[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 207 (Tuesday, December 8, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H6908]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   EN MASSE VOTING BY MAIL IS ILLEGAL

  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 fifth speech in a 
series on voter fraud, election theft, and the Presidential election.
  For emphasis, Congress is the judge, jury, and final arbiter of the 
2020 Presidential election contest. Further, America's election system 
is plagued by systemic flaws that promote voter fraud and election 
theft.
  Joe Biden exploited one such flaw when he brazenly promised more than 
10 million illegal aliens that he will give them amnesty and 
citizenship if they help elect Joe Biden President.
  The Constitution's Election Clause, Article I, Section 4, is very 
clear. Congress has absolute authority over the ``times, places, and 
manner of holding elections'' for Federal offices.
  Pursuant to the Election Clause, and title 2, United States Code, 
section 7, Congress set November 3 as the 2020 ``day for the 
election.''
  For emphasis, Congress set a ``day for the election'' on which 
citizens vote. Congress did not set an election week, an election 
month, or an election season during which citizens can cast votes. 
Also, pursuant to the Election Clause, Congress created limited 
exceptions to its ``vote within a 24-hour window'' mandate, to wit:
  Alternative voting means for persons with disabilities;
  Overseas persons may vote by absentee ballot;
  Persons to be absent from their voting location or State on election 
day may vote by absentee ballot.
  Any voting schemes that allow voting outside of congressionally 
mandated times and means are illegal under the Constitution and Federal 
statute.
  Congress' reasons for limiting voting to one 24-hour period are 
described by the 2005 bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, 
co-chaired by Democrat President Jimmy Carter and former Republican 
White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State James Baker. They 
strongly cautioned against overly broad absentee ballot and vote-by-
mail schemes because they ``increase the risk of fraud.''
  The bipartisan commission found that absentee voting has been one of 
the major sources of fraud in American elections and that vote by mail 
``is vulnerable to abuse in several ways: Blank ballots mailed to the 
wrong address or to large residential buildings might get intercepted. 
Citizens who vote at home, at nursing homes, at the workplace, or in 
church are more susceptible to pressure, overt and subtle, or to 
intimidation. Vote-buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when 
citizens vote by mail.''
  Mr. Speaker, Congress passed laws to prevent voter fraud and election 
theft by establishing, with minor exceptions, a 24-hour window in which 
to vote. In contrast, socialist Democrats use bureaucratic allies or 
engaged in rigged lawsuits involving conspiratorial parties and 
inattentive judges to obtain sham settlement agreements that blatantly 
violate the Constitution and Federal law to promote voter fraud and 
election theft with the singular goal of stealing the United States 
Presidency.
  In particular, all en masse vote-by-mail schemes promote voter fraud 
and election theft and are illegal because they violate Congress' 
election procedures and 24-hour voting mandate.
  As such, all votes cast pursuant to these vote-by-mail schemes are 
illegal, void, and should not be counted.
  Mr. Speaker, the evidence is overwhelming, compelling, and 
irrefutable. If only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens 
are counted, President Trump won the electoral college and a second 
term as President. Congress can either support illegal voting, voter 
fraud, and election theft or not.
  Because I believe in the rule of law and our Republic, it is my duty 
as a Member of Congress to, on January 6, object to and vote to reject 
the electoral college submissions of all States whose election systems 
are so badly flawed as to render their vote submissions unreliable, 
untrustworthy, and unworthy of acceptance.
  Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what I intend to do.

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