A Republican congressman made a stand against dead people voting
in elections and introduced a bill that requires Americans to be
alive in order to cast ballots. Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) proposed
the You Must Be Alive to Vote Act last week.
“The right to vote is one of the most vital pillars of our
democracy, the foundations of which are election integrity and
confidence in our democratic processes,” Babin said.
“The ease with which someone is able to steal the ballot of a
deceased person and cast an illegitimate vote should disturb,
alarm, and outrage every American citizen, no matter what side of
the aisle they sit on. To protect our democratic process and
Americans’ faith in our elections, we must ensure that deceased
individuals are not allowed to remain on state voter rolls.”
“My bill will prevent any funds from the U.S. Departments of
Transportation or Education, with the exception of those going
toward law enforcement agency grants, from going to counties of any
state that do not annually check their voter lists against the
Social Security Administration’s most recent death records in order
to purge them of any individuals found to be deceased,” Babin
declared. “All elected officials, from your local city council
member to your U.S. President, have an obligation to obey the law
and prevent fraud in our elections, and Congress should not be
awarding taxpayer dollars to any counties or states that refuse to
do the job they swore to do.”
“You would think it would be unnecessary to have a bill like
this, I mean it goes without saying you should be alive before you
get to vote,” Bain
said in an OAN interview. “We’ve uncovered some fraudulent
plans to register a bunch of dead people to vote down in South
Florida, and it’s the easiest thing in the world for these local
counties to purge their voter list of deceased individuals. All
they have to do is to go to the Social Security system and cross
check against their deceased Social Security recipients on their
list and then purge them off of the voter list.”
“Everyone in this Congress — everyone in this country —
should want an assurance that dead people are not voting. And we
don’t have that assurance right now because so many of these voter
lists have just not been updated, whether it’s intentional, and
whether it’s laziness indolence are just, you know, nonchalance,”
Babin explained. “We need to make sure that these voter lists are
accurate and that deceased individuals are not on their
voting.”
Babin noted, “This is not a Republican bill,” and that there
should be a “bipartisan effort to make this election process a lot
more transparent.” The GOP congressman wants to “clean up our
election process.”
Bain points out, “We have an enormous number of individuals in
this country that don’t trust the election process. Not good.”
The bill, which has eight co-sponsors thus far, arrives on the
heels of President Donald Trump challenging the results of the 2020
election, claiming that there was widespread fraud. The Trump legal
team has alleged that there has been voter fraud after deceased
people have cast ballots.
