[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 197 (Thursday, November 19, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H5938]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       1982 VOTE MACHINE RIGGING

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, this is my third speech in a 
series. Earlier, I cited constitutional and Federal law mandating that 
Congress, not the Supreme Court, determines whether to accept or reject 
State electoral college votes, and Congress, not the Supreme Court, has 
the final verdict on Presidential elections.
  My remaining speeches describe voting system failures that threaten 
our Republic.
  For emphasis, all republics depend on election processes that give 
candidates and citizens confidence that results accurately reflect 
voter will. Unfortunately, America's election process has systemic 
weaknesses that too often allow voter fraud and election theft, and 
fail America.
  Today, I share my personal experience as a voter fraud and election 
theft target.
  In 1982, Democrats dominated Alabama. All Alabama statewide elected 
officials were Democrats. The legislature had 136 Democrats to only 
four Republicans. Democrats held every single partisan elected office 
in Alabama's Tennessee Valley, from Mississippi on the west to Georgia 
on the east.
  In 1982, I ran as a Republican in Alabama House District 18. On 
election day morning, angry voters called me nonstop about voting 
machines blocking them from voting for Mo Brooks.
  At first, I blew these phone calls off as isolated problems, naively 
trusting America's election system. That trust was soon shattered.
  I am a former prosecutor. After the election, another attorney and I 
investigated. We questioned witnesses, examined documents, and 
inspected voting machines.
  Our investigation revealed that 11 of 45 voting machines, 25 percent 
of all voting machines in my district, were rigged to block votes for 
Mo Brooks. In contrast, not a single machine blocked voting for my 
opponent or any other candidate on the ballot.
  At one voting precinct with five rigged voting machines, poll workers 
told voters that to vote for Mo Brooks, they had to give up their 
secret ballot right and sign a sheet on a wall for all to see.
  After the election, Democrat officials declared the voting machine 
problem was possibly caused by jostling in transit that somehow 
affected me, but nobody else.
  What bunk.
  My hometown is the birthplace of America's space program. We know 
math. Mathematically, if there are 26 candidates and a machine blocks 
one candidate's votes, the odds of that candidate being blocked are 1 
in 26. If there are two machines and each block only one candidate, the 
odds of that candidate being blocked both times are 1 in 26 squared, or 
1 chance out of 676 chances.

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  Similarly, if there are 11 machines and each block a single 
candidate's votes, the odds that all 11 blocked out Mo Brooks and no 
one else are a 1 chance in 26 to the 11th power, which equals 1 chance 
out of 3.6 quadrillion chances. Hence, the probabilities that these 11 
voting machines were rigged is an overwhelming 3.6 quadrillion to 1.
  So the question becomes: Who rigged the voting machines?
  In 1982, Democrats totally controlled Madison County voting machines. 
I was in a hotly contested race to be the only Republican legislator 
elected in the northern third of Alabama. I threatened Democrat 
dominance. I was the potential breach of the Democrat Party dam.
  Democrats had motive. Democrats had opportunity. Democrats had 
control. Democrats rigged the voting machines. Fortunately, despite the 
attempted election theft, we still won with 57 percent of the vote.
  Mr. Speaker, every candidate and every American has an absolute right 
to an election system that stops voter fraud, prevents election theft, 
and accurately records only lawful votes cast by eligible American 
citizens.
  As this speech and ensuing speeches will reveal, Alabama's election 
system is riddled with systemic problems that too often render our 
official election results unreliable. Each of these election 
deficiencies must be fixed and eliminated.

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