Tuberville: Some In Congress Not Legitimately Elected
The midterm elections are sparking a battle over voting and voter legitimacy. Comments by Sen. Tommy Tuberville and President Trump highlighted the intense battle over the ballot box.
Sen. Tuberville was one of the members of Congress who refused to certify the 2020 presidential election. Now he is claiming that there are current members of the U.S. House and Senate who were not actually elected.
The candidate for the Alabama GOP gubernatorial nomination told FOX Business, ""We gotta get rid of these voting machines. There's a half dozen people here in the House and Senate that did not get elected. It was all bogus. We've seen the evidence."
Tuberville did not specify which members of Congress he believes won their seats in “bogus” elections, and he did not elaborate on the supposed “evidence.”
“And it’s just gonna get worse and worse with the American people saying, ‘Listen, we’ve got all of y’all up there, and you don’t do anything to straighten it out. We want closed borders, and we want fair elections.’ Those two things they are demanding. And as Republicans, we had better listen to them and do that or we’re gonna lose next fall.”
Federal Control of Elections?
Tuberville's comments come as President Trump has begun pressing his idea “nationalize the voting” and “take over the voting in at least 15 places.” Trump's comments were made to right-wing podcaster Dan Bongino. “The Republicans should say, ‘We want to take over.’ We should take over the voting, in at least, many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” The 15 locations Trump was referring to are all Democrat controlled areas Trump lost.
Trump went on to tell the now former deputy F.B.I. director that there were states in 2020 where he won but they, "showed that I didn't win." He claimed there are states that are, "so crooked."
“Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,” Trump insisted. “They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do.”
Constitutional experts, many of the Republican, have stated that Trump is wrong and point out his comments fly in the face of Republican assertions of "state rights".
Article I, Section IV, known as the “Elections Clause” in the Constitution states: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of choosing Senators.”
Election Integrity Legislation Proposed
Meanwhile, H.R. 7300, titled the "Make Elections Great Again Act", was introduced in the House in January. It aims to promote election integrity by requiring in-person voters in federal elections to present valid photo identification, while establishing free, state-provided ID photocopying services in government buildings
The bill proposes to:
- Require photo identification to vote
- Require states to verify citizenship of individuals when registering to vote
- Implement stronger routine voter list maintenance requirements in states
- Require mail-in ballots to be received by the close of polls on election day
- Require states to use auditable paper ballots
- Ban ballot harvesting
- Ban ranked choice voting
- Ban universal vote by mail
Revealing Polling Data
The Trump administration is demanding all states handover all of their voter data to the federal government. So far, Indiana is the only state to comply. Most states, even those controlled by Republicans, have balked at the demand. State voting officials claim the feds are attempting to overstep their authority.
Political scientists point out, those with power over the voting list have power over who can and can't vote and that can shape election outcomes.
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