| | | Mike Pence doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut! Some excerpts of what he said at your link.
Warning, it will make you GAG:
“After an election marked by significant voting irregularities and numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law, I share the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of the 2020 election,” he said.
“That’s why when I was serving as presiding officer at the joint session of Congress certifying the Electoral College results, I pledged to ensure that all objections properly raised under the Electoral Count Act would be given a full hearing before Congress and the American people,” Pence said.
He spoke about the January 6 insurrection and said that the riot caused Congress to not discussion election irregularities in a significant way.
He said that many of the most troubling changes to voting rules came in states that abided by what governors, secretaries of states and courts decreed rather than going by what the legislature had enacted.
“Congress will vote this week on HR 1, the so-called For the People Act, a massive 800-page election overhaul bill that would increase opportunities for election fraud, trample the First Amendment, further erode confidence in our elections, and forever dilute the votes of legally qualified eligible voters,” Pence said.
“In 2008, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s new voter ID law, the ruling noted that America has a long, well-documented history of election fraud. The court cited the 2005 report of the bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, which said the ‘electoral system cannot inspire public confidence if no safeguards exist to deter or detect fraud,’” he said.
“HR 1 would eliminate those safeguards and prevent states from implementing new, needed reforms. Polling shows that large numbers of Democrats did not trust the outcome of the 2016 election and that large numbers of Republicans still do not trust the outcome of the 2020 election,” he said. |
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