a time he chose—not, the legislature’s timeline… The Appellate Court, without legal justification, also decided that everyone who registered after the deadline, but before the deadline created by judicial fiat, could still vote… As a consequence of that judicial usurpation more than 32,000 people were allowed to unlawfully cast ballots in Arizona’s presidential election in 2020… Arizonans have used the limited amount of records available to investigate the 2020 presidential election. Of a sample of 1000 addresses of voters, they found 539 voters DID NOT LIVE at the addresses on the voter rolls.” -Andy Biggs, “Congressman Biggs Stands for Election Integrity,” biggs.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 123. | 1/6/2021 “The debate as to the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential election has been suppressed by the left and its propagandists in the media until today. The appellate court, without legal justification, also decided that everyone who registered [to vote] after the legal deadline, but before the deadline created by judicial fiat, could still vote… As a consequence of that judicial usurpation, more than 32,000 people were allowed to unlawfully cast ballots in Arizona’s Presidential election in 2020… I object to counting the votes of Arizona electors because the Federal courts went around the legislatively constructed mechanism for choosing Arizona’s Presidential electors, allowing tens of thousands of voters to unlawfully cast votes.” -Andy Biggs, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 11. REPRESENTATIVE GUS BILIRAKIS (R-FL) | |
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| 124. | 12/11/2020 “Many Americans are disturbed by multiple reports of voter irregularities and what some feel are unconstitutional changes to various states’ mail-in voting procedures. All allegations of election irregularities (should) be thoroughly investigated and claims of unconstitutional conduct (should) be examined as quickly as possible.” -Gus Bilirakis via William March, “Gus Bilirakis explains (sort of) his support of Texas lawsuit to overturn election results,” tampabay.com, December 11, 2020 |
| 12. REPRESENTATIVE DAN BISHOP (R-NC) | |
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| 125. | 11/4/2020 “Every legal vote should be counted.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:01 pm |
| 126. | 11/5/2020 “Well, I’m echoing the President’s claims. Indications of grossly improper conduct from election officials right here in my district. And Trump’s points are persuasive: concerted use of fraudulent polls; stunning and implausible ballot dumps overnight; observers barred. Fight!” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:18 pm |
| 127. | 11/6/2020 “HAHAHA If only they [The News & Observer newspaper] were capable of shame. Won’t hold my breath for them to shine the investigative bright light and express their dismay over campaign workers in Anson County allowed routinely to ‘help’ voters in the booth. Affected far more votes.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 7:59 pm |
| 128. | 11/13/2020 “liberal media accused me of lying …, but they didn’t know about the video. Officials HAVE countenanced illegal voting—right here in the 9th District.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 8:11 pm |
| 129. | 12/10/2020 “The Constitution is not ambiguous when it comes to elections. Electors can ONLY be appointed in a manner directed by state legislatures. I’m proud to join @RepMikeJohnson & many, many colleagues on the amicus brief to ensure the integrity of the 2020 election.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 6:03 pm |
| 130. | 12/10/2020 “The American people will not stand for a rigged election.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 6:21 pm |
| 131. | 12/10/2020 “Unless SCOTUS stops the sabotage of State election laws, every election will be stolen, and the Constitution’s delegation of election procedure solely to State legislatures will become a dead letter. SCOTUS must defend the Constitution, not buckle to Dems and their media.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 11:07 pm |
| 132. | 12/11/2020 “.@SpeakerPelosi & Dems already had a playbook for changing the election rules for their benefit…they just used COVID-19 to execute it.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 11:32 am |
| 133. | 1/5/2021 “We saw nationwide efforts by Dems to usurp state legislatures’ election authority. That’s what happened in 2020 and I won’t stand for it.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 4:45 pm |
| 134. | 1/5/2021 “In the 2020 election, the national Democratic Party carried out a highly coordinated, massively financed, nationwide campaign to displace state regulation of absentee ballots by means of a flood of election-year litigation. This effort was designed to overwhelm the judicial system and disrupt the administration of the election… The Democrats’ objectives were to weaken ballot security, undermine positive identification of voters, and provide opportunities for post-election ballot-box stuffing. This has been a national, partisan attack on the Constitutional delegation of authority to regulate elections specifically to state legislatures.” -Dan Bishop, “Bishop Objects to GA, PA, MI & WI Electoral Certifications,” danbishop.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 135. | 1/5/2021 “Tomorrow, January 6, 2021, Congress will meet for the count of the electoral vote for President of the United States. Because the Democrats’ campaign of litigation has tainted some states’ elections, I will join in objections to those states’ electors. I consider this to be an obligation of utmost gravity, predicated on my oath to defend the Constitution, and I hope that the controversy at hand will lead to restoring the administration of elections as the Constitution envisions.” -Dan Bishop, “Bishop Objects to GA, PA, MI & WI Electoral Certifications,” danbishop.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 136. | 1/5/2021 “Many believe that outright fraud and misconduct changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Those issues remain subject to investigation and analysis. On the other hand, the scope and intensity of the Democrats’ election-year litigation campaign is not subject to dispute.” -Dan Bishop, “Report: The National Democrat Party Effort to Usurp State Legislature’s Control of Election Laws & the Implications for the 2020 Presidential Election Certification,” danbishopforms.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 137. | 1/5/2021 “Because I am certain that the national Democratic Party carried out a coordinated, nationwide campaign to undermine the rule of law governing the election as structured in the Constitution, as recognized in part by Judges Wilkinson, Agee and Niemeyer on the Fourth Circuit, I will join in objecting to the electoral slates of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It is specifically the fact that the Democrats pursued this strategy of nationwide scope and with massive resources that gives it unmistakable constitutional dimension. It is a chaos strategy that Democrats perceive to benefit them electorally, no matter the outcome. If state legislatures lose effective control of election regulation, Democrats are content to manipulate ad hoc decisions of state and local bureaucrats… I look forward to fulfilling my oath to defend the Constitution in the electoral count by objecting to the slates of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.” -Dan Bishop, “Report: The National Democrat Party Effort to Usurp State Legislature’s Control of Election Laws & the Implications for the 2020 Presidential Election Certification,” danbishopforms.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 138. | 1/6/2021 “Democrats’ attack on our elections was not minor or sporadic. It was coordinated & widespread. The burden of proof is on the Democrats in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan & Georgia. I will be not be voting to affirm Presidential election results in those states.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 9:22 am |
| 139. | 1/6/2021 “Here’s some more detail on why I will be objecting to the vote counts in GA, MI, PA and WI. Democrats laid out a plan to attack our election laws to give them an advantage in their FIRST bill of last Congress, H.R. 1. They executed this attack for over a YEAR and even bragged about it. These changes had nothing to do with COVID-19, other than the pandemic provided Dems the opportunity to execute their will. As 2020 unfolded, Democrats attacked election laws passed by state legislatures in state after state. They tried to overwhelm the system by using forum shopping, repetitive suits and collusive settlements. All to take away YOUR vote and get Dems elected… Did the Supreme Court Act immediately? NO. Did they restore fair elections ahead of November 3rd? NO. We were left with election laws that RESOUNDINGLY favored Dems.” -Dan Bishop, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:54 pm |
| 140. | 1/6/2021 “News would suggest there are millions of Americans—that is a big number—millions, tens of millions, who believe something went awry in this election. And they aren’t dumb. They aren’t mindless. They don’t believe things simply because the President says them. There were problems… many executive branch officials around the Nation departed from State legislatures’ enacted laws… It was a chaos strategy [enacted by Democrats], a plan to flood State and Federal courts with hundreds of simultaneous election year lawsuits aimed at displacing State legislative control.” -Dan Bishop, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 13. REPRESENTATIVE LAUREN BOEBERT (R-CO) | |
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| 141. | 11/5/2020 “Keep the negative energy away from your heart, everyone. We have to ensure they count every LEGAL vote. No one said this would be easy, but we elected a fighter and he will fight for us just as he has for the past four years!” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 12:44 pm |
| 142. | 11/6/2020 “Ensuring that legal votes are the only votes counted is called DEFENDING an election, not undermining it.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 6:22 pm |
| 143. | 11/7/2020 “Joe Biden seems to think he has a governing mandate before anyone has even called the presidential race. The only mandate anyone has right now is to ensure that we count every *legal* vote.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 10:22 am |
| 144. | 11/10/2020 “Hey ‘journalists’, when you say that there’s no evidence of voter fraud [in the election] you are lying. There are sworn affidavits. That is evidence. Basic fact of law. Why do we have to do your job for you?” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 8:49 am |
| 145. | 11/19/2020 “There are more than 800 sworn affidavits regarding questionable occurrences during the 2020 election. The race for the White House is not over.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 7:59 pm |
| 146. | 11/19/2020 “When Democrats think Russians are cheating in our elections they are outraged, but when domestic fraud benefits their preferred candidate they turn a blind eye?” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 7:27 am |
| 147. | 11/24/2020 “It is not enough to talk about voter fraud. Something needs to be done concretely to ensure that this cannot go on. Georgia is right now getting ready to determine control of the Senate – has the system been fixed or are they going to just allow that to be stolen too [like the presidential election]?” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 24, 2020 6:12 pm |
| 148. | 11/25/2020 “I don’t care what party you belong to, there is no way that you can listen to the hearing in Gettysburg and say that Pennsylvania didn’t have major election issues. Are we going to stand up for the integrity of our republic or not?” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 4:52 pm |
| 149. | 11/28/2020 “The American people are not falling for the Fake News claim that Joe Biden received more votes than President Barack Obama.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 28, 2020 12:21 pm |
| 150. | 11/29/2020 “Listening to @realDonaldTrump on @MariaBartiromo right now. There is no way that anyone can call the 2020 presidential election fair. We have to make this right.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, November 29, 2020 11:50 am |
| 151. | 12/4/2020 “How many states need to have voting irregularities before the media starts calling it ‘widespread’?” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 6:39 pm |
| 152. | 12/4/2020 “We have so much evidence to prove that this election was not right, and that Joe Biden is not more popular than Hillary Clinton, he is not more popular than Barack Obama, and he did not receive more than 80 million votes here in the United States.” -Lauren Boebert in an interview on Fox Business, video via Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 7:40 pm |
| 153. | 12/5/2020 “This is a contested election. And I believe that President Trump should fight with everything that he has, and use all of the authority that he has, as the president of the United States, to make sure that we have a free and fair election. We need to be looking into these allegations, we need to be taking them seriously… No one will trust our election system ever again if we don’t fix it this time… I believe in these battleground states, we need to be looking into what’s being accused here. We need to be looking into what’s being alleged. We need to see if they were legal votes, how many votes were counted more than once, if the voter turnout was higher than the actual voter registration for those areas.” -Lauren Boebert via Zachary Stieber And Jan Jekielek, “‘Our Democracy Depends on This’: Rep.-Elect Boebert Backs Trump in Election Fight,” theepochtimes.com, December 5, 2020 |
| 154. | 12/5/2020 “These suitcases are being pulled out and ran through the voting machines, and it’s said that these voting machines can count up to 3,000 ballots per hour, and this was done on at least three voting machines for at least two hours. That’s a lot of ballots that were counted there, and there was no oversight. And so we need to be getting to the bottom of this. We have video footage of this taking place. We have eyewitness testimony in so many states.” -Lauren Boebert via Zachary Stieber And Jan Jekielek, “‘Our Democracy Depends on This’: Rep.-Elect Boebert Backs Trump in Election Fight,” theepochtimes.com, December 5, 2020 |
| 155. | 12/11/2020 “With all the irregularities in this election, we may never know the true way people voted in this election. It is up to Congress to make this right and be the final say in this dispute. That is the what the Constitution stipulates.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 7:16 pm |
| 156. | 12/14/2020 “Besides the video footage, voice recordings, data analysis, statistical impossibilities, sworn affidavits and eyewitness testimony there is absolutely no evidence of voter fraud.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 14, 2020 7:25 am |
| 157. | 12/24/2020 “I am very tired of hearing about fixing election fraud going forward. An election just happened. There was fraud. Fix that one first!” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 24, 2020 6:20 am |
| 158. | 12/24/2020 “Several states removed voter safeguards during the 2020 elections that violated provisions in their respective state constitutions and the United States Constitution. As a representative sworn to defend the U.S. Constitution, it is my responsibility to object to the Electoral College results that were recorded under these circumstances. The American people deserve secure and fair elections. Unfortunately, the 2020 election was neither of those things.” -Lauren Boebert via Saja Hindi, “Congresswoman-elect Lauren Boebert to object to certifying Biden’s Electoral College victory,” denverpost.com, December 24, 2020 |
| 159. | 12/27/2020 “We need a ground swell of Patriots calling, writing and emailing their Senators & Congressmen demanding they object to the counting of electoral votes in states with irregularities.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 27, 2020 4:47 pm |
| 160. | 12/27/2020 “Objecting to the counting of certain electoral votes is NOT ‘overthrowing’ the results of the election if those votes were won through fraud. Winning an election through fraud is what I would consider ‘overthrowing’ the results. That is exactly why we’re fighting for POTUS!” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 27, 2020 5:59 pm |
| 161. | 12/30/2020 “There is a constitutional provision for members of Congress to object if they believe the results of an election are unconstitutional. And I believe that certain states behaved during this presidential election were unconstitutional. If you were to look at the signature verification, if a state’s constitution requires state legislatures to be in charge of how elections are conducted, and if the legislature says that there have to be signature verifications, well, simply put, there have to be signature verifications… And the executive branch doesn’t get to override the constitution, regardless of the circumstances… There are many irregularities, and the American people know that this was not a secure election.” -Lauren Boebert via Dinesh D’Souza, “Incoming Republican Congresswoman Says She Will Stand Up for Conservatives on January 6,” rumble.com, December 30, 2020 |
| 162. | 12/30/2020 “You have to be willfully ignorant to listen to this Georgia hearing and not see how much fraud went on in the state. This need be fixed NOW, not next election!” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 30, 2020 2:10 pm |
| 163. | 12/31/2020 “We are standing up for our Constitution & against the election fraud of 2020!” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 4:48 pm |
| 164. | 1/6/2021 “For more than three decades, Arizona law, set by the State legislature, has required that voter registration end no later than 29 days before an election.. This is clear. It is law, unless amended by the State legislature. This is the way it needs to be carried out… Using COVID as a reasoning, Democrats filed a lawsuit to extend this deadline by 18 days. An injunction was made by an Obama-appointed judge preventing the Arizona secretary of state from enforcing the constitutional deadline set by the State legislature. As a result of this frivolous, partisan lawsuit, 10 extra days were added via judicial fiat to allow voter registration… Now, in this 10-day period, at least 30,000 new voters were registered to vote in Arizona. All of these votes are unconstitutional.” -Lauren Boebert, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 165. | 1/8/2021 “I want you all to know how proud I am to have taken a stand on the electoral college certification. The onslaught that we have seen on our electoral college from the Democrats is what got me involved with this to begin with… Nothing that has happened in the past few days changes the fact that election laws were in fact broken.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, January 8, 2021 12:23 pm |
| 166. | 1/9/2021 “Hillary [Clinton] must be pissed it took the DNC until 2020 to successfully rig an election.” -Lauren Boebert, Twitter.com, January 9, 2021 7:57 am |
| 14. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE BOST (R-IL) | |
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| 167. | 11/8/2020 “I support President Trump’s efforts to ensure that all legal votes are counted; & I know that many So. Illinoisans agree. The foundation of our democracy is built upon the fairness & integrity of our elections.” -Mike Bost, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 10:23 am |
| 168. | 1/7/2021 “And when it comes to certifying a state’s electoral votes, the Constitution is clear: state legislatures set the rules for states in conducting their elections. However, that simply was not the case in certain states in 2020. Two states in particular, Pennsylvania and Arizona, faced objections in the House and Senate to their electoral vote allocations, prompting floor votes in both chambers. I voted to object to the electoral votes of both states because, in my belief, they failed to meet that constitutional standard.” -Mike Bost, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 |
| 15. REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN BRADY (R-TX) | |
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| 169. | 12/10/2020 “‘Every American can agree that requiring states to follow their own election laws is crucial, especially to create trust in the results and to preserve the Electoral College,’ said Congressman Brady. ‘The Supreme Court is the final venue to examine election irregularities in full and ensure the vote of every American is treated equally according to the law.’ Background: Congressman Brady joined Rep. Mike Johnson and 104 members of the House Republican conference in sending an Amicus Brief focused on affirming to the [Supreme] Court the signatories’ concerns with the integrity of our election system.” -Kevin Brady, “Brady Joins Texas Election Suit to Supreme Court: ‘Every Vote Should be Treated Equally Under Law.,’” kevinbrady.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 16. REPRESENTATIVE MO BROOKS (R-AL) | |
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| 170. | 11/5/2020 “Count every LEGAL vote!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 4:22 pm |
| 171. | 11/5/2020 “As a U.S. House member, I’m going to be very hesitant to certify the results of this election if Joe Biden is declared the winner under these circumstances b/c I lack faith that this was an honest election.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:00 pm |
| 172. | 11/5/2020 “But in a bigger sense, part of the problem is the uncertainty interjected into the election process by this early mailing of ballots en masse… The only weakness in the Alabama system is that you don’t really know if a person is an American citizen who can lawfully vote, and that’s because the Democrats out of Washington, D.C. have made it extraordinarily difficult for election officials to determine if a person is a United States citizen when they register to vote… Well of course Democrats want that kind of process because it has more vulnerabilities to election fraud. And the Democrats are renown for engaging in election fraud, voter fraud, election theft, however you want to categorize it. Everything that the Democrats seemingly push for, creates another weakness that the criminal element that wants to steal elections can exploit.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:00 pm |
| 173. | 11/5/2020 “I’ll tell you right now, I don’t have confidence, if Joe Biden is reportedly elected President of the United States, I do not have confidence that the person who would be sworn in, was sworn in because that person in fact got the lawful votes needed to win the Electoral College… Because I simply lack faith that this was an honest election, based on all of the things that I know about election theft and voter fraud from the past, coupled with how much easier it is to steal an election or engage in voter fraud with this system the Democrats have been so successful in implementing around the country that has weakened my and a lot of others’ faith in the system.” -Mo Brooks via Sean Ross, “U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks: ‘Democrats are renowned for engaging in election fraud,’” yellowhammernews.com, November 5, 2020 |
| 174. | 11/6/2020 “The United States Constitution says that Congress shall set the time of these federal elections. Congress did that in Title 2, U.S. Code Section 7. We set a day — in this instance, November 3, as the day of the election. We did not set an election week. We did not set an election month. We did not set an election season. We set an election day. That’s when votes were supposed to be cast by people on that day, that 24-hour period with the exception of absentee ballots, where people who physically could not go to the polls to vote. Every other vote is illegal. The en masse mail-in voting scheme that the Democrats have put forth does not comply with the federal law that set November 3 as the election day. That en masse voting scheme that the socialist Democrats put forth is an election season. Now for emphasis: If we let the socialist Democrats get away with stealing this election, with this enormous voting fraud, they will not only take the presidency, they will also take the United States Senate. We will lose it.” -Mo Brooks via Jeff Poor, “Mo Brooks Says Presidential Election Stolen, Argues House Republicans Could Allow Trump to Retain Presidency under the Constitution,” breitbart.com, November 6, 2020 |
| 175. | 11/7/2020 “I urge @realDonaldTrump & Republicans to fight Biden’s unlawful victory claims. There’s no way I’ll vote in the House to ratify the Electoral College votes of states where illegal votes distorted the will of the people in those states who voted legally.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 3:49 pm |
| 176. | 11/12/2020 “Georgia hand recount worthless if illegal ballots are AGAIN counted, this time by hand. History: recounts help #Socialist #Democrats far more often than half the time statistical probability says they should. Never forget Norm Coleman v Al Franken, etc.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 1:46 pm |
| 177. | 11/17/2020 “#FakeNewsMedia claims no facts supporting @realDonaldTrump election challenges. Another one: Georgia ‘finds’ 2,600 uncounted ballots in conservative county for 800 vote net Trump gain. USA elections need safeguards #Socialist #Democrats oppose.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 2:56 pm |
| 178. | 11/17/2020 “#FakeNewsMedia claims no facts supporting @realDonaldTrump election challenges. Another one: TWO Californians arrested for MORE THAN 8,000 fraudulent voter registration applications! Two #Socialist #Democrats. How many of the 8,000 did they vote for?” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 4:36 pm |
| 179. | 11/18/2020 “’Congress has the absolute right to reject the submitted Electoral College votes of any state, which we believe has such a shoddy election system that you can’t trust the election results that those states are submitting to us, that they’re suspect,’ Brooks told The Epoch Times this week. ‘And I’m not going to put my name in support of any state that employs an election system that I don’t have confidence in.’ Brooks noted that he doesn’t have confidence in the election results in several states, including Georgia and Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden is the projected winner by razor-thin margins.” -Jack Phillips and Jan Jekielek, “Rep. Brooks: Congress Has ‘Absolute Right’ to Reject a State’s Electoral College Votes,” theepochtimes.com, November 18, 2020 |
| 180. | 11/20/2020 “MORE presidential election voter fraud evidence. Expert witness & mathematician Stephen Miller SWORN AFFIDAVIT re Pennsylvania: 40,875+ ballots requested for registered Republicans BY SOMEONE ELSE! 48,522+ Republican returned ballots NOT COUNTED!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, November 20, 2020 8:48 am |
| 181. | 12/2/2020 “In my judgment, if only lawful votes by eligible American citizens were cast, Donald Trump won the Electoral College by a significant margin, and Congress’s certification should reflect that. This election was stolen by the socialists engaging in extraordinary voter fraud and election theft measures.” -Mo Brooks via Melanie Zanona, “The GOP’s electoral mischief,” politico.com, December 2, 2020 |
| 182. | 12/2/2020 “In my judgment, based on what I know to be true, Joe Biden was the largest beneficiary of illegally cast votes in the history of the United States. And I can either ratify that illegal vote system, or I can object to it, in hopes that our election system will become more secure in future elections. If you saw the vote totals coming in, it’s quite clear that Joe Biden enjoyed a huge advantage in these mailed-out ballot schemes. You add those three things together, plus all the anecdotal stuff you’re seeing around the country in these lawsuits that have been filed, and they cumulatively cause me to believe that if only lawful votes cast by eligible, American citizens were counted, Donald Trump easily won the Electoral College.” -Mo Brooks via William Thornton, “Mo Brooks plans to challenge Electoral College vote,” al.com, December 2, 2020 |
| 183. | 12/3/2020 “My pleasure, Mr. President. Joe Biden must not be allowed to ‘win’ election by ‘buying’ illegal alien block votes via amnesty & citizenship promise to 11+ million illegal aliens. IMHO, if only lawful votes by eligible Americans counted, you won electoral college & reelection.” [Note: This tweet replied to a tweet from Trump that read, “Thank you to Representative Mo Brooks!”] -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 8:48 am |
| 184. | 12/3/2020 “[N]o one knows how massive the illegal alien voting block is or how many voted in 2020. Hundreds of thousands? Almost certainly. Millions? Very likely. But what we do know for sure is that the illegal alien voting block was large enough, and critical enough, to winning the presidential race that, at the October 22 Presidential Debate, Joe Biden openly and publicly solicited their illegal votes by promising, ‘Within 100 days, I’m going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people.’ Think about that for a moment. A presidential candidate on national TV promises amnesty and citizenship to illegal aliens in hopes of inspiring them to illegally register to vote and vote for that candidate! If that brazen solicitation of illegal voting by up to 22 million illegal aliens is not criminal solicitation of voter fraud and election theft, it darn well ought to be! And don’t think for a moment that Joe Biden did not know exactly what he was doing.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Highlights Systemic Election Flaw That Lets Millions of Noncitizens Vote in American Elections,” brooks.house.gov, December 3, 2020 |
| 185. | 12/3/2020 “Unfortunately, America’s election system is so riddled with systemic flaws that far too many elections are stolen from candidates and the American people. In my judgment, that is exactly what happened in the 2020 presidential election, where the election theft was so massive as to favorably compare to the old adage that ‘you can’t see the forest for the trees.’ Again, in my judgment, if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens are counted, President Trump handily won the electoral college and a second term as president. As such, it is my duty, under the U.S. Constitution, on January 6, if the required one Senator will join me, to object to and later vote to reject electoral college submissions from states whose election systems are so badly flawed as to render their vote submissions unreliable, untrustworthy, and unworthy of acceptance.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Highlights Systemic Election Flaw That Lets Millions of Noncitizens Vote in American Elections,” brooks.house.gov, December 3, 2020 |
| 186. | 12/3/2020 “The Socialist Democrats knew that this mailed-in ballot scheme would open the doors up for more voter fraud and election theft capability than they’ve ever been able to grasp before. And so COVID-19 is an issue, but that is not the primary motivation for what the Socialist Democrats did. They saw this as a way to steal elections generally and to steal the election for the President of the United States in particular. And to me, that is the primary motivation for what they have done. But regardless of what their motivation is, if Congress did not pass a law permitting it [vote-by-mail] under the election clause, Article One, Section Four of the United States Constitution again, then it’s illegal and those votes should not be counted… When I make a judgment as to whether a state’s submission of Electoral College votes is correct or incorrect. I’m not counting any illegal ballots when I make that decision. And as such, in my judgment, if we limited our vote count to lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, then Donald Trump easily won a majority of the Electoral College and won reelection.” -Mo Brooks, “Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL): We Have Some Leads In The Senate To Challenge Electoral College Vote,” radio.foxnews.com, December 3, 2020 |
| 187. | 12/3/2020 “I’m doing this [challenging electoral votes] because in my judgment this is the worst election theft in the history of the United States. And if there was a way to determine the Electoral College outcome using only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, then Donald Trump won the Electoral College.” -Mo Brooks via Celine Castronuovo and Juliegrace Brufke, “Mo Brooks planning to challenge Electoral College votes,” thehill.com, December 3, 2020 |
| 188. | 12/3/2020 “And #Socialist #Democrats & #FakeNewsMedia want to deceive America into believing ‘there is no evidence of voter fraud’. #Nevada court evidence has identified, SO FAR: 90,000 illegal votes cast.” [Note: This tweet replied to a tweet from Nevada GOP listing evidence of alleged voter fraud.] -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 8:52 pm |
| 189. | 12/3/2020 “HORRID! In #Georgia, #Socialist #Democrat ‘poll workers’ order GOP poll watchers to leave & THEN CAUGHT ON VIDEO dragging out suitcases hidden under table, full of ballots. They then STUFF ballots into voting machines for TWO HOURS! #FakeNewsMedia question: See voter fraud yet?” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 9:21 pm |
| 190. | 12/4/2020 “Glad to have @RepBarryMoore as an ally in the fight to restore election integrity in America!” [Note: This tweet linked to an article titled, “Barry Moore to Support Mo Brooks in Electoral College challenge.”] -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 7:41 pm |
| 191. | 12/4/2020 “I think it’s getting to be pretty clear that this election has more voter fraud than any presidential election in the history of the United States of America. And, quite frankly, it’s by design on the part of the Democrats. They have created these huge weaknesses that have made it so easy for them to steal votes… For example, 4,000 illegal aliens voting in Nevada that we’ve identified so far.” -Mo Brooks in an interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 9:33 am |
| 192. | 12/4/2020 “The evidence is overwhelming that Georgia’s election process has been corrupted by voter fraud and election theft… No one should ever be allowed to bring an estimated 15,000 to 18,000 ballots to a vote-counting facility in suitcases; hide those suitcases under a table before the vote-counting facility opens; at roughly 10:30 PM at night, declare that vote tabulation is finished for the night and will resume at 8:30 AM the next day; order all poll watchers and media to leave the facility; and then, once the facility is reduced to a bare minimum of five co-workers (and possibly criminal co-conspirators), with no poll watchers present; roll out the suitcases from their hiding place, withdraw thousands of ballots, and stuff the vote-counting machines with what appears to be, by the conduct observed, illegal and fraudulent ballots. Yet that is exactly what a newly released video of a polling location reveals.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Leads Letter to Attorney General Barr Requesting Voter Fraud Investigation & Injunction in Georgia,” brooks.house.gov, December 4, 2020 |
| 193. | 12/4/2020 “In my judgment, we are witnesses to the largest voter fraud and election theft in the history of the United States of America… The evidence that I’ve sees is overwhelming that the socialist Democrats have gone non-stop to engage in voter fraud and election theft and we have to stop it on behalf of our country.” -Mo Brooks in an interview with Fox & Friends via Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 9:02 am |
| 194. | 12/4/2020 “TUNE IN: Tonight at 7:10 pm ET I’ll join @marthamaccallum live on @FoxNews to discuss what I’m confident is the largest election theft in US history & my objection to the House certifying Electoral College votes on Jan 6. #StopTheSteaI2020” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 4:29 pm |
| 195. | 12/4/2020 “On the House side, momentum is building strongly in favor of fighting various state submissions of Electoral College votes. To mention a few — Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania. It is quite clear, based on overwhelming evidence, that Donald Trump if the law was obeyed, if only lawful votes cast by American citizens were counted, Donald Trump easily won those three states. And as the evidence comes out to a larger and larger degree, the public is, of course, starting to react. They’re starting to better understand this voter fraud and election theft crisis that we’re in. And they’re demanding that their congressmen and senators help clean up our election system. Part of that cleanup is making sure that those who try to steal elections do not profit from it.” -Mo Brooks via Jeff Poor, “Rep. Mo Brooks: ‘Momentum Is Building Strongly in Favor of Fighting Various State Submissions of Electoral College Votes,’” breitbart.com, December 4, 2020 |
| 196. | 12/4/2020 “I believe that we need to protect the sanctity of votes cast by eligible American citizens… I’m going to fight to minimize the future risk of elections being stolen, as in this case, in my judgement, based on the overwhelming evidence I have seen, this presidential race is being stolen… [S]ome of the systemic problems associated with America’s election process that make it so easy to engage in massive election theft, as I believe has occurred in this particular presidential election.” -Mo Brooks, “Capitol Journal,” video.aptv.org, December 4, 2020 |
| 197. | 12/5/2020 “I’ve looked at the circumstances and I firmly believe this election has been stolen by the Socialist Democrats. I’m going to fight!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 6:36 pm |
| 198. | 12/5/2020 “There are a number of systemic flaws in our election system that the general public is not aware of… [I]f an illegal alien or another non-citizen comes into a voter registrar’s office and demands to be allowed to register to vote, there’s nothing the voter registrars can do to prevent it… The voter registrars are powerless to stop them due to the conduct of the socialist Democrats, who, in their quest for political power, are willing to support illegal voting and election theft… [T]his particular example that we’re talking about, in my judgement, probably resulted in Joe Biden getting a minimum of hundreds of thousands of votes spread across America, more likely in the millions.. I am persuaded by a number of systemic flaws in our election system, that if only lawful votes cast by eligible American voters were counted, that Donald Trump won the popular vote and won the Electoral College by a sizable margin.” -Mo Brooks via Tony Perkins, “Rep. Mo Brooks Explains Why He Plans to Challenge the Electoral College Vote,” youtube.com, December 5, 2020 |
| 199. | 12/6/2020 “Some people can’t see the forest for the trees. Left complains that ‘only’ 10% of GOP Senators & Congressmen acknowledge Joe Biden won election. I ask why do that 10% ignore compelling & overwhelming evidence of massive voter fraud & election theft?” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 8:58 am |
| 200. | 12/6/2020 “I’m absolutely convinced that this is the largest voter fraud and election theft in American history. I will object to the Electoral College vote certification in the House to protect our Republic from the Socialist Democrat take over.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 10:15 am |
| 201. | 12/6/2020 “I firmly believe this election has been stolen by the socialist Democrats, and I believe we ought to fight…We cannot allow this kind of massive election theft that we have seen across the board… There are systemic flaws in our election system that have been very badly taken advantage of by the Joe Biden team and by the socialist Democrats that have resulted in a travesty of an election.” -Mo Brooks in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 10:46 am |
| 202. | 12/7/2020 “TUNE IN: I’ll appear on @OutnumberedOT with @HARRISFAULKNER on Fox News today at 1:20 pm ET to explain my objection to certifying the Electoral College votes in the US House on Jan 6. I’m convinced we witnessed the largest election theft in American history.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 11:04 am |
| 203. | 12/7/2020 “[T]he election is being stolen and we should do everything we possibly can to prevent election theft and voter fraud. To me, from where I sit and the information I have at hand, the evidence is overwhelming that if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens were counted, then Donald Trump won the Electoral College and hence would’ve prevailed for a second term as President of the United States.” -Mo Brooks in an interview on Fox News, video via @FaulknerFocus on Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 2:53 pm |
| 204. | 12/7/2020 “I’m still persuaded by the compelling nature of the evidence that if you were to count only lawfully cast votes by eligible American citizens, then Donald Trump won the Electoral College and is due to be reelected President of the United States… Quite frankly, there are a number of states right now that I lack confidence in the reports [of vote totals] that they’re going to give us. I do not believe the vote count in Nevada… The evidence is pretty good that over 90,000 votes were illegally cast, and 40,000 people voted twice.” -Mo Brooks in an interview on OAN, video via Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 3:15 pm |
| 205. | 12/8/2020 “Congress passed laws to prevent voter fraud and election theft by establishing, with minor exceptions, a 24-hour window in which to vote. In contrast, Socialist Democrats use bureaucratic allies or engage in rigged lawsuits involving conspiratorial parties and inattentive judges to obtain sham settlement agreements that blatantly violate the Constitution and federal law to promote voter fraud and election theft with the singular goal of stealing the United States presidency. In particular, all en masse vote by mail schemes promote voter fraud and election theft and are illegal because they violate Congress’s election procedures and 24-hour voting mandate. As such, all votes cast pursuant to these vote by mail schemes are illegal, void, and should not be counted. Mr. Speaker, the evidence is overwhelming, compelling, and irrefutable. If only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens are counted, President Trump won the electoral college and a second term as president. Congress can either support illegal voting, voter fraud, and election theft . . . or not. Because I believe in the Rule of Law and our Republic, it is my duty as a Member of Congress, to, on January the 6th, object to and vote to reject the electoral college submissions of all states whose election systems are so badly flawed as to render their vote submissions unreliable, untrustworthy, and unworthy of acceptance.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks: En Masse Vote By Mail Schemes Are Illegal and Contribute to Voter Fraud & Election Theft,” brooks.house.gov, December 8, 2020 |
| 206. | 12/9/2020 “Today, I cite an August 29, 2020 New York Post article that quotes extensively from a New Jersey professional Democrat election theft expert’s description of how he steals elections using the en masse mailed ballot voting system… This Democrat election theft expert stunningly helps expose the sordid underbelly of voter fraud and election theft that riddles America’s election system and too often makes official election results inaccurate and unreliable.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Floor Speech Quotes Democrat Election Theft Expert Describing His ‘How to Steal an Election’ Tactics,” brooks.house.gov, December 9, 2020 |
| 207. | 12/9/2020 “.@LouDobbs, heard you were sick of Republicans not fighting Socialist Democrat election theft. I’m fighting, I’ve been fighting, and I’ll keep fighting to ensure Socialist Democrats don’t steal this election from @realDonaldTrump.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 6:04 pm |
| 208. | 12/9/2020 [Reporter: “Which states do you plan to challenge?”] “Well, I’m not limiting myself, but by way of example, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, maybe Arizona… Their election systems are so badly flawed as to render their reported results untrustworthy… In my judgment, we have very serious, systemic flaws with our election system that have resulted in millions of votes being cast through voter fraud, and millions of illegal ballots also being voted and counted… We should only count lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, and nobody else. And that clearly is not happening in the United Stated of America right now.” -Mo Brooks, “Representative Mo Brooks on Electoral College Vote Challenge,” c-span.org, December 9, 2020 |
| 209. | 12/9/2020 “Joe Biden promised amnesty and citizenship to illegal aliens if they’ll vote for him… You put all this together and it’s quite clear that there are hundreds of thousands if not millions of illegal aliens and other non-citizens who are participating in American elections… And that’s before we get to the many millions of other people who are here lawfully but they’re not American citizens, who are in fact registering to vote because we don’t have the ability to stop them.” -Mo Brooks, “Representative Mo Brooks on Electoral College Vote Challenge,” c-span.org, December 9, 2020 |
| 210. | 12/9/2020 “The real question is, why isn’t the United States Congress conducting the kind of investigation that needs to be conducted to reveal all this voter fraud, and to ascertain all these illegal ballots… When I talk about systemic problems, I’m talking about big numbers… I’m talking about hundreds of thousands and millions of illegal votes being cast, many of which are due to voter fraud.” -Mo Brooks, “Representative Mo Brooks on Electoral College Vote Challenge,” c-span.org, December 9, 2020 |
| 211. | 12/9/2020 “Congress has decided that we have a 24-hour window that is going to be called election day, that is when citizens are limited to casting votes with minor exceptions provided by the Congress… Outside of that, all of these votes that are being cast are illegal and contrary to the election clause and the federal statutes that have been passed by the United States Congress.” -Mo Brooks, “Representative Mo Brooks on Electoral College Vote Challenge,” c-span.org, December 9, 2020 |
| 212. | 12/9/2020 “That’s the only way this is going to work, is for the American citizenry to say, ‘I’m fed up with election theft and voter fraud,’ and demand that their congressmen and senators do a much better job protecting the underpinnings of every republic, which is, whether the elections are honest, legal, and accurate. And right now, this election wasn’t… Whoever wins with lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, they win. And certainly under those circumstances, where it is an honest, fair, accurate, legal election, the winner has a lot more respect from the losers, than under this system that is so badly tainted with systemic flaws, voter fraud, election theft.” -Mo Brooks, “Representative Mo Brooks on Electoral College Vote Challenge,” c-span.org, December 9, 2020 |
| 213. | 12/9/2020 “Are you familiar with the rigged lawsuit that resulted in a settlement agreement that tampered with the election system in Georgia this year, in direct violation of the United States Constitution Article IV… Georgia’s system is flawed because they violated, again, Article I Section 4 of the United States Constitution and the laws passed by the United States Congress… that say that we have an election day, a 24-hour period in which voters can cast their votes… With this en masse voting system, where you mail out millions of ballots to who knows where… To tell me that there’s not voter fraud or election theft in Georgia, tells me the elected officials are not doing their research.” -Mo Brooks, “Representative Mo Brooks on Electoral College Vote Challenge,” c-span.org, December 9, 2020 |
| 214. | 12/9/2020 “Mr. Speaker, the overwhelming, compelling, and irrefutable evidence leads me to but one conclusion: if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens are counted, President Trump handily won the electoral college and reelection. Hence, on January 6, 2021, provided the required one senator joins me, I will object to and vote to reject electoral college submissions of Nevada, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania and all other states whose election systems are so badly flawed as to render their vote submissions unreliable, untrustworthy, and unworthy of acceptance.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Floor Speech Quotes Democrat Election Theft Expert Describing His ‘How to Steal an Election’ Tactics,” brooks.house.gov, December 9, 2020 |
| 215. | 12/10/2020 “The American people deserve to know to what extent our elections results are tainted with illegal votes. I joined @Lancegooden in urging the appointment of a special counsel investigator so we can get to the bottom of voter fraud claims.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 11:32 am |
| 216. | 12/10/2020 “Governors, secretaries of state, other election officials, state courts, federal courts, and private parties in various states blatantly usurp the power of Congress and state legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution, when they change election procedures both without legal authority and in ways inconsistent with laws passed by Congress or their own state legislatures. Election tallies resulting from these unconstitutional processes are invalid and are one of many reasons why I will object to certifying the Electoral College votes from these states. For example, in Pennsylvania, the Secretary of State (under the guise of illegally settling an election lawsuit) usurped legislative power by removing a lawfully required signature mandate. Further, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated the U.S. Constitution when it illegally and unilaterally disregarded Pennsylvania statutes requiring that all mail-in ballots be received by 8:00 p.m. on election day. Similar instances invalidate Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan election results. Additional examples of illegal action by non-legislative actors in these states abound.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Joins Amicus Brief to Help Texas Stop Illegal Voting,” brooks.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 217. | 12/10/2020 “Honest & accurate elections are the bedrock of any republic. Sadly, our republic has been undermined by officials who illegally violated the Constitution. I support TX’s challenge to illegal voting schemes, & I hope SCOTUS decides this case correctly.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 8:23 pm |
| 218. | 12/14/2020 “The House of Representatives in combination with the United States Senate has the lawful authority to accept or reject electoral college vote submissions from states that have such flawed election systems that they’re not worthy of our trust. And in this instance, with what has happened nationally, I’m quite confident that if we only counted lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, Donald Trump won the Electoral College. And we should not be counting illegal votes and putting in an illegitimate President of the United States.” -Mo Brooks in an interview with Fox News, video via Twitter.com, December 14, 2020 5:56 pm |
| 219. | 12/16/2020 “Voting by illegal aliens and other noncitizens is rampant and flipping elections because Socialist Democrats have made it illegal to require proof of citizenship when illegal aliens and other noncitizens demand to be registered to vote. This year, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands, and more likely, millions, of illegal aliens and other noncitizens voted after Joe Biden openly promised amnesty and citizenship if elected president. Vote by mail schemes are both horribly prone to voter fraud and illegal because they violate Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution and Congress’s ensuing designation (with minor exceptions) of one 24-hour day as the Election Day during which citizens can vote. Congress could have but did not create an election week, an election month, or an election season. Mr. Speaker, the overwhelming, compelling, and irrefutable evidence compels but one conclusion: if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens are counted, Donald Trump won the electoral college.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks 7th Floor Speech on Election Theft Quotes Election Theft Expert Detailing How He Steals Elections,” brooks.house.gov, December 16, 2020 |
| 220. | 12/17/2020 “There are three major flaws in America’s elections that Socialist Democrats exploit to steal elections. First, voting by illegal aliens and other noncitizens is rampant because Socialist Democrats made it illegal to require proof of citizenship when illegal aliens and other noncitizens demand to be registered to vote. In 2020, hundreds of thousands, and more likely, millions, of illegal aliens and other noncitizens illegally voted for Joe Biden after he promised them amnesty and citizenship if he is elected president. Second, vote by mail schemes are both horribly prone to voter fraud and are illegal because they violate Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution and Congress’s ensuing designation (with minor exceptions) of one 24-hour day as the Election Day during which citizens can vote. Yet, in 2020, Socialist Democrats foisted vote by mail schemes on America in order to more easily engage in voter fraud and election theft. Third, the lack of photo ID voter requirements makes it easier for paid Socialist Democrat election thieves to steal elections with voter impersonators.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Floor Speech Quotes 2005 Jimmy Carter & James Baker Report Forewarning America of the 3 Systemic Election Flaws That 2020 Socialist Democrats Exploited to Steal Elections,” brooks.house.gov, December 17, 2020 |
| 221. | 12/17/2020 “The over, overwhelming evidence — and it is compelling nationally is because of major systemic flaws with various election systems in various states, in addition to what you’re reading about in the news media about particular lawsuits — in addition to all that, it is clear that many of these states have election systems that are untrustworthy and the election was stolen from American voters who supported a conservative, a Republican rather than a socialist and a liberal… There’s only one rational, logical conclusion to reach — that there’s been massive voter fraud and election theft to a degree never before seen in the history of the United States of America.” -Mo Brooks via Jeff Poor, “Mo Brooks on 2020 Election: Massive Voter Fraud, Election Theft ‘to a Degree Never Before Seen in the History’ of the U.S.,” breitbart.com, December 17, 2020 11:33 am |
| 222. | 12/18/2020 “I can only control my own vote, how I’m going to conduct myself concerning this voter fraud and election theft. And I can assure the American people that I’m going to do everything I can to reverse these Electoral College votes submitted by states that have election systems that are so badly flawed that their reporting of Electoral College votes is rendered untrustworthy… We should not be certifying those votes, rather we should be rejecting them… The Socialist Democrats have successfully stolen [accurate and honest elections] from the American people in 2020, and we need to fight and take it back.” -Mo Brooks in an interview with Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 11:33 am |
| 223. | 12/18/2020 “In 2005, a bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform co-chaired by Dem President Jimmy Carter and Reagan White House Chief of Staff James Baker issued a 105 page report specifically warning about the very same systemic flaws the Socialist Dems used steal 2020 elections.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 2:19 pm |
| 224. | 12/27/2020 “TUNE IN: I’ll join @foxandfriends tomorrow morning at 7:15 am ET to discuss the growing effort to reject electoral college votes on Jan 6th from states with badly flawed election systems!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 27, 2020 9:53 pm |
| 225. | 12/29/2020 “#Socialist #Democrat = voter fraud! 17 #Pennsylvania legislators & CPA examine govt election docs & find that 200,000+/- MORE votes COUNTED in election returns than people who actually voted! Legally impossible. See voter fraud yet, #FakeNewsMedia?” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 10:30 am |
| 226. | 12/29/2020 “TUNE IN: I’ll join the @IngrahamAngle tonight at 9:05 CT to explain Socialist Dem election theft tactics & preview the January 6th objection to Electoral College votes from states with flawed election systems and rampant voter fraud. Don’t miss!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 5:51 pm |
| 227. | 12/30/2020 “Too many states have blatantly violated Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, violated federal election statutes, or willfully failed to obey their own state election laws, thereby opening the door to massive voter fraud, casting of illegal ballots, and election theft. These combined failures render some states’ election results untrustworthy.” -Mo Brooks, “Bam! The Fight for America’s Republic Is on! Senator Josh Hawley (R, MO) Joins Congressman Mo Brooks’ Effort to Block Untrustworthy Electoral College Votes!,” brooks.house.gov, December 30, 2020 |
| 228. | 1/2/2021 “.@SenTedCruz & TEN Senators join fight against voter fraud, illegal ballots & election theft! Momentum to protect honesty & accuracy of America’s elections is gaining steam as more & more elected officials fully grasp the depravity of election theft.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 12:57 pm |
| 229. | 1/3/2021 [Maria Bartiromo: “You said you’ve seen evidence that there was [election] fraud.”] “Oh, no question, the evidence is overwhelming and compelling. In my judgement, if you were to get a non-biased jury that listened to the evidence, they would find 99% of the time that there was massive voter fraud and election theft in the November 3 election… I intend to object to six [states]: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada… Some of them quite clearly violated Article I Section 4 of the United States Constitution, the election clause, that empowers the United States Congress paramount authority, and then legislatures secondary authority, to set the times, places, and manner of elections. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, all clearly violated Article I, Section 4… illegal conduct.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 4:36 pm |
| 230. | 1/4/2021 “I discerned soon after the November 3rd election that honest America citizens have been victims of the largest voter fraud and election theft scheme in American history. Glaring weaknesses in America’s election system enable election theft. The lack of voter photo ID requirements, federal barriers that make it illegal for voter registrars to require proof of citizenship when illegal aliens and other noncitizens demand to be registered to vote, and fraud-prone en masse vote by mail schemes are just a few of the systemic flaws Socialist Democrats exploited to steal 2020 elections.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Officially Objects to Tainted Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin Electoral College Submissions,” brooks.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 231. | 1/4/2021 “Congress’s vote on January 6 is simple. Congressmen and Senators have a stark choice. They can either vote to ratify or vote to reject voter fraud, illegal ballots and election theft. This is not a time to cower in fox holes. This is a time to lead the charge against Socialist Democrats forces who, by hook or by crook, are intent on destroying the America we know and love. I will vote to reject electoral college vote submissions by states whose election systems are so badly flawed as to render their reported results untrustworthy.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks Officially Objects to Tainted Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin Electoral College Submissions,” brooks.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 232. | 1/4/2021 “Promises made. Promises kept. Today I signed objections to tainted electoral college vote submissions of Arizona Georgia Michigan Nevada Pennsylvania Wisconsin. Senators? Time to sign on, too! America must not tolerate voter fraud & election theft that undermines our Republic!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 2:40 pm |
| 233. | 1/4/2021 “Well, let me sum it up: this vote on Wednesday is about the underpinnings of a Republic. Are we going to have an honest and accurate election system? And those who vote to fight for America and our Republic, who show that kind of courage, they’re going to do the right thing. But I’m very much concerned that we have far too many congressmen and senators who have yet to do their homework. Who have yet to perceive that the evidence is overwhelming and compelling, of voter fraud and election theft.” -Mo Brooks on Fox News, video via @LouDobbs on Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 5:51 pm |
| 234. | 1/5/2021 “Progress made. NEED more! LOTS of Congressmen object to AZ GA MI NV PA WI electoral college votes. In Senate, Hawley=PA Cruz=AZ Loeffler=GA, so battle engaged there. STILL NEED SENATORS FOR MI NV WI! America – urge your senators to fight voter fraud & election theft!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 2:17 pm |
| 235. | 1/6/2021 “We are not going to let the socialists rip the heart out of our country. We are not going to let them continue to corrupt our elections and steal from us our God-given right to control our nation’s destiny… Today, Republican senators and congressmen will either vote to turn America into a godless, amoral dictatorial oppressed and socialist nation on the decline, or they will join us and they will fight and vote against voter fraud and election theft.” -Mo Brooks via The Hill, “Mo Brooks gives FIERY speech against anti-Trump Republicans, socialists,” youtube.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 236. | 1/6/2021 “BREAKING FROM HOUSE FLOOR! Congressman Paul Gosar (R, AZ) & Sen. Ted Cruz (R, TX) join to object to the electoral college submission of Arizona. BATTLE IS JOINED! Now we will find who supports, and who fights, voter fraud & election theft! FIGHT FOR AMERICA’S REPUBLIC IS ON!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:16 pm |
| 237. | 1/6/2021 “.@Jim_Jordan 2nd GOP Speaker. GREAT speech re questionable election won by “Basement Man”. 70 million Americans think election suspect. Why House refuse election investigations? Russia Hoax investigated . . . But not election system essential to Republic’s functioning?” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:38 pm |
| 238. | 1/6/2021 “.@MikeJohnson GOP #6. Covers Constitution Art. 1, Sec. 4, which reserves 100% control of election rules & laws to Congress & legislatures. Judges blatantly violated Election Clause & usurped power by dictating election laws in conflict with legislative & Congressional acts.” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 2:11 pm |
| 239. | 1/6/2021 “.@RepGosar OF ARIZONA = Objection sponsor. GOP #7. Details massive AZ election fraud compounded by AZ officials refusing to investigate fraud allegations, thus aiding voter fraud & election theft. DOORS LOCKED! CAPITOL COMPLEX BREACHED! CHAMBER DOORS LOCKED. SPEAKER LEAVES!” -Mo Brooks, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 2:18 pm |
| 240. | 1/6/2021 “[I]n 2020, Democrats promoted massive foreign interference in American elections by helping illegal aliens and other noncitizens vote in American elections, thereby canceling the votes of and stealing elections from American citizens… In 1993, Democrats rammed through Congress the National Voter Registration Act, making it illegal—illegal—to require proof of citizenship that prevents illegal aliens and noncitizens from registering to vote. Why did Democrats do that? Simple. To steal elections, of course… As such, it is my constitutional duty to promote honest and accurate elections by rejecting electoral college vote submissions from States whose electoral systems are so badly flawed as to render their vote submissions unreliable, untrustworthy, and unworthy of acceptance.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 241. | 1/7/2021 “[I]n 2020, Democrats promoted massive foreign interference in American elections by helping illegal aliens and other noncitizens vote in American elections, thereby cancelling the votes of, and stealing elections from, American citizens… The 2010 Census counted 11 million illegal aliens in America. A 2018 Yale study estimated as many as 22 million illegal aliens in America! The math means between 880,000 and 1.72 million illegal aliens illegally voted in the 2020 elections… Noncitizens overwhelmingly voted for Joe Biden in exchange for the promised amnesty and citizenship and, in so doing, helped steal the election from Donald Trump, Republican candidates, and American citizens all across America. Madam Speaker, in my judgment, if only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens are counted, Joe Biden lost, and President Trump won, the electoral college.” -Mo Brooks, “Congressman Mo Brooks on House Floor Calls for Honest & Accurate Elections,” brooks.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 17. REPRESENTATIVE VERN BUCHANAN (R-FL) | |
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| 242. | 1/6/2021 “Millions of Americans expressed legitimate concerns over voting procedures that were changed by several states. These voters, many in my district, certain had good reason to be alarmed and concerned. But after witnessing the sad spectacle that occurred today, I voted to certify the results of the Electoral College because it’s time to move past this election. I supported President Trump and publicly backed his right to challenge the Nov. 3 results. The President is right when he says that some states engaged in bad faith by improperly changing election laws.” -Vern Buchanan, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 10:44 pm |
| 18. REPRESENTATIVE KEN BUCK (R-CO) | |
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| 243. | 11/6/2020 “All legal votes should be counted and the process should be fully transparent. It is important that we protect the integrity of our free and fair elections.” -Ken Buck, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 |
| 244. | 12/11/2020 “It is so important that we do everything we can to ensure every legal vote is counted in the 2020 Presidential election. It’s critical that folks have confidence in their election system because free and fair elections are a hallmark of our system of government. We must protect the integrity of our elections and bring justice to those who perpetrate election fraud.” -Ken Buck, “Rep. Ken Buck Introduces House Resolution to Ensure Every Legal Vote is Counted In 2020 Presidential Election,” buck.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 245. | 1/5/2021 “I share the concerns of many voters across the country about irregularities in the presidential election.” -Ken Buck, “Opinion: My Republican colleagues’ ploy threatens the future of the electoral college,” washingtonpost.com, January 5, 2021 |
| 19. REPRESENTATIVE TED BUDD (R-NC) | |
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| 246. | 11/5/2020 “Count every LEGAL vote! Nothing is more important than the integrity of our ballots.” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:14 pm |
| 247. | 11/5/2020 “If Democrats have nothing to hide, then let Republicans in. We have to have oversight. #CountEveryLegalVote” [Note: This tweet links to a tweet from Kayleigh McEnany that said, “Democrats are arguing that at Philadelphia ballot counting locations they do not want Republicans watching what they’re doing. Why?”] -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 4:53 pm |
| 248. | 11/7/2020 “TV networks don’t get to decide who our President is. We have to #CountEveryLegalVote and investigate & expose fraud.” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 11:37 am |
| 249. | 11/7/2020 “There’s nothing wrong with demanding transparency. There’s nothing wrong with making sure all legal votes are counted. The integrity of our elections is worth it. #CountEveryLegalVote” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 4:18 pm |
| 250. | 11/13/2020 “I know Democrats don’t want to admit it, but @realDonaldTrump has the right to investigate voter fraud. #CountEveryLegalVote” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 10:03 am |
| 251. | 11/18/2020 “Washington spent *years* investigating conspiracy theories about Trump/Russia collusion. We should be able to take a few weeks to make sure every legal vote is counted and all illegal votes are thrown out.” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 12:51 pm |
| 252. | 11/18/2020 “The 2020 election has made clear that our country needs one national strategy to investigate and prevent voter fraud. Under my bill, the Department of Justice will determine best practices for the prevention of common issues like voter intimidation, fraud, ballot systems glitches or sabotage, hacking, or election audits. Nothing is more important than the integrity of our ballots, and my bill takes a first step toward ensuring that our elections are completely fair and accurate.” -Ted Budd, “Reps. Ted Budd & Dan Bishop Introduce ‘Combat Voter Fraud Act’” budd.house.gov, November 18, 2020 |
| 253. | 12/9/2020 “The DOJ needs to listen to #WeThePeople and address their election concerns NOW. Glad to join @Lancegooden and more than two dozen House members to DEMAND action to ensure election integrity for @realDonaldTrump.” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 10:33 am |
| 254. | 12/11/2020 “Millions of Americans do not have faith in the November election. One of the best ways to air out the legitimate concerns over voter fraud, machine irregularities, and mail-in ballots is at the Supreme Court. The Constitution gives authority over elections to the state legislatures. In four states, non-legislative officials overstepped their authority and removed election safeguards. That’s why the Supreme Court should hear the Texas case.” -Ted Budd, “Rep. Ted Budd Statement Supporting the Texas Election Lawsuit,” budd.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 255. | 12/22/2020 “Millions of Americans believe there were consequential problems in November’s presidential election. I’ve heard from an overwhelming number of my own constituents, and they share this belief. They witnessed voter safeguards unconstitutionally removed by non-legislative officials. They saw states with no signature verification, no voter ID laws, outdated voter rolls, poll watchers denied access to the count, and ballots accepted long after Election Day had passed… On behalf of every North Carolinian and every American who wants integrity in their elections, I will object during the Electoral College count on January 6th.” -Ted Budd, “Rep. Ted Budd Announces He Will Object to Electoral College Count on January 6th,” budd.house.gov, December 22, 2020 |
| 256. | 12/22/2020 “Yes, I plan to object on January 6th. MILLIONS of Americans saw what I saw: – Voter safeguards removed – No signature verification – Outdated voter rolls – Ballots accepted after Election Day – Poll watchers denied access #WeThePeople will keep fighting for @realDonaldTrump.” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 1:01 pm |
| 257. | 1/4/2021 “Not too long ago, Democrats claimed to support election integrity. Now they hurl vile names at those of us who stand up & fight for legal votes.” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 12:31 pm |
| 258. | 1/6/2021 “On behalf of every North Carolinian and every American who wants integrity in their elections, I signed my objection to the electoral votes in six states. #WeThePeople #JAN6” -Ted Budd, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:09 pm |
| 259. | 1/6/2021 “On September 17, Pennsylvania’s Democrat-controlled Supreme Court violated the Constitution by extending the deadline to receive mail-in ballots. Article II states that legislatures, not the courts, determine the time, manner, and place of their States’ elections… Pennsylvania officials illegally did three critical things: One, they radically expanded vote by mail for virtually any reason. Two, they removed restrictions when a ballot can be sent in. Three, they removed signature verification on those very ballots… Because they failed to guarantee the integrity of their votes, I cannot con- sent to accepting Pennsylvania’s electoral votes.” -Ted Budd, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 260. | 1/7/2021 “I resolved to not let a violent mob stop me from giving voice to the thousands of North Carolinians who demanded a debate on the irregularities and Constitutional violations in the presidential election. Going through the Constitutional process of debate was never about overturning an election, it was about standing up for the integrity of each and every citizen’s vote. That issue transcends any one candidate or election. The American people deserve to know without a doubt that their votes, our electoral system, and the choosing of our public officials is fair and accountable. That is why I objected. At around 1:40am, I returned to the House rostrum and delivered my objection to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” -Ted Budd, “Rep. Ted Budd Releases Full Statement on Events of January 6th,” budd.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 20. REPRESENTATIVE TIM BURCHETT (R-TN) | |
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| 261. | 11/5/2020 “Every legal ballot must be counted according to the law.” -Tim Burchett, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:28 pm |
| 262. | 11/5/2020 “Protecting the integrity of our elections and upholding the Constitution should be our goal in counting every legal vote.” -Tim Burchett, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 4:06 pm |
| 263. | 11/6/2020 “Every legal vote needs to be counted. In the close races, we need more transparency so there’s no question on the results.” -Tim Burchett, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:38 am |
| 264. | 12/6/2020 “How are they still counting votes in New York 4.5 weeks after the election is over?” -Tim Burchett, Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 6:49 pm |
| 265. | 1/7/2021 “This is not about President Trump, it is about the United States Constitution and upholding election integrity. Article II of the Constitution gives state legislatures the sole authority to determine how electors are chosen from their respective states, not attorneys general, not governors, not the courts, and certainly not county-level election officials.” -Tim Burchett, “Congressman Burchett upholds objections to Electoral College results,” burchett.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 21. REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL BURGESS (R-TX) | |
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| 266. | 11/6/2020 “When it comes to an election certain things should not be controversial: 1. EVERY legal vote is counted 2. Election laws are FOLLOWED 3. Vote counting is THOROUGH and TRANSPARENT RT if you agree these steps will ensure the integrity of our election system.” -Michael Burgess, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 7:45 pm |
| 267. | 1/7/2021 “I listened as fellow members presented evidence and arguments for the need to object to the electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania. In deciding how to cast my vote, I seriously considered the views of my constituents and fellow Members. The case was presented about the unprecedented voting irregularities, overreach by government bureaucrats, and the lack of ballot integrity and security have left many wondering why they should even vote. It is important that every American has confidence in our election system and that their vote was counted the way it was cast… Due to the inability to ensure the legitimacy of every vote, I could not vote to certify the results of the electoral votes of these states.” -Michael Burgess, “Burgess: Debate should remain civil,” burgess.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 22. REPRESENTATIVE KEN CALVERT (R-CA) | |
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| 268. | 11/5/2020 “Free and fair elections demand transparency and counting all legal ballots.” -Ken Calvert, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 1:30 pm |
| 269. | 11/17/2020 “As this example highlights, mistakes are made in conducting elections. That’s why we have procedures like recounts. Working through these legal processes isn’t a flaw of our system, it’s a feature. It’s essential to accurately count all legal ballots.” [Note: This tweet links to an article titled “Georgia recount uncovers 2,600 new votes in presidential race.”] -Ken Calvert, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 1:52 pm |
| 270. | 1/7/2021 “During difficult and divisive times in our nation I believe we must follow the Constitution. That’s why today I lent my voice to the millions of Americans and my constituents who are deeply concerned by the integrity of the election. I remain especially troubled by Constitutionally questionable changes of voting rules in some states by authorities other than state legislatures. For example, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court – rather than the Pennsylvania legislature – extended the deadline for absentee ballots to be returned until three days after Election Day.” -Ken Calvert, “Rep. Calvert Statement on the Counting of Electoral College Votes,” calvert.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 271. | 1/7/2021 “I believe we need a thorough investigation of those instances of alleged voter fraud or irregularities. In Arizona, the State Senate has serious concerns over the 2.1 million ballots counted in Maricopa County. In a state where the margin of victory was .3%, it is imperative that we have confidence in the vote tabulation. I support a forensic investigation of all serious allegations of voter fraud and my objection today reflects the concerns I have that must be remedied for future elections.” -Ken Calvert, “Rep. Calvert Statement on the Counting of Electoral College Votes,” calvert.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 23. REPRESENTATIVE KAT CAMMACK (R-FL) | |
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| 272. | 1/5/2021 “If we do not have free, fair elections, and voters do not feel confident in that they have cast their ballot and their vote has been counted correctly then what are we doing here?” -Kat Cammack, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 9:17 am |
| 273. | 1/5/2021 “[I]t is our job, when all the checks and balances when state legislatures have failed, we saw this in six states in particular where the courts were making decisions, not the legislatures, about their electoral process, when that has failed, we [Congress] have to step in. There are too many election irregularities that have occurred across the country to allow this to go by without any objection… Calls for investigations have gone unheeded, so we’re now taking our job as legislators to uphold the constitution very seriously by objecting on the 6th.” -Kat Cammack, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 9:37 am |
| 274. | 1/6/2021 “The 2020 elections highlighted some gross election irregularities across the country.” -Kat Cammack, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 10:40 am |
| 275. | 1/6/2021 “Unfortunately, the general election this past November revealed election irregularities that still have yet to be resolved… State laws in the 2020 election were circumvented without the approval of state legislatures, egregiously violating the Constitution that I swore an oath to defend and protect… We must do everything in our power to fight for all Americans’ right to a free and fair election.” -Kat Cammack, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:37 pm |
| 276. | 1/6/2021 “Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution explicitly rests the time and manner of our elections in the hands of our State legislatures. However, State law in the 2020 election was modified or circumvented without approval of the State legislature. These actions are in clear violation of the Constitution… These changes, along with other election irregularities throughout the 2020 election, require me, as a Member of this body, to object to the certification of these electoral votes.” -Kat Cammack, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 24. REPRESENTATIVE SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO (R-WV) | |
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| 277. | 11/4/2020 “If there’s allegations of fraud — and I’m sure that there’s been some funny business, there always is in elections — we need to get to the bottom of it quickly. I’m sure he’s [Trump] got his lawyers on it right now. That’s what he should do. That’s what I would do if I were in his position, and I’m sure Joe Biden’s got his lawyers on it as well.” -Shelley Moore Capito via MetroNews Staff, “Capito: Trump’s criticism of absentee voting harmed reelection bid,” wvmetronews.com, November 4, 2020 |
| 278. | 11/23/2020 “President Trump has challenged the election results in several states. While some irregularities and fraud have been found and should be punished, there is no indication that these are widespread enough to call into question the outcome of our election.” -Shelley Moore Capito via Emily Allen, “Capito: ‘No Indication’ Of Widespread Voter Fraud In Presidential Election,” wmky.org, November 23, 2020 |
| 25. REPRESENTATIVE JERRY CARL (R-AL) | |
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| 279. | 11/6/2020 “There are two things that must happen when the polls close in America: Every LEGAL vote must be counted, and all sides must be allowed to observe the ballot counting. Americans deserve a fair election. Tina and I are praying for speedy and accurate results.” -Jerry Carl, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:07 am |
| 280. | 12/15/2020 “Tonight, several of my colleagues and I sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi strongly urging her to take action to investigate election irregularities. As a Member-Elect of the 117th Congress, I have grown increasingly aware of serious issues with our nation’s election integrity. Free and fair elections are the most critical component of our Constitutional Republic, and Americans must be assured that every legal vote is counted in every election and that our election process is free of fraud or misconduct.” -Jerry Carl, Facebook.com, December 15, 2020 7:30 pm |
| 281. | 12/16/2020 “Our elections process has become chaotic, and it’s time to address critical issues harming the integrity of our elections.” -Jerry Carl, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 12:43 pm |
| 282. | 12/29/2020 “Americans have the right to vote in free & fair elections, but many voters feel they were robbed of this opportunity in states where verified fraud & irregularities occurred. If given the opportunity to challenge electors from these states, I will.” -Jerry Carl, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 4:22 pm |
| 283. | 1/7/2021 “Due to overwhelming evidence of voter fraud and irregularities in Arizona and Pennsylvania, I voted to challenge fraudulent electors from both states… After significant research into the numerous complaints of voter fraud and irregularities in both Arizona and Pennsylvania, I became convinced it was necessary for me to exercise my Constitutional duty to challenge the slate of electors from these two states. This was a decision I did not come to without through [sic] investigation and research, but the evidence of a significant lack of election integrity in both Arizona and Pennsylvania cannot be tolerated.” -Jerry Carl, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 11:39 am |
| 284. | 1/7/2021 “Evidence of voter fraud and irregularities in Arizona and Pennsylvania arise from numerous verified witnesses and elected officials. Arizona’s election officials refused to allow the inspection of signed envelopes… and multiple witnesses say legal observers were not allowed to observe the verification of signatures… Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court altered the state’s election law just seven weeks before the general election.” -Jerry Carl, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 11:39 am |
| 26. REPRESENTATIVE BUDDY CARTER (R-GA) | |
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| 285. | 11/5/2020 “Americans need and deserve a fair and transparent election. All LEGAL votes need to be counted and any form of fraud must be exposed and addressed!” -Buddy Carter, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:21 pm |
| 286. | 12/10/2020 “Congressman Earl L. ‘Buddy’ Carter (R-Ga.) today filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al. case. The amicus brief signed by 106 Members of Congress ensures the Supreme Court is aware of the crucial facts in the case that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin unconstitutionally bypassed their state legislatures to change how presidential electors are chosen. ‘This case is about protecting the Constitution and our elections,’ said Carter. ‘The Constitution is clear – only state legislatures can change how presidential electors are chosen. Whether you are a Democrat, Independent, or Republican, we should all agree that we need fair, honest, and transparent elections. The Supreme Court needs to ensure the integrity of our elections.’” -Buddy Carter press team, “Carter Files Amicus Brief with Concerns About 2020 Election,” buddycarter.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 287. | 1/6/2021 “I have decided to object to the certification of the electoral votes from the State of Georgia. The Constitution is clear – only the Georgia General Assembly is vested with the authority to determine the manner for appointing presidential electors. However, state officers circumvented the legislature to enter into an agreement that substantially changed how the elections are administered in our state… Additionally, members of the Georgia General Assembly continue to raise serious allegations of voting irregularities. New cases of concern continue to be brought to my attention to this day.” -Buddy Carter, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:34 pm |
| 27. REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CARTER (R-TX) | |
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| 288. | 1/5/2021 “I do not take the decision to object to the Electoral College certification lightly… Over the last month, I have heard from thousands of my constituents that feel like their vote didn’t count, and feel like allegations of election irregularities were not sufficiently investigated or heard by the justice system… I will fight to ensure that the results of this election are legal, accurate and representative of Americans’ votes. So, on January 6, I will stand for the millions of Americans and thousands of my own constituents who feel like our democracy can no longer be trusted.” -John Carter, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 10:13 am |
| 28. REPRESENTATIVE MADISON CAWTHORN (R-NC) | |
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| 289. | 11/5/2020 “This election isn’t over. I assure those of you in North Carolina, I will work diligently to ensure a fair and accurate count of the votes for our President. No one will steal this election from the American people. This is our fight, and the battle for America’s future rages on!” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 3:02 pm |
| 290. | 11/5/2020 “Every American ought to stand up and demand a fair and free election. There is no place for election fraud in this Republic. Stand with me, stand with our President, stand for Freedom.” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:12 pm |
| 291. | 11/6/2020 “Election integrity is not a left or right issue, it’s an issue of patriotism. All legal votes must be counted, our future Republic demands it.” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 4:11 pm |
| 292. | 11/23/2020 “The strength of our Republic rests in our system of free and fair elections. Add your name if you agree, every LEGAL vote must be counted and every ILLEGAL vote must be thrown out.” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, November 23, 2020 1:03 pm |
| 293. | 11/23/2020 “WE CANNOT LET THE RADICAL LEFT STEAL THIS ELECTION! The very strength of our Republic rests in our system of free and fair elections. President Trump and his team have uncovered FAR too many voting irregularities to ignore. Join Team Cawthorn today and demand that every LEGAL vote is counted and every ILLEGAL vote is thrown out!” -Madison Cawthorn, Petition, madisoncawthorn.com, November 23, 2020 |
| 294. | 12/7/2020 “I am pleased to see that the will of the people may yet triumph in North Carolina. Voter ID is integral to the safety and security of our election process, and liberal forces will do anything to remove the apparatus that safeguards our elections. I thank the thousands of North Carolinians who have joined this fight with me for our nation’s future. Let us continue to fight for a secure electoral process.” -Madison Cawthorn, Facebook.com, December 7, 2020 2:26 pm |
| 295. | 12/21/2020 “The right to vote in a free and fair election is the cornerstone of our Republic. Attempts to subvert the Constitutional authority of state legislatures to conduct elections strikes at the very heart of representative government. I choose to stand in the breach, to fight for us [by contesting the election results].” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 1:39 pm |
| 296. | 12/21/2020 “When you look at what’s happened in a lot of these liberal swing states that have liberal governors and liberal secretaries of state, you can see that they have broken the law and gone against our Constitution with this election. And so, because of that, on January 6, as the people in Western North Carolina sent me to Washington to do a job, I will be contesting the election.” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 8:23 pm |
| 297. | 12/22/2020 “No U.S. Representative, who believes in the inviolability of the right to vote and the sacredness of every citizen’s right to equal protection under the law, can stand by and ignore substantial allegations of voter fraud. I for one, will not be silent. I will fight. Will you?” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 12:26 pm |
| 298. | 12/31/2020 “I want to explain to you why I’m objecting [to the Electoral College certification]… Voter fraud is common in America. Those who are telling you otherwise are lying. Here is a list of thousands, yes, thousands, of recent instances of election fraud that has led to criminal convictions and even the overturning of election results in our country… Put simply, the 2020 election violated our Constitution… These flagrant violations of state law, mixed with the massive late night mail-in ballot drops in key swing states, the corrupted election technology, illegal counting practices, dead voters, and mathematically impossible vote irregularities, leads me to question the sanctity of our election results.” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 3:21 pm |
| 299. | 1/1/2021 “In Pennsylvania, statewide election officials and local election officials, adopted different standards than what was permitted by the state legislature for mail-in ballots, included little or no signature verification, allowing defective ballots to be cured, and ballots to be filed after the statutory deadline; in violation of the Pennsylvania election law. Neither side disagrees that this happened, the Democrat defense is simply that the COVID-19 pandemic meant that restrictions ought to be loosened on mail in voting.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Election Irregularities,” madisoncawthorn.com, January 1, 2020 |
| 300. | 1/1/2021 “In Arizona’s most populous county, Maricopa County, election officials failed to follow signature-comparison requirements and excluded observers in violation of state law which mandated a signature comparison to make sure that the signature on the voter rolls matched the one on the ballot. This means that Maricopa County used illegal standards different than those in other counties, which constitutes a clear violation of due process and equal protection standards.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Election Irregularities,” madisoncawthorn.com, January 1, 2020 |
| 301. | 1/1/2021 “In Georgia, Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, without legislative approval, unilaterally rescinded Georgia’s statute requiring a detailed signature verification of each absentee ballot. The power to remove signature verification rests solely in the hands of the state legislature. When Georgia’s Secretary of State removed signature verification, what he did was clearly and knowingly seize powers vested by the Constitution in the state legislature. He also removed the only way to verify who legally voted.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Election Irregularities,” madisoncawthorn.com, January 1, 2020 |
| 302. | 1/1/2021 “Michigan’s Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, without legislative approval, unilaterally rescinded two Michigan statutes related to absentee ballot applications and signature verification. Her office sent unsolicited absentee-voter ballot applications by mail to 7.7 million registered Michigan voters prior to the primary and general elections and later allowed absentee ballots to be acquired online without signature verification. In Wayne County officials elected not to follow Michigan law requiring a detailed process for opening and validating absentee ballots and prohibited the access of poll watchers and inspectors to vote counting and canvassing.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Election Irregularities,” madisoncawthorn.com, January 1, 2020 |
| 303. | 1/1/2021 “In Minnesota, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, a Democrat, passed a consent decree suspending a requirement under Minnesota law that absentee ballots be signed by a witness with a Minnesota address. The state legislature in Minnesota created the witness requirement to protect the integrity of absentee voting, the removal of this requirement by the Minnesota Secretary of State was a violation of the Constitution’s powers delegated to the state legislature.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Election Irregularities,” madisoncawthorn.com, January 1, 2020 |
| 304. | 1/1/2021 “In Nevada, mail-in ballots were processed under lax signature verification criteria. These lax requirements were in violation of the due process and equal protection requirements of the U.S. Constitution.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Election Irregularities,” madisoncawthorn.com, January 1, 2020 |
| 305. | 1/1/2021 “In Wisconsin, The mayors of Wisconsin’s five largest cities—Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine, which all have Democrat majorities, used ‘secure drop-boxes to facilitate the return of absentee ballots.’ The Mayors’ plan to use ‘drop-boxes to facilitate the return of absentee ballots’ in Wisconsin’s largest cities is directly contrary to Wisconsin law providing that absentee ballots may only be ‘mailed by the elector, or delivered in-person to the municipal clerk issuing the ballot or ballots.’ Wisconsin law mandates that any ballot not mailed or delivered may not be counted or utilized in election results. Wisconsin’s mayors usurped power and in express contradiction of state law allowed electoral processes that violated the Constitution.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Election Irregularities,” madisoncawthorn.com, January 1, 2020 |
| 306. | 1/4/2021 “On Wednesday, I will be joining Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Boebert, Senator Hawley, Senator Blackburn, and many more Republicans in objecting to the 2020 election results. The right to vote in a free and fair election is the cornerstone of our Republic.” -Madison Cawthorn, Facebook.com, January 4, 2021 5:37 pm |
| 307. | 1/5/2021 “I am pleased to have President Trump back my support in objecting to the 2020 election results. Tomorrow I am voting to stop the steal! I will stand with President Trump and our Republic, and I will not be silent. Chip in right now to help defend our election!” -Madison Cawthorn, Facebook.com, January 5, 2021 12:37 pm |
| 308. | 1/5/2021 “Very proudly signing on to contest this presidential election, and preserve integrity in the United States!” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 7:14 pm |
| 309. | 1/6/2021 “The Democrats, with all the fraud they have done in this election, the Republicans hiding and not fighting, they are trying to silence your voice. Make no mistake about it, they do not want you to be heard.” -Madison Cawthorn in a January 6, 2021 speech, video via “Cawthorn speaks at Trump rally before violent mob attacked Capitol,” newsobserver.com, January 12, 2021 |
| 310. | 1/6/2021 “I was elected to serve the people of Western North Carolina, on January 3rd I took an oath to protect the Constitution. Today I will fulfill both obligations when I object on the House Floor to the electoral votes from key states.” -Madison Cawthorn, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 8:17 am |
| 311. | 1/6/2021 “The Constitution grants power solely to State legislatures to determine how elections are carried out. When other officials who are not vested with constitutional authority usurp their role and grind the Constitution under their heel, I must object… Now, obviously, I can’t stand, but trust me, if I could stand, I would stand in defense of our Constitution today.” -Madison Cawthorn, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 29. REPRESENTATIVE BEN CLINE (R-VA) | |
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| 312. | 11/6/2020 “Today I wrote to the Attorney General to inquire what steps The United States Department of Justice is taking to ensure the integrity of this election and that every legal vote is counted. The democratic process is at the very core of the American Ideal, and the legitimacy of elections is central to its success.” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 3:55 pm |
| 313. | 11/10/2020 “As my colleagues and I made clear in our letter to the Attorney General last week, it is appropriate for him to examine ‘substantial allegations’ of voter fraud that may exist. The confidence of the voters in the integrity of our electoral system is paramount, and in a close race such as this, we all should be insisting that every legal vote is counted before a winner is declared.” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, November 10, 2020 9:26 am |
| 314. | 11/14/2020 “I was excited to be in Staunton today to support President Donald Trump and his efforts to ensure that all legal votes are counted in this presidential election. Recounts and litigation are still ongoing, and premature efforts by the left and some in the media to declare this election over discourage reconciliation and promote suspicion.” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, November 14, 2020 via lofgren.house.gov/socialreview (content deleted on Facebook) |
| 315. | 11/19/2020 “Proud to support my friend Sidney Powell in her fight to count every legal vote for President Donald Trump!” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, November 19, 2020 via lofgren.house.gov/socialreview (content deleted on Facebook) |
| 316. | 12/6/2020 “Last Friday I joined Chairman Andy Biggs and my colleagues in the House Freedom Caucus to demand that Attorney General Bill Barr release the findings of any investigation into the numerous allegations of fraud following the Election on November 3.” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, December 6, 2020 via lofgren.house.gov/socialreview (content deleted on Facebook) |
| 317. | 12/20/2020 “I’m amused by the indignation of the liberal left about President Trumps efforts to count every legal vote following November’s elections.” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, December 20, 2020 via lofgren.house.gov/socialreview (content deleted on Facebook) |
| 318. | 1/5/2021 “I have serious concerns regarding the constitutionality of the manner in which presidential electors from certain states were selected, and therefore I will support objections to their certification tomorrow.” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, January 5, 2021 6:14 pm |
| 319. | 1/5/2021 “Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution provides that each state shall appoint its electors for president, ‘in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.’ […] But in the months preceding the 2020 election, those rules and procedures established by the state Legislatures were deliberately changed by a number of individuals, including governors, secretaries of state, elections officials, judges, and private parties. These changes are in direct violation of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution. That usurpation of the Legislatures’ constitutional authority was a primary reason why the 2020 election became riddled with an unprecedented number of allegations of irregularities and improprieties… Therefore, because I continue to have serious concerns regarding the constitutionality of these electors, I will vote to uphold objections to their certification on January 6.” -Ben Cline, “Rep. Cline to Support Objections to Presidential Electors on January 6,” cline.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 320. | 1/6/2021 “Based on constitutional concerns, I have joined several of my Republican colleagues in objecting to electors from certain states selected last November.” -Ben Cline, Facebook.com, January 6, 2021 via lofgren.house.gov/socialreview (content deleted on Facebook) |
| 30. REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL CLOUD (R-TX) | |
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| 321. | 11/5/2020 “I share President Trump’s concern about disturbing reports of election irregularities and the media’s irresponsible rush to dismiss them… I support making sure every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is rejected.” -Michael Cloud, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:54 pm |
| 322. | 11/6/2020 “The allegations of irregularities in the vote counting process should be concerning to everyone. I asked AG Barr to use the resources of @TheJusticeDept to ensure that the process is conducted in a manner that is fully consistent with state and federal law.” -Michael Cloud, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 4:48 pm |
| 323. | 11/7/2020 “I am awaiting answers on a letter I sent to AG Barr along with 38 colleagues asking: What are you doing to ensure the integrity of the voting and counting process right now? Will you commit to using all the resources at your disposal to ensure that only legal votes are being counted and being counted in a fully transparent manner immediately?… There are serious questions about the counting process that deserve to be addressed. We must finish the count, recounts, and audits to ensure that all Americans have confidence in the outcome.” -Michael Cloud, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 8:45 pm |
| 324. | 11/11/2020 “For Americans to have confidence in an election, they need to know it was held fairly and there’s a number of anomalies let’s say in this election process that are worth looking into. Too often, especially in the national media, unfortunately, people are willing to dismiss claims without doing any due diligence at all. There’s statistical anomalies if you look at the data that lead people to question [the election results].” -Michael Cloud via KIII Staff, “Congressman Cloud shares thoughts regarding voter fraud allegations in Presidential Election,” kiiitv.com, November 11, 2020 |
| 325. | 12/1/2020 “I appreciated the news that AG Barr had authorized federal prosecutors to pursue substantial allegations of election fraud… Unfortunately, too often the American people have seen many of our most powerful institutions corrupted. In the case of alleged election improprieties, justice delayed truly would be justice denied. The American people deserve, and justice demands, action now.” -Michael Cloud, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 5:01 pm |
| 326. | 12/3/2020 “We come to the point post-election where we have a number of eyewitness testimonies [of election fraud], we have statistical anomalies, we have discrepancies that are highly improbable, and that should cause our curiosity to wonder. And indeed, I think a recent survey came out that said half of Americans believe there were votes either stolen or destroyed. Votes were stolen or destroyed ballots to ensure a Biden win. 75% of Republicans, and even 30% of Democrats believe that, according to this one survey that came out… Americans have questions about this election, legitimate questions about this election.” -Michael Cloud, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 327. | 12/4/2020 “Affidavits of irregularities in the voting and tabulation processes have been sworn in a number of jurisdictions. People are going on the record under oath and risking being canceled, doxed, and even accosted, to tell what they have seen about this election process. The apparent lack of action from the Justice Department regarding a number of anomalies, statistical improbabilities, and sworn accusations of fraud is troubling. I spoke yesterday at a press conference to shed light on this issue and call for a proactive effort from the Department of Justice. Americans must have absolute confidence in our election processes and a diligent investigative effort will go a long way to shedding light on a number of election anomalies.” -Michael Cloud, Facebook.com, December 4, 2020 12:35 pm |
| 328. | 12/4/2020 “I can say what’s not going to restore the confidence of the American people when it comes to the election results, is the mantra of ‘there’s nothing to see here.’ Because there’s plenty of evidence there to see. Certainly, enough evidence to warrant an investigation… Some of these [election fraud] accusations are pretty easy to track down if we had the fortitude to do it.” -Michael Cloud, Twitter.com/JustTheNews, December 4, 2020 8:00 pm |
| 329. | 12/8/2020 “What’s been troubling from the very beginning is the strange lack of curiosity surrounding the election. There’s been anomalies from the very beginning, there’s certainly been reason to question some of the results in the election… We had statistical anomalies from the very beginning, we had reports of poll watchers being blocked, either out of the room or kept at a distance so they couldn’t see ballots, and a number of other discrepancies.” -Michael Cloud via One America News Network, “Freedom Caucus Demands Barr Release Election Findings with Rep. Michael Cloud,” YouTube.com, December 7, 2020 |
| 330. | 12/9/2020 “A recent survey revealed almost half the American electorate believes there was likely fraud in this election. It’s important that we do everything we can do secure the confidence of the American people in our election process. We are setting a dangerous precedent by overlooking some of the massive issues coming out of the states.” -Michael Cloud, Facebook.com, December 9, 2020 2:18 pm |
| 331. | 12/9/2020 “I urge my colleagues to support efforts across the country to count every legal vote & to investigate and punish election fraud by cosponsoring H.Res. 1252. Join me in supporting @realDonaldTrump & efforts to investigate election fraud until a fair & accurate count is verified.” -Michael Cloud, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 4:22 pm |
| 332. | 1/6/2021 “Today, I will act on my obligation to ensure a constitutional republic by objecting to those of the contested states which unconstitutionally usurped the authority of their state legislatures to govern the election… In many states… judges and election officials at varying levels instituted their own election processes. These new processes implemented, sometimes weeks leading up to Election Day, violated established state election laws. These unilateral actions — not taken by the state legislatures but judges and election officials — are not supported by the Constitution. Therefore, I will object.” -Michael Cloud, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:48 pm |
| 31. REPRESENTATIVE ANDREW CLYDE (R-GA) | |
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| 333. | 11/7/2020 “I believe we must investigate ALL instances of voter fraud. Every legal ballot must be counted and every illegal ballot must be discovered and thrown out to preserve the integrity of our election process. We deserve and must demand fair and transparent elections.” -Andrew Clyde, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 6:12 pm |
| 32. REPRESENTATIVE TOM COLE (R-OK) | |
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| 334. | 1/6/2021 “On behalf of my constituents, I am casting my vote against certification of the Electoral College’s count of the presidential election results… The voters I represent are not concerned about the fairness of elections in OK. However, they are concerned about fairness & transparency in other states.” -Tom Cole, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:51 pm |
| 33. REPRESENTATIVE JAMES COMER (R-KY) | |
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| 335. | 11/11/2020 “Great work by @GOPoversight members @CongressmanHice for demanding a hand recount in Georgia and @RepCloudTX for leading the effort to have the Justice Department investigate allegations of voter fraud.” -James Comer, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 12:17 pm |
| 336. | 11/18/2020 “The 2020 election was full of chaos. Congressional oversight is needed for the American people to have faith in the integrity of our election.” -James Comer, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 9:46 pm |
| 337. | 11/18/2020 “We urge you to immediately convene hearings to examine the integrity of the 2020 election amid troubling reports of irregularities and improprieties… [A]llegations have been made that local officials in some Pennsylvania counties are restricting the ability of campaign watchers to properly observe officials processing absentee and mail-in ballots… After the state [of California] began mailing ballots, reports surfaced of voters receiving duplicate ballots, voters receiving multiple ballots containing different versions of their name, and receiving ballots that belonged to someone else… Recent events in Georgia also raise concerns over election irregularities During a state audit, county officials unearthed over 5,000 previously uncounted ballots… These serious concerns give rise to the urgent need for congressional oversight of the integrity of the 2020 election.” -Jim Jordan and James Comer, Letter to House Committee on the Judiciary and Committee on Oversight and Reform, Twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP, November 18, 2020, 9:24 pm |
| 338. | 11/20/2021 “Thanks @LouDobbs for recognizing mine & @Jim_Jordan’s fight to protect the integrity of our election! Congress should investigate every irregularity and the Republicans on @GOPoversight & @JudiciaryGOP are ready to lead.” -James Comer, Twitter.com, November 20, 2020 1:00 pm |
| 339. | 11/23/2020 “Americans deserve to have confidence that the integrity of our election wasn’t compromised. Mass mail-in balloting produced chaos that must be examined.” -James Comer, Twitter.com, November 23, 2020 2:00 pm |
| 340. | 11/23/2020 “At least half of Americans are concerned about the integrity of our election… Here we are today, a few weeks after the election, it’s still not been determined yet. We’re seeing everyday irregularities yet not a single Democrat in the House of Representatives has called for a hearing… We want to examine the [voting machine] software, we want to examine why certain cities wouldn’t allow Republicans in to watch them count the ballots, poll watchers. We want to understand what happened with the voter rolls and the universal ballots in some of these states with people that we’ve seen may have passed away that somehow voted absentee.” -James Comer in an interview on OAN, video via Twitter.com, November 23, 2020 2:00 pm |
| 341. | 11/25/2020 “Irregularities from the 2020 election caused by mass mail-in balloting must be examined by Congress. Democrats must stop turning a blind eye to election integrity.” -James Comer, Twitter.com, November 23, 2020 7:10 pm |
| 342. | 11/25/2020 “Jim Jordan and I have been calling for a hearing with Oversight [committee] to debate and discuss and listen to all the accusations of election irregularities in these swing states and the Democrats have turned a blind eye to it. If they really thought there were no election irregularities, I think they would have a hearing just to embarrass Jim Jordan and the Republicans… But they know there are irregularities… If anything, we know that Democrats used COVID to change the rules on absentees, and they have allowed themselves to build up a huge bank of absentee votes in all these swing states. Now the question is, how did they obtain all those absentee votes? How did they get 100% turnout in certain precincts in some of these cities?” -James Comer in an interview with OAN, video via Twitter.com, November 23, 2020 7:10 pm |
| 343. | 12/10/2020 “I will end by echoing ranking member Hice’s concerns, concerns shared by my constituents, that widespread voting irregularities and even reports of outright fraud may have disenfranchised their votes. So I would echo his call for this committee to hold hearings to examine this election to ensure that our constituents can be confident that their vote counts.” -James Comer, Twitter.com/GOPoversight, December 10, 2020 7:58 am |
| 344. | 1/3/2021 “Many swing states changed the absentee voting rules in the middle of the election. Congress should have already held hearings over alleged irregularities.” -James Comer, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 9:16 pm |
| 345. | 1/3/2021 “There have been numerous reports of election irregularities… there’s a huge level of frustration, especially among Republicans, that Congress hasn’t done anything… We have to face the facts, that there were a lot of states that changed the rules in the middle of the game with respect to absentee voting.” -James Comer in an interview with Fox News, video via Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 9:16 pm |
| 346. | 1/4/2021 “When states change their voting rules in the middle of the election without the approval of state legislatures, the integrity of the vote is in doubt.” -James Comer, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 8:38 pm |
| 347. | 1/4/2021 “I share the concern that there were countless election irregularities. My focus is on the absentee balloting. These states unilaterally changed the absentee rules in the middle of the game. The reason that we had rules pertaining to absentee ballots was to prevent fraud. So when these governors and secretaries of state unilaterally change the rules getting state legislative approval, then you opened up the entire election process to fraud.” -James Comer in an interview on Fox Business, video via Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 8:38 pm |
| 348. | 1/7/2021 “From September until Election Day, I expressed my concerns many times on national television about absentee voting irregularities in certain states like Pennsylvania and Georgia – who changed many of their rules in the middle of the election without state legislative approval. My Oversight Committee colleague Jim Jordan and I even published a report detailing many of these irregularities, including accepting ballots after the election, mail-in ballots with no postmark, no signature verification process, no poll watchers, and incorrect voter rolls. Unfortunately, none of the state legislatures in question stepped up to approve the controversial changes made unilaterally by their Secretary of State and Governor.” -James Comer, “Statement From Congressman James Comer On Electoral College Vote,” comer.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 34. REPRESENTATIVE RICK CRAWFORD (R-AR) | |
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| 349. | 7/29/2020 “The President is right and correct to warn Americans about foreign influence in our elections especially regarding mail in ballot fraud. @HouseJudiciary defends these foreign entities by saying there’s no evidence they’ve done/can do this. Total hypocrisy on the issue!” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, July 29, 2020 8:36 am |
| 350. | 11/5/2020 “Every *legal* vote must be counted. Free and fair elections are the hallmarks of a free and open society. Fraudulent voting and related activities that subvert our democracy must not be tolerated. @realDonaldTrump wants every *legal* vote counted. Joe Biden? ‘Every’ vote.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 4:41 pm |
| 351. | 11/5/2020 “Hoax after hoax. Fake impeachments, scandals, and controversies. And yet, this has been in the works for some time and it’s as real as it gets. Count every legal vote, period. The integrity of our election system is at stake and every American should want nothing less.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:18 pm |
| 352. | 11/6/2021 “Illegal ballots and voter fraud doesn’t have to be ‘widespread’ for it to still occur and change/alter election outcomes. It can happen in enough places that can change elections, plain and simple, and not be ‘widespread’. *Only* legally cast ballots should be counted!” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:01 am |
| 353. | 11/7/2020 “Fighting tooth and nail against transparency and openness are not the hallmarks of people who believe in free and fair elections. Why would anyone in those states be acting that way if the ballots cast were *legally* cast ballots? Only legal ballots should be counted.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 8:43 am |
| 354. | 11/10/2020 “Illegitimate elections start when full accessibility, accounting, and audits are prevented. Half of America’s voting public want it – and America deserves it. The concerns [about election fraud] aren’t conspiracies, no matter what the MSM and far left say.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 9:11 am |
| 355. | 11/10/2020 “Pelosi is refusing to denounce socialism which is a forgone conclusion, at this point. She hasn’t said a word about the massive allegations of fraud and irregularities. Delegitimizing elections are the start of socialist regimes. It’s clear what she supports.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 10:42 am |
| 356. | 11/16/2020 ‘“Voter fraud isn’t widespread’, they say. ‘It doesn’t happen enough to change elections’, they’ve clamored. Well, the two state representatives in Arkansas who are in the middle of this may have a different opinion, as well as those who voted.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 9:44 pm |
| 357. | 11/17/2020 “Well, that’s an interesting word choice. We’ve moved from ‘widespread’ to ‘significant’. With widespread reports – including Arkansas – of ballot fraud and/or irregularities, it would seem the MSM is still trying to whitewash the voices of 70 million Americans from this election” [Note: This tweet has an image of an ABC News tweet that read, “Not one state election official… reported finding evidence of significant fraud or irregularities that would have altered the presidential election.”] -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 12:11 pm |
| 358. | 12/3/2020 “The reports and testimony via several states about the general election demonstrate significant problems impacting those results. I fully support the President’s legal pursuits and for more light to be shown on those areas/people whose actions have been anything but transparent.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 8:09 pm |
| 359. | 1/5/2021 “Tomorrow, I will be voting in support of the objections being raised about results in some states where significant doubts remain about the process of awarding Electoral Votes… Supporting the Motion to Object is not about rejecting the electors, per se. It’s about challenging the process by which they became electors. Several states seemingly violated their own constitutions via rule making that was not sanctioned by the state legislatures… And, by extension, the US Constitution, as it vests the power of our elections to state legislatures, not an election commissioner, Secretary of State, judge, or even a Governor… I’m motivated by a highly flawed electoral process across several states… Free and fair elections are worth fighting for, now and in the future… It is my hope that some of this could lead to the involvement of SCOTUS so that future elections don’t see this type of election chicanery again.” -Rick Crawford, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 3:36 pm |
| 35. REPRESENTATIVE DAN CRENSHAW (R-TX) | |
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| 360. | 11/6/2020 “If Trump loses, he loses. It was never an impossible outcome and we must accept the final results when it is over. But the unfortunate reality is that there is very little trust in the [election] process, where irregularities have been flagrant and transparency lacking.” -Dan Crenshaw, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 12:47 pm |
| 361. | 1/11/2021 “I wanted President Trump to win, but I as a member of Congress cannot overturn an election. This is fundamentally what this is about, it doesn’t mean that people’s anger about election irregularities and the bad processes that we see in many states are invalid. Those are very, very valid concerns, and they must be addressed, but we must address them in the right way. We can change laws at the state level. There needs to be a year 2000 Florida awakening for each of these states where we clean it up and we give people certitude that their vote really counts.” -Dan Crenshaw, “ICYMI: Crenshaw Condemns Violence, Votes Against Objections,” crenshaw.house.gov, January 11, 2021 |
| 362. | 1/11/2021 “The concerns about election integrity are real, and they must be heard. The merits of these objections are real and substantive. There have been countless examples of states engaging in irresponsible and unverifiable election practices, casting doubt on election outcomes. Whether it is unverified signatures on mail-in ballots or lax voter-ID laws, a refusal to update registration rolls or a refusal to allow partisan observers to witness counting, there are many practices that must be changed.” -Dan Crenshaw, “Crenshaw in WSJ: The rioters, and those challenging the electoral count, misunderstand how America elects presidents,” crenshaw.house.gov, January 11, 2021 |
| 36. REPRESENTATIVE WARREN DAVIDSON (R-OH) | |
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| 363. | 11/5/2020 “You can’t win an election… after the election! Unfortunately, the problems we all warned about with inadequate attention given to election security and the means to provide an accurate, timely count of all legal cast votes are now reality. #SecureTheVote” -Warren Davidson, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 9:47 pm |
| 364. | 11/7/2020 “?Why would an honest election process, administered by honest election officials, work so hard to prevent observers being present, in accordance with the law?” [Note: This tweet quotes a tweet that read, “Philadelphia mail-in ballot count has been temporarily halted as Democrats have gone to PA’s Supreme Court to try to reverse the Commonwealth Court ruling allowing Trump observers inside to watch the count (which is also live-streamed)”] -Warren Davidson, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 7:49 am |
| 365. | 11/7/2020 “Just a reminder…” [Note: This tweet quotes a tweet that read, “NPR confirms that the mail-in ballots that were discarded in Pennsylvania were cast for Donald Trump.”] -Warren Davidson, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 7:56 am |
| 366. | 11/9/2020 “ICYMI: I joined colleagues asking AG Barr, what #DoJ is doing to ensure only legal ballots are being counted and that our elections are, in fact, secure. All Americans benefit when we can maintain trust that just election laws have been honestly applied. #CountEveryLegalVote” -Warren Davidson, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 5:37 pm |
| 367. | 11/19/2020 “?Since when does ‘standing up for our democracy’ mean refusing to #CountEveryLegalVote?” -Warren Davidson, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 11:54 am |
| 368. | 12/3/2020 “We represent millions of Americans who do not have confidence in the outcome of this election, not because of the declared winner, but because of irregularities in the voting process. There are concerns and sworn statements of fraudulent activity, criminal activity, in this election, and they deserve to be investigated… The investigation is incredibly consequential because it could change the outcome of the election. But for the American people, they deserve to know whether the fraud that happened will change the outcome or won’t… Nearly half the country feels their vote may be diluted or stolen because of fraud in an election.” -Warren Davidson, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 369. | 12/11/2020 “Across the country, Americans are uncertain about the outcome of the election and there are sworn affidavits attesting to wrongdoing and a number of abnormalities that should be swiftly and publicly investigated. I signed onto a case in Pennsylvania and I’m disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to intervene given the problems with the state’s mail-in votes… I cosponsored Rep. Alex Mooney’s resolution to count every legal vote and punish election fraud in the 2020 election.” -Warren Davidson, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 11:07 am |
| 370. | 1/5/2021 “On January 6th, I will object to electors from states that failed to uphold the equal protection principle of ‘one person, one vote’ where that failure made the intent of voters difficult to discern: AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, and WI. The Constitution, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments, precedent, and in hard-fought court cases make clear: no state is so sovereign that they can (by law or by practice) deny citizens the equal protection of knowing a just and secure election consists of one person, one vote.” -Warren Davidson, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 12:46 pm |
| 371. | 1/5/2021 “On January 6, I will object to electors from states that failed to uphold the equal protection principle of one person, one vote and where that failure made the intent of voters difficult to discern. Millions of Americans have doubts about the integrity of the 2020 election and look to Congress to represent these concerns in accordance with the Constitution. This isn’t about overturning the results of the election; it’s about a duty to defend the United States Constitution.” -Warren Davidson, “Rep. Davidson on the January 6th Electoral Count Joint Session,” davidson.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 372. | 1/5/2021 “In the 2020 election, several states intentionally dismantled election safeguards, while others hastily enacted new mail-in voting systems with lax protections. These laws and actions undermined Americans trust that their vote counted. A free, fair and constitutional election requires that states properly secure their elections and count only the legally cast ballots of eligible U.S. citizens with a transparent and auditable system. Secure elections are foundational to sustaining our republic and anything less than the vigorous equal protection of one person, one vote undermines the confidence Americans must have.” -Warren Davidson, “I am duty-bound to object to electors,” davidson.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 373. | 1/5/2021 “Pennsylvania and Nevada made dramatic changes ahead of the election. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled – counter to state law – that ballots without postmarks could be counted even if they arrived days after Election Day. In Wisconsin, the seemingly robust ID requirements could be circumvented by simply self-reporting as an ‘indefinitely confined person.’ Other states, like Nevada, mailed ballots to every person on the voter rolls – many of which aren’t regularly updated. A more secure system would send ballots only to those who request them and provide proper identification. These loopholes, oversights and erosion of protections trouble me and millions of Americans. Insufficient protections directly threaten the ‘one person, one vote’ principle essential to meeting the equal protection obligations of the Constitution.” -Warren Davidson, “I am duty-bound to object to electors,” davidson.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 374. | 1/6/2021 “When it comes to elections, that means one person gets one vote… So whether the law was changed and made it such that there is no way to provide equal protection—one person, one vote—or the practice was corrupted, it cannot stand. Frankly, lastly, it must guarantee that there is a proof that it was equal protection under the law. None of that happened in a number of States. The people of America, tens of millions of them who came out to vote, have been unheard by this body and by far too many courts. We need to show them the respect they are due by the Constitution of the United States of America.” -Warren Davidson, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 37. REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT DESJARLAIS (R-TN) | |
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| 375. | 11/6/2020 “I know it’s so frustrating to watch this mail-in ballot scheme unfold. We all resisted it, including the President. Unfortunately, messaging by the election-meddling media and Big Tech helped push this narrative and have helped drive the agenda. We have legal teams in every swing state as we speak. This election is within 1% in at least 4 swing states that are trying to count us out.” -Scott DesJarlais, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:57 pm |
| 376. | 1/3/2021 “I have long supported and been engaged with the Trump campaign, and I also have concerns about the conduct and transparency of many of the electoral processes in several states during the most recent election.” -Scott DesJarlais, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 1:31 pm |
| 377. | 1/6/2021 “Today I will object to the certification of some states’ Electoral College votes. I believe the American people deserve a debate and investigation into voting irregularities during the 2020 election.” -Scott DesJarlais, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 7:08 pm |
| 38. REPRESENTATIVE MARIO DIAZ-BALART (R-FL) | |
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| 378. | 1/6/2021 “Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution provides that state legislatures have the sole authority to determine the manner of choosing electors. Yet, in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, in several states, many state officials nonetheless changed the presidential election rules and regulations despite lacking the constitutional authority to do so… I am gravely concerned about numerous reports of irregularities and last-minute changes that violated basic constitutional requirements in those states and others such as Arizona… For this reason, and after much study and deliberation, I have become convinced that the electors in some states were selected in an unconstitutional manner. I simply cannot vote to uphold a slate of electors under those circumstances.” -Mario Diaz-Balart, “Diaz-Balart Statement on the Electoral College Vote,” mariodiazbalart.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 39. REPRESENTATIVE BYRON DONALDS (R-FL) | |
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| 379. | 12/18/2020 “The American people deserve the right to vote in a fair and free election—this is why myself and 25 other members-elect of Congress are calling on @SpeakerPelosi to investigate the 2020 election irregularities. Action must be taken to protect future elections!” -Byron Donalds, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 12:29 pm |
| 380. | 12/31/2020 “I will object to the certification process on January 6th and will ask legitimate questions to restore faith in our election system. Unlike my Democratic colleagues, I refuse to turn a blind eye to the fact that several states, including the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, neglected the oath of their constitution and the United States Constitution by their failure to follow their election laws.” -Byron Donalds, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 12:42 pm |
| 40. REPRESENTATIVE JEFF DUNCAN (R-SC) | |
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| 381. | 11/5/2020 “It is a sad day when the threats to our elections come not from outside forces like Russia, Iran, North Korea, or radical Islamic terrorism, but from political operatives within manipulating votes, hindering transparency, and instilling fraud in our free election system.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:17 am |
| 382. | 11/5/2020 “I stand with Donald J Trump as he battles these elements that try to steal an election: 100% reporting in NC, DJT leads, still not called. Same in GA. But AZ called with 51% on election night?” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:18 am |
| 383. | 11/5/2020 “Add to that [elements trying to steal an election]: push mail-in and early voting to make it easier to manipulate the vote; discourage in-person, Election Day voting; institute ‘election season’ versus ‘Election Day’” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:21 am |
| 384. | 11/5/2020 “New Presidential campaign strategy: stay in your basement at home; don’t answer the difficult questions; let the media manipulate the minds of Americans; let your [Democratic] operatives in blue states steal the vote tally” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:19 am |
| 385. | 11/6/2020 “Every LEGAL vote must be counted, and every illegal vote thrown out. With allegations of fraud and abuse in various states around the country, the American people deserve COMPLETE transparency.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 6:40 pm |
| 386. | 11/6/2020 “President Trump is working tirelessly to fight the massive levels of Democratic fraud and corruption which have now all but engulfed our once-sacred election process. I stand with him!” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 8:58 am |
| 387. | 11/11/2020 “This is about the United States of America. This is about the country I love. This is about statute. This is about the rule of law. This is about, ultimately, the voters in this country having certainty, when they cast that vote, that vote is going to be counted. It’s not going to be counted twice, or it’s not going to be ignored. It’s going to be counted once. And it’s going to go into the total for that person that they voted for.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 9:12 am |
| 388. | 11/11/2020 “We must ensure that every legal vote is counted, every illegal vote thrown out, and every irregularity investigated.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 9:12 am |
| 389. | 11/13/2020 “We are calling upon @TheJusticeDept to investigate election software & hardware that may be linked to the irregularities we are seeing around the country. AG Barr answered the call last week to investigate allegations of voter fraud, so he needs to make sure this is included!” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 3:35 pm |
| 390. | 11/19/2020 “We are pushing for information from the Chief Postal Inspector on the steps being taken to investigate the allegations of mail-in ballot fraud. The Postal Service plays a HUGE role in the integrity of our elections, so we are working to get a response ASAP.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 3:53 pm |
| 391. | 12/3/2020 “AG Barr authorized federal prosecutors to probe the substantial allegations of voter fraud weeks ago, & the lack of action since then is not only disappointing, but completely unacceptable. My Republican colleagues & I are continuing to fight to uphold election integrity.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 10:02 am |
| 392. | 12/3/2020 “Today members of the @freedomcaucus continued our calls on DOJ to provide FULL transparency into the allegations of voter fraud. We won’t stop fighting for election integrity & to ensure every LEGAL vote is counted, every illegal vote thrown out, &every irregularity investigated.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 5:33 pm |
| 393. | 12/10/2020 “We are continuing the fight to ensure every LEGAL vote is counted, every illegal vote thrown out, and every irregularity investigated. I’m not backing down on ensuring election integrity!” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 11:14 am |
| 394. | 12/10/2020 “Glad to see multiple states, including South Carolina, join the Texas lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s 3 day mail-in ballot extension. We must continue fighting to uphold our Constitution, respect the rule of law, & defend the integrity of our elections.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 11:25 am |
| 395. | 12/11/2020 “Count every legal vote. Throw out every illegal vote. Investigate every irregularity.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 12:32 pm |
| 396. | 12/30/2020 “We need to shed light on the issues that took place during the 2020 election to preserve our electoral system for generations to come. Our mission is simple: Count every legal vote, throw out every illegal vote, and investigate every irregularity and allegation. All Americans should be on board with this mission.” -Jeff Duncan, “Duncan Plans to Object to Electoral College Certification,” jeffduncan.house.gov, December 30, 2020 |
| 397. | 12/30/2020 “On January 6, 2021, I plan to object to the Electoral College certification for the people of the Third District of South Carolina and the millions of Americans who are demanding transparency into the 2020 Election.” -Jeff Duncan, Twitter.com, December 30, 2020 1:07 pm |
| 398. | 12/30/2020 “The 2020 election saw unprecedented institutional issues like states changing their voting systems in violation of their state constitutions, unelected bureaucrats changing election law instead of lawmakers themselves, poll watchers prohibited from doing their jobs, failure to properly scrutinize the validity of mail-in voting, and the list goes on… On January 6, 2021, I plan to object to the Electoral College certification from states that experienced these unprecedented issues like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. I plan to object for the people of the Third District of South Carolina and the millions of Americans who are demanding transparency into the 2020 election. We the People know this is a pivotal decision for our great country. May God bless the United States of America.” -Jeff Duncan, “Duncan Plans to Object to Electoral College Certification,” jeffduncan.house.gov, December 30, 2020 |
| 399. | 1/6/2021 “[T]he Constitution is clear in Article II, Madam Speaker, that the power and duty to set the manner of national elections rests solely with the State legislatures… This year, using the extraordinary circumstance of the COVID–19 pandemic, we witnessed these duly passed [election] laws circumvented and usurped time and again, not by having the laws changed in the respective State legislative bodies, but those laws arbitrarily and unilaterally changed by county clerks; secretaries of state; and, in this case of Pennsylvania, an elected supreme court, which is supposed to interpret the law, not make law… Illegal ballots should not be counted. Therefore, the resulting electoral votes should be considered invalid.” -Jeff Duncan, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 400. | 1/7/2021 “The assault on the Capitol did not change the substance of the issues at hand. And that is why – even after the chaos – I raised objections to electors from certain states that performed elections in clear violation of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. The fact of the matter is that several states conducted elections in direct contradiction to their state laws, state constitutions, and the U.S. Constitution. I have been very clear on this issue, and there was very little debate on the other side of the aisle disputing these points.” -Jeff Duncan, “Duncan Statement on U.S. Capitol and Electoral College,” jeffduncan.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 401. | 1/7/2021 “Unfortunately, after the events of the day, many Senators withdrew their objections, and the House only had the procedural requirements to move forward with votes and debates concerning electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania. I voted to object to both states’ electors. This has always been about the Constitution and my oath to protect it – not a particular personality or person.” -Jeff Duncan, “Duncan Statement on U.S. Capitol and Electoral College,” jeffduncan.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 41. REPRESENTATIVE NEAL DUNN (R-FL) | |
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| 402. | 1/6/2021 “This week, I joined @RepArrington & my colleagues in a letter to Speaker Pelosi urging public debate regarding election integrity. We must ensure that EVERY American’s voice is heard & every legal vote is counted.” -Neal Dunn, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:05 pm |
| 42. REPRESENTATIVE TOM EMMER (R-MN) | |
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| 403. | 12/11/2020 “All legal votes should be counted and the process should be followed — the integrity of current and future elections depends on this premise and this suit [filed by Texas to contest some electoral votes] is a part of that process.” -Tom Emmer via Stephen Montemayor, “Rep. Tom Emmer backs bid to get U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Biden’s win,” startribune.com, December 11, 2020 |
| 43. REPRESENTATIVE RON ESTES (R-KS) | |
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| 404. | 11/6/2020 “As our nation continues to watch election results slowly roll in from battleground states, it is critical that every legal vote is counted and that illegally-submitted ballots are not… It will take more time, but it’s the right thing to do to ensure that all legal votes are counted.” -Ron Estes, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:05 pm |
| 405. | 12/9/2020 “Americans deserve free and fair elections that uphold our Constitution, where all legal votes are counted.” -Ron Estes, “Rep. Estes Calls on Supreme Court to Hear 2020 Election Case,” estes.house.gov, December 9, 2020 |
| 406. | 12/10/2020 “Americans deserve to have their vote counted in a free and fair election. The U.S. Supreme Court has a responsibility to review the unconstitutional irregularities revealed in our most recent election so that Americans can have confidence in current and future election results. I’m proud to join an amicus brief with more than 100 of my Republican colleagues to urge the Court to take this critical case that will improve election integrity.” -Ron Estes, “Rep. Estes Joins Supreme Court Amicus Brief,” estes.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 407. | 1/4/2021 “Kansans deserve to know that all legal, and only legal, votes were counted in the presidential election. The Kansas Republican delegation in the House will object to the certification of electors in multiple states on Jan. 6.” -Ron Estes, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 1:12 pm |
| 408. | 1/5/2021 “Tomorrow, I will object to the electoral votes of the states that violated election law in the 2020 presidential election. It now falls to Congress to do what is right and defend the Constitution.” -Ron Estes, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 5:38 pm |
| 44. REPRESENTATIVE PAT FALLON (R-TX) | |
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| 409. | 11/7/2020 “I stand with President Trump today as his campaign is utilizing all legal remedies to do everything they can to investigate the many reports of impropriety and any and all violations of election law.” -Pat Fallon, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 3:52 pm |
| 410. | 1/6/2020 “I JUST VOTED TO OBJECT to Arizona’s slate of electors… 32,000 people in heavily Democratic areas unconstitutionally registered to vote in AZ during this 10 days. President Trump’s final vote tally was 10,457 shy of Biden’s total. The last time I checked a District Court judge ain’t a State Legislature!! We must pushback and stand up for ALL Americans! If we don’t have free, honest and open elections then we are no longer a republic, we are no better than a banana republic.” -Pat Fallon, Facebook.com, January 6, 2020 1:42 pm |
| 45. REPRESENTATIVE RANDY FEENSTRA (R-TX) | |
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| 46. REPRESENTATIVE MICHELLE FISCHBACH (R-MN) | |
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| 411. | 1/6/2021 “I plan to vote for the objections to the certification of electoral votes in certain contested states. This election was shrouded in allegations of irregularities and fraud too voluminous to ignore. In order to fulfill my duty to the constitution and my constituents, I believe there must be a proper investigation to consider these claims.” -Michelle Fischbach, “Rep. Fischbach Issues Statement on Electoral Vote Certification,” fischbach.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 412. | 11/6/2020 “You know, I pray it will be handled correctly and that President Trump will win, because I believe he did win and that those votes— They [Democrats] didn’t win the votes of the American people, they are just finding votes at this point.” -Michelle Fischbach via Caleb Parke, “Michelle Fischbach unseats MN Democrat who’s served 30 years: GOP recruiting ‘strong, conservative women,’” foxnews.com, November 6, 2020 |
| 47. REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT FITZGERALD (R-WI) | |
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| 413. | 1/6/2021 “Listen, there are legitimate concerns that could have had a direct effect, that I think did have a direct effect on the election in Wisconsin. [There were] changes made systemically to the way the elections are delivered that was absolutely compromised in Wisconsin.” -Scott Fitzgerald via Craig Gilbert and Bill Glauber, “Tom Tiffany, Scott Fitzgerald say they would have rejected Biden’s victory in Wisconsin had there been a vote in Congress,” jsonline.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 414. | 1/9/2021 “The intention of this [objecting to certification of electoral votes] is to make sure that you don’t have an errant state that somehow could swing a presidential election with an improper, unconstitutional method of conducting an election.” -Scott Fitzgerald via Kent Wainscott, wisn.com, January 9, 2021 |
| 48. REPRESENTATIVE CHUCK FLEISCHMANN (R-TN) | |
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| 415. | 11/5/2020 “I stand with President @realDonaldTrump. We need transparency in our election system. What we’re seeing is fraud, and it must be stopped.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:16 pm |
| 416. | 11/6/2020 “Our primary concern in this election has been protecting the sanctity of the ballot box.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:53 am |
| 417. | 11/6/2020 “I agree with President @realDonaldTrump: every LEGAL vote must be counted.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:16 am |
| 418. | 11/6/2020 “America needs confidence in a fair & transparent system. Every legal vote should be counted; illegal votes should not. All credible allegations of fraud should be investigated & handled by the courts.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:20 am |
| 419. | 11/6/2020 “President @realDonaldTrump has said all along, universal mail-in voting provides an opportunity for voter fraud. We know that’s been apparent throughout this election process.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:15 pm |
| 420. | 11/9/2020 “I agree with President @realDonaldTrump. Americans deserve transparency in their electoral process. Every LEGAL vote must be counted.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 4:19 pm |
| 421. | 11/10/2020 “I stand with President @realDonaldTrump – every vote legally cast must be counted.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 5:45 pm |
| 422. | 11/11/2020 “Thank you, President @realDonaldTrump, for working to ensure every LEGAL vote is counted.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 10:02 am |
| 423. | 12/9/2020 “One person, one vote. It’s that simple. Glad to see Tennessee is joining Texas in support of President @realDonaldTrump. We must protect the sanctity of the ballot box.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 3:58 pm |
| 424. | 12/10/2020 “I am with you @RepMikeJohnson? Where do I sign [the amicus brief supporting the Texas lawsuit challenging election results in four states]?” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 2:50 pm |
| 425. | 1/2/2021 “We must protect the integrity of our elections by ensuring only legal votes are counted, and illegal ones are not. I continue to stand with President @realDonaldTrump and support his efforts to bring transparency to our election system.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 12:11 pm |
| 426. | 1/2/2021 “On January 6, 2021, I will support efforts by my colleagues in the House and Senate to cast light on concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election by objecting during the Electoral College certification.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 12:22 pm |
| 427. | 1/2/2021 “I will continue to stand with President @realDonaldTrump and the more than 74 million Americans who voted for him. We cannot stand by without acknowledging the irregularities of this election – we must protect the integrity of our electoral process.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 5:42 pm |
| 428. | 1/2/2021 “On January 6, 2021, I will support efforts by my colleagues in the House and Senate to cast light on concerns about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election by objecting during the Electoral College certification. While it has been largely ignored by the media, there are a large number of Americans who do not have faith in the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, including many of my own constituents who have voiced their concerns to me and my office. It would be a disservice to our future elections if we certify the Electoral College results and move on when there has not been any attempt to put the worries of many Americans at ease with a thorough investigation into the allegations of fraud and questions of election integrity.” -Chuck Fleischmann, “Fleischmann Statement on January 6th Electoral College Certification,” fleischmann.house.gov, January 2, 2021 |
| 429. | 1/2/2021 “Many Americans are genuinely concerned and do not have faith in this election. It should be our number one priority to ensure that all Americans have faith in the integrity of our elections. Certifying and moving on without an investigation will only go to further fray and dissolve the trust Americans have in the foundation of our country, our elections. I cannot vote to certify the 2020 Electoral College results when real concerns about election integrity from many Americans across this nation, and in East Tennessee, have been mocked and ignored.” -Chuck Fleischmann, “Fleischmann Statement on January 6th Electoral College Certification,” fleischmann.house.gov, January 2, 2021 |
| 430. | 1/2/2021 “I continue to stand with President Trump. We must have one person, one vote. That’s why I will object to the Electoral College certification. We must count only legally cast ballots.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 11:09 am |
| 431. | 1/2/2021 “The 2020 Presidential Election was rife with voter fraud. Universal mail-in ballots, election irregularities and voter fraud. That’s why I’m objecting to the Electoral College certification on Tuesday.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 1:52 pm |
| 432. | 1/3/2021 “Many Americans have genuine concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. Certifying and moving on without any type of discussion or investigation will only further erode the faith Americans have in our elections.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 11:06 am |
| 433. | 1/3/2021 “As a great republic, we’ve got to make sure that the sanctity of the vote, that the credibility of honest votes being counted and dishonest votes not being counted, the process has got to be fair, open, and honest. The vast majority of Americans have questions about this process.” -Chuck Fleischmann in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 11:06 am |
| 434. | 1/6/2021 “As I said I would, I voted in support of an objection raised during the Electoral College certification in order to voice concerns about irregularities that occurred in the 2020 election. Millions of Americans, including many of my constituents, have expressed these concerns over these last two months. It has been reported that over 1 in 4 Americans do not believe this election was legitimate.” -Chuck Fleischmann, “Fleischmann Statement on Vote During Electoral Certification Process,” fleischmann.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 435. | 1/6/2021 “Today, I will object to the certification of the Electoral College. We must protect our election system’s integrity by ensuring all legally cast ballots are counted, and illegal ones are not.” -Chuck Fleischmann, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:35 pm |
| 49. REPRESENTATIVE VIRGINIA FOXX (R-NC) | |
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| 436. | 11/5/2020 “Here’s a refresher for those who missed the message the first time: Count every LEGAL vote.” -Virginia Foxx, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:30 pm |
| 437. | 1/6/2021 “Without question, I am committed to restoring the confidence of the American people in our elections and upholding the Constitutional principles that guide this great Republic. Today, I will object to accepting electors from states that clearly violated the Constitution.” -Virginia Foxx, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:00 pm |
| 438. | 1/7/2021 “While the allegations of irregularities in Arizona’s presidential election are of grave concern, I do not believe they represent a violation of Article II, Section I of the Constitution. The changes to Arizona state law in dispute was a direct result to judicial review under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. I disagree with the decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; however, it is not the role of Congress to reject certification of a state’s electors when the subject in dispute—Arizona state law—was a direct result of federal judicial review.” -Virginia Foxx, “Taking A Stand To Defend The Constitution,” foxx.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 439. | 1/7/2021 “In the case of Pennsylvania, I could not vote in good conscience to certify electors from the state given the blatant contravention of state law that occurred. In Pennsylvania, following a lawsuit that was spearheaded by a Democrat national elections lawyer, the Democrat Secretary of State asked the state supreme court to approve a measure that would allow the use of ballot-return drop boxes that were anonymous, prolonging the ballot-receipt deadline, and striking the election-day postmark requirement. Specifically, these actions give rise to violations of Article II, Section I of the Constitution, and they open the floodgates to more allegations of voter fraud. Simply put: these violations carry the merits for an objection, and they pose a direct threat to the Constitution. I take that threat very seriously, and it’s one that cannot go unheeded.” -Virginia Foxx, “Taking A Stand To Defend The Constitution,” foxx.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 440. | 1/7/2021 “Other states have been subjected to irregularities and allegations of voter fraud and that is of grave concern to me… I first sought to solve these issues in federal court when I joined my colleagues in signing the Amicus Brief to delay the certification of states that had their legislative powers usurped by fringe operators at the state level. We need to continue to fight within all the appropriate mediums to ensure that the integrity of our elections process is not subjected to further discord.” -Virginia Foxx, “Taking A Stand To Defend The Constitution,” foxx.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 50. REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT FRANKLIN (R-FL) | |
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| 441. | 11/10/2020 “I’m concerned about reports of voter fraud from across the nation… President Trump has the right and the responsibility to ensure that all eligible votes cast were counted properly and that any ballots that are ineligible or were received after the deadline are dismissed. Americans deserve to know the just and rightful outcome.” -Scott Franklin, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 6:11 pm |
| 442. | 1/4/2021 “From the partisan impeachment witch hunt to mass mailing unsolicited ballots, the other side willing used every option available to sway the 2020 election in their favor… There are many valid questions that have been raised about this process. That is why I joined many of my freshman colleagues in asking Speaker Pelosi to hold a hearing to look into discrepancies in the election process… Following the election, there has been a lack of transparency in counting votes in several states that merit closer scrutiny. For that reason, I will join my Republican colleagues in challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election to ensure that there is a fair election process that counts every legally casted vote.” -Scott Franklin, “Franklin Joins Long List of Republicans Challenging the Electoral College Results for the 2020 Presidential Election,” franklin.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 443. | 1/6/2021 “I think Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have presented Electoral College slates that were elected illegally because they were not done in accordance with the laws enacted by their legislatures. It’s not within the scope of Congress’ authority to assess fraud or simply decree another slate of electors (nor should we), but it is our sworn duty to ensure the names presented to us were done so legally. That’s the basis of my objection and I stand by it, irrespective of who occupies the Oval Office.” -Scott Franklin, “Franklin on Events Occurring at the U.S. Capitol,” franklin.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 51. REPRESENTATIVE RUSS FULCHER (R-GA) | |
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| 444. | 11/6/2020 “All legal ballots must be counted in a manner transparent to everyone. As has long been noted – the process of ‘mass-ballot mailing’ utilized by some states (different than an absentee process) inserts more opportunity for inaccuracy and/or fraud.” -Russ Fulcher, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 12:59 pm |
| 445. | 11/6/2020 “I join my constituents in deep concern about the disturbing interferences being exposed in this election. This is not a partisan issue; the integrity of our election process relies on these allegations being thoroughly investigated and rectified.” -Russ Fulcher, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 6:57 pm |
| 446. | 11/6/2020 “There are tabulation locations where legally authorized republican poll-watchers have been denied oversight, and allegations of ‘newly found’ ballots… The nation’s election integrity – a key component of our republic – hangs in the balance.” -Russ Fulcher, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 7:09 pm |
| 447. | 1/6/2021 “There were multiple states… that simply broke their own [election] laws. They bypassed their state legislatures when they changed the election rules. And that in and of itself pulls into question the results of those elections… There are tens of millions of people who want to see action on this who are absolutely convinced there’s election fraud.” -Russ Fulcher, “Rep. Fulcher explains how GOP challenging of 2020 election certification will work,” video.foxnews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 52. REPRESENTATIVE MATT GAETZ (R-FL) | |
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| 448. | 11/5/2020 “More and more it seems the dead vote swung overwhelmingly for Biden.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 1:45 pm |
| 449. | 11/5/2020 “The DOJ isn’t as powerless as it currently looks. They should be in court NOW to put the legally non-compliant ongoing Philadelphia count into FEDERAL RECEIVERSHIP!” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:18 pm |
| 450. | 11/6/2020 “The state legislature in Pennsylvania should immediately launch an investigation into voter fraud allegations in their state. They should not appoint electors until the investigation has concluded. PA will forever be maligned as the epicenter of fraud if they don’t take action.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:15 pm |
| 451. | 11/6/2020 “A full audit [of election results] is absolutely necessary. We should get injunctions if necessary. And if I have to do it, I’ll fight on the floor of the House of Representatives to stop the Electoral College from being certified.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:08 pm |
| 452. | 11/6/2020 “If Republicans don’t dig in and fight this fraud now, we will never win another election again.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:47 pm |
| 453. | 11/6/2020 “There are clear instances of voter fraud all across the country. It must be investigated immediately.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 6:03 pm |
| 454. | 11/10/2020 “Now in the State of Florida, the key change we made is that the mail in ballots get counted in advance, so there’s not an opportunity to have an unknown universe of ballots to allow a Democrat to catch up with some 4:00 am dump of ballots into the back of the room in the middle of the night. Every Republican state legislator has an obligation now to pursue election integrity legislation in their state to ensure that we do not have these mass mailings of ballots.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 10:05 pm |
| 455. | 11/10/2020 “Whistleblowers continue to come forward exposing election fraud. There’s still a lot of work to be done to see the size and scale of it, the risk of repeatability in future elections, the impact on the 2020 presidential election, and the remedies that would be available to President Trump and his legal team in court. But certainly it’s troubling what we’ve seen so far… [P]eople were backdating ballots. Ballots were coming in that would not have been rightly counted, and you had people at the poll stations in the counting facilities just choosing to choose the date… In Erie, Pennsylvania, we do have the whistleblower, we do have folks saying that this backdating was occurring, that is a tragic pollution of these ballots. And it’s not just in Pennsylvania. In Michigan as well, we now have an affidavit that was signed by one of the observers saying that at 4:30 am at one of the counting facilities in Detroit, there was an influx of new ballots… Not a whole lot good happens at 4:30 in the morning… The real concern is that in this affidavit, the poll observer indicated that all of the ballots were for Biden.” -Matt Gaetz, “Episode 127 – Suspicious Biden Ballots Appear at 4:30 AM? The Left Drafts Political Enemy Lists. What is a COVID Long-Hauler?,” podcasts.apple.com, November 10, 2020 |
| 456. | 11/11/2020 “Dead people shouldn’t vote. Study says 10k of them did in Michigan.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 3:10 pm |
| 457. | 11/11/2020 “According to Michigan’s election data, about 9,500 voters confirmed dead through the Social Security death index are marked in the state’s mail-in voting database as having returned ballots. I’m betting this dead vote swung overwhelmingly for Biden.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 3:46 pm |
| 458. | 11/12/2020 “Voter fraud is real.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 11:52 am |
| 459. | 11/12/2020 “If observers are not able to do their job and watch as votes are being counted, all Americans should have a lower degree of confidence in the election outcome. We have to fix this.” [Note: This tweet links to an article titled, “Trey Trainor to Newsmax TV: Voter Fraud is taking place.”] -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 1:09 pm |
| 460. | 11/12/2020 “FEC Chair says there was fraud in this election. We know there was. Even if it isn’t enough to sway a single result in the nation, it is worth exposing & litigating & eradicating. I am glad President Trump is leading that fight.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 4:06 pm |
| 461. | 11/12/2020 “Those Dominion voting software systems changed more votes than Vladimir Putin ever did.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 9:45 pm |
| 462. | 11/13/2020 “More people over the age of 90 registered to vote in 2020 than in the prior four years combined… We have yet to find one nursing home where these Democratic registrations were occurring en masse, that seems to suggest that those ballots may have been turned in by someone other than the person they were addressed to.” -Matt Gaetz in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 11:02 am |
| 463. | 11/13/2020 “Here’s what we know: the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission said there was fraud in this election. And when you take the mail-in balance and balance them against the registry of people who’ve changed their addresses, you see that there are tens of thousands of people — 17,000 alone in Georgia — who actually moved and then voted in the state that they moved from.” -Matt Gaetz in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 11:02 am |
| 464. | 11/16/2020 “I’m glad President @realDonaldTrump is fighting against voter fraud. It pollutes the legal votes of all of us when tens of thousands of people signify their intent to change their address in the National Change of Address database, and yet they still vote in their old states.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 10:18 am |
| 465. | 11/16/2020 “I am concerned about the voter fraud and I’m glad President Trump is fighting against it… It also is concerning that we allow Dominion to have such a strong impact on the election process.” -Matt Gaetz in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 10:18 am |
| 466. | 11/18/2020 “People shouldn’t vote more than once or in more than one state. And they certainly shouldn’t vote after they die. The fight against fraud in our election system continues…” [Note: This tweet linked to a tweet that read, “Trump Team says more than 15,000 people voted in Nevada and another state.”] -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 4:16 pm |
| 467. | 11/18/2020 “Observation of ballots should not be a game of hide and seek, right? You shouldn’t have to be 100 feet away trying to engage in a signature match. This ought to be precise, and it ought to be clear, and we’re getting anything from precision and clarity out of Georgia and Pennsylvania in particular right now.” -Matt Gaetz in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 9:27 pm |
| 468. | 11/28/2020 “There are very small margins in some of these places like Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and there are lot of Republicans who don’t understand why we went to bed with the President having leads [sometimes] in the hundreds of thousands in these states, and you wake up to see ballots [for Biden] seemingly willed into existence. While you, at the same time, see observers excluded and you see signature matches seemingly ignored, it raised questions that I think we’ve got to answer through the political process and through the legal process.” -Matt Gaetz in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 28, 2020 4:06 pm |
| 469. | 11/30/2020 “I do have Republican colleagues who believe that we ought to ignore the irregularities in voter registration, that we should turn a blind eye to ballot harvesting, and when you can’t account [for] the number of ballots cast against the number of people in a precinct, well, we should just accept that that’s the new normal. I reject that entirely. President Trump has an obligation to the country… to ensure that we count the legal votes, and reject the illegal votes.” -Matt Gaetz via Angelica Stabile, “Gaetz warns Republicans will never win ‘another national election again’ if mail-in balloting persists,” foxnews.com, November 30, 2020 |
| 470. | 11/30/2020 “There are circumstances where, in the middle of the night, tens of thousands of ballots were appearing in Michigan. Where Joe Biden was getting a higher percentage of the vote than Bashar al-Assad and Kim Jong Il in their elections… There was obvious funny business going on there… There has to be an accounting of the ballots cast to the registered voters. Otherwise, we didn’t have the first real vote, because the first vote was polluted by illegal ballots.” -Matt Gaetz via Angelica Stabile, “Gaetz warns Republicans will never win ‘another national election again’ if mail-in balloting persists,” foxnews.com, November 30, 2020 |
| 471. | 12/1/2020 “I talked today to Republicans in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. There’s an interest in examining voting irregularities and forcing a debate in Congress about whether or not to accept states’ electors where those irregularities exist. Nothing is off the table.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 7:56 pm |
| 472. | 12/2/2020 “There was mechanized ballot fraud in the 2020 election and not nearly enough attention from the Department of Justice.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 3:52 pm |
| 473. | 12/11/2020 “The true casualty of the [Supreme] Court’s decision [not to hear a case challenging election results in some states] is an erosion of the power of state legislators to make election law. The principal challenge made by Texas is that there were changes made not by the state legislators, that instead were made by other officials that might not have been vested in that power… Our argument is that if Georgia is polluting ballots, if they are polluting our election process with bad procedures, then the courts similarly ought to take that up… Remember, this is not a case of the Trump campaign failing to produce evidence [of election fraud], it’s a failure of any court to exercise jurisdiction sufficiently to allow us to produce evidence.” -Matt Gaetz in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 7:39 pm |
| 474. | 12/15/2020 “A Michigan judge has released a report on the forensic analysis of the voting machines in Antrim County. It concludes Dominion Voting Systems has a purposeful design that allows this system to flip votes from one candidate to another. If even one vote was flipped because a voting system was designed to change it, the validity of the 2020 election is in question.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 4:27 pm |
| 475. | 12/15/2020 “Michigan fought hard to keep this report sealed ? ‘Auditors Allege Voting Machines ‘INTENTIONALLY and PURPOSEFULLY Designed…to Influence Elections’’” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 3:08 pm |
| 476. | 12/17/2020 “If we continue to shine the light on election fraud and election irregularities, it could function as a deterrent to that type of bad behavior in the future.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, December 17, 2020 2:56 pm |
| 477. | 12/21/2020 “Democracy is left undefended if we accept the result of a stolen election without fighting with every bit of vigor we can muster.” -Matt Gaetz, Instagram.com, December 21, 2020 |
| 478. | 12/21/2020 “On January 6th, I’m joining with the fighters in Congress. We’re going to OBJECT to electors from states that didn’t run clean elections.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 9:32 am |
| 479. | 12/31/2020 “Democrats couldn’t beat @POTUS in 2016 at the ballot box. So they tried to impeach him at the witness box. When that failed, they ran to the mailbox. There, they could process votes without signature matches, without observers, and sometimes without the voter even being alive.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 2:42 pm |
| 480. | 1/6/2021 “In 2016 Democrats found out that they couldn’t beat Donald Trump at the ballot box with voters who actually show up, so they turned to impeachment and the witness box. And when that failed, they ran to the mailbox, where this election saw an unprecedented amount of votes that could not be authenticated with true ID, true signature match, and with true confidence for the American people… We should reject these electors.” -Matt Gaetz in a speech on the House floor, video Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 11:17 pm |
| 481. | 1/6/2021 “States that cheat and steal elections should be stripped of electors.” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, January 1, 2020 9:59 am |
| 482. | 1/6/2021 “Expose the fraud!” -Matt Gaetz, Twitter.com, January 1, 2020 9:59 am |
| 483. | 1/6/2021 “States that do not run clean elections should be stripped of their electors. This fraud was systemic; it was repeated; it was the same system; and, I dare say, it was effective. We saw circumstances where, when Democrat operatives couldn’t get the outcomes they wanted in State legislatures, when they couldn’t get the job done there, they went and pressured and litigated and usurped the Constitution with extra-constitutional action of some officials in some States. They fraudulently laundered ballots, votes, voter registration forms, and then they limited review.” -Matt Gaetz, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 484. | 1/7/2021 “It is still my belief that of the people who actually showed up and voted, among the people who actually had an identification tied to their ballot, Donald Trump won this election in a landslide and it is a travesty that the institutions of our government did not hold and ensure that we preserve that victory.” -Matt Gaetz in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 10:11 pm |
| 53. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE GALLAGHER (R-WI) | |
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| 485. | 11/6/2020 “All legal votes should be counted and all credible claims of fraud should be investigated. Fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and their integrity must be protected.” -Mike Gallagher, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 12:28 pm |
| 486. | 12/3/2020 “In Wisconsin, it appears Biden won by 20,000 votes but the Trump campaign is within their rights to exhaust their options in court, make sure every legal vote is counted and investigate claims of fraud… Passions are hot right now but I think most Wisconsinites want to have confidence in their elections and regardless of how that legal process plays out we need to have an election reform law that tackles things like outdated voter rolls.” -Mike Gallagher via Bill Glauber, “Mike Gallagher acknowledges Joe Biden’s Wisconsin victory while making case for election reform,” jsonline.com, December 3, 2020 |
| 487. | 1/6/2021 “Many people I love, trust, and represent in Wisconsin believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen… I have also spent the last two months investigating claims of election fraud. I have found real deficiencies in our voting processes in Wisconsin that must be fixed. Nonetheless, Joe Biden won Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes, and that margin has survived multiple court challenges.” -Mike Gallagher, “Why Republicans in Congress Shouldn’t Object to Electoral College Certification,” nationalreview.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 54. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE GARCIA (R-CA) | |
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| 488. | 1/4/2021 “While I am a federalist, I do believe there is enough evidence of compromised processes and break downs in election integrity by certain state legislatures that do in fact warrant a closer examination. We need a full forensic audit of several states to ensure all Americans have confidence in our elections… In at least six consequential swing states, state election laws were fundamentally altered by bureaucrats outside of the state legislatures and in contravention of the explicit power granted to those state legislatures by the Federal Constitution. This is in violation of the Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 and Article 1, section 4 of the Federal Constitution and the processes set forth for directing the selection of electors and managing elections. There is no grey area in this regard.” -Mike Garcia, “Op-ed: Congressman Garcia: ‘I have decided to vote to reject some of the states’ electoral votes,’” theavtimes.com, January 4, 2021 |
| 489. | 1/7/2021 “Americans have a right to free and fair elections. We must remember, the Presidency belongs not to Congress, it belongs to the American people. However, when threats of fraud arise regarding the results of the election, per the laws written in the Constitution, America’s elected Congressional Representatives must ensure that any uncertainty is resolved.” -Mike Garcia, “Mike Garcia: ‘The Constitutionally-Mandated Election Process Has Run Its Course,” mikegarcia.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 490. | 1/7/2021 “After examining the evidence, I firmly believe that there were constitutional missteps by multiple states [in the election] according to Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2, and Article 1, Section 4 of the United States Constitution. The Constitution makes it clear, only state legislatures can set state election law. States, like the two states I objected to, violated the law when officials outside of the state legislature changed state election laws without the state legislature’s approval.” -Mike Garcia, “Mike Garcia: ‘The Constitutionally-Mandated Election Process Has Run Its Course,” mikegarcia.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 55. REPRESENTATIVE BOB GIBBS (R-OH) | |
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| 491. | 12/1/2020 “It is clear there are significant ballot integrity gaps within our elections process. We need clear, definitive rules and secure methods to ensure the mail-in ballot process is transparent and accountable with safeguards that prevent fraud. Signature verifications and serious restrictions on the practice known as ballot harvesting must be the bare minimum for states to conduct early and mail-in voting. Neither should elections officials be waiting around for days and weeks after Election Day for non-military ballots to trickle in. As voting habits change, so must our laws to safeguard our election results.” -Bobb Gibbs, “LaMalfa Introduces Election Certainty Act,” lamalfa.house.gov, December 1, 2020 |
| 492. | 11/9/2020 “I don’t think that the election’s over. I don’t think anyone, whether it’s Joe Biden or Donald Trump, should concede the election until every legal vote is counted.” -Bob Gibbs via Taylor Popielarz, “Which Ohio Republicans Publicly Accept Joe Biden Won,” spectrumnews1.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 493. | 1/4/2021 “The right to vote and be heard, to have a voice in our government is one of the most important pillars of our democracy. I believe fraudulent actions and illegal voting in one state dilutes the power and voice of voters in all states. I do not believe the allegations of fraud and improprieties have gotten their day in court, as many cases were dismissed on procedural grounds, often times citing lack of standing.” -Bob Gibbs, “Gibbs Statement on Electoral College Certification,” gibbs.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 494. | 1/4/2021 “The Constitution gives state legislatures the authority and power to set elections, and I believe state judiciaries and state executive offices overstepped their authority in a handful of states. Based on my reading of federal code, Congress has the authority to deem whether electors were appointed in accordance with state election law. It is for these reasons I will be objecting to the certification of the Electoral College for certain states on January 6th.” -Bob Gibbs, “Gibbs Statement on Electoral College Certification,” gibbs.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 495. | 1/5/2021 “I’m really concerned, this whole process, what’s happened. We’ve got millions of voters around the country that are disenfranchised. We’re seeing in a handful of states that there was fraud, and everybody I think agrees there’s always some election fraud… We’ve seen the videos of election observers… that were kicked out, they couldn’t observe the process.” -Bob Gibbs via Pam Cook, “Congressman Bob Gibbs Feels There Was Widespread Voter Fraud,” whbc.com, January 5, 2021 |
| 496. | 1/5/2021 “There’s definitely fraud out there, and fraud of a higher magnitude than we’ve ever seen. Two types of frauds. State legislatures are responsible to set the election law… we’ve seen in some of these states, like in Pennsylvania, the governor or the secretary of state or judges or local board of election official changed the rules during the process… They just essentially changed the law. Mailing our ballots without requests. Curing ballots in certain counties, making them so they don’t have the errors… We’ve had hundreds of affidavits filed in these states from election observers and witnesses, and those weren’t taken up by the courts… When I see the fraud that occurred, or the alleged fraud, and the courts didn’t take it up… you have to wonder what’s really going on here. And I can’t in good conscience vote to verify these votes when you know that these electors were not lawfully appointed electors because of the fraud that occurred.” -Bob Gibbs via Pam Cook, “Congressman Bob Gibbs Feels There Was Widespread Voter Fraud,” whbc.com, January 5, 2021 |
| 56. REPRESENTATIVE CARLOS GIMENEZ (R-FL) | |
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| 497. | 1/7/2021 “After keeping an open mind, letting the arguments play out on the House floor, and weighing their merits, I objected to the certification of electors from states I believe violated Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution after their state-level executive officials bypassed electoral statutes passed by their state legislatures… It is my hope that this Congress, along with local and state level election officials, do more to strengthen our electoral process and maintain voters’ faith in our democratic system.” -Carlos Gimenez, “Gimenez Statement on Certification of Election Results,” gimenez.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 57. REPRESENTATIVE LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX) | |
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| 498. | 11/5/2020 “STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP COUNT EVERY LEGAL VOTE #ProtectTheVote” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:38 am |
| 499. | 11/5/2020 “#CountEveryLegalVote cc: @TheJusticeDept” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:33 pm |
| 500. | 11/5/2020 “#CountEveryLegalVote cc: @TheJusticeDept” [Note: This tweet linked to a statement from the House Freedom Caucus that read, in part, “The integrity of our elections is in grave danger. Never before have vote counting officials shut down centers for no other reason than that the sitting president was winning… President Trump is working tirelessly to fight the massive levels of Democratic fraud and corruption which have now all but engulfed our once-sacred election process.”] -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:01 pm |
| 501. | 11/6/2020 “After enduring months of riots, censorship and disinformation, the chaos and confusion that the radical Left has promised us would occur during the presidential election has finally come to fruition. cc: @TheJusticeDept #CountEveryLegalVote” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:02 pm |
| 502. | 11/6/2020 “Votes are supposedly being counted. We don’t know if they’re being manufactured because the vote counters have something to hide. What? Well it’s got to be illegal or immoral or they wouldn’t be trying to hide it… The election is in the process of being stolen. This little experiment of self-government will be over and we have got to do anything we can.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com/PhillyGOP, November 6, 2020 12:26 pm |
| 503. | 11/6/2020 “I’m in Philly where voter fraud is rampant. Where’s @TheJusticeDept??? #CountEveryLegalVote” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:40 pm |
| 504. | 11/7/2020 “It’s only in hugely Democratic strongholds that have been governed in places where corruption has been known for a long time… You’ve got places where the Democrats have been in control, that’s where the problems arose. As we’ve seen here in Philadelphia, that’s also where Democrat leadership in this town made very, very clear, ‘we have got to hide what we’re doing… we are gonna steal this election…’ They defied the courts, the defied legality, they defied the Constitution, which says the legislature only can change things about the voting in a federal election… Let’s get to the bottom of how this election appears to have been delegitimized and votes from the millions and millions from Republicans were delegitimized by the Democrats.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 7:27 pm |
| 505. | 11/12/2020 “I believe the election was stolen and anybody who says the allegations of fraud are unfounded is just either ignorant or so bias that they’re trying to affect the outcome. You got more than 10,000 dead people in Michigan confirmed to have voted, that is outrageous.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 8:49 pm |
| 506. | 11/14/2020 “What a great crowd today at the #MarchForTrump in Washington, DC! ?? #CountEveryLegalVote #StopTheSteaI” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 7:18 pm |
| 507. | 11/17/2020 “[S]ome of us have seen how they [Democrats] were learning this way of stealing an election in 2018, they got much, much better at it in 2020 and if this election is stolen, if the fraud is not corrected— And it could be that after you take out all the illegal voting and you take out the manipulation of the data, that Biden wins. Okay, he wins and Trump would let him roll in. But I don’t think that’s where it’s going once we get down to the real votes… I believe some of us have seen enough fraud that the Supreme Court absolutely needs to step in.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 11:30 am |
| 508. | 11/20/2020 “This should clarify the misinformation circulating social media regarding my comments on #Scytl and election fraud #StopTheSteal cc: @TheJusticeDept” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 20, 2020 5:40 pm |
| 509. | 11/22/2020 “If we don’t stop the [election] fraud and fix the system, 2022, 2024 and beyond won’t be free and fair elections. We must preserve the integrity of our elections. #StopTheSteal” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, November 22, 2020 3:16 pm |
| 510. | 12/3/2020 “Some of us have been on the ground and have known about the evidence of [election] fraud and now other Americans are hearing about it.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 3:02 pm |
| 511. | 12/3/2020 “There is not just smoke here, there is fire. There are incredible amounts of fraud that did affect the national election. Where is @TheJusticeDept?? #StopTheSteal” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 3:02 pm |
| 512. | 12/3/2020 “There is evidence [of election fraud] that has got to be gathered. We’ve been trying to bring this to the Justice Department’s attention to do something to protect the integrity of the 2020 election… There’s widespread evidence of fraud because people haven’t done their jobs. Durham and Barr will deserve a big notation in history when it’s written of the rise and fall of the United States if they don’t clean up this mess, clean up the fraud. Do your jobs and save this little experiment in self-government.” -Louie Gohmert, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 513. | 12/3/2020 “There’s widespread evidence of [election] fraud because people haven’t done their jobs. Durham and Barr will deserve a big notation in history when it’s written about the rise and fall of the U.S. if they don’t clean up this mess. Clean up the fraud. DO YOUR JOBS & save this country.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 4:27 pm |
| 514. | 12/7/2020 “Justice delayed is justice denied, and in this case, it’s a free and fair election that has been denied.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 9:57 am |
| 515. | 12/8/2020 “As exhibited by the thousands of sworn affidavits, blatant constitutional violations, and numerous electronic and mathematical analyses displaying the statistical impossibilities of a Biden win, it is quite clear that this race was stolen from President Trump and the tens of millions of Americans who voted for him. Those Trump voters who cast completely legal and valid votes were strategically disenfranchised by states that violated the U.S. Constitution, their own state constitution, and their own state law. Texas’ courage in calling out the unconstitutional changes to election laws made in the eleventh hour by Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin should be honored by everyone who wishes to continue to see this country get back to free and fair elections.” -Louie Gohmert, “Gohmert: Texas SCOTUS Lawsuit Fights to Preserve Our Republic,” gohmert.house.gov, December 8, 2020 |
| 516. | 12/11/2020 “Has anyone seen AG Bill Barr? Where is @TheJusticeDept?? #StopTheSteal #SaveTheRepublic” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 9:41 am |
| 517. | 12/22/2020 “Honored to host the @seanhannity radio show today from 2-5 p.m. CT. We will have wall to wall coverage on the rampant fraud that took place in the 2020 presidential election. #StopTheSteal #SaveTheRepublic” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 3:01 pm |
| 518. | 12/28/2020 “We continue to hold out hope that there is a federal judge who understands that the fraud that stole this election will mean the end of our republic.” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 28, 2020 8:18 pm |
| 519. | 12/28/2020 “The 2020 presidential election was one we’d expect to see in a banana republic, not the United States of America. In fact, the rampant fraud and unconstitutional actions that took place were so egregious that seven contested states– Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin all sent dueling slates of electors to Congress.” -Louie Gohmert, “Rep. Gohmert Issues Statement on Pence Lawsuit,” gohmert.house.gov, December 28, 2020 |
| 520. | 12/31/2020 “We have a chance for right to prevail and wrong to fail and we need to pursue that. The country is a stake. Once an election is established by fraud, there’s no coming back from that. #SavetheRepublic #StoptheSteal” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 10:39 am |
| 521. | 12/31/2020 “The truth is, with this amount of fraud… if for whatever reason we don’t address it, and you have a corrupt election prevail, then you’re not going to have another fair election… But if President Trump and Vice President Pence are recognized as the winners, and the fraud is recognized, then we’ve got a shot.” -Louie Gohmert interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 10:39 am |
| 522. | 1/1/2021 “Joining @EmeraldRobinson on @Newsmax tonight at 9:05 p.m. CT/ 10:05 p.m. ET with an important update on the Pence lawsuit. We must fight to #SaveTheRepublic #StopTheSteal” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, January 1, 2021 9:11 pm |
| 523. | 1/1/2021 “There has still not been one court – state or federal – that has had an evidentiary hearing and allowed the evidence of [election] fraud to come in and be introduced. And all this stuff about it being debunked, unsubstantiated, those are absolute lies, complete lies.. It’s very helpful that the president’s going to help us get evidence of the fraud into the capitol, into the Congress, and that should be very helpful at arriving at a just conclusion.” -Louie Gohmert interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, January 1, 2021 11:29 pm |
| 524. | 1/4/2021 “Can anyone explain this?? Data experts say over 432k votes removed from @realDonaldTrump in Pennsylvania. Yet Democrats & media continue to tell us there is nothing to see here. #StopTheSteal #SaveTheRepublic” -Louie Gohmert, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 11:29 pm |
| 525. | 1/6/2021 “I object to the electoral votes of the State of Wisconsin… And though not a single court has allowed an evidentiary hearing to listen to the significant body of evidence of fraud, and though some seize on the court’s failure to misrepresent that no court would listen to the evidence as saying evidence did not exist; while Democrat leaders in Milwaukee illegally and unconstitutionally created more than 200 illegal polling places; tens of thousands of votes were changed by workers, despite election workers’ objections, plus so many other illegalities to fraudulently create a 20,000-vote lead [for Biden], we object.” -Louie Gohmert, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 58. REPRESENTATIVE TONY GONZALES (R-TX) | |
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| 526. | 11/7/2020 “Susan B. Anthony once said, “’Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.’ That is why every legal vote cast should be counted in the light of day!” -Tony Gonzales, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 6:34 pm |
| 527. | 11/9/2020 “The 2020 elections are far from over! As we patiently wait for every legal vote to be counted and recounted in some cases we must remain vigilant. Republicans MUST hold onto the majority in order to keep the Socialist at bay.” -Tony Gonzales, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 12:25 pm |
| 59. REPRESENTATIVE BOB GOOD (R-VA) | |
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| 528. | 12/1/2020 “It strains credibility to believe that President Trump lost when Republicans gained so many House seats while no incumbents lost, maintained their lead in the Senate, and did well in statehouse elections across the country.” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 12:39 pm |
| 529. | 12/1/2020 “It is historically difficult to defeat an incumbent president, and never before has a president ‘lost’ re-election with such a stellar economic record. It simply isn’t believable that Joe Biden so significantly outperformed Barack Obama to ‘receive’ a record number of votes.” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 12:40 pm |
| 530. | 12/1/2020 “If we don’t fight to restore election integrity today, we [Republicans] may never win another national election. Please join me in standing with President Trump as he mounts legal challenges to this election!” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 12:41 pm |
| 531. | 12/1/2020 “[Democrats] began planning to use C-19 as a smokescreen to ‘win’ in 2020 by any means necessary. From millions of unsolicited mail ballots, elimination of voter ID laws, not requiring signature matches, permitting mass anonymous ballot drop-offs at drop boxes, extending voting deadlines, allowing the ‘correction’ of ballots after the fact, preventing Republican observers the irregularities and potential for fraud are simply astounding!” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 12:33 pm |
| 532. | 1/5/2021 “Americans deserve to have confidence in the integrity & results of the election. On Jan 6, I’ll be objecting to the certification of electors in multiple states. This vote is about ensuring the will of the people is accurately, justly & constitutionally followed.” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 11:54 am |
| 533. | 1/5/2021 “All Americans deserve to have confidence in the integrity and results of the election. It is Congress’ Constitutional duty to uphold and maintain the integrity of our system of government. The American people have voiced their concerns about the unprecedented volume of mail-in voting, and violations of longstanding state laws that may have resulted in fraud in the 2020 general election. On Jan 6th, I will object to the certification of electors in multiple states for which laws were violated or evidence of fraud has not been sufficiently reviewed.” -Bob Good, “Congressman Bob Good’s Statement To Challenge Electoral College Certification,” good.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 534. | 1/6/2021 “This is about protecting the integrity of our election system that defines our republic. Today, I will OBJECT to the certification of electors.” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 9:43 am |
| 535. | 1/6/2021 “The American people have voiced their concerns about the unprecedented volume of mail-in voting, and violations of longstanding state laws that may have resulted in fraud in the 2020 general election.” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 10:10 am |
| 536. | 1/6/2021 “Formally objected to all six states (AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI). Proud to fight for the voices of Virginia’s 5th and all Americans who want to ensure the integrity of the election.” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:56 pm |
| 537. | 1/7/2021 “Last night, I continued with my objection to the submission of electors’ from six states to protect election security.” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 12:31 pm |
| 538. | 1/7/2021 “I was proud yesterday to join other Republican conservatives in the House in formally objecting to the electoral votes for six states in question (AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA & WI). While we were unable to prevail in a Democrat-majority House, I also then voted to reject the electoral votes after debate concluded for the two states for which we had concurring senate objections (PA & WI).” -Bob Good, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 12:42 pm |
| 539. | 1/7/2021 “It is Congress’ constitutional responsibility to evaluate the validity of electoral votes and either accept them as legitimate casts or object to them as questionable or unreliable. Last night, I continued with my objection to the submission of electors’ from six states in question (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). This is about more than the 2020 presidential election; it is about all future elections and Congress doing its constitutional duty to ensure election integrity and to not accept electoral submissions from states with sufficient evidence of fraud, which warrants full investigation, as well as states where legislators did not ensure the law was followed or ensure the integrity of their elections.” -Bob Good, “Congressman Bob Good’s Statement on Electoral College Certification Vote,” good.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 60. REPRESENTATIVE LANCE GOODEN (R-TX) | |
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| 540. | 11/7/2020 “I am also donating to President Trump’s legal efforts to fight similar [election] corruption across the nation. Democrat-run state and local governments must follow the law and here in Texas these Dem-led election overseers are as crooked as ever. DISGUSTED AND FED UP!” -Lane Gooden, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 10:53 pm |
| 541. | 11/9/2020 “There are legitimate claims of voter fraud in multiple states and they must be investigated. I joined my colleagues in asking Attorney General Barr to ensure the American people can have confidence in the outcome of our elections.” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 4:26 pm |
| 542. | 12/2/2020 “The voting irregularities in the 2020 election must be investigated by @TheJusticeDept. I will always FIGHT for the #AmericaFirst movement @realDonaldTrump started!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 9:39 am |
| 543. | 12/3/2020 “I am requesting that you direct Attorney General Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election. The American people deserve a definitive resolution to the uncertainty hovering over the outcome of our election, but legitimate questions of voter fraud remain unanswered.” -Lance Gooden, Letter to Donald Trump, gooden.house.com, December 3, 2020 |
| 544. | 12/9/2020 “Last week, I asked that @realDonaldTrump instruct the Attorney General to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate election irregularities. Now twenty-six Republican colleagues have joined me in calling for an independent investigation to restore faith in our elections!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 10:18 am |
| 545. | 12/15/2020 “Joe Biden called for national unity last night. His version of ‘unity’ is demonizing 74 MILLION @realDonaldTrump supporters who want voter fraud eradicated. Sorry, Joe. National unity will only happen when election integrity is restored!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 4:31 pm |
| 546. | 12/16/2020 “Chris Krebs says most secure election in history. A blatant lie. There are mountains of evidence of fraud & sworn affidavits. He deliberately deceived the American public… likely to cash in for a book deal.” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 4:48 pm |
| 547. | 12/18/2020 “Voter fraud took place on November 3rd and the American people want answers.” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 9:44 am |
| 548. | 12/19/2020 “We need a full scale investigation into ALL claims of voter fraud and irregularities. Since the DOJ won’t act, we need to circumvent them. That’s why I asked @realDonaldTrump to appoint a special counsel! STOP THE STEAL!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 19, 2020 12:55 pm |
| 549. | 12/22/2020 “In light of the numerous reports of fraud and lingering questions hovering over the validity of the election results across the country, I cannot in good conscience vote to certify these results. There must be a full audit of every ballot in states like Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania where there are widespread reports of fraud and data abnormalities.” -Lance Gooden in a letter to Senators Cornyn and Cruz, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 1:57 pm |
| 550. | 12/22/2020 “Foreign countries, Big tech, fake news & the Dems worked together to RIG this election against @realDonaldTrump & the American people Americans must have FAITH in the process. Today they don’t I’m calling on every TX House member, @tedcruz & @JohnCornyn to join me in OBJECTING!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 1:57 pm |
| 551. | 12/26/2020 “My message to the TX GOP House Delegation & Senators @tedcruz & @JohnCornyn: We have an obligation to fight for the millions of Texans who have been disenfranchised by the CORRUPT Democrat counties in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, & WI. Join me in OBJECTING on January 6th. Fight!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 26, 2020 9:12 pm |
| 552. | 12/29/2020 “If the radical, anti-American Democrats successfully steal this election, what will stop them from stealing EVERY election moving forward? The time to fight is NOW, @GOP“ -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 12:21 pm |
| 553. | 12/30/2020 “Fight for President Donald J. Trump!… This was a rigged election from the start and we cannot, in good faith, not to certify this election.” -Lance Gooden, Facebook.com, December 30, 2020 5:45 pm |
| 554. | 1/2/2021 “I would like to thank our GREAT Senator @tedcruz for joining the fight! Senator Cruz is a leader & a PATRIOT MILLIONS of Texans have been disenfranchised by the corruption that took place in a handful of Democrat counties There’s NO WAY we can certify this RIGGED election!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 12:59 pm |
| 555. | 1/2/2021 “January 6th is in FOUR days. I will STAND with @realDonaldTrump. I will OBJECT to the Electoral College results. I will FIGHT to get to the bottom of the fraud. The American people are watching and they will remember those who sat by and did nothing!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 4:33 pm |
| 556. | 1/4/2021 “Come to find out, there were numerous instances [in the 2020 election], allegations, sworn testimony by people who are perjuring themselves if they’re not telling the truth, numerous counts of voter fraud across the country in many areas.” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 7:51 am |
| 557. | 1/4/2021 “I will never vote to certify a RIGGED election That’s why I was one of the FIRST House members to announce that I’ll be OBJECTING on January 6th” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 12:45 pm |
| 558. | 1/5/2021 “Why would any Republican certify election results that are potentially tainted? RT if you OBJECT on JAN 6!!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 2:48 pm |
| 559. | 1/5/2021 “It’s important that we object [to certifying the electoral votes] and that we fight this ballot fraud and that we get to the bottom of it… In many of these states, they were making decisions outside of the legislature. You had secretaries of state, you had county election officials, just doing whatever they wanted, breaking all kinds of laws, not letting poll watchers into the counting rooms, there are so many irregularities.” -Lance Gooden in an interview on Fox Business, video via Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 2:48 pm |
| 560. | 1/5/2021 “President @realDonaldTrump hasn’t stopped fighting for us, so I won’t stop fighting for him! I’ll be leading the charge for Texas tomorrow in OBJECTING to the results of this RIGGED election!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 6:44 pm |
| 561. | 1/5/2021 “I will not accept the results of a rigged election and I know you won’t either.” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 6:44 pm |
| 562. | 1/6/2021 “Today I will be the voice of MILLIONS of Texans who have been disenfranchised by this RIGGED & STOLEN election. If we allow the Democrats to steal THIS election, they will steal EVERY election moving forward! Not on my watch! I WILL OBJECT!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 8:00 am |
| 563. | 1/6/2021 “I have officially OBJECTED to the certification of the Electoral College. I did this for the sanctity of our elections. I did this for my constituents in Texas. I did this for the future of America. And I will CONTINUE to fight for our great President @realDonaldTrump!” -Lance Gooden, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:11 pm |
| 564. | 1/7/2021 “I have spent the months since the election urging Congress and the Department of Justice to conduct a thorough investigation into the allegations of fraud and wrongdoing in our most recent election. No such inquiry ever took place and the American people never received the answers they deserve. While the violence we witnessed in the Capitol is unacceptable, none of the facts that led us to question the integrity of the election have changed. We were asked to certify results the American people do not have faith in.” -Lance Gooden, “Congressman Lance Gooden Votes Against Certification of Arizona & Pennsylvania Electors,” gooden.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 61. REPRESENTATIVE PAUL GOSAR (R-AZ) | |
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| 565. | 11/3/2020 “Shady stuff happening in Pennsylvania” [Note: This tweet quoted a tweet about a polling place not being open in a Republican area of Pennsylvania.] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 3, 2020 8:27 am |
| 566. | 11/4/2020 “I’ve just requested @GeneralBrnovich to look into this issue. We can not tolerate voter fraud in Arizona.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 12:13 pm |
| 567. | 11/4/2020 “Some shady things are happening in Arizona… Check the status of your ballot here: [link]” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 12:22 pm |
| 568. | 11/4/2020 “We haven’t come this far and fought this hard to have the election stolen from us. If you’re in Arizona, check the status of your ballot here: [link]” [Note: This tweet included a photo of Donald Trump in front of the American flag.] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 12:39 pm |
| 569. | 11/4/2020 “The issue stems from the hundreds of people who said they voted using the sharpie but then look online and see that it was not counted. It’s not whether it’s authorized [using Sharpies to fill out ballots] but whether it worked as intended. The @GeneralBrnovich has many complaints. #stopthesteal #Election2020” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 5:06 pm |
| 570. | 11/4/2020 “‘We want Trump’ A thousand patriots seek justice. 65 million more across the country. Don’t let them steal our votes. #freedom #MAGA2020 #Elections2020 @Cernovich @michellemalkin @realDonaldTrump” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 11:20 pm |
| 571. | 11/4/2020 “We demand all of our votes be counted. We will not allow Biden and his thugs to steal this election. God is on our side.” -Paul Gosar via Tom Pappert, “VIDEO: Rep. Gosar Joins Arizona Pro-Trump Protest, ‘Biden And His Thugs’ Will Not ‘Steal This Election,’” nationalfile.com, November 4, 2020 |
| 572. | 11/5/2020 “A few (hundred) folks at the @AZGOP HQ to make sure the President’s victory is not stolen. @zhenryaz @Cernovich @ali @michellemalkin #StopTheCheating” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 4:23 pm |
| 573. | 11/5/2020 “This is the winner of the 2020 election. Do not let the leftists cheat, lie and steal this from us. We saw the Election Day numbers. #ElectionResults2020 #AmericaElection #Maga” [Note: This tweet had an illustration of Donald and Melania Trump on a motorcycle.] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:26 pm |
| 574. | 11/5/2020 “Tonight. Phoenix patriots are needed again. We are gathering to ensure a fair vote count. 510 south Third Avenue, Phoenix 7:00 pm Maricopa election office No open carry. Bring American flags. Trump flags. Bibles. @Cernovich #StopTheCheating #stopthesteal” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 6:22 pm |
| 575. | 11/5/2020 “‘USA. USA’ Patriots protecting their Lawfully elected President. They will not let this election be stolen” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 9:46 pm |
| 576. | 11/6/2020 “Patriots will not allow the election to be stolen by fraud.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:56 am |
| 577. | 11/6/2020 “Audit all Dominion software machines used in this election. Massive fraud potential.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:35 pm |
| 578. | 11/6/2020 “1. I am calling on @dougducey to call a special session of the AZ Legislature under Article IV of our state constitution to investigate the accuracy and reliability of the Dominion ballot software and its impact on our general election… 2. No election results should be certified until a complete audit of the Dominion machine tallies is made.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:50 pm |
| 579. | 11/6/2020 “And where is AG Barr and our Civil Rights division? Millions of voters are being disenfranchised in real time and they sleep.” [Note: This tweet quoted a tweet that read, “counting when he won. Now tomorrow will be November 6 and they are still counting and adding new ballots and 95% are in Bidens favor. This is not an election it’s an illegal coup.”] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:30 am |
| 580. | 11/6/2020 “Phoenix now! We will not let them steal our votes. #protectthevote #StopTheCheating #stopthesteal” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 12:28 pm |
| 581. | 11/6/2020 “Well @kelliwardaz has something to tell America!! #Election2020 #StopTheCheating #Stopthesteal @AZGOP @ali @michellemalkin” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:25 pm |
| 582. | 11/6/2020 “Real Americans are praying for our country and to stop the Left from stealing this lawful victory for @realDonaldTrump #America #StopTheCheating #stopthesteal #DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:41 pm |
| 583. | 11/6/2020 “Barr and the DOJ are asleep. Without action now there is no next week or next month. The fraud is happening now. Machines can be seized now. Ballots now. Not next year.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:29 pm |
| 584. | 11/6/2020 “Happening in 30 minutes. Come down and support our lawfully elected president @realDonaldTrump Any claim Biden has won is illegitimate. We cannot accept the theft of the presidency. #Election2020 #MAGA2020 #stopthesteal #ProtectTheVote” [Note: This tweet was deleted on November 21.] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com via ProPublica, November 6, 2020 |
| 585. | 11/6/2020 “We need a court order instructing every county that used Dominion election software to undergo a forensic audit immediately. The @TrumpWarRoom presents the tip of the iceberg. Massive voter fraud may be afoot. #stopthesteal #2020Election [Note: This tweet quotes a tweet that read, “Michigan GOP Chair: Dozens of Michigan counties used the same software that caused 6,000 votes in one county to switch from Trump to Biden.”] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:12 pm |
| 586. | 11/7/2020 “We need proof Dominion software used in AZ had no ‘glitches.’ The SOS @katiehobbs when I questioned this threw a hissy fit about merely asking. She went into coverup mode when I asked for transparency. Prove to AZ it was a fair count.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 1:33 pm |
| 587. | 11/7/2020 “President Trump won this election. There is serious ballot fraud going on. We have to stay strong.” [Note: This tweet was deleted on November 21, 2020.] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com via ProPublica.com, November 7, 2020 |
| 588. | 11/7/2020 “After 4 years of #NotMyPresident we’re expected to roll over and let them steal an election? I don’t think so.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 9:48 am |
| 589. | 11/8/2020 “Across the country Americans are rising up to stop the Left from stealing this election. #Stopthesteal #Election2020” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 1:02 pm |
| 600. | 11/8/2020 “What ended up happening in Michigan is that they saw this algorithm go into effect where it [the voting machine] actually flipped Republican votes into Democrat votes, and it was a turn of 6,000 votes in just that area. So once again, software, if it has a glitch like that, it’s very troubling because it’s very possible that it’s in every software package that they actually put out. This same software is throughout Georgia, it was rejected in Texas, it’s in Arizona’s Maricopa County. Only in Maricopa County, by the way, and only in Clark County in Nevada. It’s also in New Mexico, it’s also in Colorado, it’s also in Illinois. So there are a number of states here that employ it, and they’re hardly fans of Donald Trump. So this is a short exercise and a very cheap exercise to get the American public back that our elections aren’t grounded in Russia or anybody else’s influence.” -Paul Gosar via Jan Jekielek, “Video: Rep. Paul Gosar Calls for Hand Tally in Arizona to Restore Faith in Election Process,” theepochtimes.com, November 8, 2020 |
| 601. | 11/9/2020 “Mr. President: This is a formal invitation to hold a rally in Phoenix. Your people are here for you and will not accept fraud and theft of this election. @realDonaldTrump @AZGOP @VP @ali @GOPChairwoman @GOPLeader #stopthesteal” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 1:29 am |
| 602. | 11/10/2020 “Not every county in the country was corrupted. It was not necessary. Key county’s in key states is all that is needed and that was targeted. That allows us to use the honest counties as control groups to demonstrate anomalies and pattern disruptions.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November10, 2020 12:24 pm |
| 603. | 11/10/2020 “Like many of you, I am DEEPLY concerned about the numerous voting irregularities we’ve seen this past week as it relates to the Presidential Election. I want you to know that I will fight to make sure every legal vote is counted. Given some of the troubling developments, this race may indeed be far from over.” -Paul Gosar, “This Week with Gosar,” gosar.house.gov, November 10, 2020 |
| 604. | 11/10/2020 “Dominion Software: A ‘computer glitch’ in Michigan in one county alone took more than 5,000 Trump votes and gave them to Biden. This is very troubling because this same software is also used in the five battleground states that keep ‘finding’ Biden votes, including right here in Maricopa County… We’re getting reports of all sorts of fraud, including postal workers coming forward about being ordered to backdate ballots and confirmed reports of dead relatives voting.” -Paul Gosar, “This Week with Gosar,” gosar.house.gov, November 10, 2020 |
| 605. | 11/11/2020 “Talking today about media disinformation. If you see articles or warnings from newspapers or social media platforms that there is ‘no evidence’ of ballot fraud know that they are lying to us to dispirit you. We are collecting real evidence [of fraud] from real people. For court.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 10:53 am |
| 606. | 11/13/2020 “For the feeble minded out there who think because the down ballot elections went red that means there was no fraud relative to @realDonaldTrump Two things can be true simultaneously: key counties can be manipulated to impact @POTUS result and down ballot races can be ignored.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 11:58 am |
| 607. | 11/14/2020 “I will be there in DC. We cannot let our nation fall to Third World election status. Had we known of the massive election fraud we would have invited UN observers. Donald Trump is the legitimate winner in Arizona and other states. Join us is stopping the steal” [Note: This tweet was deleted on November 21, 2020.] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com via ProPublica.com, November 14, 2020 |
| 608. | 11/16/2020 “Coincidentally, all these [election] irregularities benefit former Vice President Joe Biden and disenfranchise President Trump’s voters… Why in the most consequential election of our lifetime did these swing states decide to stop the count? In Wisconsin, just before 4 am, over a hundred thousand votes are dumped and almost every single one of them was for Vice President Joe Biden.” -Paul Gosar via Arizona Republican Party, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 8:00 pm |
| 609. | 11/16/2020 “My office has received more calls and messages from our constituents in the past two weeks since the 2020 Election than at any other time since I’ve entered public office. Those messages always make their way directly to me and I am hearing you loud and clear. Many of you are extremely concerned about the integrity of the election. I am too… I have been fighting for accountability and integrity in our electoral process, and I have yet to slow my efforts. From reports of software glitches, fraud or error from poll workers, and wrong writing instruments being given to Arizona voters, I have been working with all legal entities to ensure all legal American votes are counted and recorded properly. We must maintain faith in our electoral systems, and the only way to do so is to investigate these allegations and audit state elections when necessary to ensure the election was not stolen from President Trump.” -Paul Gosar, “This Week with Gosar,” gosar.house.gov, November 16, 2020 |
| 610. | 11/23/2020 “On Thursday, I joined my colleagues in a letter to the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and State and the Director of National Intelligence raising concerns that the Dominion Voting Systems equipment has corporate origins traced back to Smartmatic Corporation. Smartmatic originated in Venezuela under the socialist regime of Hugo Chavez and was reportedly used to conduct voter fraud. Furthermore, Joe Biden named a current chairman of the board for Smartmatics as a senior advisor. Because of these troubling connections regarding the voting software used in several swing states, including Maricopa County, we request that each agency investigate allegations of voter fraud and manipulation stemming from Dominion and Smartmatics.” -Paul Gosar, “This Week with Gosar,” gosar.house.gov, November 23, 2020 |
| 611. | 11/25/2020 “If the election was fair let’s show it. But there are too many discrepancies to ignore. The burden of proof is on those who claim no fraud in light of circumstantial evidence of fraud.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 5:12 pm |
| 612. | 11/26/2020 “‘In Arizona at least 35,000 votes were illegally added to Mr. Biden’s vote count.’ Pearson v. Kemp, p. 2 N. 1.” [Note: This tweet is a quote from a lawsuit filed on 11/25/2020 in Georgia.] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 26, 2020 1:13 am |
| 613. | 11/26/2020 “What is being shown is not mere voter fraud. This is a coup against @realDonaldTrump The silence of @TheJusticeDept as millions of Americans’ civil rights are violated is deafening.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 26, 2020 1:38 am |
| 614. | 11/30/2020 “Here in Arizona, how many of you were a victim of Sharpiegate? How many of you went to vote and were told, ‘no no no no, don’t use a pen, use one of these Sharpies.’ Meanwhile, if you read the actual ballots, it literally says, ‘do not use a Sharpie.’ And, how did they get the Indian reservations [to vote for Biden]? Which just broke earlier yesterday. How did they get the Indian reservations?” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 12:56 pm |
| 615. | 11/30/2020 “Looking forward to seeing a great turnout in the morning. 9:00 am. Hyatt Regency. Downtown Phoenix. Bring your flags and let’s fight for our country and expose the fraudulent vote.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 12:59 am |
| 616. | 11/30/2020 “The @realDonaldTrump attorney @RudyGiuliani starts his compelling argument. We are stopping the left from stealing our victory. #stopthesteal” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 11:33 am |
| 617. | 11/30/2020 “Leftists are quite happy to have the results of voter fraud as stated below. This is not an American value but a third world value we reject. Your voice and opinion supporting fraud is not welcome here. Hugo Chavez has a protégée. #StopTheSteaI” [Note: This tweet was in response to Arizona state legislator César Chávez stating that he will not “participate in this farce of an accusation calling to disenfranchise our nation’s democracy.”] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 1:34 pm |
| 618. | 11/30/2020 “Massive success today. No looting. No burning. Just real Americans gathered together in hopeful prayer and a desire to save their country from an illegal coup and effort to usurp the Presidency.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 11:44 pm |
| 619. | 12/2/2020 “Now that 3% of the ballots were deemed fraudulent a larger audit will be ordered… The audit found: one Trump vote arbitrarily excluded. Another Trump vote struck and then fraudulently added to Biden. Total fraud averaging 3%. Biden margin of fraud less than .05%. Thus if 3% fraud rate remains on larger sample Trump easily wins Arizona.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 8:29 pm |
| 620. | 12/6/2020 “On behalf of the millions of concerned citizens and Arizonans who have lost confidence in the integrity of our election system, and on behalf of candidates for public office who campaign hard with the expectation that every lawful vote will count — and every illegal ballot will be thrown out — we write to share our support for the pending litigation [requesting a vote audit]… We have seen various reports of irregularities, variances, statistical improbabilities, and unorthodox measures occurring in the general election for 2020.” -Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, Letter to a court posted on Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 3:08 pm |
| 621. | 12/6/2020 “Immediately prior to the election, voters in Chandler and Mesa were solicited by community organizers to turn over their ballots so they could ‘turn it in for them.’ This is illegal ballot harvesting… The massive fraud people are concerned about is the data shifting. Why trifle with hundreds of ballots if you can change tens of thousands effortlessly? One insider whistleblower states that 35,000 votes were manipulated in Pima County.” -Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, Letter to a court posted on Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 3:08 pm |
| 622. | 12/7/2020 “On election night as votes poured in overwhelmingly for President Trump, Joe Biden told supporters to ‘Keep the Faith’ and ‘We believe we are on track to win this.’ The next morning, we all awoke to see massive, statistically impossible spikes in votes for Joe Biden and almost zero for President Trump. Are we witnessing a coup d’etat? We will not tolerate this. As many of you know, I helped organize the very first ‘Stop the Steal’ rally in Arizona right after it became clear that voting patterns emerged that could not occur in the absence of fraud. Patriotic warriors joined together to gather evidence and tell the Left we will not accept a coup and a usurper in the White House.” -Paul Gosar, “Congressman Paul Gosar’s Open Letter to Arizona: Are We Witnessing a Coup d’etat?,” revolver.news, December 7, 2020 |
| 623. | 12/7/2020 “I attended a legislative hearing on Monday and listened to two expert witnesses familiar with Dominion voting software and voting patterns. They both testified that the Arizona results, particularly in Maricopa County, were altered to take votes from President Trump and give them to Biden. Perhaps one of the more damning testimonies came from Dr. Shiva who presented data showing that based upon demographic distribution of Party affiliations, the only way for Biden to have statistically caught up with Donald Trump was if Democrat votes came in at 130% for Biden and -30% for Trump. A recent hand count of a random sampling of ballots, ordered by a superior court judge, determined that 3% of the votes in Maricopa County were fraudulently recorded against President Trump and in favor of Biden. Considering that Biden supposedly ‘won’ by .06%, this theft of votes is more than enough to put Arizona in President Trump’s column and restore his lawful and rightful victory. We can never accept the results of fraud.” -Paul Gosar, “Congressman Paul Gosar’s Open Letter to Arizona: Are We Witnessing a Coup d’etat?,” revolver.news, December 7, 2020 |
| 624. | 12/12/2020 “My statement on The Supreme Court’s decision to reject Texas’ lawsuit to invalidate election results: ‘While this is a setback, there are still irons in the fire and we cannot take our eye off the ball. What this should do is light a fire under all of us to take action to ensure that the state legislatures in this country regain their rightful authority over the election process… We fully intend to continue working with the legislature in Arizona to make sure that ALL evidence is meticulously reviewed and if there is wrongdoing, that preemptive actions are taken before the next election.’” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 12, 2020 4:46 pm |
| 625. | 12/17/2020 “Bowyer v. Ducey is another case addressing the Dominion voting systems and fraud in our election. Used in Maricopa County and several other swing states, I have been keenly focused on the presence of fraud or error with these systems… I also joined several of my Republican colleagues in the House to introduce House Resolution 1256, which supports President Trump’s effort to ensure that every legal vote is counted and to investigate and bring to justice those who perpetuate election fraud. I hope my Republican and Democrat colleagues will join me in this effort and agree that every legal vote in America should be counted.” -Paul Gosar, “This Week with Gosar,” gosar.house.gov, December 17, 2020 |
| 626. | 12/17/2020 “Arizona!! Pass auf. Massive data theft of 700,000 votes uncovered. Our president @realDonaldTrump won AZ easily as we knew. More details to come. #StopTheSteaI” [Note: “Pass auf” is a German phrase that roughly translates as “pay attention.”] -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 17, 2020 1:28 pm |
| 627. | 12/17/2020 “America! Watch this. A detailed explanation using official AZ Secretary of State raw data. Over 700,000 votes stolen from @realDonaldTrump and given to Biden. #StopTheSteaI” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 17, 2020 1:32 pm |
| 628. | 12/18/2020 “Our efforts are to reverse fraud and stop the coup. #StopTheSteaI” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 3:06 pm |
| 629. | 12/19/2020 “[M]ore evidence the vote was corrupted. There are 2 possibilities, one conjecture and one with a 99% certainty. Conjecture says ‘well maybe every county that bought Dominion machines are hard core left and voted Blue’ (improbable) or ‘the vote was corrupted’ (99%)” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 19, 2020 7:53 am |
| 630. | 12/19/2020 “The freedom loving people around the world know our voting system was corrupted.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 19, 2020 7:05 pm |
| 631. | 12/20/2020 “We’re not giving up until the fraud is fully uncovered. #stopthesteal” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 20, 2020 12:27 am |
| 632. | 12/21/2020 “Winners never cheat. This usurper Biden has cheated in law school. He cheated after law school. He cheated in the senate. He’s not walking into the White House based on fraud.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 10:46 am |
| 633. | 12/21/2020 “Proud to stand strong against the disenfranchisement of 80 million [Trump] voters and fight the corrupt theft of this election.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 8:07 pm |
| 634. | 12/22/2020 “What is Maricopa county hiding?? Release the data. Millions of people need reassurance their vote was counted and illegal votes were not counted.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 11:21 pm |
| 635. | 12/23/2020 “One of the towns in Yuma County is a border town. Reports of illegal aliens voting there and other shenanigans were rampant. #StopTheSteaI” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 8:07 pm |
| 636. | 12/24/2020 “Georgia. Your votes were stolen. Trump won.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 24, 2020 6:47 pm |
| 637. | 12/29/2020 “We meet to defend the legitimately elected president @realDonaldTrump and deny the fraudulent usurper [Biden] the spoils of a technology coup. Why use tanks or bullets when you have 3:00 am massive data dumps? Same result. #stopthesteal” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 1:09 pm |
| 638. | 12/30/2020 “We will fight back against the leftists who’ve have engaged in sedition to run a Techology [sic] Coup. No tanks needed when you can drop hundreds of thousands of ballots or switch votes electronically. #StopTheSteaI” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, December 30, 2020 9:20 pm |
| 639. | 1/1/2021 “Every American who wants to take a stand against a Techology [sic] Coup and protect the lawful victor of the election should join us. Biden is an illegitimate usurper.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, January 1, 2021 3:36 pm |
| 631. | 1/2/2021 “Did you know 200,000 Arizona votes where ‘adjudicated’ (i.e. changed) and no one has explained why or allowed a review? Biden’s margin is 10,000 votes.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 4:49 pm |
| 632. | 1/2/2021 “STOP THE STEAL!” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 2:30 pm |
| 633. | 1/6/2021 “I rise to ask that the Vice President, @Mike_Pence remand the electors back to Arizona pending a full forensic audit of the Maricopa County tabulations.” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:23 pm |
| 634. | 1/6/2021 “A million voices demand justice. Not even Biden thinks he won. #StopTheSteaI2021” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:09 am |
| 635. | 1/6/2021 “It’s an honor to stand with @tedcruz and object to electors that were chosen by fraud, certified by knaves and proffered mendaciously. #StopTheSteaI2021” -Paul Gosar, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:30 pm |
| 636. | 1/6/2021 “I filed my challenge on the slate of electors from the State of Arizona that was actually put forward by Governor Ducey of Arizona… Do not count these electors until and unless the secretary of state allows a forensic audit of the election, a request she has denied repeatedly… No access to the Dominion voting machines with a documented history of enabling fraud through its now discredited adjudication system, a system that literally allows one person to change tens of thousands of votes in mere minutes. In the only audit done in Arizona, a court found 3 percent error rate against President Trump. Vice President Biden’s margin of error was one-tenth of that, at 0.03 percent. By the way, a 3 percent error rate at minimum is 90,000 ballots… Over 400,000 mail-in ballots were altered, switched from President Trump to Vice President Biden, or completely erased from President Trump’s totals. The proof is in the counting curves, the curves that cannot occur except with odds so rare and unlikely that winning the Mega Millions lottery is more probable.” -Paul Gosar, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 636. | 1/6/2021 “Over 30,000 illegal aliens voted in Arizona using the Federal ballot, yet our secretary of state refused the public access to review the ballots. Over a thousand residences were visited for proof of residency and address; 456 failed that test. They were vacant lots. Even the Recorder’s office was used as an address… There is too much evidence of fraud, demonstrated by statistical anomalies that experts have determined cannot happen in the absence of fraud, to accept such a slate.” -Paul Gosar, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 62. REPRESENTATIVE GARRET GRAVES (R-LA) | |
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| 637. | 1/7/2021 “For the 2020 presidential election, in many cases state and local election officials, judges and others that were NOT legislatures made decisions that were inconsistent with state election laws. Many of these changes appear to have prevented a fair election. .. In the case of Pennsylvania, a number of voting anomalies took place based upon decisions by local election officials. The governor, attorney general and secretary of state appeared to be involved in some changes – all Democrats. In addition, judges made changes that did not comply with the election process established by the Pennsylvania legislature. It appears that the cumulative actions in Pennsylvania did not result in fair elections in that state… For these reasons, I voted to object to the electoral votes in Pennsylvania.” -Garret Graves, Facebook.com, January 7, 2021 3:31 am |
| 63. REPRESENTATIVE SAM GRAVES (R-MO) | |
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| 638. | 11/6/2020 “The integrity of our elections matters. I stand with President Trump. Every legal vote must be counted in complete transparency. The American people deserve free and fair elections.” -Sam Graves, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:00 pm |
| 64. REPRESENTATIVE MARK GREEN (R-TN) | |
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| 639. | 11/5/2020 “Americans want a fair fight. Every legal vote must be counted. That’s the American way.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:16 pm |
| 640. | 11/6/2020 “Counting ballots for the presidency of the United States is too important. We must have FULL transparency. Election officials in every state are duty bound to report violations of state law.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:06 pm |
| 641. | 11/6/2020 “In Tennessee, we ensure our elections are administered in a fair, open, transparent process and that every vote is counted in accordance with Tennessee law so there’s no question about election integrity. Looks like Pennsylvania could learn a lesson or two from us.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:15 pm |
| 642. | 11/8/2020 “30+ members of Congress asked Attorney General Barr and the DOJ to ensure the integrity of our elections. The American people need answers — NOW.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 1:01 pm |
| 643. | 11/8/2020 “Lack of transparency leads to questions about the integrity of the election. One thing we can all agree on: The election of the President of the United States is too important to not get right. There’s plenty of time to make sure all LEGAL votes are counted before the Electoral College meets on December 14.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 4:44 pm |
| 644. | 11/12/2020 “Last week, 30+ Republican members of Congress and I sent a letter to Attorney General Barr urging the Department of Justice to ensure the integrity of our vote counting process. I’m glad to see they are doing just that!” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 10:45 am |
| 645. | 11/12/2020 “Americans deserve to have full confidence in our electoral process. We must count all legal votes and wait for the President’s claims to be adjudicated. These are reasonable and necessary steps to determining the outcome of this election.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 1:35 pm |
| 646. | 12/1/2020 “The American people deserve to have confidence in our electoral system. That’s why I signed @RepCloudTX’s letter encouraging the DOJ to commit to a thorough investigation into voter fraud and irregularities.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 5:53 pm |
| 647. | 12/2/2020 “Ensuring our elections are fair, secure, and honest is of the utmost importance. DOJ must conduct a thorough investigation into allegations of voting irregularities.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 10:20 am |
| 648. | 12/4/2020 “Proud to join Congressman Cloud and other colleagues in pressing the DOJ to conduct a thorough investigation on the election fraud allegations.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 12:29 pm |
| 649. | 12/5/2020 “Every court action needs to happen, and every legal vote must be counted.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 2:30 pm |
| 650. | 12/10/2020 “Unfortunately, last minute changes and weak election laws have resulted in many Americans losing confidence in the results of this election, and who can blame them? House Republicans warned for months that last-minute changes to election laws would create chaos on election day. Sadly, those predictions have come true… We’re urging the [Supreme] Court to take up the case brought by the state of Texas, and give these allegations of irregularities the careful and timely review the American people deserve. One thing is clear: We must get to the bottom of all disputes over election fraud. Our republic depends on it.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 4:26 pm |
| 651. | 12/10/2020 “100+ of my House Republican colleagues and I just urged the Supreme Court to get to hear the Texas case [challenging election results in four states]. The American people deserve to have confidence in the election.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 4:38 pm |
| 652. | 12/11/2020 “We must have a transparent election process, one free of fraud and irregularities, and that’s why I’ve joined my colleagues in filing a brief before #SCOTUS. Now is the time to take action to protect our Republic.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 1:29 pm |
| 653. | 12/21/2020 “Asking for a secure & honest election doesn’t make me a rat, it makes me a responsible representative of my district. Our gov’t is built on consent of the governed. I want to make sure that the people’s consent was actually given, not manipulated by fraud or mismanagement.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 7:29 pm |
| 654. | 12/28/2020 “The left used the pandemic as an excuse to implement mass-mail-in voting. This made our election less secure and increased the chance of fraud and mismanagement. We can’t let mass mail-in-voting become the norm.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, December 28, 2020 3:00 pm |
| 655. | 12/30/2020 “Over the last two months, I’ve heard from countless constituents who have no confidence in the outcome of the presidential election in certain states. And who can blame them? I tried to sound the alarms for nearly a year in House Homeland Security Committee and Oversight Committee hearings that the increase in mail-in balloting and last-minute changes to election laws could lead to confusion, fraud, and distrust. Sadly, those warnings were not heeded.” -Mark Green, “Rep. Mark Green Supports Objection to Electoral College Certification on Jan. 6,” markgreen.house.gov, December 30, 2020 |
| 656. | 1/2/2021 “Since the election, I have been fighting to make sure only legal votes are counted and every allegation of substantial voter fraud or irregularity is investigated. And on Wednesday, I will join in objecting to the Electoral College certification process.” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 10:16 am |
| 657. | 1/6/2021 “The people of TN-7 have been clear: They have serious questions about the outcome of the election. As their voice in Congress, I will vote to object to certain states’ Electoral College certification. The integrity of our elections is too important to rush—we must get this right!” -Mark Green, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 10:13 am |
| 658. | 1/6/2021 “Since the election, I’ve heard from countless Tennesseans who have serious doubts about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. Here in the United States, the right of citizens to elect their leaders is the bedrock of our exceptional nation. Any single illegal vote counted means another American’s vote has been disenfranchised. Moments from now, in the Joint Session of Congress, I will be a voice for my constituents and join in objecting to the slates of electors from certain states. Every opportunity we have to examine the evidence and debate it for the American people to see should be welcomed, not feared.” -Mark Green, “Rep. Mark Green Statement on Today’s Joint Session of Congress,” markgreen.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 65. REPRESENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA) | |
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| 659. | 11/5/2020 “Every single Republican needs to be OUT FRONT and LEADING to STOP THE STEAL! Now is not the time to back down or buckle to the radical left and their allies in the Fake News Media. This is the fight of our life and we must have @realDonaldTrump’s back! We will prevail!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 11:36 am |
| 660. | 11/5/2020 “President @realDonaldTrump taught Republicans not to be spineless hacks and FIGHT BACK. Some weak-kneed Republicans haven’t learned. We will STOP THE STEAL and NEVER forget the Republican cowards.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:48 pm |
| 661. | 11/7/2020 “What we’re seeing right now is an election being stolen. And I’m not going to stand for it. While many of our Republicans refuse to stand up and speak the truth, I refuse to cower down. I’m fighting hard for President Trump, I’m fighting hard for every vote to count in Georgia. All the legal votes should count. No illegal votes.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 1:14 pm |
| 662. | 11/7/2020 “The voices of Georgia voters were heard today, but this fight is far from over. When you called, emailed and posted on social media to demand an audit, we got results. Thank you to everyone who has joined this effort. Now is the time to double down. STOP THE STEAL!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 4:16 pm |
| 663. | 11/8/2020 “The American people reelected President Trump. But Democrats want to steal this election with fake mail in ballots, dead people voting, hidden vote counting, and rigged rules. And if they get away with it now, they’ll steal two senate seats in January… Don’t let Democrats steal this election and destroy America… Stop the steal now before it’s too late.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November , 2020 11:30 am |
| 664. | 11/9/2020 “You and I will never stop fighting for @realDonaldTrump. We don’t have time to give up or give in. American Freedom is too precious to quit on. Join the fight and stay updated as our battle to STOP THE BIDEN STEAL marches on!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 8:46 pm |
| 665. | 11/10/2020 “Tell @GaSecofState to complete the steps necessary to STOP THE BIDEN STEAL! 1. Verify no double voting with absentee ballots 2. Purge ineligible votes from felons and others 3. Most importantly, Georgia MUST have a RECOUNT BY HAND due to irregularities” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 10:03 am |
| 666. | 11/10/2020 “Let’s look at some absentee voting history. 2012: Obama received 87,487 2016: Clinton received 98,417 2020: Biden received 849,182 Notice anything fishy? http://StopTheBidenSteal.com” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 6:07 pm |
| 667. | 11/12/2020 “The fight for @realDonaldTrump MARCHES on! Join me and fellow Patriots to STOP THE BIDEN STEAL this Saturday in Washington DC. Don’t let up. Don’t give in. http://StopTheBidenSteal.com” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 10:56 am |
| 668. | 11/14/2020 “Good American Patriots have stormed the Swamp to rally for @realDonaldTrump! You can feel the energy in the air. We will not give up. We will not back down! I’ll see you at Freedom Plaza at Noon for #MarchForTrump! http://StopTheBidenSteal.com” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 10:20 am |
| 679. | 11/14/2020 “We have your back, @realDonaldTrump! http://StopTheBidenSteal.com” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 2:02 pm |
| 670. | 11/14/2020 “We will STOP THE BIDEN STEAL! The Democrat party is no longer an American party. They’re the party of socialism. The party of riots. The party of burning businesses… This is the party that is working very hard to steal this election and stop Donald J. Trump from being our President for four more years… We’re working very hard to raise a grassroots army. Stopthebidensteal.com is where you can sign up to be a part of that.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 6:01 pm |
| 671. | 11/14/2020 “Remain focused. Remain hopeful. This fight for @realDonaldTrump is far from over. We will prevail. Join us: http://StopTheBidenSteal.com” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 11:44 pm |
| 672. | 11/21/2020 “I am confident that Georgia voted for Trump. Joe Biden did not win our state. In the aftermath of human error, illicit fraud, missing [voting machine] memory cards, duplicated ballots, dead people voting, and absentee ballots being found in cardboard boxes a week after the election, no Georgian can be confident this hasn’t been stolen and given directly to Sleepy Joe Biden and Communist Kamala Harris.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 21, 2020 8:37 pm |
| 673. | 11/22/2020 “Per my plan released last night, we must rescan all ballots, locate all memory cards, audit all Dominion machines, readjudicate all absentee ballots, and allow observers and video processes for full transparency! Georgia must fix it! #StopTheSteaI” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 22, 2020 4:02 pm |
| 674. | 11/24/2020 “I was under the understanding that signatures will be checked but now I’m told there must be a court order in Georgia. Where is the order? Many absentee ballot envelopes have been thrown away. How can elections be secure without a proper audit? Fix it!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, November 24, 2020 12:22 am |
| 675. | 12/3/2020 “I’m looking for a Senator to join myself and @RepMoBrooks to reject the fraudulent votes for @JoeBiden and keep @realDonaldTrump in the White House!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 9:03 am |
| 676. | 12/13/2020 “Votes should only add up as they are counted on election night. Votes don’t get taken away or deducted. How many ‘errors’ are acceptable and who is accountable for these errors? This election is being stolen from @realDonaldTrump.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 13, 2020 7:41 am |
| 677. | 12/14/2020 “Without the widespread voter fraud, out-of-state voters, mail-in ballots from dead people, and ‘discovery’ of hidden ballots, we all know that President Trump wins our state in a landslide. The brave men and women who recognized the theft of our election system in Georgia by Joe Biden and the rest of the Radical Socialist Democrat party should be supported… These Republicans refuse to allow our election to be stolen and I will continue that fight in Washington D.D. on January 6th when I join my colleague Rep. Mo Brooks to reject fraudulent electoral votes from crucial states who ignored state and federal law to change the manner in which our elections have been conducted for hundreds of years.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 14, 2020 1:53 pm |
| 678. | 12/18/2020 “I’m pretty upset about the President’s election because I’ve seen a lot of evidence of voter fraud and these absentee ballots are out of control. I’m excited to let you know that in Congress I’m joining Mo Brooks and many of my other colleagues. I will not vote to certify a fraudulent, stolen election. I’ve got President Trump’s back. You wanna know why? He has our back.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 4:31 pm |
| 679. | 12/18/2020 “All Republicans in Congress must work together to #StopTheSteaI on Jan 6th. Joe Biden did not win. Everyone knows it. @realDonaldTrump won! I will not vote to certify a fraudulent election.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 11:56 pm |
| 680. | 12/19/2020 “Join #MarchForTrump in DC on January 6th to #FightForTrump Then @RepMoBrooks and myself will OBJECT to fraudulent electoral votes from several states at the Capitol.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 19, 2020 9:30 pm |
| 681. | 12/21/2020 “We aren’t going to let this election be stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats. President Trump won by a landslide.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 6:23 pm |
| 682. | 12/22/2020 “I will stand with fellow Patriots on January 6th and OBJECT and REJECT fraudulent electoral ballots. There’s too many abnormalities. Too much evidence of voter fraud.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 12:24 am |
| 683. | 12/22/2020 “So much election fraud occurred on Nov 3rd, Americans likely fired @SpeakerPelosi and @GOPLeader should be Speaker… And @realDonaldTrump won by a landslide.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 8:01 am |
| 684. | 12/22/2020 “Joe Biden STOLE this election from President Trump. I will not stand by and watch it happen.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 7:19 pm |
| 685. | 12/22/2020 “I refuse to stand by and watch our country be thrust into socialism because of a stolen election. The media… they refuse to cover anything about the stolen election. The evidence is there, it’s real.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene in an interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 6:47 pm |
| 686. | 12/23/2020 “The media obsessively investigated and cried Russian collusion for 4 years. The same media refuses to investigate and report the 2020 stolen election. On Jan 6th, Americans will be shocked at what has occurred. And outraged at those who are willing to turn a blind eye.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 1:51 pm |
| 687. | 12/23/2020 “Our objection on Jan 6th refusing to accept a stolen election is a moral obligation to every American tax payer and voter!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 1:54 pm |
| 688. | 12/24/2020 “Democrats in 2020. All you get is shutdowns, BLM/Antifa riots, and a #StolenElection.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 24, 2020 6:47 pm |
| 689. | 12/25/2020 “Jan 6th, I will object to fraudulent electoral votes for Joe Biden, with our growing coalition of Members who refuse to certify a #StolenElection. They warned. ‘they can hack the software in the voting machine and make it cheat in future elections,’” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 25, 2020 6:34 pm |
| 690. | 12/25/2020 “@JoeBiden NEVER turned out a crowd. It was a #StolenElection. Trump won. On Jan 6, we OBJECT!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 25, 2020 6:49 pm |
| 691. | 12/26/2020 “In ten days, I’ll join with my colleagues on the House floor in objecting to the Electoral College certification so the American people can see the clear evidence of voter fraud that occurred across this country on November 3. #FightForTrump #StopTheSteal” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 26, 2020 8:30 am |
| 692. | 12/26/2020 “Cheaters & liars only look like they are winning at first. @JoeBiden did NOT win. He lost. @realDonaldTrump won!!!” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 26, 2020 11:04 am |
| 693. | 12/29/2020 “202,377 more votes cast than voters voting in Pennsylvania! This is called election fraud. There’s more coming. By Jan 6th, not one single member of Congress will be able to vote to certify a #StolenElection.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 10:28 pm |
| 694. | 12/30/2020 “The American people deserve to hear about the voter fraud that took place on Nov 3” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 30, 2020 11:53 am |
| 695. | 12/30/2020 “I refuse to certify a stolen election. It is the duty of Congress to secure the integrity of our elections.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, December 30, 2020 7:17 pm |
| 696. | 1/1/2021 “Through lawsuits and political fear mongering of the virus, election laws were changed in key states leading into the 2020 general election. PA, MI, WI, and GA Election laws were altered… …violating the Federal Constitution and process of selecting the electors. As if that’s not enough, there was MASS voter fraud on a scale that should terrify every American regardless of political party.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 1, 2021 8:51 am |
| 697. | 1/2/2021 “Every voter fraud case has been rejected on technicalities. NOT the evidence of voter fraud. If the American people are allowed to see the evidence on Jan. 6, @realDonaldTrump will be President for 4 more years. #StopTheSteal” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 5:40 pm |
| 698. | 1/2/2021 “Just spoke with @realDonaldTrump and our huge coalition of Republicans who will OBJECT to the stolen election.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 8:15 pm |
| 699. | 1/4/2021 “Just got off the phone with @realDonaldTrump. He wants you to call your Rep & Senators TODAY, ALL DAY! Make them commit to objecting to the stolen fraudulent election & #FightForTrump.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 11:09 am |
| 700. | 1/5/2021 “I refuse to certify fraudulent electoral college votes for Joe Biden. And you wanna know why I’m doing that? I cannot morally certify something that I know is a lie. I cannot morally certify something that I know is stolen.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 2:35 pm |
| 701. | 1/5/2020 “Tomorrow, we’re prepared to object to the stolen electoral college votes. President Trump was reelected for four more years. Tomorrow is a very important day in America’s history. We can’t allow our integrity of our elections to be stolen. We must object to this vote. So let’s get ready to fight for America tomorrow.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 10:55 am |
| 702. | 1/6/2021 “Georgia state leaders refused to listen to Georgia tax payers. They refused to change anything after allowing @realDonaldTrump’s election to be stolen. And they refused to #StopTheSteaI with our two senate seats… Today, I will object to 6 states! Congress is the last line of defense from a stolen election.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 7:26 am |
| 703. | 1/6/2021 “The people’s voice needs to be heard, not the fact checkers. The fact checkers, the fake news media… these are the same people trying to tell us this election hasn’t been stolen. The people know better, the people know the truth. They’re the ones, by the thousands, who have signed affidavits at risk of perjuring themselves, at risk of prison, saying that they saw a stolen election, they’ve seen election fraud. We should be listening to those people’s voices.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 6, 2020 10:00 am |
| 704. | 1/6/2021 “Our Georgia state leaders that did nothing about election fraud, didn’t change anything with mail-out absentee ballots, and used the same Dominion [voting] machines that can be hacked by the Internet.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:23 pm |
| 705. | 1/6/2021 “I, along with 70 of my Republican colleagues, object to the counting of the electoral votes for the State of Michigan on the grounds that the error rate exceeds the FEC rate allowed at 0.0008 percent, and that the people who signed affidavits at risk of perjury, their voices have not been heard in a court of law.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 706. | 1/6/2021 “The same fact-checkers who told you that Dominion [voting] machines weren’t connected to the internet and couldn’t be hacked are the same people telling you that there has been no voter fraud and no violations of election law. But it has been proven that these machines are connected and that they can be hacked. By objecting today, we are telling the thousands of witnesses who signed affidavits that we have their back, and we will not allow local officials who violate their own election laws to steal this election from those who lawfully voted.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 707. | 1/24/2021 “I don’t believe Joe Biden received 80 million votes and his low approval ratings reflect he didn’t. Every court case of election fraud was thrown out on standing and not on evidence. Thousands of people claiming fraud, signed affidavits at risk of perjury and they been ignored.” -Marjorie Taylor Greene, Twitter.com, January 24, 2021 1:22 pm |
| 64. REPRESENTATIVE MORGAN GRIFFITH (R-VA) | |
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| 708. | 12/11/2020 “Yesterday I read the amicus brief that was to be filed by Members of Congress led by Congressman Mike Johnson in support of the Texas Attorney General’s lawsuit on election integrity… I support this effort on behalf of counting legal votes under the rules set by the Constitution.” -Morgan Griffith, Facebook.com, December 11, 2020 11:45 am |
| 67. REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL GUEST (R-MS) | |
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| 709. | 11/8/2020 “All credible allegations of voting irregularities should be investigated in order to preserve our election process. All Americans should want to protect the integrity of our elections by making sure that all legally cast ballots are counted before a winner is declared.” -Michael Guest, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 2:20 pm |
| 710. | 12/9/2020 “Since our country’s founding, most voting has taken place at the polls. However, the 2020 election introduced America to an entirely new election process that relied on mail-in voting, a process that presents many potential pitfalls that we don’t yet fully understand. We must set up provisions that protect our elections from natural human error, from the unknown risks of a new style of voting, and, most importantly, from those who desire to intentionally undermine our elections.” -Michael Guest, “Legislation to Preserve Integrity of Elections Add New Cosponsor: Congressman Guest,” guest.house.gov, December 9, 2020 |
| 711. | 12/10/2020 “I understand that many sacrifices and changes have been necessary to protect individuals during this pandemic. However, there is no situation, including a pandemic, that offers any elected officials a legitimate reason to disregard the Constitution of the United States or the constitutions of individual states. The bill of complaint prepared by [Texas] Attorney General Paxton calls attention to many irregularities that justify review by the Supreme Court, and my colleagues and I offer this amicus brief for its consideration. If the court finds that these elected officials overstepped their Constitutional duties and, therefore, tainted their states’ elections, we must focus on restoring the integrity of the electoral process that was found to be undermined.” -Michael Guest, “Legislation to Preserve Integrity of Elections Add New Cosponsor: Congressman Guest,” guest.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 712. | 12/11/2020 “The purpose of this suit [challenging electoral results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin] is simple. It’s about addressing clear violations of the Constitution so we can protect our elections. If we don’t act now, there is nothing to stop these violations from undermining future elections.” -Michael Guest, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 2:06 pm |
| 713. | 1/7/2021 “In a joint session of Congress, objections were made to the certification of Arizona’s and Pennsylvania’s presidential election results. The United States Constitution gives state legislatures the exclusive jurisdiction to determine how elections will be conducted, commonly referred to as the Electors Clause. Simply put, these states failed to conduct elections that followed the requirements set up by their state legislatures and outlined in our Constitution. Due to these violations, I voted to contest the election results of both Arizona and Pennsylvania. Throughout this election process, many concerns have been raised regarding the legitimacy of our elections.” -Michael Guest, “Congressman Guest Condemns Violence and Opposes Electoral College Vote Certification,” guest.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 68. REPRESENTATIVE JIM HAGEDORN (R-MN) | |
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| 714. | 12/11/2020 “Election laws across several states were amended or suspended in the closing months of the 2020 election by acts of state officials and courts, not state legislatures. I joined 125 of my colleagues and signed onto the amicus brief because I believe the Supreme Court should consider the Texas case on constitutional grounds to ensure that all U.S. citizens are treated fairly and the election was conducted in accordance with state laws. The state legislatures in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona and Pennsylvania should be empowered to elect electors or refuse to elect electors based upon the law and following the U.S. Constitution.” -Jim Hagedorn, “Hagedorn Signs Amicus Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court Supporting the Texas Election Integrity Case,” hagedorn.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 715. | 1/7/2021 “In the closing months of the presidential race, partisan government officials and courts, often at the behest of organized liberal activists, amended or suspended election laws and voting procedures in several key states, and did so without approval from state legislatures. These unilateral and unconstitutional actions, influenced the outcomes of elections, called into question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election and needlessly created a constitutional crisis. We must shine a light on the unilateral actions of state officials and courts, who subverted the proper authority of state legislatures to change election laws.” -Jim Hagedorn, “Hagedorn Objects to Electoral College Count; Cites Unilateral, Unconstitutional Election Law Changes,” hagedorn.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 69. REPRESENTATIVE ANDY HARRIS (R-MD) | |
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| 716. | 11/7/2020 “Just like Hillary suggested to Joe Biden, President Trump should not concede until all legal votes are counted. Secret unobserved vote counting in the swing states means that we will have to wait until a court unravels what really went on. When that thorough investigation is over, and we know that only legal votes have been counted then we will know who the real winner is – and then and only then we need to move on.” -Andy Harris, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 4:31 pm |
| 717. | 12/3/2020 “There is a saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture that should be ingrained in the mind of every American is that the vote counting center where the transparent glass is covered over by large sheets. Most Americans know there is only one reason to do that, it’s because you want to conceal a crime on the other side of that glass. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s very possible that criminal ballot fraud was committed on the others of that glass, and the only way we’re gonna know is by the Attorney General bringing federal investigators to find out what went on. The American people deserve to know. Every American knows a vote should not be counted in secret. You can believe your lying eyes. The fact of the matter is, votes were counted in secret, and Americans deserve to know why.” -Andy Harris, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 718. | 12/11/2020 “I hope the Supreme Court takes up the Texas case now supported by many states, and forces real investigation into the well-documented fraud and illegal rule-making that didn’t involve legislatures as required by the Constitution.” -Andy Harris via The Star Democrat, “Maryland’s Andy Harris on why he supports Texas lawsuit to block Biden’s win over Trump,” stardem.com, December 11, 2020 |
| 719. | 1/6/2021 “I once again stand in support of forensic audits and investigating potential election fraud… There have been complaints of election fraud at all levels of government elections for years, with the 2016 and now 2020 Presidential elections being the most notable… Over 150 million Americans voted and every single one of them should know that their vote was counted and not a single illegal ballot was accepted. If there’s nothing to hide then there should be no objections. If there truly is not a single fraudulent vote – that’s great. If there’s some fraudulent votes, even if there’s not enough to sway an election – we should still care to catch them and prosecute. If there’s a bigger fraud that’s occurred that did change an election (local, state, or federal) then we must correct the situation and stop it from happening again in the future.” -Andy Harris, Facebook.com, January 6, 2021 8:19 pm |
| 720. | 1/6/2021 “How dare the judicial branch or the executive branch of that State [Pennsylvania] usurp the legislative authority. That is a clear violation of the Constitution… The Pennsylvania Supreme Court unilaterally extended the deadline to receive absentee and mail-in ballots… That is a violation. That is what the Texas lawsuit was all about. We disadvantage other States when States like Pennsylvania, the executive branch and judicial branch, cheat on the Constitution; and that is what they did here.” -Andy Harris, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 721. | 1/7/2021 “My colleagues and I held legitimate Constitutional concerns about how the November election was conducted in certain states and felt compelled to highlight those concerns during the formal vote count. We did not call for the overthrowing of an election… Congress is afforded the right to count, and object, to electoral votes, which we utilized yesterday to highlight concerns we had regarding the November election.” -Andy Harris, “Harris Issues Statement Following Electoral College Vote Count,” harris.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 70. REPRESENTATIVE DIANA HARSHBARGER (R-TN) | |
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| 722. | 11/6/2020 “Count every LEGAL vote.” -Diana Harshbarger, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 12:49 pm |
| 723. | 12/9/2020 “I am happy to see that Texas and President Donald Trump are fighting to make sure that every legal ballot is counted. There is a clear need for a thorough review of the changes made to the election process in those states. I wholly support this challenge and encourage elected officials at every level to do the same. Americans need to know they can trust the election process.” -Diana Harshbarger, “Harshbarger announces full support of Texas Lawsuit,” myemail.constantcontact.com, December 9, 2020 |
| 724. | 1/4/2021 “On January 6th, when the 117th Congress convenes for the Joint Session, I will support an objection to the certification of the Electoral College vote for the states that failed to count all legal ballots… Multiple states are engaged in litigation and thousands of witnesses have submitted sworn affidavits of reported fraud related to the 2020 presidential election. Our constituents demand that these reported gross violations of our elections process are investigated seriously with the intent of restoring confidence in our electoral process.” -Diana Harshbarger, “Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger Statement on Challenging Electoral College Certification,” harshbarger.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 71. REPRESENTATIVE VICKY HARTZLER (R-MO) | |
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| 725. | 12/11/2020 “I joined my colleagues in the House along with Missouri’s Attorney General in signing an amicus brief in support of Texas vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of Georgia, the State of Michigan, and the State of Wisconsin. This case asks the Supreme Court to provide an objective view of electoral anomalies in these states and ensures that the Constitution has been followed and the rules of law maintained throughout our election process. The necessity of this request is derived from concerns that these states failed to adhere to their own election laws, usurping power from their state legislatures to change voting procedures which have led to an unprecedented number of serious allegations of voter fraud and irregularities.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Hartzler Joins Missouri Attorney General on Amicus Brief,” hartzler.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 726. | 1/6/2021 “I came to the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday ready to represent my constituents and stand up for the Constitution by witnessing the certification and counting of Electoral College votes in the presidential election. I was ready to object to accepting certain states’ electors due to my belief that entities in these states changed election procedures against their state laws.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Rep. Vicky Hartzler: I’m a House member caught up in scary attack on Capitol by our own citizens,” foxnews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 727. | 1/7/2021 “The need to ensure election integrity has not changed because protestors, many of whom supported President Trump, stormed the Capitol today. I object to the certification of electors chosen from states that blatantly violated their own election laws” -Vicky Hartzler, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 1:00 am |
| 728. | 1/7/2021 “I object to the certification of electors chosen from states that blatantly violated their own election laws. These states usurped power from their state legislatures to change voting procedures. As a result, these state entities violated the Constitution and opened the election to an unprecedented number of serious allegations of voter fraud and irregularities… If we are to ensure the integrity of elections moving forward, the skirting of election laws cannot be ignored, and it cannot be allowed to happen in the future.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Hartzler Joins Missouri Attorney General on Amicus Brief,” hartzler.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 729. | 1/7/2021 “In Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s office issued an unconstitutional guidance that election officials would no longer reject a ballot based on a failure to verify the voter’s signature, undermining statutes requiring signature verification for absentee and mail-in ballots previously passed by the legislature. Additionally, state Democrats were successful in using the COVID-19 pandemic to get the state Supreme Court to extend mail-in ballot deadlines to three days after Election Day without the state legislature’s approval.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Hartzler Joins Missouri Attorney General on Amicus Brief,” hartzler.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 730. | 1/7/2021 “The non-legislative Wisconsin Elections Commission and other local officials unconstitutionally created ‘hundreds of drop boxes to collect absentee ballots — including the use of unmanned drop boxes.’ The Wisconsin Legislature prohibits the use of drop boxes by mandating that local government may establish an alternate site for absentee ballot delivery but that the site must be staffed as though it were a normal delivery office. There is also a requirement that these ballots be delivered in person or mailed by the elector. Ballots that do not meet these requirements may not be counted under state law.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Hartzler Joins Missouri Attorney General on Amicus Brief,” hartzler.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 731. | 1/7/2021 “In Georgia, the state-level Democratic Party reached a settlement with the Office of the Secretary of State that altered the process for signature verification of mail-in and absentee ballots without the consent or the inclusion of the state legislature. Additionally, the Georgia Legislature prohibits the opening of absentee ballots until after the polls open on Election Day. In clear violation of the law, the State Election Board — not the legislature — purported to change Georgia law and allow processing of ballots up to three weeks before Election Day.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Hartzler Joins Missouri Attorney General on Amicus Brief,” hartzler.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 732. | 1/7/2021 “Michigan’s Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, violated Article II of the U.S. Constitution by setting up a website where voters could request an absentee ballot without providing a signature, contrary to state law. The Secretary of State’s office is also in violation of the U.S. Constitution after it distributed 7.7 million absentee ballot applications, which can only be mailed at the local level by clerks under state law.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Hartzler Joins Missouri Attorney General on Amicus Brief,” hartzler.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 733. | 1/7/2021 “In Arizona, at the request of two state officials, a federal court allowed voter registration beyond the deadline passed by the state legislature, including permitting registration after voting had commenced… In addition, a sample of questionable Arizona votes raised red flags on potential fraudulent registrations with illegal addresses, out of state residents, and non-U.S. citizens.” -Vicky Hartzler, “Hartzler Joins Missouri Attorney General on Amicus Brief,” hartzler.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 72. REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN HERN (R-OK) | |
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| 734. | 11/5/2020 “What we are currently seeing play out across our country is a perfect example of why the Democrat’s efforts to federalize our election laws and bring our voting system under the unreliable, heavy arm of the federal bureaucracy is so dangerous. We are blessed to have one of the best election systems here in Oklahoma, but it is critical that all Americans have confidence in our election process. I support the effort to ensure that every LEGAL vote is counted accurately.” -Kevin Hern, Facebook.com, November 5, 2020 5:56 pm |
| 735. | 11/6/2020 “Every legal vote must be counted. I know many of my constituents are concerned with what’s happening in states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, Michigan, and Georgia. Our country has held elections for over 200 years. The process works, but only if it’s done legally. Members of my team have been on the ground in Pennsylvania this week, working to ensure that every legal vote is counted.” -Kevin Hern, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 11:48 am |
| 736. | 12/8/2020 “Many of you probably saw that the State of Texas launched a lawsuit against several states whose elections are still shrouded in doubt and allegations of fraud. This morning, I joined several of my colleagues to write an amicus brief that we will send to the Supreme Court in support of this legal action from Texas. When governors and state judicial systems change the voting laws of a state so close to an election, there are bound to be problems… If it is found that these states unconstitutionally changed their voting laws without going through their legislative chambers, the fears of millions of Americans will be confirmed.” -Kevin Hern, Facebook.com, December 8, 2020 5:00 pm |
| 737. | 1/7/2021 “Despite the disruptive and dangerous acts of criminal rioters, I will not back down. The actions of those bad actors do not change the facts and questions surrounding the 2020 presidential election. I have a duty to stand firm with the millions of Americans across the country who share deep and legitimate concerns about the integrity of our election system and the unconstitutional changes to the election laws in certain states during the presidential election.” -Kevin Hern, “Hern statement on attack of the US Capitol, objection to Electoral College results,” hern.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 73. REPRESENTATIVE YVETTE HERRELL (R-NM) | |
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| 738. | 12/31/2020 “Herrell will object in order to shed light on the numerous cases of irregularities and unlawful procedures used by several state governments during the election. In battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, unilateral state government action was taken without legislative approval to unlawfully change voting rules and procedures by, among other things, extending the absentee ballot deadlines, relaxing signature and identity verification requirements, and mailing millions of unsolicited absentee ballot requests. Herrell’s vote will also call attention to the election meddling by Big Tech and the media who censored truthful stories about Joe Biden’s concerning financial ties to foreign countries through his son Hunter while simultaneously being all too eager to spread damaging misinformation about President Trump.” -Yvette Herrell, Facebook.com, December 31, 2020 3:18 pm |
| 739. | 1/4/2021 “On Wednesday, January 6, I plan to join more than 100 representatives and at least 12 senators by objecting to electors from several states where voting rules and procedures were drastically changed at the last minute… There is no question several states made such changes either by executive fiat or judicial edict, and that is the Constitutional basis for my objections… In those states (such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin), state executives took last minute unilateral actions — without approval by their state legislatures — to change voting rules and procedures with regard to vote-by-mail deadlines, signature and identity and verification requirements, or other ballot handling practices.” -Yvette Herrell, “Why I Object,” repherrell.medium.com, January 4, 2021 |
| 740. | 1/6/2021 “In Pennsylvania specifically, the Democrat Secretary of the Common- wealth and the Democrat-controlled Pennsylvania Supreme Court usurped the constitutional authority of the State legislature. Together, they exceeded their authority by extending the deadline for absentee ballots and by waiving signature requirements for those ballots. In their haste to make these changes, the secretary and the court created two different and unequal standards for voters. Pennsylvanians who chose to vote in person still had to have their signatures verified at their polling place, but those who chose to vote by mail did not. How is this process fair?” -Yvette Herrell, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 741. | 1/7/2021 “The Constitution gives state legislatures — not state executives or judges — the sole authority to determine how their state selects presidential electors. Nobody disputes that in Pennsylvania, as well as in other states, rules and regulations were changed by executive fiat or judicial edict. These changes were significant and irregular. They included changes to vote-by-mail deadlines, identity verification requirements, and other ballot handling practices… As a representative of New Mexico, Pennsylvania’s unconstitutional actions disenfranchised my constituents and the constituents of my colleagues.” -Yvette Herrell, “Congresswoman Herrell objected to counting the electoral votes from several states,” herrell.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 742. | 1/7/2021 “Late last night, I kept my promise to object to the certification of the Electoral College tallies from the two states for which votes were permitted: Arizona and Pennsylvania… The unconstitutional election changes in numerous states disenfranchised my constituents in New Mexico.” -Yvette Herrell, Facebook.com, January 7, 2021 11:14 am |
| 74. REPRESENTATIVE JODY HICE (R-GA) | |
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| 743. | 11/5/2020 “GA’s handling of this election is embarrassing! Two days are gone and we still don’t know results…are you kidding? Worse yet, partisan ballots keep appearing. A fair vote & Trump wins, end of story! Stop the fraud!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:04 pm |
| 744. | 11/6/2020 “The American people DEMAND honest & transparent counts of legally cast ballots! Why are Dem ballots always the ones ‘discovered’ in tight races? Why are GOP observers always the ones shut out? We’ve seen huge irregularities in battleground states — all need to be investigated!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 12:26 pm |
| 745. | 11/6/2020 “SCOTUS finally gets involved! They recognize serious problems in this election — and Justice Alito is calling out PA’s handling of ballots. Folks, the fraud is obvious and it’s widespread! Don’t let the media convince you otherwise.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 8:50 pm |
| 746. | 11/7/2020 “The mainstream media — on behalf of their Democrat pals — are trying to convince the American people this is already over. It’s not! They spent 4 years refusing to admit @realDonaldTrump won 2016 but don’t want to allow even a few days to ensure every legal vote is counted!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 12:03 pm |
| 747. | 11/9/2020 “This isn’t over until every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is thrown out! Democrats have NEVER accepted @realDonaldTrump’s 2016 win and sought to undermine him from day one. The 70 million Americans who voted for @POTUS deserve a fair vote with an honest count!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 9:33 am |
| 748. | 11/10/2020 “.@GaSecofState Brad Raffensberger MUST require a hand recount of every ballot in every GA county. There’s been far too many reports of irregularities and fraud to trust any other method! Georgians will never see the outcome as legitimate without a transparent recount by hand!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 9:17 am |
| 749. | 11/10/2020 “The irregularities with #DominionVotingSystems need to be fully investigated! Fire Where there’s smoke, there’s fire! Fire Even Democrats like @RepRaskin raised concerns about this election software! We need a fully transparent and honest count of LEGAL ballots!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 11:47 am |
| 750. | 11/12/2020 “In this year’s election, record numbers of Americans cast their votes for political offices up and down the ballot. Unfortunately, there have been serious allegations of fraud and irregularities in many important battleground states – including Georgia.” -Jody Hice, “In Defense of Freedom,” hice.house.gov, November 12, 2020 |
| 751. | 11/12/2020 “Democrats and the fake news continue to deny any election fraud or irregularities to undermine @realDonaldTrump in Georgia! We know corruption has taken place! The hand-recount will prove it and everyone responsible must be held accountable. This is far from over, folks!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 8:42 am |
| 752. | 11/13/2020 “Only 0.3% of Georgia’s 1.3 million absentee ballots were rejected for signature mismatches. In 2018, 3.5% were rejected. The # of absentee ballots skyrocketed while the rejection rate plummeted. We need to review signature matches and remove illegal votes to ensure legitimacy!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 13, 2020 10:32 am |
| 753. | 11/14/2020 “We need the Justice Department to fully investigate election software companies like #DominionVotingSystems! Where there’s smoke, there’s fire!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 11:51 am |
| 754. | 11/14/2020 “This election has been marred with corruption and fraud — more evidence is coming every day. @realDonaldTrump could have won in a landslide, but we’ll never know the true victor till we root out all the fraud! Every illegal ballot diminishes a legal ballot! Protect the vote!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 11:44 am |
| 755. | 11/17/2020 “The eyes of the nation are on Georgia… Will Georgia have a rigorous investigation of all fraud/irregularities and an honest count of legal ballots? Currently, the answer is NO.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 6:39 pm |
| 756. | 11/18/2020 “As more votes are uncovered in Georgia, this race has continued to narrow. Americans want a fair vote with an honest count — it should not be a difficult ask. Georgia’s election officials owe us a legitimate election.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 3:30 pm |
| 757. | 11/19/2020 “More irregularities continue to be uncovered in Georgia. Experienced elections workers are seeing unusually clean ballots overwhelming for Biden. We keep saying this… Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. All of this must be rigorously investigated!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 11:48 am |
| 758. | 11/19/2020 “All Americans, regardless of party, want free and fair elections — and that requires serious verification of signatures for mailed absentee ballots. Unfortunately, that isn’t happening yet in Georgia. We demand an honest count of legal ballots!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 12:58 pm |
| 759. | 11/19/2020 “Georgia’s recount was a charade! It failed to conduct a rigorous examination and verification of absentee signatures. There was no attempt to sort legal and illegal ballots! Hold fair elections. Count legal ballots. Investigate fraud. It’s not complicated.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 9:52 pm |
| 760. | 11/20/2020 “Americans have high yet simple expectations for our elections. We want free and fair votes, honest counts of legal ballots, and serious investigations of fraud allegations. I have deep concerns that the State of Georgia has failed to meet these standards. Newly uncovered ballots, suspicious irregularities, and a flawed [signature] verification process have caused many of us to doubt this election’s integrity.” -Jody Hice, “Protecting the Integrity of Our Elections,” hice.house.gov, November 20, 2020 |
| 761. | 11/20/2020 “This year, a massive number of Georgians voted absentee by mail. Mail-in voting is inherently more susceptible to fraud and requires a meticulous verification process to compare the signatures of absentee voters to ensure that they are indeed legally registered voters. That this failed to occur is evident in the data. In 2018, approximately 223,000 Georgians voted absentee by mail, and 3.5% of these ballots were rejected because the signatures could not be verified – a rate comparable with other states. In 2020, however, more than 1.3 million Georgians voted absentee by mail but just 0.3% of ballots were rejected. It defies commonsense that the number of absentee ballots would skyrocket and the number of signature mismatches would plummet. Until a rigorous signature verification process occurs, we will never know how many of the 1.3 million absentee ballots were illegal votes that should not be included in the count.” -Jody Hice, “Protecting the Integrity of Our Elections,” hice.house.gov, November 20, 2020 |
| 762. | 11/24/2020 “Many of us are convinced the election smelled like fraud. Genuine investigations and audits must occur, and the evidence must be revealed. No if’s, and’s, or but’s. Protect elections! Protect our republic!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 24, 2020 7:36 pm |
| 763. | 11/25/2020 “Does anyone find it odd that all errors seem to benefit @JoeBiden? Coincidence or Fraud? Americans’ confidence in our elections has plummeted. We all want free and fair elections. If we want to preserve our election integrity, we have to ask the obvious questions.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 6:36 pm |
| 764. | 11/29/2020 “We have credible allegations of fraud on multiple fronts w/ mounting evidence in Georgia. No real signature verification of absentee ballots. No rigorous audit of the election.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 29, 2020 10:02 pm |
| 765. | 11/30/2020 “Some of Georgia’s leaders claim there was no significant election fraud. Prove it to the millions of Americans who now doubt our elections. Let’s have a real investigation and full-scale audit! If there’s no fraud, there’s nothing to fear. America relies on free elections!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 7:16 am |
| 766. | 12/3/2020 “This looks like election fraud on a mass scale. Fulton officials throw everyone out of the room and start counting ballots in secret. For 2 hours. 3,000 ballots per hour per machine. Multiple machines. The margin in Georgia is 12,000.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 4:58 pm |
| 767. | 12/3/2020 “This EXPLOSIVE fraud is ORGANIZED. People do not spontaneously conceal cases of ballots in a counting room to be counted later in secret. It requires money, logistics & leadership – like Stacey Abrams’ group that’s already under investigation. Who’s running this operation?” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 6:40 pm |
| 768. | 12/4/2020 “Yesterday we learned a forensics examination of a Ware County, GA #DominionVotingSystems machine found votes were @realDonaldTrump to @JoeBiden. This is one machine in one county in one state. Did this happen elsewhere? We need to know! EXAMINE ALL THE MACHINES!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 12:56 pm |
| 769. | 12/4/2020 “It is mindblowing that they would recertify results after the Georgia Senate hearing yesterday. If things like the Fulton video were investigated & debunked, release all the findings/evidence to the public. We need TOTAL transparency. Stop the fraud!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 7:10 pm |
| 770. | 12/5/2020 “Fulton County GA video timeline of Nov 3 shows what appears to be blatant fraud. @GaSecofState claims it was normal procedure. How absurd! FRAUD can’t be accepted or normalized in elections!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 8:43 am |
| 771. | 12/5/2020 “.@realDonaldTrump just detailed the rampant fraud committed in the November election. If we don’t fix the systemic flaws and prosecute wrongdoing, it’ll happen again!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 9:24 pm |
| 772. | 12/7/2020 “GA’s leaders claim ‘no voter fraud’ but can’t defend their own argument. PROVE IT! INVESTIGATE! The growing amount of evidence is against you… and so are the people!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 8:33 am |
| 773. | 12/9/2020 “Yet another whistleblower with a sworn affidavit testifying to the irregularities in Fulton County, GA. And @GaSecofState Raffensperger has the audacity to claim it was the ‘most secure election in history.’ Why can’t he admit there was serious fraud?” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 7:46 am |
| 774. | 12/10/2020 “We need a federal Special Counsel to independently investigate the many allegations of fraud! Immediately!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 12:08 pm |
| 775. | 12/12/2020 “There are sweeping allegations of fraud in multiple states. Every illegal ballot diminishes and dilutes the value of a real vote. How can we restore Americans’ faith in our election system if we can’t even get legitimate cases heard in court?! Where is justice?” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 12, 2020 1:49 pm |
| 776. | 12/15/2020 “I have grave concerns regarding the integrity of our election in Georgia on November 3rd. From speaking with countless Georgians, I know many of you share my misgivings… Any amount of fraud is unacceptable. This should not be a partisan issue. Every single illegal ballot dilutes and diminishes the legal votes of American citizens – no matter what political party they support.” -Jody Hice, “Voter Fraud & Illegality Cannot Be Tolerated in Georgia,” hice.house.gov, December 17, 2020 |
| 777. | 12/16/2020 “The election was SIX WEEKS ago. Millions of us still have unanswered concerns about whether Georgia had a free and fair election.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 5:55 pm |
| 778. | 12/16/2020 “Millions of Americans have lost faith in the integrity of our elections, and that is especially true in my home state of Georgia. Unfortunately, to date, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has largely dismissed these legitimate concerns, asserting that the November election was ‘the most secure in history’ – while simultaneously saying his office is investigating more than 250 cases of potential wrongdoing. The pathway to restoring America’s confidence in our elections is through total transparency and aggressively investigating all reports of fraud and irregularities.” -Jody Hice, “Rep. Hice & House GOP Oversight: Restore American Confidence, Investigate Election Irregularities,” hice.house.gov, December 16, 2020 |
| 779. | 12/23/2020 “.@realDonaldTrump has fought honorably for America. Now it’s our time to fight for him AND America! Why are so many unwilling to stand up and reject fraud? Every single illegal ballot cancels and diminishes a legal American vote. Fraud cannot be ignored or swept under a rug!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 8:26 am |
| 780. | 12/23/2020 “.@GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger claims Nov 3 was the ‘most secure election in history.’ Meanwhile, his deputy has uncovered absentee ballot fraud that occurred from his own address.” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 10:38 am |
| 781. | 1/2/2021 “On January 6, I will be leading the objection to Georgia’s slate of electors in the joint session of Congress. Americans want free and fair elections with honest counts of legal ballots. I don’t believe this occurred in Georgia on Nov 3, and I know millions of you feel the same!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 10:03 am |
| 782. | 1/3/2021 “My oath to support and defend the Constitution has never been more important. First order of business? Fight for fair elections by objecting to [election] fraud on Jan 6 [by rejecting certification Georgia’s electors]!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 8:09 am |
| 783. | 1/4/2021 “Fraudulent elections and liberty cannot co-exist! If fraud is tolerated, tyranny will ensue! We cannot afford to be idle. These are the moments that count. We must eradicate election fraud and prosecute the guilty. OBJECT to the electoral certification in Congress on Jan 6!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 9:50 am |
| 784. | 1/5/2021 “.@GaSecofState Raffensperger singlehandedly opened the door to widespread voter fraud in Georgia’s Nov 3 election like the state has never seen. We cannot abandon election integrity because of one man’s complete incompetence. It is our sacred duty to protect the right to vote!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 6:08 pm |
| 785. | 1/6/2021 “[M]yself, members of the Georgia delegation, and some 74 of my Republican colleagues and I object to the electoral vote from the State of Georgia on the grounds that the election conducted on November 3 was faulty and fraudulent due to unilateral actions by the secretary of state to unlawfully change the State’s election process without approval from the General Assembly and thereby setting the stage for an unprecedented amount of fraud and irregularities.” -Jody Hice, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 786. | 1/7/2021 “I led 74 @HouseGOP Members in objecting to GA’s electors on the basis that the Nov 3 was faulty & fraudulent — largely due to unilateral & unlawful changes to the election by @GaSecofState. Unfortunately, no Senator joined us. We must lawfully & peacefully fight election fraud!” -Jody Hice, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 12:53 pm |
| 75. REPRESENTATIVE CLAY HIGGINS (R-LA) | |
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| 787. | 11/6/2020 “I stand with President Trump. Every legal vote should be counted. Nothing more, nothing less.” -Clay Higgins, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:40 am |
| 788. | 11/8/2020 “If Biden won fair and square, so be it. We’ll survive. Every American should want to clear up the disturbing reports of voter fraud. Let us not anchor a new President with heavy suspicion of voter fraud. Investigate. Audit the count & the ballots in the suspect states.” -Clay Higgins, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 2:41 pm |
| 789. | 11/8/2020 “I have inside data that this election is compromised. Our president [Trump] won this election. Feel my spirit… I do have inside information… I’m on the (Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight and Reform Committee). I’m close with the Commander in Chief, and I’ve just been reelected for a third term. Further, I’m trusted by American patriots. They know I would never reveal them. Damn straight I have inside information.” -Clay Higgins via Greg Hilburn, “Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins says he has ‘inside data’ election compromised,” theadvertiser.com, November 8, 2020 |
| 790. | 11/19/2020 “There is a preponderance of evidence indicating widespread election fraud. Americans should be appalled. This will be a very interesting Holiday season in America. Buckle up.” -Clay Higgins, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 5:29 pm |
| 791. | 12/15/2020 “In the dead of night, the election was corrupted by coordinated massive fraud and by unconstitutional election process manipulation in major cities of key states.” -Clay Higgins via WWL-TV, “Rep. Clay Higgins compares supposed election fraud to WWII Japanese-American internment camps,” klfy.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 792. | 12/20/2020 “If Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20th, it will mark the final hour of conspiracy to dismantle the American election process, and the first hour of conspiracy to dismantle America.” -Clay Higgins, Twitter.com, December 20, 2020 2:11 pm |
| 793. | 12/31/2020 “I will object to the certification of electoral votes on January 6th. Reports of voter fraud and actions by some states to alter election processes in an unlawful manner have not been properly reviewed… I believe those actions of fraud and illegal election processes thwarted the true will of We, the People, and flipped the Presidential election to career politician Joe Biden.” -Clay Higgins, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 3:14 pm |
| 794. | 1/6/2021 “What we do know is that, in the disputed States, Governors, secretaries of state, or local election commissions acted in violation of the Election Clause of the U.S. Constitution, wherein State legislatures are granted the sole authority to determine how Presidential electors are appointed. It is that simple. State executive officials usurped the constitutionally vested authority of State legislatures within several of the sovereign States.” -Clay Higgins, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 76. REPRESENTATIVE FRENCH HILL (R-AR) | |
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| 795. | 11/5/2020 “Election officials do not control which presidential candidate wins their state — their citizens do. We need fairness and transparency while each legal vote is being counted. I urge the remaining states to act with integrity and properly count the outstanding votes.” -French Hill, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:49 pm |
| 77. REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD HUDSON (R-NC) | |
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| 796. | 11/7/2020 “Election results remain unofficial and the process is far from over. The American people deserve transparency and I support President Trump’s calls to ensure every legal vote is counted and the rule of law is protected. By doing this, we can uphold the integrity and confidence of our elections.” -Richard Hudson, “Hudson Releases Statement,” hudson.house.gov, November 7, 2020 |
| 797. | 11/8/2020 “We must also work to overcome the uncertainty that remains with numerous elections around country, including in North Carolina. Protecting everyone’s vote and the integrity of our elections is fundamental to our democracy. I will continue to ensure that steps are being taken in our state and around the country to accurately count every legal vote and validate accurate election results.” -Richard Hudson, “My Commitment to You,” hudson.house.gov, November 8, 2020 |
| 798. | 11/10/2020 “I continue to support President @realDonaldTrump’s calls to make sure every legal vote is counted to uphold the integrity of the election as this process continues in states across the country.” -Richard Hudson, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 5:03 pm |
| 799. | 11/16/2020 “Free and fair elections are the foundation of our constitutional republic. We must continue to demand transparency as every legal votes continues to be counted.” -Richard Hudson, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 3:23 pm |
| 800. | 12/10/2020 “Today I was proud to join many of my colleagues to support the Texas lawsuit [challenging electoral votes in four states]. The US Supreme Court must preserve the integrity of the 2020 presidential election!” -Richard Hudson, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 5:34 pm |
| 801. | 12/14/2020 “I also joined more than 120 of my colleagues to support a lawsuit being led by the state of Texas regarding the 2020 election [challenging electoral votes in four states]. This case, which numerous states have also joined, is now pending at the U.S. Supreme Court and is important to upholding the integrity of our elections and the rule of law. Every American should agree that changes to election laws and allegations of fraud should be fully investigated, and I was proud to join this effort.” -Richard Hudson, “Another Wasted Opportunity and Protecting Election Integrity,” hudson.house.gov, December 14, 2020 |
| 802. | 1/3/2021 “This week, I will object to certifying the Electoral College votes of certain states that violated their own election laws, contrary to Article II of the Constitution.” -Richard Hudson, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 3:55 pm |
| 803. | 1/3/2021 “Currently, millions of people do not trust the outcome of this presidential election because there is incontrovertible evidence of voter irregularity- if not outright fraud- in multiple states. Furthermore, election laws were changed in numerous states contrary to Article II of the Constitution. These election changes included extending the deadline for mail-in ballots, adding unsecured drop box collection sites, and changes to signature verification measures.” -Richard Hudson, “Statement on the Electoral College Vote,” hudson.house.gov, January 3, 2021 |
| 804. | 1/3/2021 “I joined more than 120 colleagues on an amicus brief concerning an election lawsuit led by the state of Texas [challenging electoral results in four states]. Our brief recommended the Supreme Court take up the case and specifically look at these changes to state election laws. I believe the Court should have examined these changes and missed an opportunity to give confidence to the American people that the election was conducted legally and fairly. Unfortunately, by refusing to take up the case, the American people were denied their day in court and these questions remain. Every American should want to ensure our election laws were followed correctly and investigate every case of alleged fraud, no matter how it would impact the outcome of the election.” -Richard Hudson, “Statement on the Electoral College Vote,” hudson.house.gov, January 3, 2021 |
| 805. | 1/3/2021 “I am also concerned about the impact big tech bias and censorship had on this election. From unprecedented suppression of information like the New York Post’s story on the Bidens’ financial ties to foreign governments, to arbitrary ‘flags’ on individual posts and ideas, big tech companies engaged in dangerous efforts to interfere in this election that must be addressed. The latest example is Facebook disabling the account of the Republican joint fundraising committee for the Georgia Senate special election. For these reasons, I believe it is my Constitutional duty to object to certifying the Electoral College votes of certain states that violated their own election laws.” -Richard Hudson, “Statement on the Electoral College Vote,” hudson.house.gov, January 3, 2021 |
| 78. REPRESENTATIVE BILL HUIZENGA (R-MI) | |
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| 806. | 11/22/2020 “I support @JohnJamesMI’s request for a review of the significant irregularities in Wayne County. Counting every legal vote is good for all Michigan voters.” -Bill Huizenga, Twitter.com, November 22, 2020 6:23 pm |
| 807. | 12/10/2020 “As members of Congress, we are saying that the potential for these states to have violated the Constitution — Article I, Section 2, Clause 2, about how elections are run and how we see electors to the Electoral College by the states — that that ought to have a hearing… It’s the process by which absentee ballots were distributed in places like Michigan. And frankly, I believe and know that the Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, in Michigan, violated —or, I believe violated — Michigan law that stipulates how absentee ballots are to be requested and how they are distributed.” -Bill Huizenga, “Huizenga Joins Amicus Brief Regarding the 2020 Presidential Election,” huizenga.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 79. REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA (R-CA) | |
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| 808. | 11/6/2020 “President Trump — I stand with you, just as you have stood with me from 2016 until today. The fact that poll watchers are not being allowed to adequately supervise certain recounts is completely unacceptable. This is America. Election integrity comes first.” -Darrell Issa, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 2:00 pm |
| 809. | 1/8/2021 “It is in America’s enduring national interest that we do not ignore what we know to be wrong with the 2020 elections. The U.S. Constitution clearly states that it is the responsibility of the state legislatures — not courts — to direct the manner in which members of the Electoral College are selected. Last Wednesday, I recorded my objection to two states where this provision of the Constitution was violated by courts that changed election procedure without legislative approval. In Pennsylvania, the State Supreme Court extended the ballot deadline in violation of state statute. In Arizona, the Federal District Court changed election registration deadlines in violation of state statute, letting tens of thousands of voters to inappropriately cast votes. I recognize the COVID pandemic necessitated some election changes. These election laws, however, should have been changed by state legislatures, consistent with the Constitution.” -Darrell Issa, Twitter.com, January 8, 2021 5:18 pm |
| 80. REPRESENTATIVE RONNY JACKSON (R-TX) | |
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| 810. | 11/12/2020 “.@realdonaldtrump is a patriot and a FIGHTER. I support him 100% and have his BACK against anyone who tries to steal this election.” -Ronny Jackson, Twitter.com, November 12, 2020 11:00 am |
| 811. | 12/21/2020 “.@realDonaldTrump is the greatest President in my lifetime. I firmly believe that there was MASSIVE amounts of fraud in the past election that we MUST get to the bottom of. We can’t let those responsible get away with this!” -Ronny Jackson, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 2:05 pm |
| 812. | 12/28/2020 “This is how we take our country BACK: STEP 1: Jan 3rd swear in the new class of Conservative WARRIORS in the House! STEP 2: Jan 5th keep the two Senate seats in Georgia! STEP 3: Jan 6th throw out the fraudulent vote, and restore election integrity!” -Ronny Jackson, Twitter.com, December 28, 2020 3:02 pm |
| 813. | 12/30/2020 “With every day that goes by, the allegations of voter fraud become more concerning. I will STAND WITH TRUMP on Jan 6th and vote to STOP THE STEAL!” -Ronny Jackson, Twitter.com, December 30, 2020 11:03 am |
| 814. | 1/3/2021 “More than 74 million Americans voted for President Trump, but big tech, the mainstream media and radical Democrats are trying to silence us by dismissing what we know to be true: President Trump won a second term… Over the past couple of months growing evidence has shown that the election was stolen from President Trump… The irregularities we have seen, and their violation of both state and federal law, threaten all future elections.” -Ronny Jackson, “Jackson: It’s Time for Congress to Act,” amarillopioneer.com, January 3, 2021 |
| 815. | 1/3/2021 “The fraud that took place on Election Day cannot be allowed to stand. For example, Democrat leaders in several battleground states bypassed their state legislatures and changed election laws. This was done in an effort to promote election fraud and is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, which gives state legislatures the sole authority to prescribe election law. Ballot integrity measures were also blatantly ignored in many places, meaning there is no telling how many illegal votes were counted.” -Ronny Jackson, “Jackson: It’s Time for Congress to Act,” amarillopioneer.com, January 3, 2021 |
| 816. | 1/4/2020 “I’m CHALLENGING the Electoral College because the patriotic citizens I represent DESERVE to know if the Presidential election was a FRAUD. We don’t stand for FRAUD in Texas, and I will FIGHT it until the end!” -Ronny Jackson, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 12:30 pm |
| 817. | 1/6/2020 “FIGHT FOR TRUMP! #StopTheSteal” -Ronny Jackson, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 9:01 am |
| 818. | 1/6/2021 “I’m going to protest, and I’m going to object to certification of the ballots from some of the states. And the reason I’m doing that is because I think that the vote was unconstitutional. And I say that because the Constitution is very clear Chad. It says that the state legislatures are the only people in the state that can prescribe the conduct of the election. And in these particular states, where I think there was unbelievable fraud, I think what lead to that fraud was people outside of the state legislature unconstitutionally changing election laws at the last minute to advantage the Democrats in this race and open things up for voter fraud.” -Ronny Jackson via Jody Smyers, “Rep. Ronny Jackson Explains Opposition To Electoral Vote Count [INTERVIEW],” kfyo.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 81. REPRESENTATIVE CHRIS JACOBS (R-NY) | |
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| 819. | 1/6/2021 “There is no question the presidential election was contentious and conducted under trying circumstances, leading several states to make unprecedented changes to their electoral systems without the authorization of their respective state legislatures as the Constitution dictates. This troubling fact, along with countless reports of election irregularities, has left many Americans with valid concerns about the integrity of the November 3rd presidential election because these concerns have yet to be properly adjudicated… I do not take this decision lightly, but for these reasons feel it necessary to object to the certification of the electoral votes from contested states.” -Chris Jacobs, “Jacobs Statement on Objecting to the Certification of the Electoral College,” jacobs.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 82. REPRESENTATIVE BILL JOHNSON (R-OH) | |
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| 820. | 11/7/2020 “‘Decision desks’ at MSM outlets do not get final say on the outcome of our elections. Their calls are meaningless w/ no legal weight. It’s not over until all legal ballots are counted, all illegal ballots discarded & all legal challenges resolved. Carry on, Mr. President.” -Bill Johnson, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 12:26 pm |
| 821. | 11/10/2020 “This weekend, I joined a letter that was sent to AG Barr asking for an investigation into the reports of voter fraud. And I am happy to report he has quickly authorized investigations into these claims. Our elections must remain fair and free.” -Bill Johnson, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 3:26 pm |
| 822. | 11/17/2020 “Everyone knows that dead people did vote in the 2020 election.” -Bill Johnson, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 9:46 pm |
| 823. | 12/10/2020 “The president has every right to insist his legal challenges be heard. Some of the voting irregularities in several swing states involve Constitutional issues…in my opinion. That’s why I signed on to an amicus brief with 105 of my House colleagues encouraging the Supreme Court to hear the Texas lawsuit [challenging election results in four states]. It deserves to be heard…Americans must have faith in the integrity and legitimacy of our election system, regardless of who ultimately wins.” -Bill Johnson, “Johnson Signs House Amicus Brief to Supreme Court,” billjohnson.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 824. | 12/10/2020 “Like you, I’ve read about many of these voting irregularities. They’re troubling. But, the national media has no interest in reporting on the substance of them because it doesn’t fit their liberal, ‘elect Joe Biden at all cost’ narrative. This is also troubling. It’s much easier for them to just dismiss the allegations as ‘baseless’ or ‘without merit.’ President Trump is certainly within his legal rights to continue his challenges, and I support his efforts.” -Bill Johnson, “Johnson Signs House Amicus Brief to Supreme Court,” billjohnson.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 825. | 12/15/2020 “While it’s undoubtedly true that the Electoral College voted to make Joe Biden our 46th president, it’s also true that the 2020 election was tainted with credible allegations of voter fraud, irregularities, and media bias at a level not seen in the modern era. It will take many years before tens of millions of voters will trust the system again.” -Bill Johnson via Taylor Popielarz, “Which Ohio Republicans Publicly Accept Joe Biden Won,” spectrumnews1.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 826. | 1/5/2021 “In 2005, former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker co-chaired a bipartisan commission on election reform. Their official report stated that mail-in voting ‘remains the largest source of potential voter fraud.’ Given that 2020 saw more mail-in voting than anytime in American history, it’s no surprise that there are hundreds of sworn affidavits that point to instances of potential fraud and election irregularities.” -Bill Johnson, “Bill Johnson Statement on the 2021 Electoral College Certification,” billjohnson.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 827. | 1/5/2021 “On Wednesday, I will support objections to the certification of the Electoral College vote of Pennsylvania, and possibly other states on grounds that they: potentially violated the U.S. Constitution; disregarded their own state election laws; and/or failed to count all legal ballots. The Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media hide behind bullying, spin, and carefully crafted talking points to distract from this fact. But most of the people I represent know the truth – that between the news media acting as the public relations department of the Democrat party, Big Tech’s big thumb on the social media and search results scales, and credible allegations of election fraud in some states, many believe the 2020 election wasn’t fair.” -Bill Johnson, “Bill Johnson Statement on the 2021 Electoral College Certification,” billjohnson.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 828. | 1/5/2021 “While some courts have reviewed these [fraud] allegations, many dismissed them on a partisan basis. The most egregious of these was in Pennsylvania – led by a liberal Democrat governor, a liberal Democrat Attorney General and liberal Democrats on the state supreme court. Despite the fact that Article VII Section 14 of the Pennsylvania Constitution does not permit mass mail-in voting, Pennsylvania officials allowed it anyway.” -Bill Johnson, “Bill Johnson Statement on the 2021 Electoral College Certification,” billjohnson.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 829. | 1/6/2021 “I rise in support of this objection and to give voice to the 249,386 men and women of Ohio’s Sixth Congressional District who have had their voices silenced by the rogue political actors in Pennsylvania who unilaterally and unconstitutionally altered voting methods to benefit the Democratic candidate for President. Secretaries of state and State supreme courts cannot simply ignore the rules governing elections set forth in the Constitution. They cannot choose to usurp their state legislatures to achieve a partisan end, Constitution be damned.” -Bill Johnson, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 83. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA) | |
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| 830. | 11/4/2020 “The President [Trump] is right to be deeply concerned about a number of irregularities and what does appear to be fraud in some of these states.” -Mike Johnson, “Congressman Johnson re-elected for 4th Congressional District,” kalb.com, November 4, 2020 |
| 831. | 11/7/2020 “We are in this fight — because when every single legal vote is counted, every American’s right is protected.” -Mike Johnson, Facebook.com, November 7, 2020 12:26 pm |
| 832. | 11/9/2020 “President Trump called me last night and I was encouraged to hear his continued resolve to ensure that every LEGAL vote gets properly counted and that all instances of fraud and illegality are investigated and prosecuted. Fair elections are worth fighting for!” -Mike Johnson, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 10:03 am |
| 833. | 11/10/2020 “There is a lot of what we believe to be credible allegations of fraud and irregularity there [Georgia] and it has to be properly investigated… [Trump] wants to ensure that every single legal vote gets properly counted. And he knows that every instance of fraud and illegality have got to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” -Mike Johnson, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 3:36 pm |
| 834. | 11/17/2020 “All of us know intuitively that there was a lot amiss about this election day… The fact that all these states with Democrat leaders changed the [election] rules in the 4th quarter of the game, late this year, and they decided to allow for all these late mail-in ballots, the voting machines, some of them being rigged with the software by Dominion. Look, there’s a lot of merit to that. And when the President says the election is rigged, that’s what he’s talking about. The fix was in.” -Mike Johnson, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 1:55 pm |
| 835. | 12/3/2020 “We owe it to every single American citizen to root out and prosecute the fraud that has occurred. The integrity and reliability of our election system MUST be restored!” -Mike Johnson, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 1:25 pm |
| 836. | 12/10/2020 “Proud to lead over 100 of my colleagues in filing an amicus brief to express our concern with the integrity of the 2020 election–& our election system in the future. We believe this suit filed by Texas, supported by 17 other states, merits full & careful consideration by SCOTUS.” -Mike Johnson, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 8:50 pm |
| 837. | 1/6/2021 “We must vote to sustain objections to slates of electors submitted by States that we genuinely believe clearly violated the Constitution in the Presidential election of 2020. This is the threshold legal question before us, and it is an issue before us for the State of Arizona… Because judges and not the State legislature changed the rules of the election, Arizona clearly violated the plain language of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution in its selection of Presidential electors… That usurpation was repeated across the country this year. It is the primary reason—it is one of the reasons why the election of 2020 became riddled with an unprecedented number of serious allegations of fraud and irregularities all over the country… The slates of electors produced under those modified laws are thus unconstitutional. They are not ‘regularly given’ or ‘lawfully certified,’ as required by the Electoral Count Act, and they are invalid on their face.” -Mike Johnson, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 84. REPRESENTATIVE JIM JORDAN (R-OH) | |
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| 838. | 11/5/2020 “Why is it always Democrat-run cities in swing states that experience voting issues? Election integrity!” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:26 am |
| 839. | 11/6/2020 “Now isn’t it convenient how this always seems to happen in Democrat-run cities? Election integrity!” [Note: This tweet quoted a tweet that read, “The Postal Service discovered more than 1,000 ballots in Philadelphia facilities and 300 in Pittsburgh on Thursday and is rushing them to election officials ahead of a 5pm Friday deadline, according to a court filing posted just after midnight.”] -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:24 am |
| 840. | 11/6/2020 “It’s worse than we thought. I’ve been in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the last three days. I want you to think about this: over 100,000 provisional ballots — record number in the state of Pennsylvania. Allowing votes to be counted after the election, contrary to state law, contrary… to the US Constitution, allowing those votes to come in after election day, to not be separates as was required.” -Jim Jordan in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:03 pm |
| 841. | 11/7/2020 “Pennsylvania’s Democrat Secretary of State directed officials to count mail-in ballots even if the signatures on the ballot didn’t match. How can the state guarantee election integrity?” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 10:29 am |
| 842. | 11/9/2020 “Why did Pennsylvania Democrats exclude poll watchers during the vote count?” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 8:31 pm |
| 843. | 11/10/2020 “When you just flood what I call live ballots out to people… that is a recipe for disaster. And what we also think is it’s a recipe for cheating, a recipe for fraud. Now I’m not saying that took place, but we’ve got all these irregularities around the country in key states, all we’re saying is, let’s check it out.” -Jim Jordan in an interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 8:24 pm |
| 844. | 11/10/2020 “72 million Americans instinctively know something’s not right here. And if you just look at the state of Pennsylvania, where unequal treatment of the voters in that state, some counties allowed voters to cure their ballots in that state, some didn’t… and you can imagine which counties allowed those things to happen… What are the Democrats trying to hide? Let’s get to the bottom of this, let’s count every legal vote.” -Jim Jordan in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 10:42 pm |
| 845. | 11/10/2020 “That is the danger, when you just blanket out live ballots, you just throw them out there, that is a recipe for mischief, a recipe for problems… [Democrats] knew President Trump was going to win on election night, but they wanted to keep looking for and finding and counting ballots until they got over the top. And that’s what we’ve seen play out.” -Jim Jordan in an interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, November 11, 2020 8:17 pm |
| 846. | 11/11/2020 “When you got 72 million people who think something doesn’t smell right, something needs to be investigated here, something doesn’t look right, it doesn’t feel right. It is not good just to say ‘we got to move on, can’t look at that. Don’t look behind the curtain here. Nothing to see here.’ That’s a problem. There’s probably some reasonable people on the other side who are thinking like, yeah, this does seem weird. They [Republicans] picked up seats in the House. They won all these state legislatures. They kept all those. The Senate stayed red. The pollster said they were going to lose everything. They’re going to lose the Senate. They want to lose a bunch of seats in the House. And all this happens. Donald Trump gets nine million more votes [than in 2016] and he comes up short? Yeah, come on. Something doesn’t sit?.. And we’re not done yet figuring out what happened in this election.” -Jim Jordan, “Rep. Jim Jordan: ’72 Million People Think Something Doesn’t Smell Right,’” radio.foxnews.com, November 11, 2020 |
| 847. | 11/14/2020 “We need to investigate… the integrity of this election. When you have all these affidavits, you have all these concerns, you have the situations where 6,000 votes in Michigan went for Biden but they were actually supposed to go for President Trump… Why didn’t Democrats want Republicans to observe the count?” -Jim Jordan in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 9:43 pm |
| 848. | 11/15/2020 “So many Americans, 73 million, have concerns about what took place in the presidential election… It’s important we get to the bottom of exactly what happened in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, all these key swing states.” -Jim Jordan in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 15, 2020 4:33 pm |
| 849. | 11/17/2020 “Today in Georgia, you had two counties — now, there are 159 counties in Georgia — you had of them today, just, shazam, found votes. We had missing memory cards. And both of them were to the benefit of President Trump… What’s wrong with four weeks of investigating this election, with all the irregularities, in all these key swing states, let’s just let the process play out.” -Jim Jordan in an interview on Fox Business, video via Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 7:17 pm |
| 850. | 11/18/2020 “Two weeks after Election Day: -They’re still counting votes in New York, California, and Iowa. -They keep finding votes in the Georgia recount. -Who knows what’s happening in Pennsylvania. Election integrity!” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 10:36 am |
| 851. | 11/18/2020 “The same people [Democrats] who: -Spied on President Trump’s campaign -Promoted the Russia hoax -Impeached the President because of a phone call -Called rioters and looters ‘peaceful protestors’ Want you to now believe there was nothing wrong with the integrity of the 2020 election.” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 4:29 pm |
| 852. | 11/18/2020 “We urge you to immediately convene hearings to examine the integrity of the 2020 election amid troubling reports of irregularities and improprieties… [A]llegations have been made that local officials in some Pennsylvania counties are restricting the ability of campaign watchers to properly observe officials processing absentee and mail-in ballots… After the state [of California] began mailing ballots, reports surfaced of voters receiving duplicate ballots, voters receiving multiple ballots containing different versions of their name, and receiving ballots that belonged to someone else… Recent events in Georgia also raise concerns over election irregularities During a state audit, county officials unearthed over 5,000 previously uncounted ballots… These serious concerns give rise to the urgent need for congressional oversight of the integrity of the 2020 election.” -Jim Jordan and James Comer, Letter to House Committee on the Judiciary and Committee on Oversight and Reform, Twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP, November 18, 2020, 9:24 pm |
| 853. | 11/19/2020 “There’s probably 73 million Americans who have real concerns about this election.. all the irregularities we’ve seen, all the affidavits that have been signed… with all this taking place, why don’t we investigate in Congress?” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Fox News, Twitter.com, November 19, 2020 10:56 pm |
| 854. | 11/20/2020 “Senator Elizabeth Warren, and other Democrats, raised questions about #DominionVotingSystems in 2019. 73 million Americans are wondering why they don’t care now. Election integrity!” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 20, 2020 1:36 pm |
| 855. | 11/27/2020 “What happened in Pennsylvania is an embarrassment to our electoral system. The American people deserve answers.” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 27, 2020 4:42 pm |
| 856. | 11/30/2020 “Why don’t Democrats want to double-check signatures on ballots? Election integrity!” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 5:42 pm |
| 857. | 12/1/2020 “I have never seen an election, Lou, where we saw this many crazy things, this many strange things happen… We have to exhaust every possible avenue we can find to get to the truth and figure out what happened. All the strange things that took place in this election, we deserve to get to the bottom— they deserve to know what happened. Think about this, Lou, 74 million Americans voted for President Trump. 70% of that number, over 50 million people, one-third of the electorate, think the election was fraudulent, think this election was rigged… There are far too many questions, far too many eyewitnesses.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Fox Business, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 6:34 pm |
| 858. | 12/2/2020 “74 million Americans instinctively know something wasn’t right with this election… something isn’t right here… 70% of those individuals think the election was rigged… You’re right about this Dominion system. We need to look into those and figure out exactly what took place here. Because some on the anomalies that took place in the wee hours of November 4th, where these votes came back in, these batches came back in, and they were overwhelmingly for Vice President Biden, just don’t make sense.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Newsmax, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 9:00 pm |
| 859. | 12/4/2020 “Over 50 million Americans think this election was stolen. That’s more than one third of the electorate. For that reason alone, we owe it to the country to investigate election integrity.” -Jim Jordan, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 10:55 am |
| 860. | 12/4/2020 “66 people have testified in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, in these election fraud hearings… Over 200 people have signed affidavits or declarations saying there was fraud in this election, and now we have this video… Why don’t Democrats want to get to the answers, and why don’t Democrats want to investigate?… You have one third of the American people who participated in a national, presidential election who think it was false.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Newsmax, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 12:47 pm |
| 861. | 12/6/2020 “Over 70% of [Trump voters] think there is a major problem with this election. They think it was stolen, they think it was rigged. When you have a third of the electorate who feel like the election was stolen, that is a major problem… How did the president get 11 million more votes [than in 2016] and lose?… It makes absolutely no sense. Americans instinctively know there was a problem with this election.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Newsmax, Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 5:25 pm |
| 862. | 12/8/2020 “[President Trump] should not concede. Everyone knows, instinctively, everyone knows there are problems with this election.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Newsmax, Twitter.com, December 8, 2020 6:36 pm |
| 863. | 12/16/2020 “Many Republicans think this election was rigged… We have more than a third of the electorate which believes the election was stolen, that is not a healthy situation for the nation. For that reason alone, we should be doing everything we can to investigate this, we should be having more hearings, so we can get to the truth and reassure the American people that in the future, we’re not going to have the kinds of complications and shenanigans that went on in this election.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Newsmax, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 9:41 pm |
| 864. | 12/18/2020 “In light of everything that’s transpired in this election, all the strange things that we have seen, the fact that the President got 11 million more votes but somehow didn’t win… all the specific examples of fraud we have seen. I think it’s important we have a debate on the House floor.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with OAN, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 3:49 pm |
| 865. | 1/3/2021 “It’s about the Constitution… Take Pennsylvania, for example. Pennsylvania state law says the election ends at 8:00 on election day. The Supreme Court in Pennsylvania says, ‘Nope, we’re going to extend it three days until 5:00 on Friday.’ State law in Pennsylvania says for every absentee mail-in ballot, there has to be a signature verification. The secretary of state in Pennsylvania says, ‘Nope, we’re not going to do that.” She just unilaterally went around the law for 2.6 million mail-in ballots… So when the time, place, and manner is not adhered to that the legislature set, that is a direct violation of the Constitution. And that disenfranchises voters in the district that I get the privilege of representing… and countless number of people around the county… Democrats want the chaos and confusion created around mail-in voting… because they were going to win the election after the election, and that’s what they did with this crazy mail-in ballot scheme… in an unconstitutional fashion.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Fox News, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 11:41 am |
| 866. | 1/5/2021 “What we will show tomorrow on the House floor, is a pattern that Democrats undertook in all these states that we plan to object too. And the pattern is real basic. They couldn’t do it in a constitutional fashion, so they changed election law in an unconstitutional manner. And then once they did that, there was fraud on top of the unconstitutional way they ran the election.” -Jim Jordan in an interview with Fox Business, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 5:45 pm |
| 867. | 1/5/2021 “We know that happened. You had state supreme courts, you had governors, you had secretaries of states, in some cases you had county clerks changing — unilaterally changing the election law in an unconstitutional fashion because the Constitution is very clear –it’s the legislature that sets the time, manner, and place of elections.” -Jim Jordan via Susan Jones, “Rep. Jordan: ‘Only One Remedy Left’ to Check Electoral ‘End-Run’ Around State Legislatures,” cnsnews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 868. | 1/6/2021 “Americans instinctively know there was something wrong with this election. During the campaign, Vice President Biden would do an event and he would get 50 people at the event. President Trump, at just one rally, gets 50,000 people… But somehow the guy who never left his house wins the election? Eighty million Americans, 80 million of our fellow citizens, Republicans and Democrats, have doubts about this election; and 60 million people, 60 million Americans think it was stolen… They [Democrats] changed the rules. They changed the election law and they did it in an unconstitutional fashion, and that is what we are going to show over the next several hours of debate… They did an end-run around the Constitution in every State that Republicans will object to today. Every single one. It was a pattern. It was their template. They did it in Arizona. They did it in Georgia. They did it in Michigan. They did it in Pennsylvania. They did it in Nevada. They did it in Wisconsin.” -Jim Jordan, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 869. | 1/6/2021 “In Arizona, the law says voter registration ends on October 5. Democrats said: We don’t care what the law says… Pennsylvania, same thing. Pennsylvania laws says mail-in ballots have to be in by 8 p.m. election day. Democrat Supreme Court said: Nope. We are going to extend it… Pennsylvania law says mail-in ballots require signature verification. Democrat secretary of state said: Nope. I am going to decide by myself that it doesn’t, for 2.6 million ballots.” -Jim Jordan, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 85. REPRESENTATIVE JOHN JOYCE (R-PA) | |
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| 870. | 11/6/2020 “Pennsylvanians and the American people deserve a fair, free, safe, secure, and legitimate election. We must have a transparent process. Every LEGAL ballot should be counted.” -John Joyce, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:29 am |
| 871. | 11/6/2020 “We must ensure that our election is fair, free, safe, secure, legitimate – and transparent. I’m calling on AG Barr & DOJ to safeguard the integrity of the election and ensure that every American’s legally-cast ballot is counted once.” -John Joyce, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:22 pm |
| 872. | 11/6/2020 “In Pennsylvania and around the country, we must ensure that this election is fair, free, safe, secure, legitimate – and transparent. Today I am joining with fellow Members of Congress to urge U.S. Attorney General Barr and the Department of Justice to safeguard the integrity of the election and ensure that every American’s legally-cast ballot is counted once. For the sake of our nation, we must work together across the federal, state, and local levels to ensure that the results of this election are legitimate and fair.” -John Joyce, “Dr. Joyce Urges DOJ to Ensure a Fair, Free, Transparent, and Legitimate Election,” johnjoyce.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 873. | 11/7/2020 “Pennsylvanians expect a free & fair election – and Pennsylvanians DESERVE a free & fair election. The PA Republican Congressional delegation is demanding that Gov. Wolf and his admin follow the law and ensure that every legal ballot is counted once.” -John Joyce, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 4:30 pm |
| 874. | 12/2/2020 “In a letter to AG Barr this week, I urged @TheJusticeDept to take courageous action to safeguard the integrity of the election & ensure that every American’s legal vote is counted once. The American people deserve, and justice demands, action now.” -John Joyce, Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 12:33 pm |
| 875. | 12/10/2020 “Free & fair elections require the American people to have confidence in our electoral system. Today I joined an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to carefully consider the State of Texas’ case against Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia [seeking to overturn results in those states].” -John Joyce, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 4:42 pm |
| 876. | 12/22/2020 “I completely agree with my friend Congressman Mo Brooks – Speaker Nancy Pelosi must allow us to hold election fraud hearings in the House ahead of the January 6 Electoral College vote tally. Members of Congress must have the TRUTH about the legitimacy and transparency of the November 3 election.” -John Joyce, Facebook.com, December 22, 2020 7:56 pm |
| 877. | 12/29/2020 “Like many Americans, I have serious concerns about the Nov. 3 election. Election laws, including Pennsylvania’s Act 77, were hastily passed by state legislatures around the country. Coupled with unprecedented interference from hyper-partisan governors, these new state laws shrouded this year’s election, upsetting longstanding procedures and spurring rabid distrust in the system… Despite Americans’ efforts to discern the facts, we have not seen a meaningful investigation into widespread allegations of election fraud and irregularities, nor — quite frankly — have we witnessed adequate concern from the U.S. Department of Justice or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” -John Joyce, “US democracy must be protected,” altoonamirror.com, December 29, 2020 |
| 878. | 12/31/2020 “For the sake of our liberty and our American values, I will stand up for President @realDonaldTrump – and our American democracy – by objecting to the Electoral College certification on January 6. I will never stop fighting for the TRUTH.” -John Joyce, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 2:02 pm |
| 879. | 12/31/2020 “American democracy is possible only as long as the American people have faith in government ‘of, by, and for the people.’ We cannot have truly free and fair elections unless American voters have confidence in the results. In Pennsylvania, Governor Tom Wolf’s unlawful actions – coupled with the hastily passed Act 77 – shrouded this year’s election and spurred rabid distrust in the system. Despite millions of Americans’ efforts to discern the facts, we have not seen a meaningful investigation into the many legitimate accounts of election fraud and irregularities. For the sake of our liberty and our American values, I will stand up for President Trump – and our American democracy – by objecting to the Electoral College certification on January 6.” -John Joyce, “John Joyce Will Object to Electoral College Certification Process on January 6,” johnjoyce.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 880. | 1/5/2021 “Today I signed the official objection to the Pennsylvania electors ahead of tomorrow’s Electoral College certification vote. We must fight for free and fair elections – and the rule of law.” -John Joyce, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 4:15 pm |
| 881. | 1/6/2021 “Tonight, I will object to the Electoral College certification to protect the will of Pennsylvania voters, to uphold the law, to restore trust in our electoral system, and to save our Constitution.” -John Joyce, Facebook.com, January 6, 2021 10:20 pm |
| 882. | 1/6/2021 “We must acknowledge that unconstitutional acts unduly impacted the presidential election in Pennsylvania. Contrary to law, the [state] Supreme Court extended the deadline for mail-in ballots for three days beyond the election day. Contrary to law, the Secretary of the Commonwealth discarded mail-in ballot signature verification safeguards. These leaders took advantage of a deadly pandemic, and seized the state legislature’s rightful authority… I cannot in good faith certify electors that were selected under an unlawful process.” -John Joyce, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 86. REPRESENTATIVE FRED KELLER (R-PA) | |
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| 883. | 11/6/2020 “We must ensure that every legal vote is counted and every illegal ballot is rejected. This must be a transparent process with poll watchers allowed access to the canvassing of ballots, especially in places like Philadelphia where there have been allegations of fraud.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:39 am |
| 884. | 11/9/2020 “Every legal vote must be counted. We will follow the courts as they apply the facts of the cases to the laws as passed by our legislatures. In the meantime, state election officials have been put on notice: Pennsylvanians will not tolerate any interference in this [election] process.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 5:31 pm |
| 885. | 11/14/2020 “The court should apply the merits of the cases presented by the President to the law passed by the general assembly, not to Governor Wolf, not to Secretary Boockvar, and not to the democrat state supreme court that have tried to unilaterally change the rules before this election.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 12:02 pm |
| 886. | 11/9/2020 “The citizens of the United States, not media outlets, determine the outcome of elections. With recounts and legal challenges expected, we must let the process play out. Count every legal vote.” -Fred Keller, “Pennsylvania Republican Congressmen call on state officials to restore trust in PA’s electoral system,” keller.house.gov, November 9, 2020 |
| 887. | 12/2/2020 “The DOJ has a responsibility to ensure the sanctity of our electoral process, and the American taxpayer has a right to know what federal agencies are doing to protect our democracy. Proud to join @RepCloudTX’s letter calling out the stunning lack of action from @TheJusticeDept.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 10:18 am |
| 888. | 12/5/2020 “I joined this effort calling on AG Barr and the DOJ to fully investigate the integrity of the 2020 election because, in the case of alleged election improprieties, justice delayed is justice denied.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 10:35 am |
| 889. | 12/6/2020 “The DOJ has not made a transparent effort to pursue allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election. That’s why I signed onto a letter with 36 others in @HouseGOP to AG Barr expressing concerns over the stunning lack of action by the DOJ. The American people want answers.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, December 6, 2020 4:41 pm |
| 890. | 12/10/2020 “Proud to join more than 100 of my Republican colleagues on an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the sanctity of our vote, guarantee the voices of the electorate are heard, and ensure that Americans have confidence in our election.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 6:00 pm |
| 891. | 12/31/2020 “PA’s Governor, Secretary of State and Supreme Court acted unlawfully to violate the state legislature’s clear, constitutional authority to set election procedure. Until these actions are addressed, I cannot support electors chosen based on an inaccurate vote count.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 1:37 pm |
| 892. | 1/5/2021 “Pennsylvania’s election was a free-for-all with no oversight and different standards applied throughout the Commonwealth. Officials at the highest levels of state government acted unlawfully to circumvent the General Assembly’s constitutional authority to set election law.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 1:46 pm |
| 893. | 1/5/2021 “The constitution is clear — the U.S. Constitution, the Pennsylvania constitution — clear about the authority with the General Assembly to set election law. And we know that the Governor and the Secretary of State violated that when they extended the ballots, three days after the election. The signature match, and the pre-canvassing and the curing of ballots. So they put out guidance that was in contradiction to the Constitution.” -Fred Keller in an interview with Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 1:46 pm |
| 894. | 1/5/2021 “Tomorrow I will object to the certification of electors where there were clear violations of the Constitution.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 6:35 pm |
| 895. | 1/6/2021 “Gov. Wolf and officials at the highest levels of PA state government violated the Constitution, and their unlawful actions led to a flawed total vote count. Today is the day Congress holds them accountable.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:30 am |
| 896. | 1/6/2021 “Today, Congress will meet in a joint session of the House of Representatives and Senate to count the Electoral College votes. I will object to the certification of Pennsylvania’s electors due to unconstitutional actions taken by Gov. Tom Wolf, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that exceeded and circumvented the state Legislature’s clear constitutional authority to set election proceedings. These actions include, but are certainly not limited to, extending the deadline to receive absentee and mail-in ballots; dismissing signature authentication procedures for absentee and mail-in ballots; allowing for the uneven administration of the election across counties; and unilaterally changing Pennsylvania’s Election Code without the state Legislature’s consent… Pennsylvania’s executive and judicial branches acted together to unilaterally change Pennsylvania’s election law and usurp the state Legislature’s constitutional authority.” -Fred Keller, “Standing up for election integrity,” sungazette.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 897. | 1/6/2021 “In September, the Democrat-majority Pennsylvania Supreme Court unilaterally extended the statutory deadline for absentee and mail-in ballots to be received by three days after Election Day. This order directly violated Pennsylvania law, which holds that all completed absentee and mail-in ballots be received by ‘no later than eight o’clock p.m. on the day of the primary or election.’ Litigation regarding this last-minute change is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.” -Fred Keller, “Standing up for election integrity,” sungazette.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 898. | 1/6/2021 “In October, after Secretary Boockvar issued guidance that election officials would no longer reject a ballot based on a failure to verify the voter’s signature, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that election officials did not have to authenticate signatures for absentee and mail-in ballots. This new policy usurped the Legislature’s authority and treated mail voters differently than in-person voters because election officials still had to match signatures of in-person voters at polling locations.” -Fred Keller, “Standing up for election integrity,” sungazette.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 899. | 1/6/2021 “Then, two days before the Nov. 3 election, Secretary Boockvar once again violated the state Legislature’s authority by issuing new guidance extending the deadline for absentee and mail-in voters to provide missing proof of identification from Nov. 9 to Nov. 12. This directly violated Pennsylvania law… Additionally, Secretary Boockvar issued last-minute guidance allowing for the uneven administration of the election across counties in Pennsylvania.” -Fred Keller, “Standing up for election integrity,” sungazette.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 900. | 1/6/2021 “Article II of the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures — not the governor acting alone and not the courts — the explicit power to determine the manner of appointing presidential electors… The facts are clear: Gov. Tom Wolf and the PA Supreme Court acted together to change Pennsylvania’s election law, usurp the state Legislature’s authority, and violate the Constitution.” -Fred Keller, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:40 pm |
| 901. | 1/6/2021 “I am objecting to the certification of Pennsylvania’s electoral votes because Governor Tom Wolf, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated the State legislature’s clear constitutional authority to set election proceedings… Pennsylvania’s court unlawfully extended the deadline to receive absentee and mail-in ballots. Governor Wolf’s administration dismissed signature authentication procedures for absentee and mail-in ballots, allowed for the uneven administration of the election across counties, and unilaterally changed Pennsylvania’s election code without the State legislature’s consent.” -Fred Keller, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 902. | 1/8/2021 “My objection during last night’s joint session was narrowly focused on the constitutional violations that occurred in Pennsylvania. Governor Wolf, Secretary of State Boockvar, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court robbed the state Legislature’s clear constitutional authority to set election proceedings, and Attorney General Shapiro turned a blind eye.” -Fred Keller, “Congressman Keller statement on certification of President-Elect Biden,” keller.house.gov, January 8, 2021 |
| 87. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE KELLY (R-PA) | |
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| 903. | 11/5/2020 “This election is not over and our president and the American people should not quit. We all need to play through the ‘echo of the whistle’ to ensure that this election is free and fair, where every LEGAL vote is counted. That is the only acceptable outcome. Anything less will be a stain on our electoral system that will do irreparable harm to our republic. I stand with @realdonaldtrump during this process.” -Mike Kelly, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:17 pm |
| 904. | 11/7/2020 “In our representative republic, it is not the media who declares the winner of elections. Right now, the Trump Campaign is engaged in several court cases to determine the integrity of the vote in multiple states. None of those states have officially certified their vote counts, and investigations into voting irregularities are ongoing. The winner of the election will be determined by the law, not media projections.” -Mike Kelly, “Rep. Kelly Statement on Media Declaring Joe Biden President-Elect,” kelly.house.gov, November 7, 2020 |
| 905. | 11/21/2020 “The November 3, 2020, General Election was administered by Pennsylvania election officials pursuant to Act 77, which included allowing for universal, no-excuse mail-in ballots to be counted, in violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution… Plaintiffs respectfully request that this Honorable Court enter a declaratory judgment… declaring invalid any certification of results that include the tabulation of unauthorized votes, including mail-in ballots which did not meet the Constitutional requirements.” -Mike Kelly, et al., Mike Kelly, U.S. Congressman, et al. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al., election.conservative.org, November 21, 2020 |
| 906. | 12/3/2020 “Respondents have begun the steps necessary to certify the results of the Election, which was undertaken pursuant to an unconstitutional, no-excuse absentee voting scheme. Absent intervention by this Court, Respondents will complete the process of certifying the results of an election, and potentially cast electoral college votes for president and vice president, conducted in a manner which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has long rejected as unconstitutional.” -Mike Kelly, et al., “Emergency Application for Writ of Injunction Pending the Filing and Disposition of a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari,” supremecourt.gov, December 3, 2020 |
| 907. | 12/12/2020 “Last night we filed a writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court asking them to hear our argument on the constitutionality of Act 77’s mail-in voting scheme. SCOTUS should agree with Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, who stated we were likely to win on the merits of our case before the partisan Supreme Court of Pennsylvania tossed our suit on a technicality. Even a remedy that includes prospective relief, meaning for future elections, would be a win for Pennsylvanians who were harmed when the voting laws were changed without amending the Pennsylvania Constitution, the supreme law of the Commonwealth that outlines explicitly who is eligible to vote by means other than in-person.” -Mike Kelly, Facebook.com, December 12, 2020 3:10 pm |
| 908. | 12/14/2020 “I’m looking at what happened in this election, and we really believe that we were harmed, and we have a case based on merit, not on some type of partisan idea. There was a great deal of fraud; there was a great deal of corruption.” -Mike Kelly via Daniel Moore, “Rep. Mike Kelly, backing President Trump’s challenge of Pa. ballots, is ‘not ready to shake hands’ with Biden,” post-gazette.com, December 14, 2020 |
| 909. | 12/21/2020 “We are asking the Supreme Court to #HearOurCase and find that Governor Wolf has acted outside the scope of the Pennsylvania Constitution when he signed Act 77.” -Mike Kelly, Facebook.com, December 21, 2020 3:17 pm |
| 910. | 12/24/2020 “I am honored that so many of my colleagues from Pennsylvania and across the country have joined our fight to protect the Pennsylvania Constitution, which states clearly how voters are to cast their votes in the Commonwealth. If Governor Wolf and the legislature wanted to create another method of voting, they should have amended the Pennsylvania Constitution, which requires, among other factors, placing the question on the ballot for Pennsylvanians to consent.” -Mike Kelly, “Twenty Eight Members of Congress File Amicus Brief Supporting Representative Kelly’s Lawsuit Challenging Pennsylvania’s Unconstitutional Mail-in Ballot System,” kelly.house.gov, December 24, 2020 |
| 911. | 1/5/2021 “Today I signed the official objection to Pennsylvania’s electors. Act 77’s unconstitutional no excuse mail-in ballot scheme and Governor Wolf’s disregard for election law tainted the vote, so I will oppose certification tomorrow.” -Mike Kelly, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 5:02 pm |
| 912. | 1/6/2021 “Now, Pennsylvania could change that [voting] law, but it is done through an amendment to the constitution. It is not just done because somebody would like to see that done. We had a mail ballot that was available. It was an absentee ballot. We did not have a no-excuse ballot… They actually did take a vote, and it was overwhelming. But then they scrapped it, and they put it in an omnibus bill. That is an unconstitutional change. You cannot do it. It is that simple… It is unconstitutional.” -Mike Kelly, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 913. | 1/7/2021 “I still objected to Pennsylvania’s slate of electors. The tragic attack on the U.S. Capitol does not change the fact that Act 77’s no excuse mail-in ballot system violates the Pennsylvania Constitution and Governor Wolf and Secretary Boockvar disregarded the law in multiple ways leading up to the election.” -Mike Kelly, “Kelly Statement on Breach of U.S. Capitol and Objection to Pennsylvania’s Electors,” kelly.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 88. REPRESENTATIVE TRENT KELLY (R-MS) | |
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| 914. | 11/8/2020 “I stand with President Trump! The election isn’t over until all legal votes are counted and all legal challenges have been addressed.” -Trent Kelly, Facebook.com, November 8, 2020 3:43 pm |
| 89. REPRESENTATIVE DAVID KUSTOFF (R-TN) | |
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| 915. | 11/9/2020 “We must continue to ensure our elections are transparent and fair for all Americans by counting all legal ballots. The President is within his rights to ensure that any possible voting irregularities are investigate and brought before the judicial system.” -David Kustoff, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 7:06 pm |
| 916. | 1/6/2021 “I have heard and listened to countless West Tennesseans who are concerned about the integrity of the 2020 election… Numerous sworn affidavits with election irregularities remain unsolved, including reports of voter fraud, violation of election laws, and the casting of illegal ballots. These irregularities are worthy of further discussion and debate by the House of Representatives before there is a vote for certification. The people of West Tennessee want a thorough investigation and debate conducted into these allegations of fraud and irregularities… Therefore, today I will object to certification.” -David Kustoff, Facebook.com, January 6, 2021 1:08 pm |
| 90. REPRESENTATIVE DARIN LAHOOD (R-IL) | |
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| 917. | 1/6/2021 “Like many of my constituents, I share the concerns about irregularities in the presidential election in states that circumvented their state legislatures to make election-law changes. The cornerstone of our democracy is the integrity of our elections and ensuring that every vote is cast legally and without controversy is vital to our entire country. Congress and our nation have more work to do to ensure that every citizen has confidence in the electoral system.” -Darin LaHood, “Rep. LaHood Statement on Electoral College Vote Certification,” lahood.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 91. REPRESENTATIVE DOUG LAMALFA (R-CA) | |
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| 918. | 11/6/2020 “The circumstances surrounding this Presidential election point to a fraudulent outcome. The reports we’ve seen of non-residents, deceased voters, potential mail fraud, and partisan poll watching are deeply concerning and must be challenged. Every legal vote must be counted to preserve the integrity of our Republic and faith in our electoral system.” -Doug LaMalfa, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 12:47 pm |
| 919. | 11/6/2020 “I joined several of my House Republican colleagues in sending a letter to Attorney General Barr expressing concern about the widespread reports of irregularities in the vote counting process in several states. The Justice Department should be using all of the resources at their disposal to ensure that only legal votes are being counted in a fully transparent manner. The American people deserve to have full confidence in the result of this Presidential election.” -Doug LaMalfa, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 4:56 pm |
| 920. | 11/16/2020 “The president’s team has hundreds of sworn affidavits from election workers, postal employees, and elections observers everywhere, about questionable activities in key states… the American people have a right to know that every legal votes has been counted, and all illegal votes removed.” -Doug LaMalfa, Speech on the House floor, video via Facebook.com, November 16, 2020 7:30pm |
| 921. | 12/1/2020 “America has gone from election day to election months, due to early voting, extensive mail balloting, and late ballots being accepted. Many of these ballots are turned in by paid operatives through ‘ballot harvesting’ or mailed and arrive after the election, giving rise to claims of fraud. This extends the counting of ballots for weeks, rather than Americans having the results on election night… If Americans don’t trust the way ballots are counted, they will never trust the outcome of the election and we cannot move forward. Why can’t we have election results on election night or within a few days in the closest of races? Why is California accepting mailed ballots all the way to November 20th, but in Georgia that ended on Election Day? This election was a complete fiasco with rules being changed repeatedly by out-of-control Governors, a prime example being Gavin Newsom.” -Doug LaMalfa, “LaMalfa Introduces Election Certainty Act,” lamalfa.house.gov, December 1, 2020 |
| 922. | 1/5/2021 “Millions of Americans and tens of thousands of my constituents have serious questions and concerns about the November election. There has been an endless dripping of reports of mishandled ballots, numbers not adding up and outright violations of the U.S. Constitution’s clear direction for setting election rules. These questions must be answered and no amount of media spin or declarations of ‘nothing to see here, move along’ will change the concerns that many of us share… I will be joining with Senator Ted Cruz and many other members of Congress to challenge the electoral college certification until a Congressional investigation is complete.” -Doug LaMalfa, Facebook.com, January 5, 2021 6:26 pm |
| 92. REPRESENTATIVE DOUG LAMBORN (R-CO) | |
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| 923. | 11/6/2020 “For 4 years, @realDonaldTrump fought for us against the corrupt media, big tech bias, and radical Dems. Now we need to fight for him. The American people deserve transparency, accuracy, & integrity. Every LEGAL vote should be counted, and every ILLEGAL vote should not.” -Doug Lamborn, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:00 am |
| 924. | 12/10/2020 “I’m pleased to join @RepMikeJohnson and my @HouseGOP colleagues on an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in support of the Texas v. Pennsylvania case. This brief presents the unconstitutional irregularities rampant in @realDonaldTrump’s election. The SC must investigate.” -Doug Lamborn, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 5:40 pm |
| 925. | 1/4/2021 “A free and fair election system is one of the fundamental building blocks of our republic. As a Member of Congress, I took an oath to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law. The serious irregularities and improprieties marring the 2020 general election threaten America’s confidence in our electoral system. My constituents deserve to know that the 2020 election was free of fraud, which is why on January 6th, I will object to certifying the Electoral College votes of Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan. Congress must closely and thoroughly examine the allegations of voter fraud and take appropriate steps to restore trust in the election process.” -Doug Lamborn, “Congressman Lamborn Will Object to Electoral College Certification,” lamborn.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 93. JACOB LATURNER (R-KS) | |
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| 94. REPRESENTATIVE DEBBIE LESKO (R-AZ) | |
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| 926. | 11/6/2020 “Thank you @HouseAdmnGOP @RodneyDavis for your dedication to help ensure that all legal Arizona votes are counted.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:07 am |
| 927. | 11/6/2020 “I have come to realize that President Trump is often right on things that people criticize him about at first. There may be some funny business that has been going on [in the election]. So, it needs to be fully investigated and when it’s all over, I hope that the President wins.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:30 pm |
| 928. | 12/11/2020 “I am proud to join over 100 colleagues on an amicus brief asking #SCOTUS to consider the suit from Texas and expressing our concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. The American people deserve to have confidence in our election process.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 2:02 pm |
| 929. | 11/25/2020 “We must protect the integrity of our elections. Free and fair elections are essential to our democracy. That includes: ✔️Counting every legal vote ✔️Ensuring transparency in the process” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 2:06 pm |
| 930. | 11/30/2020 “I signed onto @RepAndyBiggsAZ’s resolution recognizing that President @realDonaldTrump has every right to ensure that every legal vote is counted and to bring legal challenges forward to protect the integrity of our election process.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 11:58 am |
| 931. | 12/19/2020 “I signed on to @RepKenBuck’s resolution to support President @realDonaldTrump’s efforts to ensure that every LEGAL vote is counted in the 2020 election and to bring those who committed election fraud to justice.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, December 19, 2020 5:45 pm |
| 932. | 12/21/2020 “Americans must have confidence in the integrity of our elections and electoral processes. I have signed on to multiple resolutions & amicus briefs to support efforts to count every legal vote & investigate fraud & support @realDonaldTrump’s right to challenge any irregularities.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 1:37 pm |
| 933. | 12/22/2020 “I have signed onto THREE pieces of legislation to address the integrity of the 2020 election to: ✅Support all efforts to count every legal vote and investigate fraud ✅Support @realDonaldTrump’s efforts to count every legal vote ✅Repeal Motor Voter laws that can lead to fraud” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 12:53 pm |
| 934. | 12/22/2020 “I signed on to an amicus brief in support of @MikeKellyPA’s case asking #SCOTUS to prevent the state of Pennsylvania from certifying its 2020 election results because Pennsylvania’s voting laws and procedures violated both the Pennsylvania and U.S. Constitutions.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 10:21 am |
| 935. | 1/6/2021 “After much deliberation and consultation with constitutional attorneys, I decided to agree with the objection to Arizona’s electors. Similar to the arguments made in the amicus brief I signed onto in Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al., Arizona violated state law, and thus the United States Constitution, as detailed in the opinion from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In line with upholding my oath to follow the U.S. Constitution, I voted to agree with the objection to Arizona’s electors.” -Debbie Lesko, “Lesko Stands up for Constitution; Agrees with Objection to Arizona Electors,” lesko.house.gov, January 1, 2021 |
| 936. | 1/7/2021 “Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution says that the manner in which presidential elections are conducted must follow state law. After listening to debate and studying evidence, I believe that Pennsylvania did not follow state law while conducting the presidential election and thus violated the U.S. Constitution. In Pennsylvania, state law dictates that the deadline for a county board of elections to receive a mail-in ballot is 8 p.m. on Election Day. Instead of following state law, judges, without any authorization by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, usurped legislative power by extending that deadline to three days after Election Day. The Pennsylvania secretary of state also violated Pennsylvania state law, and thus the U.S. Constitution, by removing the state law mandate that requires all applications for absentee or mail-in ballots for non-disabled and non-military voters be signed by the applicant. In line with upholding my oath to follow the U.S. Constitution, I voted to agree with the objection to Pennsylvania’s electors.” -Debbie Lesko, “Lesko Stands up for Constitution; Agrees with Objection to Pennsylvania Electors,” lesko.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 937. | 1/7/2021 “I voted to uphold the U.S. Constitution by objecting to Arizona’s electors. The U.S. Constitution says that states need to follow their state’s election laws in presidential elections. Since AZ’s voter registration deadline law was violated, the U.S. Constitution was violated.” -Debbie Lesko, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 2:18 am |
| 95. REPRESENTATIVE BILLY LONG (R-MO) | |
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| 938. | 11/5/2020 “@mschlapp [chairman of the American Conservative Union] just said we wouldn’t accept these election results from a Banana Republic. Well said.” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 9:31 pm |
| 939. | 11/6/2020 “@LindseyGrahamSC put up your $500,000 up as a REWARD to be split by no more than the first 10 #WhistleBlowers (who’d get immunity) that provide proof they were involved in the illegal ballot fraud in whatever state.” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 2:26 am |
| 940. | 11/6/2020 “Every LEGAL vote should be counted; every illegal vote should not. The American people deserve transparency and a fair election process. I stand with President @realDonaldTrump in his efforts to ensure that happens.” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:30 am |
| 941. | 11/16/2020 “#Georgia recount unearths more than 2,600 uncounted ballots in Floyd County. #RESIST #IStandWithTrump” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 7:24 pm |
| 942. | 11/24/2020 “If you only watch one clip today watch this one. SO RIGGED HE [Biden] COULD STAY IN BSMT. [basement]! ‘They rigged the election in front of us and nobody did anything about it’ Opinion: @TuckerCarlson: Yes, the election was rigged for #JoeBiden. Here’s how – @FoxNews” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, November 24, 2020 2:44 am |
| 943. | 11/25/2020 “There are only two ways you would allow your nominee to hunker down in his basement for months and put a lid on at 9:30 AM most days. #1.) You know he can’t possibly lose since the fix is in. #2.) see number 1.” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 8:34 pm |
| 944. | 11/30/2020 “The only possible explanation for letting the second worst Presidential candidate of all time hide in his basement and call a lid everyday at 9:30AM would be that you knew the fix was in to such an extent that there was no possible way for #OBidenOHarris to lose THAT’s it!” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 5:50 am |
| 945. | 1/2/2020 “2020 showed us that Democrats will stop at nothing to win a Presidential election. On January 6th I will stand and object to the accepting of the Electoral College results.” -Billy Long, Facebook.com, January 2, 2020 1:54 pm |
| 946. | 1/6/2021 “Today, I will #object to the certification of electoral votes. The irregularities in this election need to be thoroughly investigated.” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 9:16 am |
| 947. | 1/6/2021 “It’s about the #Constitution. In December I announced I would be #objecting to the certification of electoral votes and now it’s official. Proud to stand up for the integrity of our elections.” -Billy Long, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:26 pm |
| 96. REPRESENTATIVE BARRY LOUDERMILK (R-GA) | |
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| 948. | 11/6/2020 “I talked to Trump team the day after the election and asked if there is anything that we could do to make sure every LEGAL vote is counted and illegal votes are discarded.” -Barry Loudermilk, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:16 pm |
| 949. | 11/9/2020 “We have been diligently working in the last couple of days to ensure that every legal vote is counted here in Georgia… and that the fraudulent votes are discarded… We want to make sure that those [ballots] that are fraudulent are discarded, and that your vote is counted.” -Barry Loudermilk, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 7:22 am |
| 950. | 11/10/2020 “The only way to ensure that every legal ballot is counted and every illegal ballot is discarded is to conduct a hand recount. This is exactly why Georgia updated our voting system so that there would be a physical ballot that could be counted and verified by hand.” -Barry Loudermilk, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 10:42 am |
| 951. | 11/10/2020 “I am pleased to see AG Barr announce the @TheJusticeDept is investigating the numerous documented irregularities we’ve heard of since Election Day. Every legal vote should be counted, and fraudulent votes should be discarded.” -Barry Loudermilk, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 4:43 pm |
| 952. | 11/23/2020 “An unbelievable number of absentee ballots went to Biden… Some people I personally know have filed affidavits saying that they have seen boxes of ballots that were pristine. These were absentee ballots. In other words, they had never been folded where they would have been going into an envelope. There were no creases… It appeared, now I’m just quoting what they’re saying, it appeared that it may have been run through a printer or a machine.” -Barry Loudermilk, Interview with Glenn Beck, audio via Twitter.com, November 23, 2020 8:03 am |
| 953. | 11/23/2020 “There has to be a deeper forensic audit done. What the Secretary of State is saying is we’ve already verified the signatures and we’ve separated the ballots from the envelopes. You still have to verify that people who are voting are people that should be voting… I believe there was fraud in this election. People say, ‘give us the evidence.’ Well, you have to investigate to get to the evidence. We have a lot of circumstantial evidence. I mean, if you look in Georgia, Republicans won up and down the ballot, except for the presidential and the Senate race. Tell me how that has happened.” -Barry Loudermilk via Eric Mack, “Rep. Barry Loudermilk to Newsmax TV: Ga. Needs ‘Deeper Forensic Audit,’” newsmax.com, November 23, 2020 |
| 954. | 11/30/2020 “A forensic analysis of the Dominion voting machines needs to be performed. Judge rules that Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee County election officials are prohibited from erasing or destroying any of these voting machines.” -Barry Loudermilk, Twitter.com, November 30, 2020 10:57 am |
| 955. | 12/2/2020 “As we fight to expose the corruption and malfeasance that took place in this election, it is imperative that every single Georgian who believes in freedom and opposes the radical policies of the Dems make our voices heard and make sure Senators Perdue and Loeffler win big! All eyes will be on this election, and we will not allow the same tactics we saw in November.” -Barry Loudermilk, Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 10:16 am |
| 956. | 12/3/2020 “We need a complete investigation into what happened in Fulton County after poll watchers were sent home on Election night.” -Barry Loudermilk, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 10:01 pm |
| 957. | 12/31/2020 “Since the November 3rd election, I have received numerous reports of election irregularities, mismanagement of the election system, and multiple incidents of voter fraud… I have received hundreds of testimonies, affidavits, and witness accounts of voting irregularities, lack of ballot accountability, and violations of state election law.” -Barry Loudermilk, “Rep. Loudermilk to Object to Georgia Electors in U.S. House of Representatives,” loudermilk.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 958. | 12/31/2020 “After weeks of researching Georgia’s handling of the 2020 General Election, I have a reasonable and significant doubt that the electors selected to represent Georgia in the electoral college actually reflect the true will of the people of Georgia. Due to the many unanswered and credible charges of potential fraud, highly respected members of the State House and Senate have called for a special session to address the certification of Georgia’s votes. However, no special session has been called. Therefore, on behalf of my colleagues in the Georgia General Assembly, I will be objecting to Georgia’s electors when these votes are presented to the U.S. House of Representatives on January 6, 2021.” -Barry Loudermilk, “Rep. Loudermilk to Object to Georgia Electors in U.S. House of Representatives,” loudermilk.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 959. | 1/4/2021 “The State Senate Judiciary Committee… recommended that the state legislature convene and decertify those electors… When that report came out, that made it clear to me that there were a lot of errors that were done in this election, and we have very little confidence in it. We have numerous accounts of irregularities… This is about the rule of law, this is about fair elections. I do not have full confidence that the Georgia electors truly represent the voters of Georgia and how they voted. There are just too many unanswered instances and allegations of fraud.” -Barry Loudermilk, Interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 |
| 97. REPRESENTATIVE FRANK LUCAS (R-OK) | |
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| 960. | 1/6/2021 “Since November 4th, I’ve shared countless conversations with constituents about the questions surrounding the presidential election. I share the concerns of many of my fellow Oklahomans about irregularities throughout the 2020 presidential election.” -Frank Lucas, “Lucas Statement on Electoral College Count,” lucas.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 961. | 1/6/2021 “Following the first round of debate surrounding the state of Arizona’s electors, I have voted to agree to the objection. As Congress debates additional objections to other electors, I will continue to share my fellow Oklahomans’ concerns with my House colleagues and work with them to strengthen our election integrity. Americans deserve to have confidence in our electoral system; therefore, I am committed to restoring the faith of the American people in our elections.” -Frank Lucas, “Lucas Statement on Electoral College Count,” lucas.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 98. REPRESENTATIVE BLAINE LUETKEMEYER (R-MO) | |
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| 962. | 11/6/2020 “@realDonaldTrump is well within his rights to make every effort possible to protect legally cast votes and ensure our democratic process is not diluted or cheapened.” -Blaine Luetkemeyer, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 12:35 pm |
| 963. | 12/8/2020 “This is about our constitution and our democracy — @realDonaldTrump has every right to ensure every. single. legal. vote counts.” -Blaine Luetkemeyer, Twitter.com, December 8, 2020 11:15 am |
| 964. | 1/6/2021 “I’ll be voting to object to the electoral votes of the states we believe clearly violated the Constitution in the 2020 presidential election.” -Blaine Luetkemeyer, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 9:26 am |
| 965. | 1/6/2021 “As I said in my original statement, my decision on the electors is based on the Constitution and whether certain states violated it when altering election standards. The will of Missouri’s Third District and the Constitution – not opportunists committed to creating chaos – guide my decisions. The Constitutional questions about those states’ elections are not erased by the reprehensible actions that took place at the Capitol.” -Blaine Luetkemeyer, “Luetkemeyer on Electoral College Vote, “ luetkemeyer.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 99. REPRESENTATIVE NANCY MACE (R-SC) | |
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| 966. | 1/6/2021 “Like many of you, I’m gravely concerned about allegations of voter fraud in multiple states & believe this MUST be investigated.” -Nancy Mace, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 10:28 am |
| 967. | 1/6/2021 “Is there evidence of voting irregularities and voter fraud in multiple states? Yes. We saw ballot harvesting; we saw states mass mail ballots to every name on their voter rolls, even to those who were dead or moved to another state and were registered to vote elsewhere. It appears many states also ignored their own election laws. So why aren’t these objections being leveled against every state that broke their laws and not just the ones Republicans lost? We have serious election integrity problems, even cases of voter fraud, which must be investigated, not just in the states we lost, but everywhere. However, how and why states contest their elections and select their electors to the Electoral College is not for me or any other member of Congress to decide. Federalism and the Constitution explicitly state this power rests solely with the states… Certifying the results is the only way to preserve our republic and our Constitution. We must follow this course, even when we don’t like the outcome.” -Nancy Mace, “Mace: I Support President Trump, but Congress Lacks Authority to Overturn Electoral College,” mace.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 100. REPRESENTATIVE NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS (R-NY) | |
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| 968. | 11/6/2020 “The issues raised by @RudyGiuliani should concern every American. The very foundation of our democracy is the integrity of our elections. We must ensure only legitimate ballots are counted & observers can conduct a review where there’s a concern of fraud” -Nicole Malliotakis, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:31 am |
| 969. | 11/7/2020 “The margin of victory in many states remain razor thin, I encourage President @realDonaldTrump and his campaign to pursue their options until every legal vote is counted.” -Nicole Malliotakis, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 3:35 pm |
| 970. | 1/5/2021 “There are a handful of states, not including New York, in which there are witnesses, affidavits, and other evidence of significant voting irregularities… I don’t see a situation where I don’t object to some of the states’ electors, however, I want to approach this in a mindful, thoughtful manner and look forward to tomorrow’s debate. It doesn’t matter if it’s 100 votes, 1,000 votes, or enough votes to change the outcome of the election. This is about rooting out fraud, holding those who commit it accountable and ensuring the integrity of our election system which I believe is the foundation of our democracy.” -Nicole Malliotakis via Paul Liotta, “Malliotakis on Electoral College certification: ‘I don’t see a situation where I don’t object to some,’” silive.com, January 5, 2021 |
| 971. | 1/5/2021 “It doesn’t matter if it’s 10 or 10k or 100k illegal votes. It doesn’t matter if it’s enough to change election results. This is about rooting out fraud, holding those who commit it accountable & ensuring the integrity of our election system which is the foundation of this nation. There are too many witnesses, sworn affidavits and claims of irregularities for Congress to turn a blind eye.” -Nicole Malliotakis, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 10:23 pm |
| 972. | 1/6/2021 “I was on @fox5ny this morning to talk about today’s vote to certify the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. It’s been over three weeks since I joined my colleagues in calling on @SpeakerPelosi to investigate reports of significant voting irregularities in several states across the country. As of this morning, @SpeakerPelosi has yet to respond to our letter and the concerns of fraud and irregularities brought up by witnesses in signed affidavits have gone unaddressed. I refuse to turn a blind eye.” -Nicole Malliotakis, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 9:44 am |
| 973. | 1/7/2021 “I was among those who voted against certification for the two questionable states. I have serious concerns about what has occurred in those two states… There were a number of irregularities, there were a number of changes made [to election procedures] that many people believe led to fraud. There are witnesses, there is evidence.” -Nicole Malliotakis, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 10:27 am |
| 974. | 1/7/2021 “I voted against certification of the two challenged states not to ‘overturn an election’ but to highlight need for a proper hearing into unconstitutional rule changes, irregularities and alleged fraud. I swore an oath to the Constitution and REFUSED to turn a blind eye.” -Nicole Malliotakis, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 1:50 pm |
| 101. REPRESENTATIVE TRACEY MANN (R-KS) | |
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| 975. | 12/31/2020 “Our country must have free and fair elections and credible allegations of fraud must be investigated. For these reasons earlier this month I joined 25 other incoming House Freshmen in calling on Speaker Pelosi to investigate the 2020 Presidential Election for possible election fraud. I will also vote no on January 6th to certifying the results of the 2020 Presidential Election.” -Tracey Mann, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 2:19 pm |
| 102. REPRESENTATIVE BRIAN MAST (R-FL) | |
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| 976. | 1/3/2021 “I will oppose certifying the Presidential election results on January 6th! For months, Nancy Pelosi abused taxpayer dollars to lead a sham impeachment investigation against President Trump solely for the purpose of delegitimizing the President. Now, millions of Americans have important questions about voter fraud, but Congress refuses to conduct an investigation.” -Brian Mast, Facebook.com, January 3, 2021 11:32 am |
| 977. | 1/6/2021 “Our Democracy requires confidence in our electoral system, and the American people deserve to see proof that our electoral process is free, fair and secure. For that reason, Congress has an obligation not to certify the electors until the merits of these situations can be resolved.” -Brian Mast, Facebook.com, January 6, 2021 2:13 pm |
| 978. | 1/6/2021 “I rise as well to support the objection [to certifying Arizona’s electoral votes], and I rise with the simple question: Can the Chair honestly tell Americans, with a pending Supreme Court case over legal observers not being allowed to observe and inspect signatures, that the laws and the Constitution of that State were not violated to change voting outcomes?” -Brian Mast, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 103. REPRESENTATIVE KEVIN MCCARTHY (R-CA) | |
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| 979. | 11/4/2020 “Republicans are fighting to make sure that every LEGAL vote is counted accurately… We’re going to have to fight because we want to make sure every legal vote is counted. But it’s just the legal votes that have to be counted, and they should not be voting after the election.” -Kevin McCarthy, Twitter.com, November 4, 2020 8:38 pm |
| 980. | 11/5/2020 “Joe Biden wants to ‘count every vote.’ President @realDonaldTrump wants to count every ????? vote. There’s a big difference.” -Kevin McCarthy, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 3:57 pm |
| 981. | 11/5/2020 “They didn’t defeat one Republican incumbent and they lost 15. President Trump won this election so everyone who’s listening, do not be quiet. Do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this [election fraud] to happen before our very eyes. We need to unite together. You don’t need to be a Republican. If you believe in every legal vote needs to count, you believe in the American process, join together and let’s stop this.” -Kevin McCarthy, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 11:18 pm |
| 982. | 11/8/2020 “Every legal vote must be counted. Every recount must be completed. Every legal challenge must be heard. Then and only then does America decide who won the race.” -Kevin McCarthy, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 11:19 am |
| 983. | 11/14/2020 “You should want every legal vote to count. You should want every recount to be finished. And you should want every legal challenge to be heard. Because we believe our elections should be fair, honest, and accurate. That is the only way you get it… Let’s make sure every legal vote is counted, let them finish any recount, and let every legal challenge be heard. Especially, in this year, when we had ballots just mailed statewide, even if people didn’t request it.” -Kevin McCarthy in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 9:25 pm |
| 984. | 1/7/2021 “Since Election Day, millions of Americans have shared concerns about the integrity of our nation’s electoral process… I agreed with objections that were made to [certifying electoral votes from] two states, especially because constitutional questions have been raised about changes to election processes and whether these changes were approved by their respective legislatures, as required in Article II… [I]t was to ensure that our country follows an accurate and accountable process that complies with the Constitution so that millions of Americans who voted on Election Day can have confidence in our system.” -Kevin McCarthy, “McCarthy Supports Electoral College Challenge and Condemns Violence at Capitol,” kevinmccarthy.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 104. REPRESENTATIVE LISA MCCLAIN (R-MI) | |
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| 985. | 11/5/2020 “As we continue to watch the results of the election come in, many concerns have been raised. I want to make sure that every legal vote has been counted and no irregularities have occurred. There are numerous reports of inaccuracies and potential fraud throughout the country.” -Lisa McClain, Facebook.com, November 5, 2020 11:50 am |
| 986. | 11/9/2020 “Things have been crazy since Tuesday with a lot of accusations and irregularities noted in Michigan and around the country… This is all about a fair election held with integrity.” -Lisa McClain, Facebook.com, November 9, 2020 10:01 am |
| 987. | 12/17/2020 “I strongly believe there are too many questions about this year’s election process to simply ignore them. A closer look on the critical process of free and fair elections, where every properly registered citizen gets their one vote, and only one vote, is merited.” -Lisa McClain, Facebook.com, December 17, 2020 3:30 pm |
| 988. | 1/6/2021 “The concerns voiced by my constituents from across the political spectrum, towards the voting process during the 2020 Presidential election are clear… The American people need to have confidence in our democratic elections and the Rule of Law. If the ECA, as followed by myself and my colleagues, conflicts with our Constitution, then that needs to be addressed in the appropriate manner… Now, I call on state and local officials to realize the deep flaws that led us here and fix them.” -Lisa McClain, “Congresswoman McClain on Certifying the 2020 Election,” mcclain.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 105. REPRESENTATIVE TOM MCCLINTOCK (R-CA) | |
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| 989. | 11/5/2020 “I’m very concerned about election integrity. I remember the days when we all voted in person on election day. That’s why we called it ELECTION DAY. What they’ve done to our voting system is a travesty. It undermines confidence in the system and it opens the door to fraud. We should always be very much aware that every fraudulent vote steals the vote of a legitimate voter.” -Tom McClintock, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 8:27 pm |
| 990. | 11/9/2020 “Votes are still being counted and there are serious allegations of illegal voting and illegal procedures that could affect the outcome of the presidential election… This is vital to assuring the legitimacy of the result. This process must be completed before anyone declares a victor.” -Tom McClintock, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 5:17 pm |
| 991. | 11/17/2020 “The widespread allegations of illegal votes and illegal processes must be resolved before the election can confer legitimacy. Among these questions are the acceptance of ballots received after election day, votes cast by ineligible voters, back-dated ballots, illegally duplicated ballots, voting systems that mis-allocated votes, and the counting of votes outside any meaningful observation.” -Tom McClintock, “The Foundation of Democracy is the Integrity of the Vote,” mcclintock.house.gov, November 17, 2020 |
| 992. | 1/3/2021 “There still needs to be an intensive investigation into 2020 voter fraud. Every fraudulent vote disenfranchises an honest citizen. But once the electoral college votes, the question of who actually won the vote passes to historians – and perhaps prosecutors.” -Tom McClintock, Twitter.com, January 3, 2021 7:30 pm |
| 993. | 1/3/2020 “Many Americans still have serious concerns about the integrity of the vote in this election, and rightly so. In-person Election Day voting, with all the safeguards inherent in that system, has been replaced with mass mailing of ballots to every name on voter rolls that may be deceased or have moved, often followed by ballot harvesters to collect the surplus ballots and with no chain of custody. This new system invites fraud and incubates suspicion of fraud. The many eye-witness accounts in sworn affidavits of ballot tampering and the documented cases of multiple votes, votes by dead people or by non-residents, deserve far more attention than they have received.” -Tom McClintock, “Respecting an Imperfect System,” mcclintock.house.gov, January 3, 2021 |
| 994. | 1/3/2020 “We desperately need intensive state and federal investigations into all the allegations of fraud in this election. Every fraudulent vote disenfranchises an honest citizen. Until there is a full public airing and resolution of the charges, the questions will remain, and a lingering pall of illegitimacy will stalk the new administration. We might even discover the election was indeed wrongly decided – just as we occasionally find cases erroneously decided by juries.” -Tom McClintock, “Respecting an Imperfect System,” mcclintock.house.gov, January 3, 2021 |
| 995. | 1/3/2020 “Despite the clear and precise language of the Electors Clause of the Constitution — that electors shall be appointed ‘in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct’ — several states changed their election laws not by legislative action but by executive decree. This was the subject of the friend of the court brief submitted by 126 members of the House, including myself, in support of the suit brought by Texas and 18 other states: ‘Can a legislature delegate such authority and if not, what is the remedy for an illegally conducted election?’ We still don’t know the answer to that question, because the Supreme Court refused to hear it.” -Tom McClintock, “Respecting an Imperfect System,” mcclintock.house.gov, January 3, 2021 |
| 106. REPRESENTATIVE DAN MEUSER (R-PA) | |
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| 996. | 11/5/2020 “Significant legal victory for @realDonaldTrump in Philly. GOP poll watchers are now permitted to review ballot counting. PA Gov’s office more interested in the speed and quantity, rather than the quality of ballots. Dems want to reverse decision. What are they hiding?” -Dan Meuser, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 12:37 pm |
| 997. | 11/6/2020 “The integrity of elections should be of the utmost importance to every American. I am deeply concerned that Republican observers in Philadelphia are being kept far away from ballot processing, in direct violation of a ruling from the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. To ensure the legitimacy of this election, we need complete transparency, not secrecy. It is also imperative that state election officials segregate any ballots arriving after 8:00PM on Election Day, in case the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the legitimacy of late-received mail-in ballots. Pennsylvanians deserve to have confidence that every legal vote is counted, regardless of how long that takes.” -Dan Meuser, “Congressman Dan Meuser (PA-9) on the 2020 Vote Counting Process,” meuser.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 998. | 11/6/2020 “Here in Pennsylvania, we have some big problems… they changed the election rules a number of times. When they stated that they would accept ballots on election night and count them, that broke state statutory law, that states that the ballots must be in, in order to count them, by 8 pm… I think you saw in Philadelphia how they were keeping our [Republican] poll watchers out — again, unlawful. A number of unlawful things have been done here.” -Dan Meuser in an interview with Frank Andrews, audio via Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 5:16 pm |
| 999. | 11/7/2020 “Today, the Pennsylvania Republican Congressional Delegation expressed our collective concerns over the Commonwealth’s handling of the General Election.” -Dan Meuser, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 4:47 pm |
| 1000. | 11/18/2020 “Pennsylvania state law dictates that mail-in ballots must be signed, dated, and included in a secrecy envelope, and that ballots that are missing required information and/or signatures, should be disqualified, or, at a minimum, authenticated. Just hours before the polls opened, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State issued inconsistent and contradictory guidance, giving Pennsylvania counties the authority to decide whether to reject ballots that contained discrepancies, or take additional measures to correct them… This is a highly irregular thing to do.” -Dan Meuser in a speech on the House floor, video via Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 11:10 am |
| 1001. | 11/18/2020 “Voters in Pennsylvania and in my district are rightfully upset and concerned about the irregularities that occurred in the last election. There are valid reasons for the collective feeling of disenfranchisement and distrust, stemming from various election processes and procedural changes, which were outside of statute… Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted a three-day extension for late arriving ballots, usurping the authority of the state legislature, and contradicting the US Constitution… [which] resulted in the unlawful counting of over 10,000 ballots.” -Dan Meuser in a speech on the House floor, video via Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 11:10 am |
| 1002. | 11/18/2020 “Republican poll watchers in Philadelphia were kept at an unreasonable distance to observe the pre-canvassing and canvassing of ballots… Why would local election officials make the process blatantly more restrictive to poll watchers?… An estimated 687,000 ballots were counted during this time of no lawfully required poll watchers.” -Dan Meuser in a speech on the House floor, video via Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 11:10 am |
| 1003. | 12/4/2020 “Many of the voters in Pennsylvania and in my district are rightfully upset and concerned about the irregular actions that occurred in the past election. There are valid reasons for the collective feeling of disenfranchisement and distrust, stemming from various election processes and procedural changes that were outside of statute. Millions in Pennsylvania and tens of millions throughout the nation have a feeling of intense frustration and believe that their constitutional rights have been violated.” -Dan Meuser, “Rep. Dan Meuser: We need tighter election security to protect all legal votes [Opinion],” readingeagle.com, December 4, 2020 |
| 1004. | 12/4/2020 “To start, the state Supreme Court granted a three-day extension for late-arriving mail-in ballots, usurping the authority of the state legislature and contradicting the U.S. Constitution… The highly irregular actions of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court resulted in the unlawful counting of at least 12,000 mail-in ballots, perhaps more, that arrived after 8 p.m. on Election Day, the time required by state election code, mitigating an accurate ballot count and fueling great distrust in the process.” -Dan Meuser, “Rep. Dan Meuser: We need tighter election security to protect all legal votes [Opinion],” readingeagle.com, December 4, 2020 |
| 1005. | 12/4/2020 “The night before the election and prior to the prescribed time for pre-canvassing mail-in ballots, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state issued inconsistent and contradictory guidance, giving counties the authority to decide whether to reject ballots that contained discrepancies or take additional measures to give voters the opportunity to correct them. This is a highly irregular thing to do. As a result, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Allegheny and Bucks, four of the largest counties in Pennsylvania, allowed thousands of ballots to be fixed or ‘cured,’ a measure not pursued by most other counties and which violated Pennsylvania Election Code. The votes that were illegally ‘cured’ should be thrown out to ensure a lawful ballot count. Anything less is equivalent to the proverbial moving of the goalposts to favor one side over another.” -Dan Meuser, “Rep. Dan Meuser: We need tighter election security to protect all legal votes [Opinion],” readingeagle.com, December 4, 2020 |
| 1006. | 12/11/2020 “There continue to be many unanswered questions related to the irregular actions taken in the past election across the Commonwealth. Why did Pennsylvania break statute and allow three-day late mail-in ballots to be counted? Why did the Pennsylvania Secretary of State order the curing of ballots 24 hours prior to election day, leading to inconsistent preparedness and effectiveness between counties? Why were verified signature requirements applied differently for in-person ballots versus mail-in ballots? Millions in Pennsylvania want to know why these actions were taken, were they legal, and will they occur in the next election?” -Dan Meuser, “Meuser Statement on Amicus Brief Urging a Supreme Court Review of Election Processes,” meuser.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 1007. | 12/18/2020 “Over the past month, there has been much debate regarding the irregular actions taken by Pennsylvania officials during the last election. I stand with those across the commonwealth who continue to deserve answers to the outstanding legal and constitutional questions which have yet to be addressed. To protect our election system, it is absolutely essential that all voices be heard, every legal vote be counted, and that our established system of laws be respected.” -Dan Meuser, “Pennsylvanians deserve answers on election laws,” dailyitem.com, December 18, 2020 |
| 1008. | 12/18/2020 “Certain directives from state officials, given without the consent of the legislature, were arguably unconstitutional and deserve reviewing. This includes breaking the statute and allowing three-day late mail-in ballots to be counted. Additionally, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State ordered the curing of ballots 24 hours prior to election day, leading to inconsistent preparedness and effectiveness between counties. Furthermore, verified signature requirements were applied differently for in-person ballots at polling locations versus mail-in ballots. The Pennsylvania Secretary of State also acted outside their jurisdiction by allowing ballots to be delivered to non-secure, unattended drop boxes, which have no oversight, even from the Postal Service.” -Dan Meuser, “Pennyslvanians deserve answers on election laws,” dailyitem.com, December 18, 2020 |
| 1009. | 1/6/2021 “The authority of election procedures lies with the State legislature, period. In Pennsylvania, this authority was indisputably usurped by the Pennsylvania Governor’s office, by the Pennsylvania secretary of state, and by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. These unlawful actions include, but are not limited to, accepting ballots past 8 p.m. on election day; inconsistent application of verified signature requirements for in-person ballots versus mail-in ballots; authorizing the curing of mail-in ballots with less than 24 hours’ notice, leading to inconsistent preparedness between counties; and authorizing the use of unsecured drop boxes, which is not permitted in statute.” -Dan Meuser, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1010. | 1/7/2021 “The U.S. Constitution is unambiguous in declaring that state legislatures are the entity with the authority to set election procedures and to enact any changes to election law… In Pennsylvania, this authority was indisputably usurped by the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office, by the Pennsylvania Secretary of State and by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. These unlawful actions include but are not limited to: · Accepting ballots past 8:00 pm on Election Day · Inconsistent application of verified signature requirements for in-person ballots versus mail-in ballots · Authorizing the curing of mail-in ballots with less than a 24-hour’s notice, leading to inconsistent preparedness between counties · Authorizing the use of unsecure drop boxes, which is not permitted in statute… We should not certify these electors, which were derived by unlawful actions, and a result of inaccurate vote tallies.” -Dan Meuser, “Meuser Statement on Certification of PA Electors,” meuser.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 107. REPRESENTATIVE CAROL MILLER (R-WV) | |
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| 1011. | 1/7/2021 “I will be voting against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election from certain states… We can all agree that systematic voter fraud is a bipartisan concern very real in America today. It is with this in mind that we must debate the evidence of fraud and the discrepancies in the presidential election of 2020.” -Carol Miller, “A Republic, if you can keep it,” mydailyregister.com, January 7, 2021 |
| 1012. | 1/7/2021 “Secretaries of State, Election Boards, Judges, and other state and local officials should not be, in place of State Legislative bodies, making last minute changes on how their states perform the duty of providing, counting, and certifying ballots. Article II of the Constitution gives Congress the responsibility to provide the necessary oversight to ensure all ballots cast on Election Day are counted fully, fairly, accurately, and not interpreted through the lens of partisan politics. In states like Pennsylvania the election procedures were out of control. Ballots were not even required to be signed by the person supposedly casting that vote, poll watchers were denied access to observe counting, and ballots cast after election day or without postmarks could still be included. Election results are tainted when unsigned or non-postmarked ballots are conspicuously ‘found’, creating a system that voters do not have faith in.” -Carol Miller, “A Republic, if you can keep it,” mydailyregister.com, January 7, 2021 |
| 108. REPRESENTATIVE MARY MILLER (R-IL) | |
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| 1013. | 12/9/2020 “We will soon be learning about the word ‘courage’, and saving our Country. President @realDonaldTrump received hundreds of thousands of legal votes more, in all the Swing States, than his corrupt opponent. ALL Data shows that it was impossible for him to lose, unless FIXED!” -Mary Miller, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 12:18 pm |
| 1014. | 12/15/2020 “Our election process has devolved into chaos as the Democrats intended. I’ve joined @Kat_Cammack and other freshman members to demand Nancy Pelosi investigate the vast reports of voter fraud and restore trust in our American elections.” -Mary Miller, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 9:35 pm |
| 1015. | 12/29/2020 “I promised to stand with President Trump, and I will keep that promise by objecting to the tainted election results on January 6th.” -Mary Miller, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 4:25 pm |
| 1016. | 1/5/2021 “The Constitution gives state legislatures sole authority over how our elections are carried out, but many state and local officials in swing states took matters into their own hands last November by changing how their state would conduct the election… I will be joining patriotic leaders across the nation in objecting to the Electoral College results of certain states that did not uphold the Constitution. Many Americans have lost confidence in the fairness of our electoral system. By objecting to certain electors on Wednesday, I hope my colleagues and I send a message to those men and women that we will not sit idly by while our Constitution is trampled on.” -Mary Miller, “Congresswoman Mary Miller on Integrity of American Elections,” marymiller.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 1017. | 1/6/2021 “Everyone acknowledges that fraud did take place in this election. The point of contention is just how much fraud took place. We need to have zero tolerance for fraud, and we need to have confidence in our elections. The argument that there might not be enough fraud to change the outcome is irrelevant. America is not a banana republic. We can and should do better.” -Mary Miller via Associated Press, “U.S. Reps. Luetkemeyer, Bost and Miller announce they will object to electoral votes,” stltoday.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 1018. | 1/6/2021 “The Democrats go to win at all costs. And we’ve seen that before and I don’t trust them and I don’t see what’s wrong with an investigation. If there’s no irregularities, why do they care?… It’s a fact that in the battleground states, officials took it upon themselves to usurp the legislative authority to direct the manner that the elections should be held. It was six states now, it’ll be 20 states next time.” -Mary Miller in an interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:30 am |
| 1019. | 1/6/2021 “The election was undermined before it ever got to Congress. It’s a shame that our institutions have failed us to uphold election integrity.” -Mary Miller, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:30 am |
| 109. REPRESENTATIVE JOHN MOOLENAAR (R-MI) | |
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| 1020. | 12/11/2020 “I believe it is of utmost importance to ensure the integrity of our election systems. There have been several reports of election irregularities in Michigan and across the country. These reports should be taken seriously and investigated to the fullest degree. The amicus brief I signed onto affirms these concerns and they merit careful and timely review by the Supreme Court. It is my hope the court will swiftly review the case to bring confidence to the American people that the 2020 election upheld the Constitution and state laws.” -John Moolenaar, “Moolenaar Statement on Amicus Brief Regarding the 2020 Election,” moolenaar.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 1021. | 1/5/2021 “I have strong concerns about what happened in November, especially with rushed changes regarding mail-in voting applications and the voter ID laws.” [Note: This quote comes from a statement explaining why Moolenaar did not object to the certification of electoral votes.] -John Moolenaar, “Moolenaar Statement on the Electoral College Results,” moolenaar.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 110. REPRESENTATIVE ALEX MOONEY (R-WV) | |
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| 1022. | 11/5/2020 “I agree with President Trump that every legal vote must be counted to ensure the integrity of our election process.” -Alex Mooney, “Mooney Demands Transparency and Fairness in Presidential Election Vote Count,” mooney.house.gov, November 5, 2020 |
| 1023. | 11/5/2020 “Leading up to Election Day, highly biased polls discouraged conservative voters. For example, The Washington Post-ABC poll on October 28 claimed that President Trump was down by seventeen points in Wisconsin. A Quinnipiac poll on November 2 reported Biden winning by four points in Ohio. A CNN poll reported on October 21 that President Trump was down by ten points in Pennsylvania. These polls are far outside their claimed margin of error and, intentional or not, result in discouraging Republicans from voting.” -Alex Mooney, “Mooney Demands Transparency and Fairness in Presidential Election Vote Count,” mooney.house.gov, November 5, 2020 |
| 1024. | 11/5/2020 “In this presidential election, we’ve witnessed a lack of transparency in some other states that disgraces the integrity of our national election… Transparency is integral to the American election process. In Pennsylvania and in Michigan, for example, poll watchers for President Trump are being prevented from observing the ballot count, resulting in widespread distrust.” -Alex Mooney, “Mooney Demands Transparency and Fairness in Presidential Election Vote Count,” mooney.house.gov, November 5, 2020 |
| 1025. | 11/5/2020 “The Democrat Secretary of State in Pennsylvania, declaring an emergency and overriding state laws, unilaterally declared that Pennsylvania ballots could be received up to three days after Election Day, even without a postmark. Democrat state officials are undermining the integrity of this election when they violate laws in order to benefit their party.” -Alex Mooney, “Mooney Demands Transparency and Fairness in Presidential Election Vote Count,” mooney.house.gov, November 5, 2020 |
| 1026. | 11/24/2020 “The Trump Campaign is rightfully litigating evidence of fraud from sworn affidavits and pursuing constitutional violations in court to ensure the integrity of our election system. I agree with President Trump that every legal vote must be counted. I continue to stand with President Trump.” -Alex Mooney, “Mooney Statement Supporting President Trump as He Conducts a Fair and Legal Investigation of the Presidential Election,” mooney.house.gov, November 24, 2020 |
| 1027. | 12/3/2020 “My colleagues and I demand AG Barr release the findings of @TheJusticeDept investigations into 2020 election fraud.” -Alex Mooney, Twitter.com, December 3, 2020 6:35 pm |
| 1028. | 12/8/2020 “I hope my House GOP colleagues today choose to adopt this resolution supporting President Trump’s efforts to count every legal vote and investigate and punish election fraud. I call on my fellow colleagues in the House GOP Conference to join me in sending a strong, united message of support for President Trump. No Republican member should prematurely call on President Trump to concede before these investigations are complete.” -Alex Mooney, “Congressman Alex X. Mooney to Introduce Resolution for GOP to support Election Fraud Investigations and to Support President Trump,” mooney.house.gov, December 8, 2020 |
| 1029. | 12/8/2020 “Whereas serious allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election have been made in States like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada; Whereas voting discrepancies and last-minute rule changes outside of the normal legislative process cast doubt on the integrity of the vote count, including the failure to verify signatures on mail-in ballots… Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives… supports efforts across the country to count every legal vote and to investigate and punish election fraud in the 2020 Presidential election.” -Alex Mooney, “Resolution to the Full U.S. House to Count Every Legal Vote and to Investigate and Punish Election Fraud in 2020 Presidential Election,” mooney.house.gov, December 8, 2020 |
| 1030. | 12/8/2020 “I hope my House GOP colleagues today choose to adopt resolution supporting President @realDonaldTrump’s efforts to count every legal vote and investigate and punish election fraud.” -Alex Mooney, Twitter.com, December 8, 2020 6:21 am |
| 1031. | 12/8/2020 “I urge my colleagues to join me in fighting for the integrity of our election process. We must support efforts across the county to count every legal vote and to investigate and punish election fraud in the 2020 Presidential election.” -Alex Mooney, Twitter.com, December 8, 2020 4:57 pm |
| 1032. | 12/10/2020 “I am proud to join the Congressional amicus brief for Texas v. Pennsylvania. This is a historic fight to safeguard the integrity of our election process. @realDonaldTrump is right to fight to restore America’s faith in a free and fair election.” -Alex Mooney, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 2:57 pm |
| 1033. | 12/11/2020 “I think we need to show the American people that we support our president’s efforts here to make sure that legal votes are counted and illegal ones are not counted. We had massive mail-in votes and a lot of the checks and balances that our Constitution requires do not appear to have been followed, so the president does deserve his day in court… [I]n the end Congress is going to have to vote on the legitimacy of the these elections and electoral college votes… There’s a lot affidavits, a lot of reports, a lot of legal cases [about voter fraud].” -Alex Mooney in an interview with Fox News, video via Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 8:52 am |
| 1034. | 12/16/2020 “I encourage NEITHER President @realDonaldTrump NOR former VP Biden to concede until all investigations of alleged fraud are completed. It’s necessary to investigate every allegation of election fraud to reassure the public & world the POTUS was elected in a free & fair election.” -Alex Mooney, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 1:06 pm |
| 1035. | 12/18/2020 “We need to fight for @realDonaldTrump no matter what the pressures are. If the other side wants to prove the election wasn’t stolen, they should welcome a healthy discussion about election integrity. Instead Dems want to silence all debate. This creates more suspicion.” -Alex Mooney, Twitter.com, December 18, 2020 1:18 pm |
| 1036. | 1/7/2021 “Congress should not accept electors from states where laws were violated, state constitutions were ignored and the legislature was subverted… Our Republic will not survive if partisan courts and bureaucrats make the law by decree rather than obeying laws made by state legislatures whom were duly elected by the people… I also signed an objection to counting electoral votes for the State of Nevada because it is important that we have a debate about serious allegations of nearly 4,000 non-citizens voting.” -Alex Mooney, “Congressman Alex X. Mooney Statement on Electoral College Certification,” mooney.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 111. REPRESENTATIVE BARRY MOORE (R-AL) | |
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| 1037. | 11/6/2020 “On Tuesday, November 3, the people of Alabama’s 2nd district elected me as their representative in Congress. As their voice, I demand that votes be re-counted, verified and Republican counters and watchers be let in. Votes received late must be thrown out. I have already been in DC with members of the Freedom Caucus preparing to fight for America, for President Trump and for all of you in District 2.” -Barry Moore, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 7:15 am |
| 1038. | 11/23/2020 “We must see that every legal ballot is counted, and every illegal ballot is discarded. Right now there are too many odd coincidences, statistical anomalies and sworn statements alleging voter fraud for many of us to be comfortable with the election. Even if he weren’t on the ballot, President Trump would have an obligation to pursue answers to these issues for the sake of the nation, and I fully support his ongoing efforts to do just that.” -Barry Moore, “Barry Moore Heartened by Courageous Stands of Michigan Election Officials,” barrymooreforcongress.com, November 23, 2020 |
| 1039. | 12/4/2020 “We got to get it right. We got to make sure that either 70 or 80 million people don’t feel disenfranchised and feel like it was stolen, regardless of which direction it goes. You don’t need to have somebody over here voting that’s not necessarily legal or even it’s not, they don’t even exist. They just duplicate ballots and cancel you out or cancel me out… We’re governed by the consent of the people… and their consent is their vote and they consent to give us power. What if that power is not transferred ethically? Then it’s an illegitimate election.” -Barry Moore via Tyler Olson, “Alabama Rep-elect Barry Moore pledges to join challenge to electoral votes ‘day one,’ backs federal voter ID,” foxnews.com, December 4, 2020 |
| 1040. | 12/15/2020 “I am joining Congressman Mo Brooks and others on the floor on Jan 6 to protest delegates from key states who have clear proof of voter fraud. We have videos, sworn affidavits and voting machine audits, that’s enough for me. This election was stolen. If Democrats will use any means necessary to steal an election then we must use every means given to us by the constitution to stop it.” -Barry Moore via Henry Thornton, “U.S. Rep.-elects Jerry Carl, Barry Moore sign on to letter to Pelosi urging investigations into alleged 2020 voter fraud,” yellowhammernews.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 1041. | 12/21/2020 “We have agreed to contest delegates in Congress from states where election laws were broken #January6th #StopTheSteaI #ElectionIntegrity need one US Senator to join us #12thAmendment #HoldTheLine” -Barry Moore, Twitter.com, December 21, 2020 12:29 pm |
| 1042. | 12/22/2020 “We welcome #Senators and #other #Congressmen to join us #StopTheSteaI2020 #ElectionIntegrity #January6th @realDonaldTrump needs us he has been with us now let’s stand for him! I’m in!!!” -Barry Moore, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 11:03 pm |
| 1043. | 12/26/2020 “In 10 days we will take a stand! #January6th #StopTheSteaI2020 #BidenCheated2020 #ElectionIntegrityMatters #HoldTheLinePatriots #nevernevernevergiveup” -Barry Moore, Twitter.com, December 26, 2020 8:36 am |
| 1044. | 12/26/2020 “We will fight for the man who has stood for us! We need #senators to join us #January6 #StopTheSteaI #BidenCheated2020” -Barry Moore, Twitter.com, December 26, 2020 3:26 pm |
| 1045. | 12/29/2020 “Without their [Republican Senators] support, we can’t correct the terrible inconsistencies within the states that violated their own requirements for fair and free elections. This is not just about President Trump. It’s about the will of the American people.” -Barry Moore via Marisa Schultz and Tyler Olson, “These incoming freshman lawmakers to join Mo Brooks in challenging election on Jan. 6,” foxnews.com, December 29, 2020 |
| 1046. | 1/4/2021 “The first thing we have to do is secure election integrity… There is enough evidence [of voter fraud] there for me to want to protest these delegates. You know, we’ve seen it across the board in videotapes in Georgia, mass voter fraud in other states around the union. And it was mainly in swing states.” -Barry Moore via WSFA 12 News Staff, “Multiple Alabama Republicans opposing Electoral College certification,” wsfa.com, January 4, 2021 |
| 1047. | 1/5/2021 “ICYMI: Just joined @JeffPoorShow to discuss tomorrow’s fight for election integrity. We must investigate these troubling irregularities & ensure every vote was properly counted.” -Barry Moore, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 12:47 pm |
| 1048. | 1/6/2021 “In Georgia alone, we saw votes come from: ❌ 66,000+ underage registrants ❌ 10,000+ dead people ❌ 4,900+ registered in another state ❌ 2,500+ felons ❌ 2,400+ weren’t on GA voter rolls We cannot simply ignore these numbers. It’s time to fight for what’s right.” -Barry Moore, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:00 pm |
| 112. REPRESENTATIVE MARKWAYNE MULLIN (R-OK) | |
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| 1049. | 11/6/2020 “The American people decide elections, not the Democrats’ machine. Every LEGAL vote must be counted in a transparent process. How do we know they’re not stealing the election if we’re not allowed to see them count the votes?” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:55 am |
| 1050. | 11/6/2020 “Every American should want transparent elections, every legal vote counted, and election laws enforced. That’s what President Trump is fighting for and I fully support him.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:51 pm |
| 1051. | 11/6/2020 “Now more than ever, we have to stand behind our president. @realDonaldTrump has been fighting for the American people since day 1. Now it’s our turn to fight for him. #StopTheSteal #FairElections” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:10 am |
| 1052. | 11/6/2020 “I truly feel like the Democrat machine is stealing this election from the American people.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 1:43 pm |
| 1053. | 11/6/2020 “We must make sure our elections are fair for all of the American people.” #FairElections #StopTheSteal -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 1:43 pm |
| 1054. | 11/7/2020 “Voters decide who wins the election, not the media. I fully support President Trump as he continues to fight for every legal vote to be counted.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 1:21 pm |
| 1055. | 11/8/2020 “I’m in this fight with President Trump because we want to make sure that every legal vote is counted. We know there has been illegal activity happening here in this election.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 10:39 am |
| 1056. | 11/25/2020 “The Democrats spent four years questioning the legitimacy of the 2016 election with debunked allegations of Russian collusion. Now we have actual election fraud to be concerned about, and Americans deserve answers.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 8:00 am |
| 1057. | 12/9/2020 “American people deserve a definitive resolution to the uncertainty surrounding this election, but legitimate questions about voter fraud remain unanswered… That’s why I signed a letter to President Trump asking him to direct Attorney General Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the irregularities in the 2020 election.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 4:45 pm |
| 1058. | 12/9/2020 “Every American should want transparent elections, every legal vote counted, and election laws enforced. That’s what President Trump is fighting for and I fully support him. President Trump is well within his constitutional right to challenge the accuracy of the election results. Article II of the Constitution gives states the power to administer their own elections. When there is evidence of voter fraud, the margin of voters is extremely close, or the state’s election laws were not followed, the election results can be contested in court or through the legislative body in the state.” -Markwayne Mullin, “Protecting the Integrity of Our Democracy,” mullin.house.gov, December 9, 2020 |
| 1059. | 12/11/2020 “The American people deserve a definitive resolution to the uncertainty surrounding this election, but legitimate questions about voter fraud remain unanswered.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 10:05 am |
| 1060. | 12/11/2020 “The president is well within his rights to be able to make sure every legal vote is counted… When there’s ‘irregularities’/fraud that is all through this election cycle, why wouldn’t we want to make sure we have a fair and transparent election cycle?… The last thing we want is at the end of the day is to say this election was stolen. And at this point, it’s going to be hard to convince me it wasn’t.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 12:44 pm |
| 1061. | 12/11/2020 “Yesterday, I signed an amicus brief supporting the TX Attorney General’s lawsuit against PA, GA, MI, & WI, which challenges the results of the 2020 presidential election. The American people must have faith in our election system & deserve certainty regarding the 2020 elections.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 9:19 am |
| 1062. | 12/15/2020 “There are still many questions that need to be answered about this election and the irregularities/fraud that occurred. Until those are answered, my feelings about Joe Biden are exactly how the Democrats felt about President Trump: illegitimate.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 3:38 pm |
| 1063. | 12/30/2020 “When there’s as many questions still out there on the electoral votes and the votes that took place, we have to challenge it… In Pennsylvania, after some lawmakers took a look at the vote tally as it came in, they realized that there was over 202,000 ballots cast more than there was voters that voted. How is that possible? In Michigan, the Dominion voting software that was out there had a 67% fail rate in just one county, which ironically was a Republican stronghold… In Arizona, come to find out, Joe Biden received 130% of the Democrat vote.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, December 30, 2020 10:14 am |
| 1064. | 1/2/2021 “As I said in my interview on Fox and Friends on Wednesday, due to all of the fraud and uncertainty surrounding the 2020 election there is no way I can vote to certify the Electoral College. I will be contesting the Electoral College votes on January 6th.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 5:43 pm |
| 1065. | 1/6/2021 “I joined C-SPAN this morning to talk about why I will be objecting to electoral votes from several states today. I firmly believe the way the electors were chosen violated our Constitution.” -Markwayne Mullin, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 2:11 pm |
| 1066. | 1/6/2021 “We’ll be objecting specifically to four states: Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Solely on one basis, Article I, Section 1, Clause 2. What we’re basically objecting to is the way the electoral votes were received, we feel like in those states very clearly they went outside their latitude underneath the federal Constitution on who chooses when, where, and how that the electoral votes will be cast.” -Markwayne Mullin in an interview with C-SPAN, video via Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 |
| 1067. | 1/6/2021 “On Wednesday, January 6th a joint session of Congress convened to count the electoral college votes and I contested the votes from several states. The reason I contested the results was not a political decision. It is because I firmly believe the procedures surrounding how the electors in several states were chosen violates our Constitution. Under the Constitution, states have the right to set their own election laws and state legislatures are the only ones who have the authority to direct how the presidential electors are chosen. In several states where I will contest the results, the rules were deliberately changed by officials other than the state legislatures in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of those states. I swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution therefore I cannot in good conscience vote to certify an election where the electors were not chosen properly. Standing by and letting these electoral votes be certified would show the American people the foundation of our democracy means nothing.” -Markwayne Mullin, “The Future of Our Election System is at Stake,” mullin.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 113. REPRESENTATIVE GREGORY MURPHY (R-NC) | |
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| 1068. | 11/5/2020 “America has successfully conducted free and fair elections for more than 200 years. It should continue that way in 2020, and every legal vote should be counted. But we have voting laws for a reason and they must be followed. If anyone attempts to illegally cheat in our elections, then they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” -Gregory Murphy, “Murphy Urges Attorney General Barr to Ensure Every Legal Vote is Counted,” gregmurphy.house.gov, November 5, 2020 |
| 1069. | 11/5/2020 “Lawsuits have been filed by the current Administration against a multitude of states, including Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, and Michigan. All four of these states are critical in assessing the accurate results of the electoral college. Cases of fraud include vote-buying schemes, voter impersonation, voter intimidation, counting late or fake votes, and the illegal throwing away of ballots.” -Gregory Murphy, “Murphy Urges Attorney General Barr to Ensure Every Legal Vote is Counted,” gregmurphy.house.gov, November 5, 2020 |
| 1070. | 11/7/2020 “There have been many cases of alleged voter fraud and the President’s campaign has filed several lawsuits disputing some of the called results. I look forward to having the investigations completed to make sure that each American vote has been one that is verified and legal.” -Gregory Murphy, “Murphy Statement on Status of Presidential Election,” gregmurphy.house.gov, November 7, 2020 |
| 1071. | 11/10/2020 “Yesterday, AG Bill Barr directed the DOJ to investigate any ‘substantial allegations’ of voter fraud. On Thursday, I wrote to him requesting he prosecute alleged voter fraud to the fullest extent of the law. We must ensure every legal vote is counted.” -Gregory Murphy, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 6:44 pm |
| 1072. | 11/11/2020 “Democrats deny they are implicated in voter fraud, yet they’re instructing people to move to vote in the upcoming Georgia Senate races. They will do anything to win at all costs.” -Gregory Murphy, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 3:08 pm |
| 1073. | 12/10/2020 “Today I was proud to join many of my colleagues to support the TX lawsuit [challenging election results in some states]. #SCOTUS must preserve the integrity of the 2020 presidential election!” -Gregory Murphy, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 9:31 pm |
| 1074. | 1/5/2021 “The Constitution clearly says that state legislatures write election laws, not executive officials and judges. Some states violated that section of the Constitution in the 2020 election and that’s why I will object to Electoral College votes tomorrow.” -Gregory Murphy, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 9:00 am |
| 1075. | 1/5/2021 “There is a legal and well-established process set forth by our Founding Fathers to ensure that our elections are accurate and honest. After diligently researching this issue, as well as listening to thousands of constituents’ opinions regarding the Electoral College, I plan to object [to certain Electoral College votes] tomorrow… It very clearly states in Article II Section 1 that state legislatures are charged with writing election laws, not executive officials and judges. Unfortunately multiple states, some more egregiously than others, violated that section of the Constitution. Whether objecting would change the outcome is not the question that must be addressed. It is rather, did certain states follow their constitutional duties in how they chose electors? I believe the answer is ‘no’.” -Gregory Murphy, “Murphy Objecting to Electoral College Certification,” gregmurphy.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 114. REPRESENTATIVE TROY NEHLS (R-TX) | |
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| 1076. | 12/17/2020 “Millions of Americans are skeptical of the 2020 election. That’s why I joined some of my freshman colleagues in demanding an investigation into the claims of fraud. Our elections are the bedrock of our Republic and we owe it to the American people to at least investigate.” -Troy Nehls, Twitter.com, December 17, 2020 1:12 pm |
| 1077. | 1/5/2021 “I’m proudly announcing I will OBJECT to the counting of electoral votes in disputed states tomorrow. You sent me to Congress to fight for President Trump and election integrity and that’s exactly what I’m doing.” -Troy Nehls, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 5:33 pm |
| 115. REPRESENTATIVE DAN NEWHOUSE (R-WA) | |
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| 1078. | 12/11/2020 “State legislatures are charged with selecting their electors and establishing their election systems. In these four states [Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania], it was an entity outside of the legislature that chose the electors. Not only is that very concerning, but the possible discrepancies in these states’ elections also merits a closer look by the court.” -Dan Newhouse via Jefferson Robbins, “Newhouse signs supporting brief in lawsuit to overturn 2020 election,” ncwlife.com, December 11, 2020 |
| 1079. | 12/20/2020 “A December 16 article in the Yakima Herald-Republic states that I am ‘repeating unspecified concerns’ about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. This is simply not true… These ‘unspecified’ concerns refer to an amicus brief I joined 125 of my colleagues in filing in support of a Supreme Court case, Texas v. Pennsylvania. The brief described several areas of concern – specifically – about the processes by which several state election officials administered the balloting process while encouraging the Supreme Court to examine the situation further and provide appropriate remedy where necessary. Here are the specific issues outlined state-by-state: · In Pennsylvania, the Secretary of State ignored a statutory requirement for signature verification of ballots without approval by the state legislature. · In Georgia, election officials altered a tabulation procedure so that statutory requirements for signature verification of absentee ballots were not followed. · In Michigan, the Secretary of State violated statutory requirements that local election officials be the ones to distribute absentee ballots. · In Wisconsin, the Elections Commission violated a statutory prohibition against drop boxes, placing hundreds of them around the state. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states that state legislatures are responsible for establishing the manner by which presidential electors are selected.” -Dan Newhouse, “Op-ed: In defense of our Constitution,” newhouse.house.gov, December 20, 2020 |
| 1080. | 1/6/2021 “Evidence of election irregularities – of any kind – cause great concern and must be addressed. We should never overlook the dangerous consequences of even a single instance of voter fraud – and there were such instances in this election. After an unprecedented election with states across the country hastily implementing new voting systems, millions of Americans are questioning the validity of the vote because of the process undertaken by states and local election officials… Congress has the duty to count the votes submitted by the states, not determine which electors the states should have sent. Today, on the House floor, I intend to uphold the Constitution, fulfill my Oath of Office, and vote to approve the certification of Electoral College votes.” -Dan Newhouse, “Op-ed: Preserving our Constitution and the sacred institutions our country was founded on,” newhouse.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1081. | 1/6/2021 “In early December, I filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit led by the Texas Attorney General that challenged the constitutionality of election systems in four states that had expanded voting processes without the approval of their state legislature – an explicit requirement written in the U.S. Constitution. We have a separation of powers for a reason, which is why I supported this effort within the judicial branch that aimed to instill confidence that each state’s electors were selected legally and according to our Constitution.” -Dan Newhouse, “Op-ed: Preserving our Constitution and the sacred institutions our country was founded on,” newhouse.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 116. REPRESENTATIVE RALPH NORMAN (R-SC) | |
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| 1082. | 11/6/2020 “Elections are the bedrock of our government. And we cannot tolerate malfeasance at the polls. I stand with President Trump in his fight for this nation, and every American ought to demand full transparency and a fair count of lawful votes in this (and every) election, regardless of who you voted for. Very simply, that means LEGAL votes MUST be counted. And illegitimate votes – including ballots cast after the voting deadline, ballots cast under the names of long-deceased voters, ballots that were harvested illegally, ballots that failed to meet that state’s requirements for validity, etc. – CANNOT be allowed to stand. Period. And let’s be very clear about this: any attempts to prohibit party observers, a candidate’s campaign, or the media from lawfully monitoring vote counting activities should be met with IMMEDIATE intervention by that state’s attorney general and appropriate authorities.” -Ralph Norman, “A Fair Count of Lawful Votes,” norman.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 1083. | 11/9/2020 “➡ After every legal vote is counted; ➡ After unlawful votes are thrown out; ➡ After provisional ballots are reconciled; ➡ After the numerous abnormalities are investigated and fully resolved… Then – and only then – will we know who won the Presidency.” -Ralph Norman, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 10:24 am |
| 1084. | 12/3/2020 “Every lawful vote must be counted, and every irregularity needs to be investigated and resolved. Regardless of the outcome, we deserve these answers.” -Ralph Norman, “Still Waiting,” norman.house.gov, December 3, 2020 |
| 1085. | 12/3/2020 “The bedrock of our republic is open, transparent, fair elections… we’re encouraging the DOJ, we are encouraging an open transition of examining everything, and where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Immediately after November 3, the press started calling for the president to concede and basically anoint Biden… All we are asking for is where there is evidence of impropriety, that you examine it. I got a list the other day of examples of one ballot sheet that had the name and had PO box, apartment. That takes time to investigate. For the question that it is not enough to overturn the election, well that needs to be seen. We are calling for, and all of our freedom caucus members are calling for an open, transparent review of all the records.” -Ralph Norman, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 1086. | 12/4/2020 “Every lawful vote must be counted, and every irregularity needs to be investigated and resolved. Regardless of the outcome, we deserve these answers. #TheElectionWeDeserve” -Ralph Norman, Twitter.com, December 4, 2020 9:57 am |
| 1087. | 12/7/2020 “Last month’s election was certain to be chaotic. Historic turnout, numerous pandemic-induced changes to states’ voting procedures, and massive mail-in voting efforts were center-stage. All of that was set against a backdrop of Republican frustration over things like Big Tech censorship, obvious biases from many traditional media outlets, and a four-year effort by Democrats in Congress to sour Americans on their President.” -Ralph Norman, “The Election We Deserve,” norman.house.gov, December 7, 2020 |
| 1088. | 12/7/2020 “Fair and transparent elections are the bedrock of our great nation. Where we find ourselves today, however, is that over 74 million voters cast their ballot for Donald Trump, and a significant percentage of them still have unaddressed concerns about the legitimacy of this election… Why is it frowned upon to insist that the numerous reports of voting irregularities be investigated and resolved before a state seats its presidential electors? Why did some states have a relatively smooth election last month while other states appear to be wrought with abnormalities?” -Ralph Norman, “Exclusive – Rep. Ralph Norman: We Deserve Fair and Transparent Elections,” breitbart.com, December 7, 2020 |
| 1089. | 12/7/2020 “Consider mail-in ballots, a number of which were distributed to every registered voter in some locales regardless of his/her desire to participate, and in some cases, they were sent to an outdated address. Why is it wrong to examine whether this practice is truly as secure as absentee voting by mail, where a voter must proactively request a ballot? For ballots returned by mail, is it reasonable to believe the signature on every single envelope was properly authenticated before that ballot was accepted and counted? For all 65 million of these mail-in votes?” -Ralph Norman, “Exclusive – Rep. Ralph Norman: We Deserve Fair and Transparent Elections,” breitbart.com, December 7, 2020 |
| 1090. | 12/7/2020 “Ultimately, every legal vote must be counted. Illegitimate votes – including ballots cast after applicable voting deadlines, ballots cast under the name of long-deceased voters, ballots that were harvested illegally, and ballots that failed to meet that state’s requirements for validity – should not be allowed to stand. Meanwhile, irregularities in voting should be fully investigated and resolved appropriately.” -Ralph Norman, “Exclusive – Rep. Ralph Norman: We Deserve Fair and Transparent Elections,” breitbart.com, December 7, 2020 |
| 1091. | 12/9/2020 “Right now tens of millions of voters are wondering if there was widespread fraud in the November election… It is not asking too much that all irregularities be investigated; That unlawfully cast votes be rejected; That states provide full transparency.” -Ralph Norman, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 4:15 pm |
| 1092. | 12/11/2020 “’Regardless of the outcome, was the presidential election lawful and fair?’ It’s a rather straightforward question being asked by tens of millions of Americans right now. Meanwhile, the collective response from most Democrats and the mainstream media seems to be either ‘it was good enough for us’ or ‘there may be some discrepancies but not enough to change the outcome, so let’s move on.’ Well, I flatly reject both of those responses.” -Ralph Norman, “Amicus Brief on TX vs. PA,” norman.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 1093. | 12/11/2020 “Yesterday, I joined over 100 other House Republicans in filing an amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) brief regarding Texas’ lawsuit challenging the election processes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin… Regardless of the outcome of the Presidential election, there remain too many unanswered questions from those states. Therefore, as the brief asserts, the Supreme Court should ‘provide an objective review of these anomalies and to determine FOR THE PEOPLE if indeed the Constitution has been followed and the rule of law maintained.’” -Ralph Norman, “Amicus Brief on TX vs. PA,” norman.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 1094. | 12/11/2020 “Right now, the collective response on the 2020 election from Democrats and mainstream media is ’it was good enough for us’ or “there may be some discrepancies but not enough to change the outcome, so let’s move on.” I reject both of those responses. That is why I am proud to announce that yesterday, I joined over 100 of my House colleagues in filing a amicus brief regarding Texas’ election lawsuit [challenging election results in four states].” -Ralph Norman, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 12:06 pm |
| 1095. | 12/31/2020 “Individual states, which are empowered by our Constitution to run their own elections, need to ensure that state and federal laws were followed when making their election policies, that every lawful vote is counted, unlawful votes are discarded, and legitimate reports of irregularities are thoroughly investigated and resolved. Because there remain valid questions as to whether several states have actually met this threshold for certification, Congress has a right and (I would argue) a responsibility to examine and debate the results.” -Ralph Norman, “Statement on Electoral College Certification,” norman.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 1096. | 12/31/2020 “Because we don’t have a thorough accounting of all the various reports of voting irregularities, as well as transparent evidence that the election in several key states was fair overall – and remedied where it wasn’t fair – I will be joining other colleagues from the House of Representatives to formally challenge the Electoral College results from those states.” -Ralph Norman, “Statement on Electoral College Certification,” norman.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 1097. | 1/5/2021 “This [objecting to electoral vote certification] is the only thing we can do. On the 6th, it all comes down to us objecting. And you know, we win by showing the public what went on [in the election]. We cannot have fraud in the elections. We’re going to turn out to be another Venezuela or Cuba if we don’t fight it [fraud].” -Ralph Norman interview on Fox News, video via Congress Has A Responsibility,” norman.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 1098. | 1/6/2021 “The words of our Constitution, as spelled out in Article II, Section 1, are very clear when it comes to our elections: mandating… that State legislatures, not secretaries of State, not State commissions, not county of- ficials, not Governors, but State legislators prescribe the time, place, and manner of holding elections. This mandate was not followed in the great State of Pennsylvania. If we allow this fraud to go on—in a football analogy, the moving of the goalpost after the ball has been kicked and in the air—the preview of coming attractions will be future elections that do not adhere to honest and open voting.” -Ralph Norman, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1099. | 1/8/2021 “Moving on to the Electoral College certifications, I voted to object to the certifications from Arizona and Pennsylvania… Our Constitution is very clear that individual state legislatures must run their own elections. But in certain states, we’ve seen COVID used as an excuse to change mail-in balloting procedures, change signature verifications, change voting deadlines, change polling procedures, and other questionable practices, often WITHOUT approval of the state legislature. So I believe Congress had a right (and responsibility) to question those certifications.” -Ralph Norman, “A Few Remarks,” norman.house.gov, January 8, 2021 |
| 1100. | 1/8/2021 “And to those who say, ‘Well Ralph, there were obviously problems with this election but not enough to change the outcome,’ I simply ask: How many irregularities are acceptable? How much fraud is tolerable? How many times is it okay for voting policies to be changed without the explicit approval of a state’s legislature?” -Ralph Norman, “A Few Remarks,” norman.house.gov, January 8, 2021 |
| 117. REPRESENTATIVE JAY OBERNOLTE (R-CA) | |
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| 1101. | 1/5/2021 “The 2020 election took place under extremely unusual circumstances due to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. While most states properly worked with their legislatures to carry out the election in a safe and secure manner, a select few made significant changes to election processes through unilateral court or executive actions in the last days prior to, or even after, the election… This is a direct violation of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution which clearly states that only state legislatures have this power with respect to presidential electors.” -Jay Obernolte, “Rep. Obernolte statement on electoral count,” obernolte.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 118. REPRESENTATIVE BURGESS OWENS (R-UT) | |
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| 1102. | 11/17/2020 “This [cheating in elections] has been going on for quite a while by the Democratic Party. I lived in Philadelphia for 23 years and it was known for this, and no one ever brought attention to it, it was not a big deal, it’s just was just the way it was. But now across the country we have these millions of people who voted, and what we want to have happen is our voice to count… They can’t just hide this like they’ve done in the past… We need to have folks go to jail when they start stealing our voices.” -Burgess Owens, “Newly elected congressman Burgess Owens on Lou Dobbs Tonight,” air.tv, November 17, 2020 |
| 1103. | 12/31/2020 “Does Owens truly believe Trump won the election? ‘Absolutely. Yes, I do. There’s no question in my mind that I think he won.’ Owens was included in media lists Wednesday of 10 incoming House freshmen who plan to join challenges [to certifying the electoral votes]… ‘I think it’s the right thing to do,’ Owens said in an interview Thursday [December 31, 2020]. ‘Seventy-plus percent of conservatives say that this [election] is not fair,’ and he says he wants one more airing of their beliefs. Owens said he believes, for example, that 42,000 votes were counted twice in Nevada… Also, he said he lived in Pennsylvania for 24 years, ‘and I know how the Democratic Party has done things [there], and it has not been fair.’” -Lee Davidson, “Burgess Owens explains why he’ll challenge Trump’s loss on the House floor,” sltrib.com, December 31, 2020 |
| 119. REPRESENTATIVE STEVEN PALAZZO (R-MS) | |
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| 1104. | 11/6/2020 “Any allegations of voting irregularities, including ballot tampering or voting by ineligible persons, should be investigated and adjudicated to the fullest extent of the law.” -Steven Palazzo, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 4:26 pm |
| 1105. | 12/9/2020 “I am pleased to see Mississippi is backing Texas in the lawsuit to protect the integrity of our elections. The President’s team is working on ensuring every vote cast was done so legally and that signatures on ballots are authenticated. I am proud to support these efforts.” -Steven Palazzo, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 1:22 pm |
| 1106. | 12/11/2020 “Americans deserve assurances that we can trust our democratic process and that the 2020 presidential election was secure and free of corruption. This amicus brief [in the Texas lawsuit challenging results in four states] is about affirming our deep concerns with the integrity of our election system.” -Steven Palazzo, “Palazzo Stands for Election Integrity,” palazzo.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 1107. | 12/14/2020 “Many south Mississippians, myself included, have repeatedly expressed their deep concerns of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. It is unfortunate the Supreme Court chose not to take up the [Texas] case, but that does not mean this fight is over. At the end of the day, my goal is to restore voter confidence and trust in our electoral system.” -Steven Palazzo via C.J. LeMaster, “Rep. Palazzo: Election fraud fight not over despite SCOTUS rejecting Texas lawsuit he supported,” wlbt.com, December 14, 2020 |
| 1108. | 1/4/2021 “I cannot vote to certify the results of an election in certain states that millions of Americans and I do not wholeheartedly trust. States cannot bypass their legislature to alter election processes, nor can they violate the laws already in place to safeguard the election. It’s unacceptable to have ballots accepted after statute allows; those ballots should be deemed fraudulent or void… I cannot idly stand by and watch Mississippi be disenfranchised while other states knowingly violated their Constitution and side-stepped their legislatures in the 2020 election.” -Steven Palazzo, “Palazzo To Oppose Electoral College Vote,” palazzo.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 1109. | 1/5/2021 “Millions of Americans do not trust the 2020 Presidential Election results, myself included. I’ll be objecting to certifying the Electoral College & am focused on restoring trust in our election process.” -Steven Palazzo, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 4:18 pm |
| 1110. | 1/6/2021 “On behalf of millions of Americans, I am proudly standing up for the integrity of our elections today in Congress. I cannot vote to certify the results of an election that cannot be wholeheartedly trusted.” -Steven Palazzo, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:52 am |
| 1111. | 1/8/2021 “I objected to the certification of electoral college votes for Arizona and Pennsylvania. Our efforts were not to overturn the election but to draw serious attention to the perceived unconstitutional acts and irregularities in several states. All Americans deserve absolute faith that the election is free from fraud, corruption, and outside influence – we require the full truth… I fully understand why half of America is concerned with the future of our country. I’ve been fighting the left’s radical agenda, and if it is implemented, it will destroy America as we know it. We will no longer stand as a free republic but fall to be a third-rate socialist country.” -Steven Palazzo, “Palazzo Issues Statement on Events in Washington,” palazzo.house.gov, January 8, 2021 |
| 120. REPRESENTATIVE GARY PALMER (R-AL) | |
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| 1112. | 1/6/2021 “I have concerns about how several states conducted the 2020 election. So, I’ve joined many colleagues in an intent to reject some electors, where we think a constitutional violation occurred.” -Gary Palmer, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 9:09 am |
| 1113. | 1/6/2021 “I have serious, well-founded concerns about the manner in which several states conducted the 2020 Presidential election. The U.S. Constitution reserves the power to pass or amend election laws solely to the legislatures of the states. In more than one state, unconstitutional changes were made to elections laws that affected the outcome of the election. Perhaps most concerning is that today, millions of people have no confidence in this election’s outcome or its process.” -Gary Palmer, “Palmer Announces Intent to Support Constitutional Elections,” palmer.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 121. REPRESENTATIVE GREG PENCE (R-IN) | |
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| 1114. | 1/7/2021 “I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution on behalf of Hoosiers in the 6th District. The United States is a country of law and order. There are millions of American voters in our nation who currently feel disenfranchised, but violence and anarchy is never the answer. The way forward for our nation is to follow the U.S. Constitution. My votes [objecting to certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral votes] reflect both my support of the Constitution and the disenfranchised voters of the 6th District who feel this election process was intentionally altered for political reasons. This was not what the Founding Fathers intended and it was wrong.” -Greg Pence, “Greg Pence Statement,” pence.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 122. REPRESENTATIVE SCOTT PERRY (R-PA) | |
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| 1115. | 11/5/2020 “I’ve been grinding out the fight on the streets and airwaves for our President and Election integrity by joining with my great friend, Congressman Jim Jordan, in this battle for our Country, the Rule of Law, and our President Donald J. Trump. #StopTheSteal” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, November 5, 2020 11:10 pm |
| 1116. | 11/6/2020 “#STOPTHESTEAL — Folks, I can’t and won’t stop in the fight for our President Donald J. Trump and for Election integrity — please give a listen to my appearance with Congressman Jim Jordan on Lou Dobbs last night. If you see or hear anything that can help with the fraud investigation, please visit https://stopthesteal.us and report to the team listed.” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 8:37 am |
| 1117. | 11/6/2020 “This is a horrific embarrassment, for not only the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but for the country at large, for this election… In Philadelphia, they’re defying the court order. They won’t let people watch [the vote counting]… How do we have any trust or confidence in this when it’s behind closed doors, they put cardboard up, and keep people out and say, ‘We’ll handle this.’ And then they say, ‘Oh, 100,000 votes just all showed up, and oh by the way they just happened to be all for Joe Biden.’ Nobody believes that, and they shouldn’t believe that.” -Scott Perry interview with Fox Business, video via Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 8:37 am |
| 1118. | 11/7/2020 “Can anyone help us find the Media Declaration Clause in the Constitution? Legal votes will determine who is POTUS, not the news media.” -Scott Perry, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 1:18 pm |
| 1119. | 11/9/2020 “There are unfortunately a lot of anomalies in Pennsylvania. It’s the first time in our lives that a major political party of the United States has sought to win the election after Election Day. The [Pennsylvania] governor and the supreme court actually allowing for votes to be cast after Election Day was complete… The Constitution doesn’t provide for election week or election month, it provides for Election Day.” -Scott Perry interview with Newsmax, video via Facebook.com, November 9, 2020 2:29 pm |
| 1120. | 11/12/2020 “BREAKING: PA COURT RULES FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY! — Folks, all we ask for is a Free and fair election — here is a step that shows our Judiciary wants that, too. Having your thumb on the scale isn’t fair and it’s not Free —expect this to reach SCOTUS… #StopTheSteal #ElectionIntegrity” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, November 12, 2020 3:11 pm |
| 1121. | 11/17/2020 “BREAKING:Yet another Georgia county finds uncounted votes, while left continues ‘nothing to see here, folks,’ mantra… #CountAllLegalVotes” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, November 17, 2020 5:08 pm |
| 1122. | 11/30/2020 “What I have seen is members of the [Pennsylvania] state legislature that are very concerned about the outcome of this election and the inconsistencies… The legislature put in place a law that then, after the fact, the secretary of the Commonwealth and the [state] supreme court modified dramatically… the result of many of these things includes 687,000 ballots that were counted unsupervised… Most Republicans don’t believe in the veracity of the outcome of this election, but a whole lot of Democrats don’t believe it, either.” -Scott Perry, “Rep. Perry Joins Mornings with Maria – November 30, 2020,” YouTube.com, November 30, 2020 |
| 1123. | 12/1/2020 “Right now, I don’t feel like I can trust the outcome of the presidential election, and I know there are many citizens that feel the same way.” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, December 1, 2020 6:49 pm |
| 1124. | 12/3/2020 “I don’t understand. If there is criminal activity present, fraud, why we don’t look at that? Why is it okay? If somebody is murdered, we don’t let the perpetrator get away with murder because we can’t change the result, we can’t bring the person back to life… Or attempted robbery, or attempted arson. We pursue that, because it’s a crime… I agree with my colleagues that say where there’s smoke, there’s fire. There is credible evidence [of fraud]. There is credible testimony that there are problems here. And ladies and gentlemen, this is about the free and fair election in the United States of America… Now sitting under a mountain of evidence, no one wants to take a look.” -Scott Perry, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 1125. | 12/10/2020 “In the weeks since the 2020 Election, I’ve heard from thousands of people in my district and all over Pennsylvania – of all beliefs and political parties – who are gravely concerned about this election. An inordinate number of citizens are deeply concerned about the violation of the Equal Protection Clause by the State’s inconsistent application of Pennsylvania Election Law, the unconstitutional process by which it bypassed a statewide ballot to change the election laws, and its failure to allow and protect legal poll watchers. I share these concerns, as do many Members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Given the failure of Pennsylvania to address these inconsistencies and irregularities, and the violation of constitutional rights, action at the federal level must be considered. Failing to ensure accountability of our elections and restore trust in our electoral system has long-term and profound ramifications for our Nation.” -Scott Perry, “Perry Statement on Election Integrity,” perry.house.gov, December 10, 20210 |
| 1126. | 12/28/2020 “DISTURBING DATA — Folks, discrepancies discovered and released today by diligent PA state representatives — many from our District — are disturbing at best. The numbers just don’t add up. These findings call into question the integrity not only of our Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) system, but the competency of those charged with ensuring our voting system is free and fair. Pennsylvanians and Americans deserve and demand a thorough explanation from the governor and Secretary Boockvar, and an independent investigation into how this happened. #ElectionIntegrity” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, December 28, 2020 5:18 pm |
| 1127. | 1/4/2021 “Folks, wanted to share with you details on why I can’t and won’t support PA’s electors until the unlawful and willful practices of Gov. Wolf and Secretary Boockvar are acknowledged and corrected. Please read our PA Congressional Delegation letter sent to PA General Assembly leaders outlining our objections. If there is an American ideal that all citizens, regardless of party affiliation, should agree upon, it’s that we must have election integrity — it’s the only way to ensure trust in our elections and it’s only achieved by adhering to our Constitution and the law.” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, January 4, 2021 10:23 am |
| 1128. | 1/5/2021 “Funny how the same folks who promised indisputable proof of Russian collusion now say there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the integrity of the 2020 election. Millions of Americans have doubts about it — for good reason — and look to Congress to represent their concerns in accordance with the Constitution. Democrats who spent years conjuring collusion claims now can’t even be bothered to hold a hearing or look at evidence.” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, January 5, 2021 5:54 pm |
| 1129. | 1/5/2021 “PA SENATE SEEKS EC DELAY — When Members of our PA General Assembly have concerns, it’s my DUTY to have concerns as well. The PA Senate has overwhelmingly asked Congress to DELAY certification of the Electoral College to allow for due process in the pursuit of election integrity in a key case before SCOTUS — I’m obliged to concur.” -Scott Perry, Facebook.com, January 5, 2021 9:31 pm |
| 1130. | 1/6/2021 “I object to the electoral votes of my beloved Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on the grounds of multiple constitutional infractions that they were not under all of the known circumstances regularly given.” -Scott Perry, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1131. | 1/6/2021 “In Pennsylvania, the supreme court unilaterally extended the deadline for ballots to 3 days after the election. They actually wanted 10. The supreme court is not the legislature. The supreme court mandated un-postmarked ballots to be received, destroying the validity of all the votes that were cast timely. The supreme court action defied the law, the legislature, and the will of the people. The supreme court authorized the use of drop boxes, where ballot harvesting could occur. The legislature never authorized that form of voting, and the court had absolutely no right to do so… When votes are accepted under unconstitutional means without fair and equal protection for all, the only result can be an illegitimate outcome—illegitimate.” -Scott Perry, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1132. | 1/9/2021 “The Rule of Law matters; which is why I carried forth an objection during the Joint Session of Congress early Thursday morning. This constitutional crisis called for debate, and represented thousands of voices not only of my constituents, but citizens around the Nation — irrelevant of political party. It also represented the voices of state elected officials who knew that constitutional violations occurred in Pennsylvania‘s electoral process — strong enough in both allegation and proof to at least warrant further investigation before certifying the electoral votes.” -Scott Perry, “Perry Statement on Election, Violence and Moving Forward,” perry.house.gov, January 9, 2021 |
| 123. REPRESENTATIVE AUGUST PFLUGER (R-TX) | |
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| 1133. | 11/5/2020 “Asking for transparency and fairness in the vote count is both constitutional and uniquely American. Count every legal vote. In the open. For all to see.” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:58 pm |
| 1134. | 11/6/2020 “The blue wave was supposed to crush Republicans up & down the ballot and turn Texas blue. Didn’t happen. Nancy Pelosi is now holding the majority by a handful of votes & desperate to steal more. Results must be transparent & legitimate. The President is right to ask questions… I certainly am.” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:30 pm |
| 1135. | 11/7/2020 “Every legal vote must be counted, results certified in a transparent way and the President has the right to contest and recount votes. 70 million Trump voters deserve to know all states were counted fair and square.” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, November 7, 2020 1:05 pm |
| 1136. | 11/12/2020 “Election integrity is a nonpartisan issue. It is time to end corruption and protect the integrity of our system. We demand transparency. We demand accuracy. We demand that the legal votes be counted. The American people deserve it!” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, November 12, 2020 12:15 pm |
| 1137. | 11/23/2020 “It was a privilege to speak with Mr. Dan Jones in Santa Anna today. Our conversation was filled with raw emotion and Dan emphasized how much he loves his country and was choked up to think about the election being stolen, depreciating our American democracy.” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, November 23, 2020 4:35 pm |
| 1138. | 12/16/2020 “Free & fair elections are essential to the U.S. & any fraudulent activity in the 2020 election must be investigated. The House of Representatives must immediately launch an investigation & protect the integrity of our elections.” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, December 16, 2020 2:56 |
| 1139. | 12/16/2020 “I am proud to stand with fellow member-elects to fight for the integrity of our elections & the American people. Pelosi & the House of Reps. must immediately launch a thorough investigation into any reported fraudulent activities surrounding the 2020 presidential election.” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, December 16, 2020 7:18 pm |
| 1140. | 12/17/2020 “I joined fellow member-elects to call on Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives to immediately launch a thorough investigation into any reported fraudulent activities surrounding the 2020 presidential election.” -August Pfluger, Twtitter.com, December 17, 2020 12:42 pm |
| 124. REPRESENTATIVE BILL POSEY (R-FL) | |
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| 1141. | 11/6/2020 “Reports of massive voter fraud & locking out legal election observers must be investigated immediately by DOJ. The right to vote is not only a Constitutional Right, but a civil right, & must be protected. Running fair & transparent elections is one thing America MUST live up to.” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:54 pm |
| 1142. | 11/12/2020 “An important lesson I learned from our election reform efforts is that people should never underestimate the lengths that political operatives will go to try to gain an advantage in an election. It’s disheartening to see what has been transpiring this year with so many reports of irregularities, disenfranchisement and reports of widespread voter fraud. We may never know the extent of voter fraud that has taken place in the 2020 election, but we do know that fraud and allegations of fraud undermine the confidence in our election and of those who are elected.” -Bill Posey, “Transparency Is Needed To Ensure Confidence In Elections,” dailycaller.com, November 12, 2020 |
| 1143. | 11/12/2020 “Blindly mass mailing ballots is an invitation for voter fraud… Also, states that initiate mail-in voting should require an opt-in function, clean their voter lists regularly of those who have passed away or moved, and they should utilize ballot tracking technology so voters can be assured their ballots were properly sent, received and cast… But most importantly, there must be transparency and full accountability for those who engage in election fraud.” -Bill Posey, “Transparency Is Needed To Ensure Confidence In Elections,” dailycaller.com, November 12, 2020 |
| 1144. | 11/27/2020 “Lawsuits filed in GA & MI raise serious allegations of election fraud that need to be investigate [sic] further” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, November 27, 2020 10:22 am |
| 1145. | 11/27/2020 “According to an affidavit in the MI lawsuit, one Michigan precinct/twnship had 781.91% turnout. How does this happen?” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, November 27, 2020 2:30 pm |
| 1146. | 12/1/2020 “With serious allegations of fraud continuing to be made by numerous witnesses in state legislature hearings, I joined with @RepCloudTX and 35 of my colleagues in calling on the @TheJusticeDept to secure the integrity of the 2020 election.” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 5:41 pm |
| 1147. | 12/9/2020 “In addition to concerns over technology-based fraud, I have concerns that the DOJ has not pursued numerous issues from several states regarding the employment of ‘ballot-stuffing’ on a widespread scale for the purpose of changing the outcome of the election results. In the State of Georgia there is a videotape of election volunteers pulling several suitcases from under a table that is obscured with a tablecloth after all the press and poll watchers left due to what was initially reported as a ‘water main break.’ It appears that these suitcases contained thousands of ballots which were subsequently counted in the middle of the night when there was no one around to witness their troubling actions. This was all recorded by video camera.” -Bill Posey, “Letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz,” posey.house.gov, December 9, 2020 |
| 1148. | 12/10/2020 “I am writing concerning troubling reports involving election software and hardware with foreign connections that were used during the 2020 General Election… The states in question concerning these software anomalies used Dominion Voting Systems… Knowing of the origins of Smartmatic software, was the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) aware of its use in Dominion equipment during previous U.S. elections and the 2020 General Election? If so, did the CIA report the vulnerabilities of this software to other federal agencies or states?… The best way to ensure confidence in our elections is through greater transparency. To instill such confidence, the CIA and Inspector General must fully investigate all allegations of widespread and systemic election fraud within their areas of jurisdiction.” -Bill Posey, “Letter to CIA Inspector General Peter M. Thomson,” posey.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 1149. | 12/14/2020 “Court granted release of forensic examination on 16 Dominion Voting Machines from Antrim Co., MI. report says 68% error rate, adjudication & security logs missing – needs investigation” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, December 14, 2020 1:37 pm |
| 1150. | 12/23/2020 “Hearings in AZ, GA, MI, PA and US Senate all reveal fraud, but no investigation by federal agencies.” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 7:42 pm |
| 1151. | 12/31/2020 “GA Senate Election Subcommittee unanimously approved report finding ‘November 3, 2020 election was chaotic and the results cannot be trusted.’ I will not turn a blind eye to this election fraud on Jan 6th, more to come” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, December 31, 2020 2:09 pm |
| 1152. | 1/1/2021 “PA state legislators cite 200,000 vote discrepancy, urge US Congress leaders PA election results cannot be trusted and should be investigated. I will not ignore their letter on Jan 6 – more to come” -Bill Posey, Twitter.com, January 1, 2021 2:52 pm |
| 1153. | 1/6/2021 “Reports of massive voter fraud and the locking out legal election observers must be investigated immediately by the Department of Justice. The right to vote is not only a Constitutional Right, but a civil right, and must be protected. Running fair and transparent elections is something America must live up to.” -Bill Posey, “Rep. Posey’s Statement on Election Fraud & Actions Taken,” posey.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1154. | 1/6/2021 “Clearly, the Constitution says State legislatures make voting laws, period, end of subject. And, clearly, in Pennsylvania and some other States, non-legislators changed those voting laws. No matter who wins or who loses, those are violations of the Constitution whether you, me, or anyone else likes it or not.” -Bill Posey, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 125. REPRESENTATIVE GUY RESCHENTHALER (R-PA) | |
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| 1155. | 11/5/2020 “Democrats in PA are trying to appeal the ruling that allows Republican ballot watchers to do their job and watch ballots being counted from 6 feet away. What are Democrats trying to hide?” -Guy Reschenthaler, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 3:39 pm |
| 1156. | 11/9/2020 “A democracy can’t exist without free & fair elections. I joined @RepCLoudTX’s letter asking @TheJusticeDept to ensure the integrity of our election by investigating irregularities & fraud in the vote counting process.” -Guy Reschenthaler, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 2:00 pm |
| 1157. | 11/9/2020 “If we don’t call out and investigate fraud in our elections, we will be severely hurting the integrity of our democracy. Whether or not it swings the election, we must maintain and defend the legitimacy of our election system.” -Guy Reschenthaler, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 6:00 pm |
| 1158. | 11/9/2020 “Let’s look at Pennsylvania right off the bat. We know that there is voter fraud that occurred… Statewide, you had our attorney general and our governor basically guarantee a Biden victory… We also know that just in my district alone, ballots were sent into my district that were already pre-filled out, straight Democrat voting line… In Erie, going up north in the state, you have postal workers that claim their superiors were backdating ballots.” -Guy Reschenthaler interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 11:20 am |
| 1159. | 11/9/2020 “If there was voter fraud, we need to know about it. For every illegal ballot that is counted, it dilutes every legal ballot that was counted. So we’ve gotta fight this vigorously. And if we don’t call the Democrat machines out on this fraud, then in future elections, they’ll know they can get away with it.” -Guy Reschenthaler interview on Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 6:00 pm |
| 1160. | 11/10/2020 “Voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election and it’s our duty to bring it to light. If we don’t take this to the courts and hold the guilty parties responsible, we are going to severely hurt the integrity of all future elections in this country.” -Guy Reschenthaler, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 6:52 pm |
| 1161. | 11/10/2020 “We know that there are facts at play to show that there was fraud… It’s irrefutable that there was fraud that took place. We have sworn affidavits.” -Guy Reschenthaler interview with Newsmax, video via Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 6:52 pm |
| 1162. | 11/17/2020 “We’ve gotta do something about this narrative that there was no fraud. We know that’s not true. There was fraud. We’ve got over 1,00 affidavits saying there was fraud. So it’s important to show the American that there is some fraud in our election system… We’ve got to put the Democrat operatives on notice that we know what they’re doing and that they will be held accountable.” -Guy Reschenthaler interview with Fox Business, video via Facebook.com, November 17, 2020 8:30 pm |
| 1163. | 11/24/2020 “The issue is really this, it’s equal protection. You had some [Pennsylvania] counties that were controlled by Democrats… that were allowing voters to cure ballots. And in Republican areas, they were not allowed to cure ballots. You also had ballots being counted improperly… Additionally, you had the supreme court of Pennsylvania unilaterally changing the election law, in violation of the US Constitution.” -Guy Reschenthaler interview with Newsmax, video via Facebook.com, November 24, 2020 8:40 pm |
| 1164. | 12/10/2020 “I think it’s very simple. Every legal vote should be counted and every illegal vote should not be counted.” -Guy Reschenthaler via Jon Delano, “US Rep. Guy Reschenthaler Joins Texas In Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania Election Results,” pittsburgh.cbslocal.com, December 10, 2020 |
| 1165. | 12/10/2020 “I’m actually part of that [Texas] lawsuit [challenging election results in four states]. I’m filing an amicus brief to that lawsuit, and here’s why I am doing that: We’ve got to have states following the U.S. Constitution when it comes to election law. In Pennsylvania and other states, you had the Supreme Court, in some instant lieutenant governors, that unilaterally acted to rewrite the law. That is what is unconstitutional… I think the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania usurped the power of the General Assembly.” -Guy Reschenthaler via Jon Delano, “US Rep. Guy Reschenthaler Joins Texas In Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania Election Results,” pittsburgh.cbslocal.com, December 10, 2020 |
| 1166. | 12/13/2020 “The leftist media and Big Tech led a coordinated effort to keep the Hunter Biden corruption story under wraps until after the election. They made a conscious decision to sway the election in favor of Joe Biden.” -Guy Reschenthaler, Twitter.com, December 13, 2020 5:22 pm |
| 126. REPRESENTATIVE TOM RICE (R-SC) | |
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| 1167. | 12/11/2020 “I joined Rep Mike Johnson and several other House members in filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court expressing my concerns with election integrity. All LEGAL votes must be counted & any substantiated allegation of fraud should go through a rigorous legal process.” -Tom Rice, Facebook.com, December 11, 2020 1:20 pm |
| 1168. | 1/4/2021 “America was founded on free and fair elections. I share the frustrations of many of you on the apparent improprieties in some states in the presidential election. The up side of this controversy is that a bright light is shown on the election process, and Republican held legislatures in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan can take corrective action to avoid these problems in future elections.” -Tom Rice, Facebook.com, January 4, 2021 2:19 pm |
| 1169. | 1/6/2021 “These documents are objections to the electoral college votes in 5 states with my signature attached… I believe in the Constitution, which reserves to the states, through their legislatures the power to control their own elections. That legislative duty was usurped in each of these states. The oft repeated statement that there is no proof of election irregularities is a lie. Bureaucrats and non legislative officials took it upon themselves to alter the election process in violation of their own state law, in the weeks before the election. This is a fact that is not in question, and that fact alone is sufficient to raise these objections.” -Tom Rice, Facebook.com, January 6, 2021 2:00 pm |
| 127. REPRESENTATIVE CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS (R-WA) | |
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| 1170. | 11/11/2020 “There’s been enough stories [about election fraud]—whether it’s in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Arizona—where there’s stories that are concerning enough to me that I support the President’s effort to make sure every legal vote is counted, but also where there are disputes that he can pursue that. He can pursue it legally and that’s what we’re working through right now.” -Cathy McMorris Rodgers, via Connor Sarles, “Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers supports Trump’s recounts, lawsuits,” kxly.com, November 11, 2020 |
| 1171. | 12/11/2020 “As I have said before, President Trump has every right to pursue legal recourse in response to claims of voter fraud and election impropriety. With historic turnout, razor-thin margins, and massive changes to voting processes in the midst of a global pandemic, many people have had questions about the election and its results. This case [in which the state of Texas sought to overturn election results in four states] is about the Supreme Court answering those questions for the American people so we can move forward. This amicus brief specifically focuses on Constitutional requirements for elections and the legal requirement that changes to election processes be approved by state legislatures, as well as the state laws which require election officials to check signatures on mail-in ballots. These are Constitutional principles of free and fair elections, and if they have been violated, the American people have a right to know.” -Cathy McMorris Rodgers, “Cathy McMorris Rodgers releases statement on Trump Administration’s Texas lawsuit,” khq.com, December 11, 2020 |
| 1172. | 1/5/2021 “With historic turnout, razor-thin margins, and dramatic changes to voting processes in the midst of a global pandemic, people understandably have many questions about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. Unfortunately, many in the media and on the Left have sought to silence these questions and millions of people are still questioning their trust and confidence in our election process… I will support the objections to Electoral College vote counts in states where there have been allegations of voter fraud and questions raised about the legality of changes to state election law.” -Cathy McMorris Rodgers, “McMorris Rodgers Statement on Electoral College Vote,” mcmorris.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 1173. | 1/6/2021 “The only reason for my objection [to certifying electoral votes] was to give voice to the concern that governors and courts unilaterally changed election procedures without the will of the people and outside of the legislative process. I have been consistent in my belief that Americans should utilize the Constitutional tools and legal processes available to seek answers to their questions about the 2020 election… I have decided I will vote to uphold the Electoral College results and I encourage Donald Trump to condemn and put an end to this madness.” -Cathy McMorris Rodgers, “McMorris Rodgers Statement on Protests in Nation’s Capital,” mcmorris.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 128. REPRESENTATIVE HAL ROGERS (R-KY) | |
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| 1174. | 1/7/2021 “The 2020 presidential election was unlike any other. Uncertainty and a lack of confidence began to grow amongst voters across the country as some states made late changes to the election process, resulting in mounting reports of irregularities and election fraud. Postponed election audits and legal hearings have also led to valid questions about the integrity of this election that are still unresolved… Therefore, on behalf of the people of Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District, I am objecting to electoral votes tied to allegations of election fraud and voting irregularities in the 2020 presidential election.” -Hal Rogers, Facebook.com, January 7, 2021 12:29 am |
| 129. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS (R-AL) | |
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| 1175. | 11/7/2020 “Count the legal ballots only!” -Mike Rogers, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 4:05 pm |
| 1176. | 11/8/2020 “Unfortunately, some states are utterly incompetent at running an election. Many Americans will view the 2020 election in doubt because of the operations of these states. And that will only undermine the integrity in our institutions going forward.” -Mike Rogers, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 7:35 pm |
| 1177. | 11/10/2020 “One week later and we still don’t have vote counts from some states. Does it take that long to count legal votes?” -Mike Rogers, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 6:24 pm |
| 1178. | 12/11/2020 “Rest assured, I am standing in support of the Texas case before the Supreme Court. I am deeply concerned about protecting the integrity of our future elections.” -Mike Rogers, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 11:58 am |
| 1179. | 1/4/2021 “On January 6th, I will vote against the Electoral College results for the 2020 election. There are far too many instances of alleged voter fraud that have called the legitimacy of the election results into question. In addition, election officials in certain states appeared to have deliberately acted in an unconstitutional manner to manipulate the results… The results of a handful of states critical to both campaigns are in serious doubt.” -Mike Rogers, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 1:50 pm |
| 1180. | 1/4/2021 “The results of a handful of states critical to both campaigns are in serious doubt. Our elections should be free, fair and transparent. The 2020 election was not. Therefore, I will object to the results of the Electoral College.” -Mike Rogers, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 1:50 pm |
| 130. REPRESENTATIVE JOHN ROSE (R-TN) | |
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| 1181. | 11/5/2020 “Americans deserve better than to be left to speculate about the honesty & fairness of the elections in other states that will determine our next President. The trickling in of ballots beyond election day invites opportunities for fraud from bad actors. This practice must change.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 4:34 pm |
| 1182. | 11/5/2020 “Presidential campaigns are right to bring in legal teams where votes continue to flow in beyond Election Day. The door for cheating only opens wider as fraudsters know exactly how many votes their candidate must have to win. We need more uniformity, transparency and efficiency with our elections nationwide. This is ridiculous.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 4:38 pm |
| 1183. | 11/5/2020 “Our president is fighting for an honest, fair election process. I stand firmly with him. There is too much at stake not to fully vet the votes.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:06 pm |
| 1184. | 11/6/2020 “Every LEGAL cast should be counted, and the ILLEGAL ones should not be. It’s that simple.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 11:54 am |
| 1185. | 11/6/2020 “BREAKING: Today, I joined 38 other House Republicans in sending a letter to Attorney General Barr urging the @TheJusticeDept to use its resources to ensure the integrity of this election. We must fight voter fraud until every LEGAL vote is counted.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:56 pm |
| 1186. | 11/6/2020 “With widespread reports of irregularities, particularly in the vote counting process, it is imperative that the Justice Department use its resources to ensure that every legal vote is counted and we preserve the integrity of our elections. The Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has the responsibility to ensure that the right to vote is sacred, and that includes fighting voter fraud. I urge Attorney General Barr to get involved immediately.” -John Rose, “Rose Calls on Attorney General Barr to Ensure the Integrity of the 2020 Presidential Election,” johnrose.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 1187. | 11/7/2020 “If there is nothing to hide, why not continue the long standing practice of allowing poll watchers? Uncertainty breeds distrust. We deserve to have an electoral process that not only protects our most sacred right, but is one that we can trust.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 9:57 am |
| 1188. | 11/8/2020 “Some say they want all votes counted. I say we want all LEGAL votes counted. The difference is clear and critical.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 12:30 pm |
| 1189. | 11/8/2020 “Universal mail-in voting (sending every registered voter a ballot by mail whether they request it or not) has shaken many Americans’ confidence in the election process. Many ballots went to wrong addresses and/or were never received at all, leaving the door open to fraud.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 8:10 pm |
| 1190. | 11/9/2020 “All Georgians are asking for is a fair and transparent election process, but @GaSecofState is failing to deliver. Again.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 5:42 pm |
| 1191. | 11/10/2020 “Join us in standing with President @realDonaldTrump. We must protect the sanctity of the ballot box.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 9:05 am |
| 1192. | 11/10/2020 “The American people deserve to have complete faith in our elections. That is why I stand with President @realDonaldTrump to ensure transparency and make sure every LEGAL vote is counted.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 5:48 pm |
| 1193. | 11/14/2020 “Democrats advocated for these election processes knowing many votes would arrive well after election day. They should stop trying to horse whip Americans into accepting a new President when we haven’t even finished counting the votes in the system they proposed.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 14, 2020 11:14 am |
| 1194. | 11/24/2020 “President @realDonaldTrump is working to protect the integrity of our election system. That means one person, one vote. I continue to stand with President Trump and his efforts.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 24, 2020 8:52 pm |
| 1195. | 11/25/2020 “I agree with President @realDonaldTrump, we must ensure every legally cast vote is counted.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, November 25, 2020 3:45 pm |
| 1196. | 12/1/2020 “With widespread reports of irregularities, particularly in the vote counting process, it is imperative that the Justice Department use its resources to ensure that any illegal, fraudulent activity associated with the election process is investigated and pursued in order to maintain the integrity of the election.” -John Rose, “OPINION: Election integrity matters,” johnrose.house.gov, December 1, 2020 |
| 1197. | 12/1/2020 “Individual states should maintain responsibility for their voting laws. However, we should promote fairness and transparency in this and every election, by implementing commonsense protections such as witness signatures on absentee ballots, official postmarks, in-person voting by all who are able and photo ID at polling locations and with absentee ballots to ensure that every legal vote is counted. These protections are intended to ensure that we have transparent and secure elections, so the American people have faith in the legitimacy of our election process.” -John Rose, “OPINION: Election integrity matters,” johnrose.house.gov, December 1, 2020 |
| 1198. | 12/1/2020 “We have learned a lot in the 2020 election about what doesn’t work, and the universal mail-in voting test has resulted in chaos. It is well documented that mail-in ballots increase the danger of fraud, abuse and administrative errors in counting votes. Many ballots went to wrong addresses, old addresses or were never received at all. We have also heard numerous accounts of citizens who say they showed up at the polls on election day to vote only to learn that someone, somewhere had already fraudulently voted in their name via mail-in ballot. These deeply troubling claims are the impetus for my two letters to United States Attorney General William Barr urging him to use Justice Department resources to ensure the integrity of the 2020 Presidential election.” -John Rose, “OPINION: Election integrity matters,” johnrose.house.gov, December 1, 2020 |
| 1199. | 12/10/2020 “? BREAKING ? We must protect the integrity of our elections, so I joined @RepMikeJohnson in sending a joint amicus brief to #SCOTUS in support of the petitioners in the case of TX v. PA.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 5:41 pm |
| 1200. | 12/10/2020 “My constituents have expressed their grave concern over the integrity of our elections… As we point out, the record clearly shows that the Defendant states violated the Constitutional provision that presidential electors be appointed in a manner directed only by the state ‘Legislature[s].’ This amicus brief articulates this concern and requests that the Court carefully consider those facts and determine what it means for the 2020 election. I urge the U.S. Supreme Court to take up this case and do their part to restore American confidence in our election system.” -John Rose, “Rep. Rose, Colleagues Submit Amicus Brief to Supreme Court in Texas v. PA,” johnrose.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 1201. | 12/15/2020 “Every American, in both parties, should want an investigation to take place to ensure we have an honest election, & the ultimate winner may move forward with the confidence of all Americans, not just slightly more than half of all Americans.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 11:48 am |
| 1202. | 12/22/2020 “If you never actually investigate evidence of voter fraud, you cannot claim that evidence of voter fraud doesn’t exist. The American people deserve a careful investigation into these allegations of widespread voter fraud.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 12:27 pm |
| 1203. | 1/6/2021 “I have heard from an overwhelming number of Tennesseans in my district who have serious concerns over the 2020 election process. Last night, I signed onto the formal objections against electoral college vote submissions from AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, & WI. While this action may not reverse the blatant failure of some states to properly vet the votes, I believe Congress should at least discuss the concerns of the many people who are dissatisfied w/ the mishandled election process that will define the presumptive Biden Presidency for years to come.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 10:43 am |
| 1204. | 1/6/2021 “I just voted to OBJECT to certify the results from Arizona. Tennesseans have reasonable doubts about the election results of this and other states with irregularities.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 11:28 pm |
| 1205. | 1/7/2021 “I also voted to OBJECT to certify the PA results. The debate today was an important opportunity to voice the concerns of the millions of Americans who have lost their trust in our election process. Now states need to step up and properly reform their processes, where needed, to deliver trustworthy results in the future.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 2:45 am |
| 1206. | 1/7/2021 “Today, I voted to object to the Electoral College vote counts in both Arizona and Pennsylvania as part of my fight for election integrity so that all Americans can have trust in the process that defines this nation. Over the last two months, an overwhelming number of Tennesseans in my district have communicated their serious concerns about the 2020 election; and tonight I was their voice in Washington. I felt it as my duty to push to preserve our democratic republic through a thoughtful debate on the obvious flaws of the 2020 election process.” -John Rose, “Rose Votes to Object to AZ and PA Electoral College Certifications,” johnrose.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 1207. | 1/9/2021 “Words mean a lot. When I make a commitment, I don’t take it lightly. I kept my commitment & OBJECTED to each states’ electoral college votes that had obvious issues, most obviously failing to follow their own states’ [election] laws.” -John Rose, Twitter.com, January 9, 2021 1:14 pm |
| 131. REPRESENTATIVE MATT ROSENDALE (R-MT) | |
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| 1208. | 1/5/2021 “I will be voting to oppose the certification of the presidential electors from certain disputed states… It is clear that there are widespread, credible allegations of fraud and irregularities in many states, and that these allegations have endangered the American people’s faith in our electoral process. All Americans have the right to a fair, secure election, and should be confident that the process ensures all legitimate ballots are counted, and all fraudulent ballots are rejected.” -Matt Rosendale, “Statement from Representative Rosendale on Election Certification,” rosendale.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 1209. | 1/6/2021 “I will oppose certification of electors from certain disputed states. These votes today were always about preserving and protecting the integrity of our election process, not any candidate. I will continue to work to ensure our elections are free and secure and every legal vote is counted and every fraudulent vote is rejected.” -Matt Rosendale, “Rosendale Continues to Oppose Certification,” rosendale.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 132. REPRESENTATIVE DAVID ROUZER (R-NC) | |
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| 1210. | 11/6/2020 “No one questions that every legal vote should be counted. Transparency is critical to ensuring integrity of the vote. Each state has its own laws governing the election process, if late ballots can be submitted, etc. In Georgia, for example, absentee ballots mailed in do not require any sort of voter identification; Election Day ballots and Early Vote ballots do. The Secretary of State in Georgia has announced that a recount will be forthcoming. Multiple challenges are being filed in court in all of these states where fraud concerns exist.” -David Rouzer, “Update from Rep. Rouzer: Where We Are Today,” rouzer.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 1211. | 11/12/2020 “Meanwhile, in the latest Presidential election news, the secretary of state in Georgia announced there will be a hand recount of all the ballots, and the Trump campaign filed a new lawsuit in Michigan seeking to stop the state’s certification of ballots due to alleged irregularities and unlawful vote counting. In the state of Arizona, the margin continues to get tighter as more votes are counted.” -David Rouzer, “Update from Rep. Rouzer: 11/12/2020,” rouzer.house.gov, November 12, 2020 |
| 1212. | 12/2/2020 “The Trump Campaign continues to utilize every avenue available to attempt to ensure that every legal vote is counted and every illegal or corrupted vote is discounted. The campaign is confident that once this is the case, President Trump will have proven to be the winner.” -David Rouzer, Facebook.com, December 2, 2020 6:08 pm |
| 1213. | 12/2/2020 “Recently, a contract truck driver for the USPS spoke of driving a load of 24 pallets of ballots from New York to Pennsylvania weeks before Election Day. The driver says he doesn’t vote and is just reporting what took place. If true, this irregularity along with many others lead any sensible person to the conclusion that fraud was significant in these cities run by Democrats. The question is can the [Trump] campaign and other groups investigating produce enough evidence to convince the courts and the respective state legislatures that these irregularities were enough to change the outcome of the vote in these respective states.” -David Rouzer, Facebook.com, December 2, 2020 6:08 pm |
| 1214. | 12/9/2020 “Joined @LanceGooden and 25 of our colleagues to urge Attorney General Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate impropriety and misconduct in last month’s presidential election.” -David Rouzer, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 11:41 am |
| 1215. | 12/9/2020 “A quick update on the latest with the Trump Campaign’s efforts to ensure every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is discarded in last month’s presidential election” -David Rouzer, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 4:13 pm |
| 1216. | 12/9/2020 “[E]arlier this week the state of Texas filed suit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin, claiming the four states exploited the COVID-19 outbreak to justify ignoring their own election laws and illegally enacting last-minute changes to their election processes, thus skewing the results of the presidential election. Because the Constitution gives ‘original jurisdiction’ of lawsuits between the states to the Supreme Court, the suit will bypass the district and appellate court levels and go straight to the nation’s highest court for review. It may well be that this case is the last, best opportunity for the Court to step in and intervene. The Court has given the states named in the suit until Thursday afternoon to respond to Texas’ complaint. Many of us in the House are filing an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the Texas lawsuit.” -David Rouzer, Facebook.com, December 9, 2020 3:31 pm |
| 1217. | 12/11/2020 “My colleagues and I filed this brief to ask the US Supreme Court to answer a critically important constitutional question. Article II, Sec. 1, cl. 2 of the U.S. Constitution clearly states that Presidential Electors must be appointed according to rules established by each state’s legislature. However, in the months before the 2020 election, those rules were deliberately changed in these states by governors, secretaries of state, election officials, judges and/or private parties — not their respective state legislatures. The brief requests that the Supreme Court uphold the clear authority of the state legislatures to establish the manner by which electors are appointed, and determine the constitutional validity of any ballots cast under rules and procedures established by actors or public bodies other than state legislatures.” -David Rouzer, “Rouzer Statement on Texas v. Pennsylvania Amicus Brief,” rouzer.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 1218. | 1/4/2021 “Confidence in a presidential election has never been lower, with 39 percent of the country in a recent Reuters poll believing this election was ‘rigged’. There are just too many aspects of concern, too many irregularities and clear violations of the U.S. Constitution by several of the states in question, which is why so many instinctively have little confidence that the presidential election was fair.” -David Rouzer, “Why I Will Be Objecting to Electoral Votes Cast by Certain States,” rouzer.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 1219. | 1/4/2021 “The Constitution clearly states that it is the state legislatures that set election law, not governors, state boards of election, state supreme courts or other actors as we know was the case in these states. The late changes made to election laws in these states affect the entire country in the presidential election, disenfranchising voters from other states as well as their own where the state-wide laws were changed for some counties and not others.” -David Rouzer, “Why I Will Be Objecting to Electoral Votes Cast by Certain States,” rouzer.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 1220. | 1/4/2021 “The American people need clarity that this election was fair and truly reflective of the will of the people. Unfortunately, the electoral and judicial processes so far have not provided for a thorough vetting. Congress is the last forum for the arguments to be heard in the short-term. For these reasons, I will be objecting to the Electoral College votes certified by the states in question and believe the idea proposed by Senator Cruz and other members of the Senate to immediately appoint an electoral commission to do a ten day audit of the votes cast would, if nothing else, help restore confidence in our elections moving forward.” -David Rouzer, “Why I Will Be Objecting to Electoral Votes Cast by Certain States,” rouzer.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 133. REPRESENTATIVE CHIP ROY (R-TX) | |
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| 1221. | 12/9/2020 “Mail in ballots invite rampant fraud and illegal votes – but Congress is doing nothing… Where is Congress?” -Chip Roy, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 9:56 pm |
| 1222. | 12/9/2020 “What is this House doing to ensure election integrity?… Do you believe every vote was counted? Do you believe that every vote was legal?… We had a massive increase in mail-in ballots this year, and we are wondering whether our election system is even working… There’s problems with mail-in ballots… What I am suggesting is, is that even minor changes in rejection rates on these ballots—of which there are very large questions now about the rejection rate—would impact the election… The American people are raising legitimate questions about our elections and this body is missing in action and doing nothing.” -Chip Roy speech on the House floor, video via Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 9:49 pm |
| 1223. | 12/10/2020 “Today, a number of my colleagues will be filing an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit filed by the State of Texas regarding the election results of several other states. Respectfully, I will not join because I believe the case itself represents a dangerous violation… …of federalism & sets a precedent to have one state asking federal courts to police the voting procedures of other states. To be certain, the reckless adoption of massive mail-in ballots and changes to important signature matching (& other rules) in these and other… …states increased the casting of illegal votes and undermine confidence in our elections. The American people are raising legitimate questions & they deserve answers.” -Chip Roy, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 12:41 pm |
| 1224. | 12/11/2020 “Proud to be on this resolution calling to ensure that every legal vote is counted and every fraudulent vote is exposed and disqualified. This republic cannot survive if its citizens don’t have confidence in their elections. We owe them that transparency.” -Chip Roy, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 10:33 am |
| 1225. | 12/22/2020 “We need to have a real conversation about mail-in ballots and the increased FRAUD we know that comes with them. The American people deserve to have confidence in their elections and to know for certain that every LEGAL vote is counted.” -Chip Roy, Twitter.com, December 22, 2020 9:40 am |
| 1226. | 12/23/2020 “A genuine question for @GovKemp, @ChrisCarr_Ga, & all Georgia state elected leaders – why is the lawsuit filed in alleging specific election violations stalled out & not getting a judge assigned? Why shouldn’t it be heard?” -Chip Roy, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 7:58 am |
| 134. REPRESENTATIVE JOHN RUTHERFORD (R-FL) | |
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| 1227. | 1/1/2021 “On January 6th, I will join my colleagues in objecting to any electors from states where serious allegations of fraud exist and in some cases civil litigation remains pending… In fact, many of these site where litigation is still pending hold the Republican majority needed to carry a decertification vote in their various legislatures… Unfortunately, the result on January 6th is almost certain, because Democrats have the votes to prevail over the objections we raise. It is really up to the state legislatures in the six contested states to move quickly and do what they know is right.” -John Rutherford, Twitter.com, January 1, 2021 11:21 am |
| 135. REPRESENTATIVE STEVE SCALISE (R-LA) | |
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| 1228. | 11/6/2020 “Every single American citizen should be demanding all of this: – Transparency – Count all legal votes – Do not count any illegal votes – Observation of ballot sorting and counting by both parties – Election laws enforced as written Republicans won’t quit fighting.” -Steve Scalise, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:40 pm |
| 1229. | 11/7/2020 “The election isn’t over until all legal votes are counted and certified. There are still serious legal challenges that have been made, and until that process is resolved, the election is not final. The American people deserve a fair and transparent process.” -Steve Scalise, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:24 pm |
| 1230. | 12/9/2020 “YouTube just announced they’ll start taking down videos about 2020 election fraud. Big Tech wants to silence conversations that might hurt their Democrat friends. Enough. Time for some big changes.” -Steve Scalise, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 12:24 pm |
| 1231. | 1/6/2021 “Many states didn’t carry out elections according to the rules set by their legislatures, as the Constitution requires. We cannot turn a blind eye. I will vote in favor of objections to certification of electoral votes from states with serious questions about election integrity.” -Steve Scalise, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 12:39 pm |
| 1232. | 1/6/2021 “The Constitution requires that states carry out elections according to the rules established by state legislatures. In a number of states, that did not happen. We cannot turn a blind eye to states selectively choosing which election laws to follow. Our Founding Fathers gave Congress a critical role to play in certifying the election results and in order to restore confidence in our electoral system, we must stand up for the rule of law… For these reasons, I will vote in favor of objections to the certification of electoral votes from certain states where there have been serious questions about the integrity of the electoral process.” -Steve Scalise, “Scalise Statement on Electoral Vote Certification,” scalise.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1233. | 1/6/2021 “Madam Speaker, I rise today to object to a number of States that did not follow the constitutional requirement for selecting electors… If you look at what the requirement says, nowhere in Article II, Section 1 does it give the secretary of state of a State that ability; nowhere does it give the Governor that ability; nowhere does it give a court that ability. It exclusively gives that ability to the legislatures. In fact, in most States, that is the process that was followed. But for those States, this wasn’t followed… Let’s get back to rule of law and follow the Constitution.” -Steve Scalise, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 136. REPRESENTATIVE DAVID SCHWEIKERT (R-AZ) | |
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| 137. REPRESENTATIVE AUSTIN SCOTT (R-GA) | |
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| 1234. | 1/4/2021 “If you look back at the election when Barack Obama was re-elected [he received less than 100,000] absentee ballots. [Bill Clinton] got 95,000 absentee ballots in the state of Georgia. And Joe Biden somehow, some way, ended up with 850,000 absentee ballots in the state of Georgia. Now something’s not right with that. Something’s not right with that. And he may end up getting sworn in as president.” -Austin Scott via Josh Israel, “GOP congressman thinks it’s weird that so many people voted by mail last year,” americanindependent.com, January 4, 2021 |
| 138. REPRESENTATIVE PETE SESSIONS (R-TX) | |
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| 1235. | 11/16/2020 “Did the Democrats cheat and engineer a fraudulent election in 2020? Watch ‘The Plot Against the President’ on Amazon and decide for yourself.” -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, November 16, 2020 10:37 pm |
| 1236. | 11/19/2020 “This election was conducted fraudulently. We have the evidence and will prove the case.” -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, November 19, 2020 1:54 pm |
| 1237. | 11/23/2020 “As you know, there is a bit of controversy with the elections in his country. That comes from evidence and anecdotal evidence that have raised issues that will need to be handled by the courts. And until this is resolved, I think it is going to be something that we really don’t know the answer to… There were 120,000 votes that were for no other candidate except for Vice President Biden. That is circumstantial evidence, where they are all marked the same way with the same pen, and all delivered at the same time. That is very much something that should be called into question. That was in Michigan.” -Pete Sessions via Tommy Witherspoon, “Pete Sessions inches back after calling 2020 election fraudulent,” wacotrib.com, November 23, 2020 |
| 1238. | 11/24/2020 “Did big tech and the media manipulate this election?” -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, November 24, 2020 8:49 am |
| 1239. | 12/15/2020 “Although the Texas lawsuit has failed, we must continue to get to the bottom of election fraud.” -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, December 15, 2020 6:16 pm |
| 1240. | 12/10/2020 “Today I was proud to join many of my colleagues to support the Texas lawsuit [challenging election results in four states]. The US Supreme Court must preserve the integrity of the 2020 presidential election!” -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, December 10, 2020 6:01 pm |
| 1241. | 12/15/2020 “The bottom line is, is that this effort against President Trump must be met by the resolve of people who are the official holders of elections to allow a challenge in the American system… State-by-state, there are irregularities. In Pennsylvania, where there were over 1.4 million ballots that were sent out for early balloting, mail-in ballots, and up to 25-30% of those were received back within 24 hours… I think it’s impossible for someone to mail out these ballots and get them back within a day or two. There were irregularities in Detroit, Michigan, and in Michigan, where there were some 120,000 ballots that were delivered at one time, all marked for one candidate [Biden], not one party but one candidate, with a perfect marking.” -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, December 15, 2020 6:16 pm |
| 1242. | 12/31/2020 “A newly released study concludes there was massive voter fraud in Fulton County, GA.” -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, December 31, 2020 10:57 am |
| 1243. | 1/2/2021 “Had a great meeting today with folks from ‘Stop the Steal’ at our nation’s Capitol [sic]. I encouraged them to keep fighting and assured them I look forward to doing MY duty on January 6th. #StopTheSteal #legalvotescount” -Pete Sessions, January 2, 2021 4:48 pm |
| 1244. | 1/4/2021 “This document provides overwhelming evidence of 2020 voter fraud.” [Note: This post links to a report by Peter Navarro titled, “The Immaculate Deception: Six Key Dimensions of Election Irregularities.”] -Pete Sessions, Facebook.com, January 4, 2021 6:36 pm |
| 139. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE SIMPSON (R-ID) | |
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| 1245. | 1/6/2021 “The 2020 elections saw record voter enthusiasm and turnout… With increased turnout, however, comes increased risk of fraud, and many questions have arisen from the 2020 elections, particularly in six states that rushed to change election procedures soon before Election Day. Like many Idahoans, I am extremely concerned by these states’ actions, and believe that Congress owes it to the American people to hold an investigation into the 2020 elections. Only a thorough commission on election integrity and a comprehensive series of hearings can answer all the questions and restore confidence in our nations’ free and fair elections.” -Mike Simpson, “Simpson Statement on Certification of the Electoral College,” simpson.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 140. REPRESENTATIVE ADRIAN SMITH (R-NE) | |
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| 1246. | 11/6/2020 “Everyone’s vote matters and should be counted. We must ensure every vote is authentic, timely, and legal. I’m concerned about the ballot-counting patterns that lack transparency and accountability. It’s inexcusable for ballot-counting locations to exclude Republican observers.” -Adrian Smith, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 2:43 pm |
| 1247. | 11/6/2020 “Elections must be held freely and fairly, including the counting of every ballot cast legally under each state’s election laws. The process in many states, Nebraska included, has seemingly been conducted efficiently, orderly, transparently and according to the law. In some states and local jurisdictions important questions have been raised about the integrity of the election process. Any evidence of impropriety must be taken seriously and fully investigated to determine if they are legitimate and if they are widespread enough to impact the reported results.” -Adrian Smith, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 3:05 pm |
| 1248. | 1/4/2021 “Like many Nebraskans, I am deeply concerned about the election process in other states. This wasn’t a typical election — jurisdictions nationwide adjusted their procedures due to the pandemic. While many, including Nebraska, ably conducted their elections in a COVID-safe manner which honored the rule of law and maintained confidence in the integrity of the process, others frankly did not. I support efforts to identify irregularities, demand transparency, and ensure the results of the Presidential election are based on legally-cast ballots. Actual legal votes cast during the election period determine winners and losers. I don’t condone the artificial manufacturing of an election outcome by any candidate, committee, or third party regardless of their political affiliation… I plan to support motions to object [to certifying electoral votes in some states].” -Adrian Smith, Facebook.com, January 4, 2021 11:14 am |
| 1249. | 1/4/2021 “I have concerns about some of the patterns that I have read about, certainly in other states. I am very concerned about Pennsylvania, the fact that they quit counting ballots halfway through the evening. The fact that they decided that signature comparisons were not necessary… Well, it’s not even the legislature that got rid of that, it’s a decision outside the legislature that did that… It’s very important that we reflect on our Constitution, that calls upon the state legislatures [to make election rules]… I think it’s agreed upon that there has been at least a level of fraud, but yet nothing happens with it. And that should be a concern to all of us moving forward.” -Adrian Smith via Sara Kirkley, “Rep. Smith says he will raise objection over Electoral College results,” nebraska.tv, January 4, 2021 |
| 141. REPRESENTATIVE JASON SMITH (R-MO) | |
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| 1250. | 11/6/2020 “Only ? legal ? votes ? should ? be ? counted. The American people are watching.” -Jason Smith, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 2:41 pm |
| 1251. | 11/6/2020 “President Trump is right to demand transparency and accuracy in the ballot counting process. We must count every legal vote, but only legal votes. The American people deserve fair and transparent elections regardless of who they vote for. It is the Department of Justice’s responsibility to ensure the integrity of our elections if state election officials will not.” -Jason Smith, “Smith Demands Investigations Into Election Fraud,” jason smith.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 1252. | 11/6/2020 “I have faith in our institutions, but serious questions have been raised regarding the way this election has been conducted… The alleged incidents of election fraud that have occurred over the past week are deeply concerning. These are not insignificant allegations, and include suspected incidents of vote-buying schemes, voter intimidation, voter impersonations, counting late and/or fake votes, and even the illegal discarding of ballots.” -Jason Smith, “An Open Letter to State Election Officials,” jason smith.house.gov, November 6, 202 |
| 1253. | 11/6/2020 “I am writing today to request the United States Department of Justice investigate all credible allegations of election fraud that have occurred during the 2020 presidential election… It is important to note the alleged incidents of election fraud that have occurred over the past week are not insignificant… These are not unsubstantiated claims as the media would like to suggest. As you know, there are very clear examples of voter impersonation in Nevada and improper counting of absentee ballots in Georgia.” -Jason Smith, “Letter to Attorney General William Barr,” jason smith.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 1254. | 11/10/2020 “Thank you, Attorney General Barr, for following through with my request for investigations. We must get to the bottom of every legitimate allegation of voter fraud that occurred during this election.” -Jason Smith, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 9:56 pm |
| 1255. | 12/20/2020 “I am writing to offer my full support for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate every instance of fraud that occurred during this year’s presidential election. As I have said before, the American people are right to question the outcome of this year’s election, and like you, I am deeply concerned by allegations of voter fraud and irregularities in the states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. These are not insignificant allegations and range from voter impersonation and elderly exploitation to outright bribery.” -Jason Smith, Twitter.com, December 20, 2020 9:06 pm |
| 1256. | 12/20/2020 “[T]he relaxations of voter identification and signature verification laws in the six battleground states disproportionately benefited Vice President Biden and simultaneously increased the risk of voter fraud in our election. For example, the Georgia Secretary of State weakened signature verification processes to require just one verification instead of the two required by law. This calls into question more than 1.2 million ballots in the state of Georgia alone.” -Jason Smith, Twitter.com, December 20, 2020 9:06 pm |
| 1257. | 1/5/2021 “The brilliance of our Founders, and the ideas they enshrined in our Constitution and institutions, has been admired and replicated by nation after nation, giving the gift of freedom, liberty, and self determination to billions of people across the globe. I’m sad to say, our government failed its duty to protect the integrity of those institutions. This failure of responsibility rests solely upon the shoulders of the state election officials who chose to act as partisan individuals rather than follow their own state’s laws. It is my solemn duty, as the representative of the people of Missouri’s Eighth Congressional District, to fight to ensure Missourians voices are heard, and the power of their vote is not diminished. That is why I will be voting to support the Motion to Object.” -Jason Smith, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 8:41 pm |
| 142. REPRESENTATIVE LLOYD SMUCKER (R-PA) | |
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| 1258. | 11/9/2021 “This weekend I joined my PA House GOP colleagues in calling on Gov. Wolf, AG Shapiro & Sec. Boockvar to make certain that all legal ballots are properly counted.” -Lloyd Smucker, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 |
| 1259. | 1/6/2021 “Today, my objection is not about voter fraud; it is grounded on unconstitutional measures taken by bureaucrats and partisan justices in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that have unlawfully changed how this election was carried out. This potentially changed the outcome and certainly caused millions of our States’ voters to question the election results… They unlawfully legislated from the bench and made substantive changes to the law, including allowing for unsecure drop boxes, and ordering that ballots received after the election be counted, among other things… The bottom line for my constituents is that Pennsylvania’s officials at all levels failed to conduct a uniform and legal election, and for that reason, they inappropriately and unlawfully certified the State’s electors.” -Lloyd Smucker, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1260. | 2/5/2021 “My concerns, and ultimately my objection to accepting Pennsylvania’s presidential electors, are not about fraud, but rather the unconstitutional measures taken by unelected bureaucrats and partisan justices in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which have caused millions of our state’s voters to question the election. The state constitution makes it very clear that only the state legislature can make changes to election law; not the Secretary of State nor the State Supreme Court.” -Lloyd Smucker, “Smucker: Why I stood up for voters who questioned the election in Pa. (opinion),” ydr.com, February 5, 2021 |
| 143. REPRESENTATIVE VICTORIA SPARTZ (R-IN) | |
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| 144. REPRESENTATIVE PETE STAUBER (R-MN) | |
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| 1261. | 11/6/2020 “The world is watching our great nation. Every legally cast vote should be counted. Every illegally cast vote should not. It is imperative to ensure Americans can trust our system and election integrity is upheld.” -Pete Stauber, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 4:23 pm |
| 1262. | 12/11/2020 “Yesterday, I joined an amicus brief requesting the Supreme Court review the lawsuit brought forward by the Texas Attorney General and address the American people’s questions on the integrity of this presidential election.” -Pete Stauber, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 10:58 am |
| 1263. | 1/6/2021 “I have serious concerns over election integrity and the significant, widespread abuses in our electoral system that have gone unchecked in many states and cities for decades. However, our Constitution permits only a limited role for Congress in the presidential election process. The Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution asserts that the role of Congress is to count the electors submitted by the states, not to decide which electors the states should have sent.” -Pete Stauber, “Stauber Statement on Joint Session of Congress,” stauber.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 145. REPRESENTATIVE ELISE STEFANIK (R-NY) | |
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| 1264. | 11/5/2020 “It’s very important that we make sure every legal ballot is counted… I think it’s going to be very important to pay close attention to Arizona to make sure that all of those ballots are legally counted, as well as Pennsylvania… We want to make sure that every legal ballot is counted, not the illegal ballots. We also want to make sure that it’s according to the Constitution and the current law, the legislative rules that were set forth by state legislatures.” -Elise Stefanik, Interview on Fox News, video via Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 8:34 am |
| 1265. | 11/5/2020 “We stand with the American people and @realDonaldTrump to count only legal ballots and ensure a safe, transparent, and fair election with ballot integrity and security to protect the vote.” -Elise Stefanik, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:35 pm |
| 1266. | 11/5/2020 “Transparency is a cornerstone of our Constitutional Republic. Transparency strengthens the American people’s faith in our electoral process. It is blatantly illegal that Trump campaign poll watchers are not being allowed to observe vote counting in Philadelphia.” -Elise Stefanik, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:38 pm |
| 1267. | 11/6/2020 “Decision Desks don’t decide elections! The legal votes of the American people do! Count every LEGAL ballot.” -Elise Stefanik, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 9:53 am |
| 1268. | 12/1/2020 “I support the continued effort by the Trump campaign to make sure that every legal ballot and only legal ballots and legal votes are counted… We also need to highlight any of the irregularities. I have concerns about the software, the fact that Dominion software — and it’s not just Republicans, it’s Democrats who have raised issues… I also have concerns about the universal mail-in ballots… There are examples of people who are dead casting ballots.” -Elise Stefanik, Twitter.com, December 1, 2020 9:44 am |
| 1269. | 12/10/2020 “The amicus brief that was signed by over 100 House Republican Members today is about protecting our Constitution. The Constitution is clear; Election Officials and State Executives cannot change the people’s presidential election process without the state legislature approving it. Additionally, it is unconstitutional to refuse to check signatures on mail-in ballots if the state law explicitly states that they must be checked. We are requesting that the Supreme Court carefully review the lawsuit and provide clarity to the American People, who are rightfully concerned about both the unconstitutional overreach from certain state officials and the integrity of the Presidential election.” -Elise Stefanik, “Stefanik Statement on Signing Amicus Brief in Support of Texas Supreme Court Case,” stefanik.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 1270. | 12/10/2020 “We are requesting that the Supreme Court carefully review the lawsuit & provide clarity to the American People, who are rightly concerned about both the unconstitutional overreach from certain state officials & the integrity of the Presidential election” -Elise Stefanik, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 9:03 pm |
| 1271. | 12/11/2020 “It’s never been clearer. One of the biggest illegal collusions in American politics is the mainstream media’s in-kind Far-Left activism to support Democrat candidates. The media and tech suppression of the ACCURATE Hunter Biden @nypost bombshell was a full blown coverup.” -Elise Stefanik, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 8:40 am |
| 1272. | 12/28/2020 “There are questions as to how the election was conducted in states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Michigan.” -Elise Stefanik, Interview with Fox News, video via Twitter.com, December 28, 2020 9:53 am |
| 1273. | 12/29/2020 “What I believe, and what I think Georgians believe, is that we need to make sure that only legal votes are cast, that we have ballot integrity and election security… It is a fact that far-left activists are registering themselves in Georgia who don’t even live in the state of Georgia.” -Elise Stefanik, Interview with Fox News, video via Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 7:37 pm |
| 1274. | 1/4/2021 “I plan to object to certain contested electors on January 6th. I do not take this action lightly. I am acting to protect our democratic process… Tens of millions of Americans are rightly concerned that the 2020 election featured unprecedented voting irregularities, unconstitutional overreach by unelected state officials and judges ignoring state election laws, and a fundamental lack of ballot integrity and ballot security.” -Elise Stefanik, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 9:02 am |
| 1275. | 1/6/2021 “Today, I will respectfully object to contested electors from the states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. I do not take this action lightly. I am acting to protect our democratic process and the Constitution. Article II and the Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution make clear that I have an obligation to act on this matter if I believe there are serious questions with respect to the Presidential election. I believe those questions exist. Tens of millions of Americans are rightly concerned that the 2020 election featured unprecedented voting irregularities, unconstitutional overreach by unelected state officials and judges ignoring state election laws, and a fundamental lack of ballot integrity and security… These unconstitutional acts are why I object today.” -Elise Stefanik, “An Open Letter to My North Country Constituents: Why I Will Object,” suncommunitynews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 1276. | 1/6/2021 “In Pennsylvania, the Democratic State Supreme Court and Secretary of State unilaterally and unconstitutionally rewrote election law eliminating signature matching requirements. They arbitrarily allowed late arriving ballots to be counted even though doing so explicitly ignored and broke state election law. And duly credentialed election observers were not allowed to observe voting and the counting of the vote – another unconstitutional act.” -Elise Stefanik, “An Open Letter to My North Country Constituents: Why I Will Object,” suncommunitynews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 1277. | 1/6/2021 “In Georgia, there was unconstitutional overreach when the Secretary of State unilaterally gutted signature matching for absentee ballots and in essence eliminated voter verification required by state election law. In addition, more than 140,000 votes came from underage, deceased, and otherwise unauthorized voters — in Fulton County alone. And many individuals testified to not being able to meaningfully observe the counting of ballots.” -Elise Stefanik, “An Open Letter to My North Country Constituents: Why I Will Object,” suncommunitynews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 1278. | 1/6/2021 “In Wisconsin, partisan state officials issued rules to circumvent a state law – issued by the legislature as the Constitution requires – that required absentee voters to provide photo identification before obtaining a ballot. Wisconsin’s very own Supreme Court reprimanded the officials for issuing ‘legally incorrect’ guidance. It is also a fact that Wisconsin state law specifies absentee ballots may only be returned by mail or delivered in person to the clerk’s office – but the City of Madison illegally held events at multiple locations to collect more than 17,000 ballots anyway.” -Elise Stefanik, “An Open Letter to My North Country Constituents: Why I Will Object,” suncommunitynews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 1279. | 1/6/2021 “In Michigan, many individuals signed affidavits documenting the unconstitutional irregularities they witnessed – officials physically blocking the legal right of poll watchers to observe vote counts, the counting of late ballots, hand stamping ballots with the previous day’s date, and more. The merits of these illegal, alarming, and reprehensible actions were never considered by a court.” -Elise Stefanik, “An Open Letter to My North Country Constituents: Why I Will Object,” suncommunitynews.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 1280. | 1/6/2021 “Tens of millions of Americans are concerned that the 2020 election featured unconstitutional overreach by unelected state officials and judges ignoring state election laws. We can and we should peacefully and respectfully discuss these concerns. In Pennsylvania, the State Supreme Court and Secretary of State unilaterally and unconstitutionally rewrote election law eliminating signature matching requirements. In Georgia, there was unconstitutional overreach when the Secretary of State unilaterally and unconstitutionally gutted signature matching for absentee ballots and, in essence, eliminated voter verification required by state election law. In Wisconsin, officials issued illegal rules to circumvent a state law – passed by the legislature as the Constitution requires – that required absentee voters to provide photo identification before obtaining a ballot. And in Michigan, signed affidavits document numerous unconstitutional irregularities — officials physically blocking the legal right of poll watchers to observe vote counts, the illegal counting of late ballots, and hand stamping ballots with the previous day’s date. My North Country constituents and the American people cherish the Constitution. And they know that according to the Constitution, elected officials closest to the people in state legislatures have the power of the pen to write election law, not unelected bureaucrats, judges, Governors, or Secretaries of State.” -Elise Stefanik, “Stefanik House Floor Remarks on Objecting to Certain Electors,” stefanik.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 146. REPRESENTATIVE GREG STEUBE (R-FL) | |
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| 1281. | 11/5/2020 “In the United States, the people have a voice because our elections have integrity. Our elections have integrity because we #CountEveryLegalVote. And no, that does not include deceased people, unverifiable voters, or manufactured and harvested ballots.” -Greg Steube, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:09 pm |
| 1282. | 11/6/2020 “’Finding’ ballots overnight is sketchy. 100% of those ballots going to one candidate is even more concerning. Our message for anyone handling, processing, or counting ballots should be simple: if you commit fraud, we will find it and you WILL be held criminally accountable.” -Greg Steube, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 4:22 pm |
| 1283. | 11/7/2020 “Until we can confirm every ballot counted was legal, this race is far from over.” -Greg Steube, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 11:38 am |
| 1284. | 11/8/2020 “Let’s let this process play out and make sure every legal vote is counted and every illegal vote is discarded. Period.” -Greg Steube, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 1:15 pm |
| 1285. | 11/17/2020 “Big Tech interfered in the 2020 election. Their position is clear and the evidence is overwhelming – they have repeatedly censored conservatives and even put warning labels on the @JudiciaryGOP website.” -Greg Steube, Twitter.com, November 17, 2020 12:20 pm |
| 1286. | 12/10/2020 “The Media and Big Tech were co-conspirators in their election interference. For them, the truth doesn’t matter unless they get the results they want.” -Greg Steube, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 11:14 am |
| 1287. | 12/11/2020 “Every single allegation of voter fraud in should be investigated. The integrity of our elections depends on it. I joined @Lancegooden in urging President Trump and AG Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the clear and dangerous irregularities in the 2020 election.” -Greg Steube, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 4:34 pm |
| 1288. | 1/6/2021 “As elected officials we need to address the Constitutional violations and irregularities that have marred this election. At all levels of government, the United States relies on the faith the American people have in our electoral system. If we ignore and fail to investigate blatant improprieties in these four closely contested states, we let honest votes be altered, lost, or cancelled out by fraudulent votes.” -Greg Steube, “Steube Announces Plans to Object to Electoral College Votes Due to Clear Irregularities and Constitutional Violations in Four States,” steube.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1289. | 1/6/2021 “According to a lawsuit filed by the Chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia, over 120,000 of potentially invalid ballots were cast, including those from people not on state voter rolls, felons, underaged registrants, voters who had relocated, deceased people, voters who claimed a post office box as their address, and voters who registered after the deadline. During a state audit, county officials found over 10,500 previously uncounted ballots, indicating dramatic counting errors. Irregularities were observed by Georgia poll monitors, including ballots being purposely miscounted to favor Joe Biden (D).” -Greg Steube, “Steube Announces Plans to Object to Electoral College Votes Due to Clear Irregularities and Constitutional Violations in Four States,” steube.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1290. | 1/6/2021 “Most egregiously, Democrat officials in Pennsylvania removed procedures and requirements to authenticate the signatures for mail-in ballots, thereby opening the door for the state’s election to be ripe with fraud. Democrats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unilaterally and illegally extended deadline to receive absentee and mail-in ballots, without consultation or approval from the state legislature… Following an analysis of ballots cast in the state, state legislators calculated that as many as 205,122 more ballots were cast than the total number of Pennsylvania votes in the state’s Statewide Uniform Registry of Electors (SURE) system.” -Greg Steube, “Steube Announces Plans to Object to Electoral College Votes Due to Clear Irregularities and Constitutional Violations in Four States,” steube.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1291 | 1/6/2021 “[Wisconsin] State officials manipulated the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to disregard state requirements to show or upload photo identification to legally obtain a ballot. This led to legal filing submitted in a federal court which estimates that over 150,000 voters were able to cast ballots without proper identification verification.” -Greg Steube, “Steube Announces Plans to Object to Electoral College Votes Due to Clear Irregularities and Constitutional Violations in Four States,” steube.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 147. REPRESENTATIVE CHRIS STEWART (R-UT) | |
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| 1292. | 11/5/2020 “An important point on the mainstream media polls. They weren’t just incredibly wrong again. They’re not that incompetent. They didn’t just make a mistake. They made a decision. They said we’re willing to be wrong in order to shape public opinion. No one will hold us accountable. A week after the election it won’t matter. We’re going to spend two years telling the country that Trump is going to lose, knowing it would have an affect [sic]. It’s nothing less than voter manipulation.” -Chris Stewart, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 10:57 am |
| 1293. | 11/6/2020 “Free, fair, and transparent elections are the heart of America and what sets us apart from much of the world. We must continue to count all legal votes and if there is a legitimate claim to fraud, it should be investigated and brought before the courts.” -Chris Stewart, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:43 am |
| 1294. | 12/15/2020 “Nearly every national poll predicted a huge blue wave election, followed by down-ballot Democrat party wins across the nation. But when Americans finally had a chance to vote, no blue wave appeared… Most of these polls are paid for or published by the same organizations that manipulate information every day, Big Tech/Big Media with deep pockets. They understand the power of controlling the vote. They understand the potential impact of convincing a group of people that it’s over, their candidate is going to lose, their vote doesn’t matter, and the outcome is assured. This is nothing but a subtle form of voter manipulation.” -Chris Stewart, “Rep. Chris Stewart: The biggest threat to our country is misinformation,” deseret.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 1295. | 1/4/2021 “Until we have resolved the issues surrounding voting irregularities, ballot integrity and security, and the implementation of state election laws, I can not, in good conscience, uphold the oath I took to protect and defend our constitution by voting to certify the election.” -Chris Stewart, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 1:01 pm |
| 1296. | 1/4/2021 “After serious thought and consideration, I will not vote to certify the election. I believe there are critical questions that need to be answered concerning our Presidential election.” -Chris Stewart, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 1:09 pm |
| 1297. | 1/4/2020 “Stewart said Trump, Biden and voters deserve to know the election results are accurate. ‘But if anyone says that there’s no evidence [of election fraud], that’s just absolute nonsense. There’s plenty of evidence about this. The question is, is there enough evidence to overturn the election,’ he said Monday [January 4, 2021] on KSL Newsradio’s ‘Live Mic.’ Courts decided lawsuits contesting the election on ‘technical’ issues, not on a body of evidence, Stewart said. He said there are dozens of affidavits attesting to irregularities and state legislatures in Pennsylvania and Georgia held hours of hearings.” -Dennis Romboy, “Stewart claims there’s ‘plenty of evidence’ to question election results,” deseret.com, January 4, 2021 |
| 1298. | 1/6/2021 “I have continued concerns over the security and integrity of our elections. I am committed to restoring Americans’ faith in our election process & democracy and I support the efforts of Sen. Tim Scott’s 2020 Bipartisan Advisory Committee.” -Chris Stewart, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 9:01 pm |
| 148. REPRESENTATIVE VAN TAYLOR (R-TX) | |
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| 1299. | 1/6/2021 “Like so many Texans, I am disappointed in the 2020 presidential election, both in the outcome and for the manner in which it was conducted in some jurisdictions across the country. My decision against objecting to state electors runs counter to my immediate political objectives… With the adoption of mass unsolicited mail voting, the abolishment of several election security safeguards, dismissal of vote irregularities, and a laissez-faire attitude toward voter fraud, millions of Americans have lost confidence in our election process. The American people deserve to have their questions answered through a peaceful, reasoned process.” -Van Taylor, “Rep. Van Taylor: I Vote to Accept the Electoral Votes because it’s the Conservative Choice,” vantaylor.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 149. REPRESENTATIVE GLENN ‘GT’ THOMPSON (R-PA) | |
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| 1300. | 11/6/2020 “We must save the Republic! Fighting in the courts of law and public opinion is the only way we are going to ensure that every lawful vote is counted. This is why I sued in federal court alongside President Trump to get access for poll watchers in Philadelphia.” -Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 1:51 pm |
| 1301. | 11/7/2020 “Trust has been eroded in #Pennsylvania’s electoral system. Citizens of the Commonwealth deserve free & fair elections!” -Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 4:07 pm |
| 1302. | 1/6/2021 “While systemic voter fraud was not something proven, we witnessed a systemic failure in the application of Pennsylvania’s voting law when it comes to the 2020 general election… The election abuses to Pennsylvania Act 77 taken by the Pennsylvania executive branch and upheld by the Pennsylvania judicial branch were clearly unconstitutional and had an obvious, if not major, impact on the 2020 election, particularly when it comes to the citizens’ faith in the electoral process. Irregularities in Pennsylvania included: Uneven application of the law; ballot curing; ignoring signature validation requirements; using unsecured drop boxes; accepting ballots beyond the deadlines; and interfering with certified poll watcher access, among others.” -Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 150. REPRESENTATIVE TOM TIFFANY (R-WI) | |
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| 1303. | 11/6/2020 “Americans want a transparent process that counts every legally cast ballot.” -Tom Tiffany, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 4:15 pm |
| 1304. | 11/9/2020 “Let’s halt the premature rush to declare a winner in the presidential race to ensure that every legal vote is counted and that every legitimate legal challenge is heard and addressed by our independent judiciary.” -Tom Tiffany, Twitter.com, November 9, 2020 10:02 am |
| 1305. | 12/4/2020 “And especially when you look at some of the events in Pennsylvania and Georgia. Georgia, there’s questions whether ballots came out at a very late hour and were counted that perhaps should not have. Pennsylvania has a very problematic situation where they counted ballots after the Election Day and that clearly violates the law in Pennsylvania. So I think there’s certainly anomalies out there and the process should be worked through here.” -Tom Tiffany via Frederica Freyberg, “Tiffany Weighs in on November Election,” pbswisconsin.org, December 4, 2020 |
| 1306. | 12/4/2020 “When you see windows that are boarded up, I believe that was in Philadelphia, poll watchers being tossed out of being able to do their job, of being able to review ballots, there’s certainly concerns that are there. I think the bigger issues for me, though, I think it’s twofold. One is this accepting ballots after Election Day I do not believe should happen. The second thing is mail-in ballots, which by the way are different than the absentee system here in Wisconsin. Mail-in ballots, I believe that that needs to be ended also because as President Carter said when he was co-chairman of a commission 15 years ago, it leaves the possibility for fraud to be much more rampant.” -Tom Tiffany via Frederica Freyberg, “Tiffany Weighs in on November Election,” pbswisconsin.org, December 4, 2020 |
| 1307. | 12/11/2020 “This is about the integrity of our system. Every legal vote must be counted, credible complaints of fraud and irregularities must be investigated, and legitimate legal challenges must be heard and addressed by our independent judiciary.” -Tom Tiffany, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 1:53 pm |
| 1308. | 12/14/2020 “This [Texas] lawsuit is about the integrity of our system. Every legal vote must be counted, credible complaints of fraud and irregularities must be investigated, and legitimate legal challenges must be heard and addressed by our independent judiciary.” -Tom Tiffany via Peter Cameron, “Tiffany sole Wisconsin Rep. to sign document asking SCOTUS to flip election results in Wisconsin, 3 other swing states,” thebadgerproject.org, December 14, 2020 |
| 1309. | 1/5/2021 “Ballots cast that violate procedures set forth in state statute ‘may not be included in the certified result of any election.’ That is the law and why I will support tomorrow’s objection. This is the last option to protect the rights of Wisconsin voters who cast legal ballots… Failing to address these irregularities and violations, we risk further degrading public trust in our democratic institutions – and that is something no one in American can afford to let happen.” -Tom Tiffany, Facebook.com, January 5, 2021 4:45 pm |
| 1310. | 1/5/2021 “Wisconsin’s legislature did their job by enacting common-sense laws to safeguard the integrity of our elections system which I supported as a State Senator. Unfortunately, our state supreme court failed in their responsibility to uphold them, and a handful of county clerks chose to subvert them. While most Wisconsin clerks complied with the law and administered free and fair elections in November, officials in Dane County and Milwaukee County took active steps to undermine and circumvent those laws. By allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal votes to be cast and counted, these unscrupulous officials have disenfranchised the great majority of Wisconsin voters who followed the law.” -Tom Tiffany, “Tiffany to Object to Wisconsin Electors Amid Irregularities, Rule Violations,” tiffany.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 1311. | 1/5/2021 “Milwaukee and Dane officials openly defied the state ban on ballot harvesting, and intentionally misinterpreted a law designed to allow voting by those under ‘indefinite confinement’ – reserved for the severely disabled and elderly nursing home residents – in order to sidestep voter ID requirements. These clerks also illegally altered absentee voting forms on a massive scale by ‘curing’ incomplete or incorrectly filed mail-in applications and envelopes – a practice not permitted under state statute. Taken together, these violations alone affected some 200,000 ballots in Wisconsin – nearly 10 times the 20,000-vote margin that now separates President Trump and Joe Biden in the state. As a result, Wisconsin voters will never truly know who actually won our state in November.” -Tom Tiffany, “Tiffany to Object to Wisconsin Electors Amid Irregularities, Rule Violations,” tiffany.house.gov, January 5, 2021 |
| 1312. | 1/8/2021 “Congress also completed the electoral certification after debating several objections to slates of electors in states where we saw election irregularities.” -Tom Tiffany, Facebook.com, January 8, 2021 7:00 pm |
| 1313. | 1/8/2021 “This week Congress approved the final electoral results of the 2020 presidential election. I voted in support of the objections that were filed in accordance with the constitution. I have been consistent in my concerns about election irregularities that occurred in a handful of counties, and Wednesday’s vote on the objections was the last legal option available to protect the rights of millions of voters across the country who cast legal ballots. We saw some of those irregularities in Wisconsin, where most clerks conducted clean elections, but where we sadly saw officials in Dane and Milwaukee County take steps to circumvent the election laws approved by our state legislature. By allowing hundreds of thousands of tainted votes to be cast and counted, these officials unfortunately diluted the value of the legal ballots cast by the great majority of Wisconsin voters.” -Tom Tiffany, “The Tiffany Telegram,” iqconnect.house.gov, January 8, 2021 |
| 151. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM TIMMONS (R-SC) | |
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| 1314. | 11/5/2020 “It does not matter who the ballot was cast for, every legal ballot should be counted in this election. This is a fundamental tenet of our republic. But under no circumstances should illegal ballots be included in the results of this election.” -William Timmons, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 3:29 pm |
| 1315. | 11/5/2020 “We are helping the Trump Campaign investigate fraudulent votes thoroughly. Whether it is ballots cast by the deceased, incorrect online voter status, or illicit ballot harvesting, if you or someone you know has a firsthand account of suspicious voter activity, submit it here: [link]” -William Timmons, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 3:29 pm |
| 1316. | 11/6/2020 “The election is not over yet. Voting irregularities and allegations of fraud are serious claims that undermine our electoral process and must be fully vetted. The President has the right to challenge these claims in court just as any candidate for office would.” -William Timmons, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 3:13 pm |
| 1317. | 11/10/2020 “More than 150 million Americans voted last week, and they deserve to have confidence in the outcome. This means that, at the very least, the President and his legal team should be given every opportunity to fully investigate reports of voting irregularities and fraud, and any issues they find should be heard in the appropriate court of law.” -William Timmons, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 4:23 pm |
| 1318. | 1/2/2021 “As the representative of South Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District, I took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and this is a duty that I do not take lightly or without careful consideration and deliberation. To date, Congress has failed to launch any meaningful investigation or oversight into anything that relates to election integrity. This is unacceptable at a time when tens of millions of Americans feel disenfranchised.” -William Timmons, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 11:55 am |
| 1319. | 1/2/2021 “Since Election Day, I have continually said that to preserve the integrity of our election system, we must fight to ensure that every legal vote is counted, every count is verified, and every voice is heard. Implicit in that effort is a need to ensure that no illegally cast votes are included in the results. Every American must be confident in the integrity of our electoral process. After all, free and fair elections are the bedrock of our republic.” -William Timmons, “Timmons to Object to Electoral College Certification on January 6,” timmons.house.gov, January 2, 2021 |
| 1320. | 1/2/2021 “Unfortunately, in the months preceding the November election, a group of big money funded, special interest, liberal elites intentionally and systematically sought to use state and federal judges to manipulate the election laws in swing states in a manner that reduced the requirements for voter registration, identification, and verification; extended the deadlines to submit absentee votes; and altered or extended the ability to ‘cure’ defective votes… The timing in making these changes so close to the election was almost certainly intentional because of the difficulties and delays associated with challenging and appealing a court’s ruling prior to the election. Moreover, the manner in which the rules were changed made it more difficult (if not impossible) to challenge the results of the election after the fact.” -William Timmons, “Timmons to Object to Electoral College Certification on January 6,” timmons.house.gov, January 2, 2021 |
| 1321. | 1/2/2021 “Actors other than state legislatures, as required by the Constitution, changed the rules of the game after kickoff. At best, these rulings and the activist judges that unilaterally imposed them are responsible for diminishing trust in our elections. At worst, they may have enabled widespread fraud that could have altered the results of the election. Democrat activists succeeded in their efforts to bypass state legislatures and have voting laws changed by courts across the country… If these unprecedented and unconstitutional changes were not bad enough, Big Tech, the media, and ‘pollsters’ piled on. Big Tech censorship inappropriately placed their thumb on the scale with the purpose of influencing public opinion.” -William Timmons, “Timmons to Object to Electoral College Certification on January 6,” timmons.house.gov, January 2, 2021 |
| 1322. | 1/2/2021 “Let me be clear: changing state election laws through the judicial branch in the weeks before the election was unconstitutional and wrong. These changes, pursued by Democrats, sought to decrease the integrity of the elections in swing states by aggressively reducing identification requirements… For these reasons, I plan to object to the Electoral College certification from states that unconstitutionally changed their election laws.” -William Timmons, “Timmons to Object to Electoral College Certification on January 6,” timmons.house.gov, January 2, 2021 |
| 1323. | 1/9/2021 “I voted against certifying the electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania because these states made unconstitutional changes to their election laws in the days and weeks prior to the election. In Arizona, voter registration deadlines were changed by activist judges allowing tens of thousands of people to register after the statutory deadline… In Pennsylvania… if a voter did not date their envelope, they could have voted up to three days after the election.” -William Timmons, “Timmons Statement on Electoral College Votes,” timmons.house.gov, January 9, 2021 |
| 152. REPRESENTATIVE JEFF VAN DREW (R-NJ) | |
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| 1324. | 12/15/2020 “The important issue is that certain states changed their election laws and the way they went about voting in a very serious and significant way, without the legislature meeting and voting on it. That is unconstitutional, it is not legal, I believe in the rule of law, they absolutely should have had a meeting of those folks obviously that are in the legislature and that is what this suit is all about and that is what this concern is about.” -Jefferson Van Drew via Joshua Q. Nelson, “Rep. Van Drew: ‘Absurd’ for Dems to say he shouldn’t be seated in House for backing election lawsuit,” foxnews.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 1325. | 12/30/2020 “Over the last few months, tens of millions of Americans have raised legitimate questions and concerns about the manner in which we conduct our elections. Did Governors have the constitutional authority to unilaterally change election laws without the approval of their respective state legislatures? How accurate were the voter rolls that were used to send out millions of live ballots? Who is ultimately responsible for counting ballots and what safeguards are in place to ensure the results are being accurately reported? I will be voting against certifying this past November’s presidential election – and my vote isn’t about who won or lost the Presidency. Rather, my vote is a reflection of the litany of serious unanswered questions surrounding this election to which Americans deserve answers.” -Jefferson Van Drew, “Why I’ll vote against certifying the Electoral College results,” savejersey.com, December 30, 2020 |
| 1326. | 1/6/2021 “I know some people might not agree with me on the certification process. It’s not so much that I want to overturn the election. It is the fact that some really, really — if everybody would clear their head and look at this — that some really wrong things did happen.” -Jefferson Van Drew via Associated Press, “Van Drew explains opposition to Biden certification, after riot,” nj1015.com, January 6, 2021 |
| 1327. | 1/6/2021 “After this past Presidential election, approximately 60 million Americans have serious doubts about the outcome. That is a number that we cannot ignore.” -Jeff Van Drew, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1328. | 1/7/2021 “I know some people might not agree with me on the [objection to the] certification process. It’s not so much that I want to overturn the election. It is the fact that some really, really — if everybody would clear their head and look at this — that some really wrong things did happen [in the election].” -Jeff Van Drew via Associated Press, “Van Drew explains opposition to Biden certification, after riot,” nj1015.com, January 7, 2021 |
| 1329. | 1/7/2021 “I will also continue to fight for election integrity so that the legitimate concerns raised in November’s election can be addressed and the American people can once again have confidence in our election process.” -Jeff Van Drew, “Congressman Jeff Van Drew Statement on President Elect Biden,” vandrew.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 153. REPRESENTATIVE BETH VAN DUYNE (R-TX) | |
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| 1330. | 12/15/2020 “@SpeakerPelosi in May 2017: Our election was hijacked. Congress has a duty to follow the facts. @SpeakerPelosi now: Nothing to see here. I don’t agree and neither do tens of millions of other Americans. There is plenty to investigate [about the election].” -Beth Van Duyne, Twitter.com, December 15, 2020 12:11 pm |
| 1331. | 12/16/2020 “Every legal vote must be counted. I have signed a letter with 25 fellow @GOP Congressmen-elect to demand an investigation of the irregularities in November’s election. The American people deserve the assurance their elections remain free and fair.” -Beth Van Duyne, Twitter.com, December 16, 2020 9:46 am |
| 1332. | 12/23/2020 “For weeks, Democrats have blasted Republicans for requesting an investigation into voter fraud. Meanwhile, they’re busy contesting the results in IA-02. Make no mistake. Democrats only care about election integrity when their candidate loses.” -Beth Van Duyne, Twitter.com, December 23, 2020 1:15 pm |
| 1333. | 1/6/2021 “Every Texan should have full confidence that their legal vote counts. That’s why I sent a letter to @TXAG applauding the prosecution of voter fraud cases in Texas and offering full assistance in safeguarding our #elections.” -Beth Van Duyne, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:15 pm |
| 1334. | 1/7/2021 “Early this morning, I voted to object to the electors from the state of Pennsylvania because it was clear to me this state’s election was conducted unconstitutionally through executive and court actions which changed the rules of the election without the express approval of the Pennsylvania State Legislature.” -Beth Van Duyne, Twitter.com, January 7, 2021 10:28 pm |
| 154. REPRESENTATIVE TIM WALBERG (R-MI) | |
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| 1335. | 11/6/2020 “The will of the people must be carried out in the presidential election and every legal vote must be counted. In states across the country, and even here in Michigan in Wayne County, we’ve heard stories of voting irregularities. It is apparent that we need more transparency in order to restore full faith in this process, which so many voters currently lack.” -Tim Walberg, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 2:15 pm |
| 1336. | 1/4/2021 “The very foundation of our Democracy lies in the tenets of a free, fair, and secure election. Americans deserve to know only legal votes are counted and reports regarding irregularities, fraud, and failure to follow election laws are thoroughly investigated. Poll challengers have raised valid concerns about election integrity across our Nation that brings into question the results of the 2020 election and puts faith in future elections in jeopardy.” -Jack Bergman and Tim Walberg, “Bergman, Walberg to Object to Certain Presidential Electors on January 6th,” bergman.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 1337. | 1/7/2021 “For those with legitimate concerns about election integrity, yesterday should have been a time for robust and respectful debate on the House floor. My focus for that forum was a method to provide greater transparency and raise concerns on behalf of my constituents who lack faith in the electoral process. Given these unresolved concerns regarding irregularities and the overstepping of state laws, I announced my position earlier this week to object… Moving forward, we must settle these unanswered constitutional questions in order to prevent future irregularities and restore Americans’ confidence in the process.” -Tim Walberg, “Walberg Statement on Electoral College Certification,” walberg.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 155. REPRESENTATIVE JACKIE WALORSKI (R-IN) | |
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| 1338. | 12/10/2020 “The integrity of our elections is a cornerstone of our democracy. Today I joined an amicus brief asking the United States Supreme Court to examine key Constitutional questions surrounding the presidential election… To be clear, I stand with President Trump in the fight to ensure any allegations of voter fraud or irregularities are carefully and fully investigated in order to maintain the American people’s confidence in our electoral system.” -Jackie Walorski, “Walorski Joins Amicus Brief Asking Supreme Court to Review Matters of Election Integrity,” walorski.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 1339. | 12/10/2020 “I’ve stood with @realDonaldTrump to ensure any allegations of voter fraud or irregularities are carefully & fully investigated. In doing so, the liberal media has decided to depict me & my colleagues as rats.” -Jackie Walorski, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 11:50 am |
| 1340. | 1/4/2021 “The integrity of our elections – and the faith the American people have that their votes are fully and fairly counted – is a cornerstone of our democracy. I share the concerns of many Hoosiers about irregularities in the way some states conducted the 2020 presidential election.” -Jackie Walorski, “Walorski Statement on Objection to Contested Electors,” walorski.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 1341. | 1/7/2021 “I share the concerns of many Hoosiers about irregularities in how some states conducted the 2020 presidential election. That is why I have strongly supported the creation of an Electoral Commission to conduct a thorough and transparent emergency audit to help restore the American people’s confidence in our electoral system. Because Congress was unable to reach a bipartisan agreement to take such a commonsense step, I voted to formally object to certain electors from contested states in order to shine a light on these concerns.” -Jackie Walorski, “Walorski Statement on Electoral College Certification,” walorski.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 156. REPRESENTATIVE MIKE WALTZ (R-FL) | |
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| 1342. | 11/6/2021 “Bottom line: Every legal vote should be counted. No illegal votes should be counted. The counting process should be transparent. And ALL sides should be allowed to observe it. Each side has the right to take any irregularities and evidence to court and have the courts decide.” -Mike Waltz, Twitter.com November 6, 2020 2:51 pm |
| 1343. | 11/6/2021 “What is happening in Pennsylvania is an example of a completely flawed counting system. Not counting mail-in ballots until Election Day, coupled with the activist PA Supreme Court saying ballot signatures & dates don’t even matter make the ballot-counting process ripe for fraud.” -Mike Waltz, Twitter.com November 6, 2020 4:17 pm |
| 1344. | 12/29/2020 “Here’s what I can tell you — in 2020, several states faced significant constitutional issues regarding election officials or state courts overriding the laws enacted by their state legislatures. Numerous irregularities have been cited under affidavit.” -Mike Waltz, Twitter.com, December 29, 2020 12:24 pm |
| 1345. | 1/6/2021 “Here are some FACTS the media isn’t reporting: PA, GA, WI & MI election rules were changed NOT by state legislatures but by other officials AND excused as accommodations for the pandemic. These last minute changes to election rules caused unprecedented irregularities. #COVID is NOT an excuse to circumvent rule of law. In accordance with the Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Clause 2), ONLY state legislatures are given authority to direct the manner of appointing presidential electors. It’s been upheld by the Constitution.” -Mike Waltz, Twitter.com, January 6, 2021 1:41 pm |
| 157. REPRESENTATIVE RANDY WEBER (R-TX) | |
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| 1346. | 12/3/2020 “Folks, there’s nothing more sacred than Americans’ right to vote. This fundamental right and act must be preserved and protected by our great republic. We’re given the charge to protect that right. Even more troubling is the lack of action that has been cited appear to pursue the numerous, numerous claims of 2020 voter fraud and the delay and preserving the potential evidence in voter fraud… I am talking about 545 sworn affidavits, 14,200 incident reports [of voter fraud] filed in the states Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin… If we don’t do the right thing and thoroughly investigate all claims of voter fraud, our citizens will never, ever, ever feel secure again in our elections.” -Randy Weber, “Freedom Caucus News Conference on Integrity of 2020 Elections,” c-span.org, December 3, 2020 |
| 158. REPRESENTATIVE DANIEL WEBSTER (R-FL) | |
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| 1347. | 12/10/2020 “105 of my colleagues and I have filed an amicus brief in Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al. Election integrity is a critical component of the American system. The U.S. Constitution gives State Legislatures the exclusive authority to determine the manner in which electors are appointed/chosen. We are a nation of laws and order. We must ensure a constitutionally approved process was conducted [in the presidential election] and all valid claims are properly addressed. As I said last month, President Trump has the right to take legal action and request recounts to ensure every and only legally cast ballots are counted.” -Daniel Webster, Facebook.com, December 10, 2020 4:34 pm |
| 159. REPRESENTATIVE BRAD WENSTRUP (R-OH) | |
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| 1348. | 12/10/2020 “I have heard many concerns from my constituents regarding a variety of aspects of the election. Our judicial system provides a place to raise legal challenges and seek remedy for injustice. Similar to the 2000 Presidential election, our nation won’t have a sense of finality unless these legal challenges are resolved. That is why I asked the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ultimate jurisdiction, to take up this case [a Texas lawsuit challenging election results in four states], so that we may bring clarity for this election and legal certainty for future elections.” -Brad Wenstrup, “Wenstrup Statement on Texas v. Pennsylvania, wenstrup.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 1349. | 12/15/2020 “Under our Constitution, the presidential electors have voted Joe Biden to be our next president, but the unprecedented amount of liberal media bias, big tech interference, election irregularities, and process alterations have undoubtedly created distrust among tens of millions of Americans, many of whom I represent. As some legal challenges continue, I am committed to ensuring that future presidential elections, and all elections in America, are free from the uncertainties that have been so evident in 2020. Our goal must be election outcomes that can be trusted by all, and, unfortunately, we are far from that.” -Brad Wenstrup via Taylor Popielarz, “Which Ohio Republicans Publicly Accept Joe Biden Won,” spectrumnews1.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 1350. | 1/7/2021 “I believe there remain constitutional concerns and actual violations regarding election administration. Understandably, many Americans across the political spectrum have concerns about its fairness and accuracy. Unfairness on the part of the media and big tech only exacerbated these concerns, which have been arising over the last two decades. I am deeply concerned about state officials making changes to their election laws without the consent of their state legislators. This concern has arisen in states won by each candidate.” -Brad Wenstrup, “Wenstrup Statement on Electoral College Certification, wenstrup.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 1351. | 1/7/2021 “Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution grants state legislatures sole authority to direct the manner for how its state’s Electors are appointed to the Electoral College. And yet, judges, governors, and other officials in certain states repeatedly made changes to election laws that circumvented the state legislatures. The discrepancies in these states must be resolved, and the constitutional questions must be answered. Before the election, state legislatures should have exerted their constitutional role to either object to or codify election administration changes. They did not, and they still have not, sadly.” -Brad Wenstrup, “Wenstrup Statement on Electoral College Certification, wenstrup.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 1352. | 1/7/2021 “Two constitutional issues are hitting each other: The non-constitutionality of non-legislative changes to the election and the constitutionality of states choosing their own electors and certifying them. Specifically, I joined the petition to object to Pennsylvania’s Electors because of clear discrepancies between Pennsylvania’s own state law and how its election was administered. These include judges unilaterally extending certain election deadlines, election officials not requiring signature checks on mail-in ballots, and inconsistent standards from county officials for ‘ballot curing.’ I believe the changes these Pennsylvania officials made without the consent of their state legislators are unconstitutional. In addition, Pennsylvania’s law – Act 77, which expanded mail-in ballots – violates their own Constitution. These issues need to be heard and debated. Objections in the certification process are not unprecedented.” -Brad Wenstrup, “Wenstrup Statement on Electoral College Certification, wenstrup.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 160. REPRESENTATIVE BRUCE WESTERMAN (R-AR) | |
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| 1353. | 11/6/2020 “Every legal ballot should be counted. Any fraud should be immediately investigated and addressed. This is not a partisan issue. Americans deserve absolute transparency in the election process.” -Bruce Westerman, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 10:18 am |
| 1354. | 11/7/2020 “No race is over until the state conducting the election certifies votes. There are numerous disturbing reports of discrepancies and failure to follow election laws. It’s important to America’s future that we investigate these claims, ensuring fair and transparent elections.” -Bruce Westerman, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 4:46 pm |
| 161. REPRESENTATIVE ROGER WILLIAMS (R-TX) | |
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| 1355. | 11/5/2020 “SHARE with your friends! EVERY legal vote must be counted and we must ensure Democrat election officials are held accountable for any abuse of our free and fair electoral process.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 5:02 pm |
| 1356. | 11/5/2020 “Call your state legislators in GA, NC, PA, and AZ and tell them they run the elections — not the radical Dems. In other words, do your job. Stand up and stand with this President.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 8:03 pm |
| 1357. | 11/5/2020 “EVERY legal ballot must be counted with full transparency — it’s unacceptable to have illegal votes counted in America and corrupt Democrat officials must be monitored! It is vital that we protect our democracy and ensure confidence in our free and fair electoral process.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:37 pm |
| 1358. | 11/5/2020 “This is the most corrupt election in our lifetime. Where is the DOJ and AG?” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 7:35 pm |
| 1359. | 11/6/2020 “Every LEGAL vote must be counted. Fair and free elections are the pillar of our democracy — the courts are in place to resolve any disputes and to apply the law. The American people decide the results of our election and every voice must be heard.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 6, 2020 7:42 pm |
| 1360. | 11/7/2020 “In Texas, we have a saying called fair and square—you can count on it. We must make sure this election is fair and free, and EVERY legal vote is counted.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 7, 2020 10:36 am |
| 1361. | 11/16/2020 “Our fair and free elections are a foundational pillar of America. It is vital that every legal vote is counted to preserve the integrity of the electoral process.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 16, 2020 9:03 am |
| 1362. | 11/20/2020 “The President has every right to ask the courts to investigate any voting irregularities.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 20, 2020 7:39 pm |
| 1363. | 11/21/2020 “I respect Senator Toomey, but we must make sure every legal vote counts now and in the future.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, November 21, 2020 9:45 pm |
| 1364. | 12/5/2020 “This is a fight for the very foundation of our nation — we must make sure EVERY legal vote is counted. The voices of ALL Americans must be heard in our free and fair electoral process.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 1:23 pm |
| 1365. | 12/8/2020 “Every legal vote must be transparently counted and the President has every right to investigate reported irregularities. All Americans must be able to have faith in our fair and free electoral process!” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, December 8, 2020 9:25 am |
| 1366. | 12/9/2020 “We are fighting for the very foundation of our nation! EVERY legal vote must be counted transparently in every state.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 11:49 am |
| 1367. | 12/10/2020 “It is crucial to the preservation of our free and fair electoral process that states follow their own election laws, ensuring that every legal vote is transparently counted.” -Roger Williams, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 5:01 pm |
| 1368. | 12/11/2020 “The American people must have be able to have faith in our electoral process. Transparent, fair and free elections are a foundational pillar of our nation. I joined 105 of my colleagues filing an amicus brief expressing our concern with the integrity of the 2020 election.” -Roger Williams, Facebook.com, December 11, 2020 10:06 am |
| 1369. | 1/6/2021 “I rise in favor of the objection [to certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral votes]… The American people deserve full transparency in the electoral process, with confidence that any irregularities and inconsistencies in that process will be fully investigated… I know what the courts, the executive branch, and the elections officials can and cannot do without approval of the State legislature. During my tenure, I knew that my authority was confined to the powers the legislature provided me. If States fail to abide by the Constitution and follow their owns laws, it calls into question whether the votes in Texas, or any other State, are fairly represented.” -Roger Williams, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1370. | 1/7/2021 “The American people deserve full transparency in the electoral process, with confidence that any irregularities or inconsistencies in that process will be fully investigated… If states fail to abide by the Constitution and follow their own laws, it calls into question whether the votes in Texas or any other state are fairly represented.” -Roger Williams, “Rep. Williams Statement on Electoral College Certification,” williams.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 162. REPRESENTATIVE JOE WILSON (R-SC) | |
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| 1371. | 11/10/2020 “Today I will be joining my South Carolina Republican House colleagues for a press conference on upcoming efforts to address irregularities in federal elections.” -Joe Wilson, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 11:30 am |
| 1372. | 11/10/2020 “Our election system is integral to our way of life and it is important that irregularities be addressed.” -Joe Wilson, Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 3:03 pm |
| 1373. | 11/12/2020 “This week I joined my South Carolina Republican House colleagues to share upcoming efforts to address irregularities in federal elections that have occurred in select states across the country during the 2020 Presidential Election.” -Joe Wilson, Twitter.com, November 10, 202010:46 am |
| 1374. | 12/10/2020 “People across the United States are concerned about the mishandling of their votes and irregularities in the 2020 federal election. I share this concern which is why I joined my colleagues, led by Congressman Mike Johnson, in filing an amicus brief that expresses concern and the belief that these issues should be addressed by the Court. I am grateful that South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has also joined the 16 other state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief supporting the State of Texas as they pursue their right to truth. The constitutional provisions that election laws are the sole jurisdiction of state legislators must be maintained and not be changed by judicial action.” -Joe Wilson, “Wilson Stands for Election Integrity,” joewilson.house.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 1375. | 12/31/2020 “As a former Lexington County Election Commissioner, not just as a Member of Congress, I am disgusted at the irregularities in the 2020 presidential election. The failure to validate signatures, the omission of witnesses, the interruption of counting before completion, the denial of poll watchers for access to fully observe, the extension of ballots received beyond Election Day, and the registration of illegal aliens, allowing non-citizens to vote, are all an open invitation for fraud. I had counted on courts to fully consider lawsuits by 18 states and 126 members of Congress, but the Courts have declined to act and it is my duty to object to the Electoral count because irregularities were never addressed.” -Joe Wilson, “Congressman Joe Wilson to Object to Electoral College Certification,” joewilson.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 163. REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT WITTMAN (R-VA) | |
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| 1376. | 11/9/2020 “We must ensure the integrity of our elections and we must follow the laws on the books. In accordance with each state’s laws, every legally cast vote should be counted and every ineligible vote should not.” -Rob Wittman, Facebook.com, November 9, 2020 via lofgren.house.gov (content deleted from Facebook) |
| 1377. | 11/13/2020 “Elections must be secure, honest, and fair… That’s why earlier this week I sent a letter to Attorney General Barr outing my thoughts on how we uphold the utmost integrity in our election systems — including authorizing the Department of Just to investigate all charges of election tampering in several states… I have given directly to the President’s [Trump] Legal Defense fund and will continue to fight for his right to challenge any and all irregularities.” -Rob Wittman, Facebook.com, November 13, 2020 via lofgren.house.gov (content deleted from Facebook) |
| 1378. | 12/22/2020 “Specifically, Article II, Section 1, clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution states that presidential electors must be appointed according to rules established by each state’s legislature. But in the months before the 2020 election, those rules were deliberately changed in certain states, not by their legislatures, but by governors, secretaries of state, election officials, judges and/or private parties without the approval of the states’ legislatures. This raised a constitutional question, which is why I, along with a majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives, signed onto the amicus brief in the Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al. case.” -Rob Wittman, “Election Challenge Stood Up for the Constitution,” robwittman.com, December 22, 2020 |
| 1379. | 12/26/2020 “Simply put: Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution states that presidential electors must be appointed according to rules established by each state’s legislature. Yet in the months before the 2020 election, the constitutional authority of state legislatures was simply usurped by various governors, state courts, state election officials, and others when state election laws were deliberately changed in certain states without the approval of the states’ legislatures. This raised a constitutional question, which is why I signed on to the amicus brief in Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al.” -Rob Wittman, “Rep. Rob Wittman: Why I signed on to the Texas amicus brief,” wittman.house.gov, December 26, 2020 |
| 1380. | 1/4/2021 “I am in full support of objecting to electors in order to debate and examine of election results in states where Constitutional questions have been raised. In fact, in December I joined a majority of my Republican colleagues and Leadership in the House of Representatives in sending an Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court in reference to Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al. relating to the November general election. Like many of my constituents, I have concerns that several states failed to follow the Constitution in conducting elections and deserve scrutiny to ensure a fair and free election.” -Rob Wittman, Twitter.com, January 4, 2021 9:18 am |
| 1381. | 1/7/2021 “I took an oath to defend the Constitution and that is what I will continue to do as the Representative of the First Congressional District of Virginia. That oath led me to vote against certifying the electors from Pennsylvania because of unconstitutional changes to the administration of the 2020 general election, which bypassed the constitutionally vested power of the state legislature and fundamentally changed the state’s election procedures. Simply put, the evidence is clear that Pennsylvania failed to follow the laws and constitutional tenets that govern its elections.” -Rob Wittman, “Wittman Statement on the Certification of Electoral Votes,” wittman.house.gov, January 7, 2021 |
| 164. REPRESENTATIVE RON WRIGHT (R-TX) | |
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| 1382. | 12/7/2020 “I echo many of my colleagues’ concerns and urge the White House to direct Attorney General Barr to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the 2020 elections. The appointment of a Special Counsel would ensure that these allegations [of voter fraud] are being investigated to the fullest extent.” -Ron Wright, Twitter.com, December 7, 2020 1:58 pm |
| 1383. | 12/9/2020 “I’m proud to join my Republican colleagues, led by @LanceGooden, to call for the @WhiteHouse to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the 2020 Elections. The American people deserve a complete and thorough investigation to ensure the integrity of our democratic system!” -Ron Wright, Twitter.com, December 9, 2020 3:25 pm |
| 1384. | 1/5/2021 “I believe that every voice should be heard, every legal vote should be verified, and every law should be followed. Therefore, on Wednesday, January 6, I will object to certifying the Electoral College votes from the disputed states. By Congress accepting what we know is tainted, is to call into question the validity of our elections, and further erode Americans’ confidence in the process.” -Ron Wright, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 11:46 am |
| 1385. | 1/7/2021 “As the world looked on, our Capitol building was attacked and overtook by violent protesters… Although what we saw yesterday was inexcusable and reprehensible, it doesn’t change the fact that election laws were broken, and evidence of voter fraud has been presented.” -Ron Wright, Twitter.com, January 5, 2021 11:14 am |
| 165. REPRESENTATIVE LEE ZELDIN (R-NY) | |
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| 1386. | 11/5/2020 “The most sacred principle of a free & fair US election is 1 person, 1 vote. All ELIGIBLE voters (ONLY eligible voters) have a right to cast & have counted 1 legal vote. The process must be accurate, transparent, legit, thorough & trustworthy. Can’t cut corners w/ any of that.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 2:28 pm |
| 1387. | 11/5/2020 “Ballots should only be given to people WHO REQUEST THEM and are ELIGIBLE to cast ONE LEGAL vote. Candidates must be permitted to have observers witness up close the counting of those ballots. If not respected, the Justice Dept and Judicial Branch must successfully intervene.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, November 5, 2020 9:56 pm |
| 1388. | 11/6/2020 “A nation divided will not unite and heal without a transparent process of reviewing on the merits alleged voting irregularities in close statewide Presidential results. Quite frankly, any alleged voting irregularity anywhere should be closely scrutinized so the American public can have full faith in the process now and moving forward. All US election results should always be tamper proof. This is why I strongly support voter ID and allowing candidates to have witnesses closely observe ballot counting, and oppose ballot harvesting and universal mail in voting, among other proposals. At this point in time, there is highly likely to be some recounts and judicial branch involvement before a Presidential winner can be decided.” -Lee Zeldin, Facebook.com, November 6, 2020 11:58 am |
| 1389. | 11/8/2020 “These social media companies need to lose liability protections the way they pressed their thumbs on the scale of the 2020 US Presidential election. This isn’t about threats. Skip that extra step and just do it.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, November 8, 2020 6:52 pm |
| 1390. | 11/18/2020 “Ballot integrity matters and must be totally defended. Our elections are not tamper proof and error proof. Confronting that reality head on is the only acceptable path forward in this moment and beyond. We MUST make the system stronger.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, November 18, 2020 8:27 pm |
| 1391. | 12/5/2020 “Elections are not error proof or tamper proof. Many people believe ballot integrity doesn’t matter if your candidate wins… How to weaken ballot integrity through the US: ❌Ballot Harvesting ❌Universal Mail-In Voting ❌Ineligible Voters Registering and Voting ❌People Voting Where They Barely Reside (If At All) ❌Allowing Ballot Defects to Be Cured In Some Areas of a State But Not Others” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 4:11 pm |
| 1392. | 12/5/2020 “Elections aren’t error-proof, they aren’t tamper-proof, and we should be pursuing ways to protect ballot integrity… People who are not eligible to vote shouldn’t be able to get themselves registered to vote and actually do vote, that happens. People who are deceased and end up voting, that shouldn’t be allowed to happen. Those who might vote twice.” -Lee Zeldin, Interview on NewsMax, video via Twitter.com, December 5, 2020 1:53 pm |
| 1393. | 12/10/2020 “The lawsuit filed by TX to the Supreme Court & supported by MANY others throughout the US is a very strong, compelling argument in favor of & defending the constitution, law, & LEGAL voters of GA, PA, MI & WI, etc. It’s a must read detailing eye-popping, confirmed wrongdoing [in the election].” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, December 10, 2020 6:12 pm |
| 1394. | 12/11/2020 “Big tech & much of the media suppressed & attacked the facts surrounding the Biden family’s foreign dirty money business dealings. This was intentional to put their thumbs on the scale of the 2020 prez election. They were all-in members of the Joe Biden presidential campaign.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 8:30 am |
| 1395. | 12/11/2020 “The Biden family’s foreign dirty $ deals should’ve been pre-election news, but Big Tech & many in the media silenced it to put their thumbs on the election scales. So much misconduct by so many since 2016 in a desperate, all out effort to take down a sitting POTUS at any cost.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, December 11, 2020 1:51 pm |
| 1396. | 12/12/2020 “When a state legislature passes laws requiring a state’s election to be run a certain way, can people in that state’s executive branch just ignore those laws & run an election their own way however they prefer? I’d say NO! It’s striking how strongly the left feels otherwise.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, December 12, 2020 10:42 am |
| 1397. | 1/2/2021 “In battleground states, signature verification, observation practices, voter roll integrity, voter ID law compliance & ballot collection rules were weakened w/o legislative approval & constitutional authority. Millions of unauthorized mail-in ballots were then sent out. Pursuant to the US Constitution, state legislatures have the power to determine the times, places & manner of federal elections. It doesn’t belong to a rogue elections official, Secretary of State, or court. State constitutions must be followed as well.” -Lee Zeldin, Twitter.com, January 2, 2021 11:14 pm |
| 1398. | 1/6/2021 “I will be speaking shortly on the House floor to voice objections you and I have regarding confirmed, evidence filled issues with the administration of the 2020 Presidential election in certain battleground states. Rogue election officials, Secretaries of State, and courts unilaterally and unconstitutionally enacted major election law changes without seeking and obtaining state legislative approval. Signature verification, ballot observation, voter roll integrity, voter ID requirements, ballot collection protections, and more were weakened on top of the millions of mailboxes that were being flooded with unrequested mail in ballots.” -Lee Zeldin, Facebook.com, January 6, 2021 12:40 pm |
| 1399. | 1/6/2021 “I have a duty to speak out about confirmed evidence-filled issues with the administration of the 2020 Presidential election in certain battleground States. Signature verification, ballot observation, voter roll integrity, voter ID requirements, and ballot collection protections were weakened on top of the millions of mailboxes that were flooded with unrequested mail-in ballots… When I say that, in Arizona, courts unilaterally extended the legislatively set deadline to register to vote… In Pennsylvania, where State legislators wrote us about their powers being usurped, the Democrat majority on the State supreme court changed signature, signature matching and postal marking requirements. The date to submit mail-in ballots was extended contradictory to the date set by State law… In Georgia, the secretary of state unilaterally entered into a settlement agreement with the Democratic Party, changing statutory requirements for confirming voter identity… In Wisconsin, election officials assisted voters on how to circumvent the State’s voter ID laws and signature verification laws, while also placing unmanned drop boxes in locations picked to boost Democrat turnout.” -Lee Zeldin, “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1400. | 1/7/2021 “It was important last night to deliver remarks objecting to the certification of electors from Arizona and I was honored to do so. It is the Constitutional duty of state legislatures to set election law, and to do so constitutionally. Rogue election officials, Secretaries of State, and courts can not set election law unilaterally.” -Lee Zeldin, Facebook.com, January 7, 2021 11:29 pm |
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| 1401. | 11/6/2020 “With widespread reports of irregularities, particularly in the vote counting process, it is time for you to use the resources of the Department to ensure that the process is conducted in a manner that is fully consistent with state and federal law. And, it is also important that the process be completely transparent, so that the American people will have full confidence in the result… What are you doing to ensure the integrity of the voting and counting process right now? Will you commit to using all the resources at your disposal to ensure that only legal votes are being counted and being counted in a fully transparent manner immediately?” -Michael Cloud, Andy Biggs, W. Gregory Steube, Bob Gibbs, Bill Posey, Ralph Norman, H. Morgan Griffith, Jeff Duncan, Ted Budd, Mark Green, Andy Harris, Scott DesJarlais, Dan Bishop, Jody Hice, Mike Kelly, Randy Weber, Brian Babin, Chip Roy, Robert E. Latta, Ben Cline, James Comer, Guy Reschenthaler, Warren Davidson, Scott Perry, Jim Banks, Rick Allen, Roger Marshall, Doug LaMalfa, Bill Flores, Bill Johnson, K. Michael Conaway, Kevin Hern, Glen Grothman, Tom Emmer, John Joyce, John Rose, Lance Gooden, Jodey Arrington, and Dan Crenshaw, “Letter to Attorney General Bill Barr,” posey.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 1402. | 11/6/2020 “Any allegations of voting irregularities, including ballot tampering or voting by ineligible persons, should be investigated and adjudicated to the fullest extent of the law. It is essential to our democracy and the integrity of our elections that this process be allowed to play out in full view of the American people, and that election observers from both sides of the aisle be allowed to participate. Neither the media nor states should rush to declare a winner in closely contested states until all legally-cast ballots have been counted and all legal challenges and required recounts have been resolved.” -US Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, and US Representatives Steven Palazzo, Trent Kelly, and Michael Guest, “Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Palazzo, Kelly, Guest Call for Transparency and Accountability in 2020 Election Count,” guest.house.gov, November 6, 2020 |
| 1403. | 11/7/2020 “As Members of the Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation, we greatly understand that when a legislative body creates law, the duty of an administration is to faithfully execute these laws. However, we are deeply concerned with how the Commonwealth has handled the general election… We believe that every legal vote should be counted, and it is compulsory for the Secretary of the Commonwealth to discount any votes that do not meet the letter of the law… As many of these issues will now be addressed by the United States Supreme Court, we remain concerned about the integrity of the election and continued attempts by the administration and its officials to put their thumbs on the scale in pursuit of what they believe should be a preordained outcome.” -Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, Mike Kelly, Dan Meuser, John Joyce, Scott Perry, Lloyd Smucker, Guy Reschenthaler, Fred Keller, Brian Fitzpatrick, “Letter to the Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” thompson.house.gov, November 7, 2020 |
| 1404. | 11/10/2020 “As Members and Members-Elect of the Georgia Congressional Delegation, we are deeply concerned by continued, serious allegations of voting irregularities in our state. The Georgia Republican Party and the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign have received reports of deceased or ineligible voters casting ballots, eligible voters being denied the opportunity to vote, and Republican poll watchers and observers being denied access to activities and meetings critical to ensuring a fair, accurate, and transparent vote tabulation.” -Buddy Carter, Drew Ferguson, Austin Scott, Jody Hive, Barry Loudermilk, Rick Allen, “Letter to Georgia Secretary of State,” Twitter.com, November 10, 2020 |
| 1405. | 11/13/2020 “We urge you to review reports involving election software and hardware used by states and counties during the 2020 general election. Many of our nation’s leading experts in mathematics, computer science and statistics are already finding anomalies when analyzing the data from vote counts across the Unites States. These anomalies coincide with reports of votes being switched or deleted entirely… For example, a clerk in Antrim County, Michigan, initially reported the Democratic Presidential nominee beating President Trump by approximately 3,000 votes. However, after manually entering the results from printed tabulated tapes, the results flipped and had President Trump ahead by about 2,500. The county uses Dominion Voting Systems equipment.” -Bill Posey, Matt Gaetz, Jody B. Hice, Jeff Duncan, Michael Cloud, Ted Budd, John Rose, Rick W. Allen, and Louie Gohmert, “Letter to Attorney General Bill Barr,” posey.house.gov, November 13, 2020 |
| 1406. | 11/13/2020 “The narrow margin that currently exists between the two presidential candidates, together with questions regarding anomalies and potential errors, is more than enough reasoning to conduct a manual audit of ballot images. A manual audit of ballot images will provide full transparency of Maricopa County’s election results. This will ameliorate concerns voters have expressed, will tamp down rumors, and will assuage the concerns of non-Arizonans calling our election results into question.” -Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, and David Schweikert, “Letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors,” biggs.house.gov, November 13, 2020 |
| 1407. | 11/18/2020 “During this year’s election, numerous allegations of fraud have been made, and unfortunately some pertain to operations within the U.S. Postal Service which include allegations of discarding mail-in ballots, backdating mail ballots and withholding the processing of one side’s campaign mail… We urge you to investigate any and all potential irregularity or fraud that may contribute to the public’s perception of the process and confidence in the outcome.” -Bill Posey, Jeff Duncan, Louie Gohmert, and Jody B. Hice, “Letter to the Chief Postal Inspector,” posey.house.gov, November 18, 2020 |
| 1408. | 11/20/2020 “Many Americans have questions about this election such as did Smartmatic manipulate votes in the 2020 United States election in the same manner as was done in past Venezuela elections? We have already in this election seen ‘vote switching errors’ involving Dominion voting machines. And, we have seen in the Georgia election audits that thousands of votes were not tabulated – disenfranchising thousands of legal votes. Why did this happen and how widespread is this disenfranchisement across the states that used this software and these voting machines? The federal government has a duty to expeditiously investigate these allegations.” -Bill Posey, Brian Babin, Matt Gaetz, Paul A. Gosar, Jody B. Hice, and John Rose, “Letter to DOJ, DHS, DOS and DNI,” posey.house.gov, November 20, 2020 |
| 1409. | 12/1/2020 “There are a number of anomalies, statistical improbabilities and accusations of fraud that bring the election results in several states into question. Affidavits of irregularities in the voting and tabulation processes have been sworn in a number of jurisdictions. Threats of retribution by leftist groups with a history of violence have been made against election officials and attorneys for President Trump. And a number of last-minute changes in balloting and counting requirements raise questions about the overall integrity of federal elections.” -Michael Cloud, Gregory F. Murphy, Andy Biggs, Bill Posey, Jeff Duncan, Brian Babin, Randy Weber, Guy Reschenthaler, Warren Davidson, Louie Gohmert, Ted Budd, Dan Meuser, Fred Keller, Rick W. Allen, Ralph Norman, Scott DesJarlais, Mark Green, Lance Gooden, Jim Hagerdorn, Jody Hice, K. Michael Conaway, Russ Fulcher, Dan Crenshaw, Jody Arrington, Dan Bishop. John Joyce, Carol Miller, Andy Harris, Bob Gibbs, David Rouzer, W. Gregory Steube, Scott Perry, Bill Flores, Tim Burchett, Tom Tiffany, “Letter to Attorney General William Barr,” posey.house.gov, December 1, 2020 |
| 1410. | 12/2/2020 “[I]t is clear more must be done to reassure the people of Georgia that the election was conducted fairly, accurately, and transparently… A fair election ensures all legal ballots are counted and no illegal ballots are counted.” -Buddy Carter, Drew Ferguson, Austin Scott, Jody Hice, Barry Loudermilk, Rick Allen, Andrew Clyde, Marjorie Taylor Greene, “Letter to Georgia Secretary of State,” Twitter.com, December 2, 2020 5:33 pm |
| 1411. | 12/9/2020 “American people deserve a definitive resolution to the uncertainty surrounding this election, but legitimate questions about voter fraud remain unanswered. The Department of Justice has been asked on multiple occasions to launch an investigation into this matter, but inaction from the Department along with public comments made by the Attorney General indicate a lack of willingness to investigate the irregularities your campaign and other elected officials across the nation have alleged.” -Lane Gooden, Paul Gosar, Louie Gohmert, Thomas Massie, Ted Budd, Glenn Grothman, Jody Hice, Andy Harris, Gregory Steube, Steve King, John Rutherford, Jeff Duncan, Adrian Smith, Randy Weber, Mo Brooks, Rick Allen, Ron Wright, Brian Babin, Scott Perry, David Rouzer, Jack Bergman, Robert Aderholt, Andy Biggs, Markwayne Mullin, Alex Mooney, Ralph Norman, and Bob Gibbs, “Letter to President Trump,” gooden.house.gov, December 9, 2020 |
| 1412. | 12/10/2020 “The Framers of the United States Constitution provided that presidential electors be appointed in a manner directed by the state ‘Legislature[s].’ Art. II, § 1, cl. 2. The legislature of every Defendant state had established detailed rules by which that state’s appointment of presidential electors should have been conducted. However, in the months before the 2020 election, those rules were deliberately changed by both state and non-state actors. The clear authority of those state legislatures to determine the rules for appointing electors was usurped at various times by governors, secretaries of state, election officials, state courts, federal courts, and private parties. These amici appear as 126 Members of Congress and respectfully request that this Court uphold the plenary authority of the state legislatures to establish the manner by which electors are appointed, and determine the constitutional validity of any ballots cast under rules and procedures established by actors or public bodies other than state legislatures.” -Mike Johnson, Gary Palmer, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Ralph Abraham, Robert Aderholt, Rick Allen, Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Jim Baird, Jim Banks, Jack Bergman, Andy Biggs, Gus Bilirakis, Dan Bishop, Mike Bost, Kevin Brady, Mo Brooks, Ken Buck, Ted Budd, Tim Burchett, Michael Burgess, Bradley Byrne, Ken Calvert, Buddy Carter, Ben Cline, Michael Cloud, Doug Collins, Mike Conaway, Rick Crawford, Dan Crenshaw, Scott DesJarlais, Mario Diaz-Balart, Jeff Duncan, Neal P. Dunn, Tom Emmer, Ron Estes, A. Drew Ferguson, Chuck Fleischmann, Bill Flores, Jeff Fortenberry, Virginia Foxx, Russ Fulcher, Matt Gaetz, Greg Gianforte, Bob Gibbs, Louie Gohmert, Lance Gooden, Sam Graves, Mark Green, Morgan Griffith, Michael Guest, Jim Hagedorn, Andy Harris, Vicky Hartzler, Kevin Hern, Jody Hice, Clay Higgins, Trey Hollingsworth, Richard Hudson, Bill Huizenga, Bill Johnson, John Joyce, Fred Keller, Mike Kelly, Trent Kelly, Steve King, David Kustoff, Darin LaHood, Doug LaMalfa, Doug Lamborn, Robert E. Latta, Debbie Lesko, Billy Long, Barry Loudermilk, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Kenny Marchant, Roger Marshall, Tom McClintock, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Dan Meuser, Carol Miller, John Moolenaar, Alex X. Mooney, Markwayne Mullin, Gregory Murphy, Dan Newhouse, Ralph Norman, Steven Palazzo, Greg Pence, Scott Perry, Bill Posey, Guy Reschenthaler, Tom Rice, Mike Rogers, John Rose, David Rouzer, John Rutherford, Austin Scott, Adrian Smith, Ross Spano, Pete Stauber, Elise Stefanik, Greg Steube, Glenn “GT” Thompson, Tom Tiffany, William Timmons, Jeff Van Drew, Ann Wagner, Tim Walberg, Mark Walker, Jackie Walorski, Mike Waltz, Randy Weber, Daniel Webster, Brad Wenstrup, Bruce Westerman, Roger Williams, Joe Wilson, Ron Wright, Ted Yoho, and Lee Zeldin, “Motion for Leave to File Brief Amicus Curiae and Brief Amicus Curiae of U.S. Representative Mike Johnson and 125 Other Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Leave to File a Bill of Complaint and Motion for a Preliminary Injunction,” supremecourt.gov, December 10, 2020 |
| 1413. | 12/11/2020 “Supporting President Trump’s efforts to ensure that every legal vote is counted in the November 2020 Presidential election and to investigate and bring to justice those who perpetrate election fraud.” -Ken Buck, Liz Cheney, Andy Biggs, Jeff Duncan, Ben Cline, Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, Dan Bishop, Mike Johnson, Chip Roy, Jody Hice, Alex Mooney, Ted Budd, Glenn Grothman, Lance Gooden, Ann Wagner, Billy Long, Paul Gosar, Mark Green, “Rep. Ken Buck Introduces House Resolution to Ensure Every Legal Vote is Counted In 2020 Presidential Election,” buck.house.gov, December 11, 2020 |
| 1414. | 12/15/2020 “Multiple states engaged in litigation and thousands of witnesses have submitted sworn affidavits of reported fraud related to the 2020 presidential election… In the 2020 election, we have verified reports of: • Absentee and mail-in ballots with missing or unverified signatures • Missing and unaccounted voting machine memory cards • Restrictions on bipartisan election observers during critical phases of the election process Under your leadership over the past several years, the House has demonstrated a zest for all sorts of investigations, and we believe that you have the strong capacity to initiate a thorough investigation into these voting irregularities.” -Kat Cammack, Michelle Fischbach, Andrew Clyde, Lauren Boebert, Pat Fallon, Burgess Owens, Scott Franklin, Madison Cawthorn, Tracey Mann, August Pfluger, Beth Van Duyne, Byron Donalds, Lisa McClain, Ronny Jackson, Randy Feenstra, Diana Harshbarger, Troy Nehls, Cliff Bentz, Jerry Carl, Barry Moore, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Nicole Malliotakis, Mary Miller, Victoria Spartz, Yvette Herrell, Jay Obernolte, “Letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” augustpfluger.com, December 15, 2020 |
| 1415. | 12/15/2020 “We are deeply troubled, as are our constituents, by reports of fraud and other irregularities, including voting by deceased or otherwise ineligible voters, voting by individuals who may permanently reside out of state, uncounted ballots discovered during audits, and inconsistently applied signature verifications to ensure that absentee ballots received by mail were indeed cast by an eligible voter in accordance with the law… Fraud and illegality cannot be tolerated whether or not the outcome would be affected. Moreover, it is far from clear that the outcome in this case was unaffected, as the candidates in the presidential race in Georgia are separated by less than 13,000 votes out of almost 5 million cast in the state.” -Jody Hice, Glenn Grothman, Michael Cloud, Chip Roy, Mark Green, Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, Thomas Massie, Gary Palmer, Bob Gibbs, Clay Higgins, Ralph Norman, Kelly Armstrong, Greg Steube, James Comer, “Letter to Georgia Secretary of State,” hice.house.gov, December 15, 2020 |
| 1416. | 12/17/2020 “Constitution Article I, Section 4 (the “Election Clause”) empowers Congress to set the times, places and manner of elections involving federal elected officials. State legislatures are similarly empowered to set the times, places and manner of elections provided they do not conflict with the laws of Congress. There are countless incontestable examples wherein governors, election officials, and judges altered states’ election procedures in violation of the Constitution’s Election Clause, in conflict with Congressional acts setting the times, places and manner of elections, and in conflict with legislative acts similarly setting the times, places and manner of elections… Similarly, the presidential election has been the subject of dozens of lawsuits alleging voter fraud, illegal voting, and election theft which, on January 6, 2021, may or will be the subject of extensive floor debate as Congress determines whether to accept or reject various states’ electoral college vote submissions.” -Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Mike Rogers, Jim Banks, David Rouzer, Paul A. Gosar, Ted Budd, Lance Gooden, Brian Babin, Bob Gibbs, Ralph Norman, Gregory Steube, Jody Hice, Mike Kelly, Jeff Duncan, Louie Gohmert, Randy Weber, Scott DesJarlais, and Mike Garcia, “Congressman Mo Brooks Leads 18 Colleagues in Sending Letter to House & Senate Leadership Seeking Election Fraud Hearings Ahead of January 6th Electoral Vote Submissions,” brooks.house.gov, December 17, 2020 |
| 1417. | 12/23/2020 “Pennsylvania’s disregard of the federal constitutional framework under which state legislatures set the rules for choosing members of Congress, subject to their own constitutions, presents an issue affecting every American… The federal Constitution has delegated to each state’s legislature authority for prescribing the ‘times, places and manner’ of holding Congressional elections and choosing presidential electors… Flouting the constitution adopted by its own people, Pennsylvania’s General Assembly enacted Act 77, implementing no-excuse absentee and mail-in voting… There is a sizable portion of the American public – tens of millions of people – who not only are convinced the general election was not above-board… High on the list of things fueling that discontent are the unlawful enactment of Act 77 and resulting unconstitutional mail-in voting.” -John Joyce, Fred Keller, Dan Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, Glenn “GT” Thompson, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs, Debbie Lesko, Matt Gaetz, Bill Posey, Ted Yoho, Jody Hice, Mike Johnson, Andy Harris, Dan Bishop, Ted Budd, Warren Davidson, Jim Jordan, Jeff Duncan, Ralph Norman, Scott DesJarlais, Michael Cloud, Louie Gohmert, Chip Roy, Randy Weber, Alex X. Mooney, “Amicus Curiae Brief for Mike Kelly v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” kelly.house.gov, December 23, 2020 |
| 1418. | 12/31/2020 “For every instance of Georgia failing to follow its own state law in verifying signatures, of Pennsylvania accepting mail ballots after the legal deadline set by its state legislature, or folks from outside Nevada casting a ballot in that state – the value of every Missourians’ vote is diminished. That’s not right. And we cannot simply look the other way. The right to freely cast your vote in elections is a sacred privilege afforded to us as Americans because of the sacrifices of the patriots who fought for that right. When that process is spoiled and abused by officials not following their own state law, it violates that right and jeopardizes the entire integrity and foundation of ‘free and fair’ elections… We take the responsibility of upholding the Constitution seriously, and that is why we feel compelled to object to the electoral count taking place on January 6th.” -Jason Smith, Vicky Hartzler, Sam Graves, and Billy Long, “We Will Object,” graves.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 1419. | 12/31/2020 “The reported results of this past November’s Presidential election don’t even pass the most basic eye test. Republicans were projected to lose seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, we gained more than a dozen. Republicans were supposed to lose control of several state legislatures, we picked up multiple. We were projected to lose control of the United States Senate – we didn’t, and we won’t. All of this occurred on the same night President Trump lost? It’s hard to believe. Combined with the daily reports of voting irregularities where state election laws were discarded and not followed, something doesn’t add up. President Trump won over 74 million votes, Obama – 69 million. President Trump won 2586 counties, Obama – 873 counties, Joe Biden – 527 counties. The numbers, the evidence, and the abnormalities all speak for themselves.” -Jason Smith, Vicky Hartzler, Sam Graves, and Billy Long, “We Will Object,” graves.house.gov, December 31, 2020 |
| 1420. | 12/31/2020 “Unfortunately, the many unlawful actions undertaken by the Pennsylvania Governor’s office, the Secretary of State, and what has been described as a rogue Pennsylvania Supreme Court exceeded and circumvented the state legislature’s clear constitutional authority. The unlawful actions include, but are not limited to: · Accepting ballots past 8:00 pm on Election Day · Not properly requiring signatures to match those on mail-in ballots or requiring dates · Meanwhile, the matching of signatures was required at a polling site · Authorizing the curing of mail-in ballots with less than a 24-hour’s notice · Only some counties were informed and adhered to this order leaving voters treated unequally from county to county · Authorizing the use of unsecure drop boxes, which is not permitted in statute · Prohibiting certified poll watchers overseeing the canvassing of ballots in Philadelphia These unlawful actions were taken without the authority or consent of the Pennsylvania state legislature. These are facts, and they are indisputable.” -Dan Meuser, Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, Mike Kelly, Scott Perry, Lloyd Smucker, Guy Reschenthaler, John Joyce, and Fred Keller, “Pennsylvania Members of Congress Release Statement Regarding Certification of Electors,” meuser.house.gov, December 31, 2021 |
| 1421. | 12/31/2020 “[H]undreds, if not thousands, of affidavits outlining election complaints and potential fraud were documented, submitted, and ignored. The Pennsylvania election could be summed up as a free-for-all with no oversight and different standards applied throughout the Commonwealth. It is also very apparent that the unlawful actions described were concentrated in heavily populated, Democrat-led counties. By definition, such unlawful, unregulated, and inconsistent activities resulted in a highly questionable and inaccurate vote total. The scope of these inaccuracies cannot be known until the legal ballots are identified and counted, and the illegal ballots are disqualified. This has not been done. Therefore, the state’s official certification of electors was based upon a flawed system and an inaccurate vote count. Thus, very possibly resulting in an erroneous certification. Until these unlawful practices are acknowledged and corrected, we cannot agree to support electors chosen based upon an inaccurate total vote count.” -Dan Meuser, Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, Mike Kelly, Scott Perry, Lloyd Smucker, Guy Reschenthaler, John Joyce, and Fred Keller, “Pennsylvania Members of Congress Release Statement Regarding Certification of Electors,” meuser.house.gov, December 31, 2021 |
| 1422. | 1/3/2021 “We, like most Americans, are outraged at the significant abuses in our election system resulting from the reckless adoption of mail-in ballots and the lack of safeguards maintained to guarantee that only legitimate votes are cast and counted. It is shameful that between both chambers of the U.S. Congress, we have held precisely one hearing on election integrity since Election Day. The people cannot trust a system that refuses to guarantee that only legal votes are cast to select its leaders. The elections held in at least six battleground states raise profound questions, and it is a legal, constitutional, and moral imperative that they be answered.” -Kelly Armstrong, Ken Buck, Mike Gallagher, Nancy Mace, Thomas Massie, Tom McClintock, Chip Roy, “Rep. Ken Buck Leads Group of House Members In Statement Respecting States’ Authority to Select Own Electors,” buck.house.gov, January 3, 2021 |
| 1423. | 1/3/2021 “It is the duty of Congress to certify electors for the presidential election based on the laws passed by state legislators. With several states facing serious allegations of voter fraud and violations of their own state laws, the Kansas Republican delegation in the House will object to the certification of electors in multiple states on Jan. 6. This action is not taken lightly and comes after extensive study and research. Kansans deserve to know that all legal, and only legal, votes were counted. We hope our actions begin to restore the confidence of tens of millions of our fellow Americans that feel their sacred right to vote is under attack.” -Ron Estes, Tracey Mann, and Jake LaTurner, “Reps Estes, Mann, LaTurner Announce Objections,” estes.house.gov, Jauary 3, 2021 |
| 1424. | 1/4/2021 “Whether you agree or disagree with the many claims of election fraud, the fact is there are glaring problems with our voting processes that need to be fixed… First, Wisconsin must maintain up-to-date, accurate voter rolls so non- residents and deceased individuals cannot vote in Wisconsin elections. This was perhaps the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) biggest failure leading up to the 2020 election… The state legislature and the courts cannot allow WEC to continue this conduct which creates a substantial opportunity for voter fraud… ‘Ballot harvesting,’ where individuals or groups gather other people’s absentee ballots and deliver them to election clerks, is a dangerous idea and is ripe for voter intimidation… We can no longer allow some clerks to discard a ballot when a witness address is not complete and allow another to ‘cure’ the ballot by filling in missing information. Failure to treat every voter the same allows clerks (who naturally have their own political preferences) to decide which ballots to ‘correct’ and then count, and which ones not to fix.” -Glenn Grothman, Mike Gallagher, Bryan Steil, Tom Tiffany and Jim Sensenbrenner (outgoing), “GOP Congressional Delegation: Restore Trust in Wisconsin’s Elections,” steil.house.gov, January 4, 2021 |
| 1425. | 1/6/2021 “While there are several uncertainties surrounding the 2020 election, one thing is for certain: irregularities and unconstitutional power grabs have led millions of Americans – including many Texans – to question both the integrity and the outcome of the presidential election… Over the last year, our nation witnessed both election fraud and election irregularities at the local, state and Federal levels. The prosecution of such crimes is critical to ensure illegal votes are not counted.” -Beth Van Duyne, Ronny Jackson, Pat Fallon, Tony Gonzales, and August Pfluger, “Letter to Texas Attorney General Paxton,” gonzales.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
| 1426. | 1/6/2021 “In the joint session of Congress today, we will vote to sustain objections to slates of electors submitted by states we believe clearly violated the Constitution in the presidential election of 2020… Only the state legislatures were given the authority to direct the manner of appointing presidential electors… In the four subject states, the legislatures did enact detailed rules and procedures by which those states were to determine their electors. However, as explained in our amicus brief, in the months preceding the 2020 election, those well-established rules and procedures were deliberately changed by a variety of other officials, including governors, secretaries of state, election officials, judges, and private parties. That usurpation of the legislatures’ sole authority, delegated by the Constitution, was a primary reason why the election of 2020 became riddled with an unprecedented number of serious allegations of fraud and irregularities.” -Mike Johnson, Robert Aderholt, Rick Allen, Jodey Arrington, Brian Babin, Jim Banks, Mike Bost, Jerry Carl, Ben Cline, Jeff Duncan, Scott Franklin, H. Morgan Griffith, Diana Harshbarger, Vicky Hartzler, Richard Hudson, Ronny Jackson, John Joyce, Doug Lamborn, Barry Loudermilk, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Markwayne Mullin, Gregory F. Murphy, Gary Palmer, Dan Meuser, Burgess Owens, Bill Posey, David Rouzer, John Rutherford, Adrian Smith, Jason Smith, W. Gregory Steube, Tom Tiffany, Tim Walberg, Mike Waltz, Randy Weber, Daniel Webster, and Joe Wilson, “37 Republican Members Release Statement ahead of Electoral College Vote,” posey.house.gov, January 6, 2021 |
Methodology:
All of the quotes in this document were made by Republican members of the House of Representatives because we did not find quotes from Democrats that directly or indirectly claimed fraud or malfeasance in the 2020 election.
US Representatives who were in office on January 6, 2021, during the certification the electoral votes, are included in the charts above. The claims listed in this document are allegations that may or may not be true.
Past Democratic Objections:
While this document focuses on the 2020 election, it should be noted that Democrats have made statements questioning the legitimacy of presidential elections won by Republicans and have lodged objections to electoral vote certifications.
In the 2000 election, 13 Democrats tried to block the counting of Florida’s electoral votes for George W. Bush based on claims of official misconduct, fraud, and voter suppression. No vote was held because no senator joined the objection.[1]
In the 2004 election, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) signed an objection contesting the electoral votes in Ohio based on claims of voter suppression and disenfranchisement. Thirty-one Democratic members of the House voted against certification.[2]
In the 2016 election, seven Democrats objected to the certification of electoral votes in nine states due to claims of voter suppression and Russian interference, but no senators joined the objections.[3]
[1] “Congressional Record,” congress.gov, January 6, 2001
[2] Maura Reynolds, “Boxer Poses a Challenge, Briefly,” latimes.com, January 7, 2005
[3] Shayna Greene, “Fact Check: Did Democrats Object to More States For 2016 Than Republicans For 2020?,” newsweek.com, January 13, 2021