A Republican Congressman from Texas has proposed a new bill that states individuals in the United States must be alive in order to vote. Brian Babin, introduced the bill straight after an election in which many in the Republican party claim was carried out fraudulently and allowed Democrat Joe Biden to win the presidency. There has been almost no evidence given that suggests widespread voter fraud took place.
"To require States to obtain information from Social Security Administration on deaths for purposes of voter registration list maintenance, and for other purposes."
"The right to vote is one of the most vital pillars of our democracy, the foundations of which are election integrity and confidence in our democratic processes. The ease with which someone is able to steal the ballot of a deceased person and cast an illegitimate vote should disturb, alarm, and outrage every American citizen, no matter what side of the aisle they sit on. To protect our democratic process and Americans' faith in our elections, we must ensure that deceased individuals are not allowed to remain on state voter rolls."
He added:
"My bill will prevent any funds from the U.S. Departments of Transportation or Education, with the exception of those going toward law enforcement agency grants, from going to counties of any state that do not annually check their voter lists against the Social Security Administration's most recent death records in order to purge them of any individuals found to be deceased. All elected officials, from your local city council member to your U.S. President, have an obligation to obey the law and prevent fraud in our elections, and Congress should not be awarding taxpayer dollars to any counties or states that refuse to do the job they swore to do."
It has been alleged that four dead people voted in the state of Georgia, a key state in the presidential race, however these have been dismissed as nonsense by the state's governor. It had been claimed that due to the high number of absentee postal ballots that in some cases, the relatives of a deceased person had filled out their voting slip and submitted it on their behalf. So far, 8 co-sponsors have backed the bill.
"Everyone in this Congress — everyone in this country — should want an assurance that dead people are not voting. And we don't have that assurance right now because so many of these voter lists have just not been updated, whether it's intentional, and whether it's laziness indolence are just, you know, nonchalance. We need to make sure that these voter lists are accurate and that deceased individuals are not on their voting."
While most people will not oppose such a bill, it does seem as though many Republicans are now simply looking for a way to excuse how their party and presidential candidate came to lose the election.
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