[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 30, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H6368-H6369]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP MAY HAVE WON THE POPULAR VOTE

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, President-elect Donald Trump 
opined in a tweet on November 27 that: ``In addition to winning the 
electoral college in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct 
the millions of people who voted illegally.''
  As would be expected, a circus of leftwing, media pundits immediately 
pounced on President-elect Trump's opinion in an effort to silence 
serious discussion of the noncitizen voter fraud problem.
  For example, PolitiFact, a self-proclaimed purveyor of truth, gave 
Trump's statement a ``Pants on Fire'' evaluation and stated: ``Neither 
Trump nor his allies have presented any evidence of widespread illegal 
voting. In reality, studies have consistently shown that voter fraud is 
nowhere near common enough to call into question millions and millions 
of votes.''
  The truth is, PolitiFact and its allies ignore contrary studies and 
information. But isn't that what you would expect of PolitiFact and its 
leftwing media allies that have, in effect, become the communications 
wing of the Democratic Party?
  A 2014 study by professors at Old Dominion University and George 
Mason University estimated that noncitizens vote 80 percent of the time 
for Democrats.
  Does anyone really expect Democrats and their media and pundit allies 
to object to or scrutinize illegal votes that may be the deciding 
factor in the election of Democrat candidates?
  Let me give but one example of how tens of millions of noncitizens 
are a threat to register to vote, and vote, in America's elections.
  Alabama is my home State. Our laws limit voting to American citizens. 
That sounds pretty reasonable to me, that only Americans should vote in 
American elections. In order to limit American elections to American 
citizens, Alabama code section 31-13-28 requires proof of citizenship 
to register to vote. The code lists 13 different documents that are 
conclusive proof of citizenship, things like driver's licenses, birth 
certificates, passports, naturalization documents, adoption papers, 
military service documents. Further, an American can offer any other 
document that is proof of citizenship.
  In January of 2016, the United States Election Assistance Commission 
approved Alabama's proof of citizenship voter registration requirement. 
The League of Women Voters then challenged proof of citizenship laws in 
the Washington, D.C., Federal courts.
  In an astonishing ruling in September of 2016, a mere 6 weeks before 
the election, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of 
Columbia entered a preliminary injunction that barred Alabama, Kansas, 
Georgia and, indirectly, any other State from requiring proof of 
citizenship to register to vote.
  The Court of Appeals' ruling opens the floodgates for voting by tens 
of millions of illegal aliens and other citizens on American soil, thus 
blatantly undermining the American Republic for which so many Americans 
fought and died.
  The dissenting opinion of the Court of Appeals' Senior Circuit Judge 
Randolph well-described the Court's ruling, and I quote:
  ``Of utmost importance is that on the eve of a Presidential election, 
and elections for Federal office, a court has issued an injunction 
forbidding Kansas, Georgia, and Alabama from enforcing their election 
laws, laws requiring those who seek to register to prove that they are 
citizens of this country.

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  ``That order is unconstitutional.
  ``In my view, the appeal should have been disposed on the ground that 
the League of Women Voters and their allies have not even come close to 
demonstrating the type of harm entitling them to an order suspending 
these State laws.''

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  Notwithstanding Judge Randolph's dissent, the bad guys prevailed.
  Now, what does all that mean? It means that, right before the 
Presidential election, Federal courts created a massive legal hole that 
empowers noncitizens to register to vote and, once registered, to vote 
in America's elections with impunity, thereby undermining and diluting 
the vote of lawful Americans and striking at the very heart of our 
democracy.
  It means that President-elect Trump may very well be right that he 
``won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted 
illegally.''
  Quite frankly, Mr. Speaker, we will never know for sure if hundreds 
of thousands or millions of noncitizens voted in the 2016 elections. 
Worse yet, if the leftwing media pundits continue to summarily dismiss 
and turn a blind eye to the problem, it will be harder to stop future 
elections from being stolen.

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