[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H2681]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             HIGHLIGHTING VOTER FRAUD AND ALL-MAIL BALLOTS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, voter fraud and all-mail ballots are going 
to be quite a problem this year if we don't have safeguards in place.
  In my home State of California, more needs to be done in order to 
clean up the voter rolls. That doesn't mean voter suppression, as all 
the caterwauling we hear around here. It means that you are taking 
people off who are no longer at a particular address or deceased. That 
way, you will have more confidence in who is voting.
  Look at what happened recently in Paterson, New Jersey, where voter 
fraud caused 19 percent of the ballots being tossed out, by four 
different people being involved with that, including a city council 
member.
  So, what do we have? An issue where all-mail ballots are going to be 
the solution this year? No.
  In many States, including my own, you can request an absentee ballot, 
but at least there is some type of a paper trail of a person asking for 
a ballot and receiving it, versus willy-nilly sending ballots to every 
name that is on the rolls that are not cleaned up.
  If you have ever campaigned in an apartment complex, for example, so 
many people are no longer even at the name that is on the list on the 
door. So, you have ballots being sent in heaps to these areas where no 
one is even living anymore. So, you have a big problem with the 
availability of fraud when you have that.

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