Alabama Rep-elect Barry Moore pledges to join challenge to electoral votes 'day one,' backs federal voter ID
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When Congressman-elect Barry Moore enters Congress early next year, he plans immediately to join the fight to keep President Trump in office, challenging Electoral College votes with Rep. Mo Brooks, a fellow Alabama Republican.
Moore, a former state legislator who staked a claim as the first elected official in the U. S. to endorse Trump in 2015, has been very active on social media in supporting the president's legal challenges to the election results and refusal to concede. And, in an interview with Fox News this week, he emphasized a desire to address "election integrity" in Congress "regardless of who wins the election."
"We got to get it right. We got to make sure that either 70 or 80 million people don't feel disenfranchised and feel like it was stolen, regardless of which direction it goes," Moore said. "You don't need to have somebody over here voting that's not necessarily legal or even it's not, they don't even exist. They just duplicate ballots and cancel you out or cancel me out."
Moore added: "We're governed by the consent of the people... and their consent is their vote and they consent to give us power. What if that power is not transferred ethically? Then it's an illegitimate election."
Soon after the interview, Moore announced on social media he would support the Brooks challenge to the electoral votes. His office confirmed his intent.
"It’s my honor to stand with @RepMoBrooks we met in his office yesterday it’s time to stand it’s time we draw a line I. The sand and advance #ElectionIntegrity ...it’s the new #woke," Moore tweeted Thursday. He added that he would take up the election fight "day one."
Brooks, in an interview with "Fox Across America," said he believed that state election laws on mail ballots were unconstitutional and that Congress should not be recognizing those votes.
"I, as a member of Congress and one of the judges and jurors that have the final and ultimate decision on who won this presidential election, I'm not counting those ballots when I make a judgment as to whether a state submission of Electoral College votes is correct or incorrect," Brooks said. "I'm not counting any illegal ballots when I make that decision, and as such, in my judgment, if we limited our vote count to lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, that Donald Trump easily won a majority of the Electoral College and won reelection."
Moore is not the only incoming member to support Brooks. The highly controversial Congresswoman-elect Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., has also said that she will support Brooks in challenging the Electoral College votes.
The claim that the implementation of mail-in voting by states is unconstitutional has been highly disputed. In order to challenge an individual state’s slate of electoral votes, a House and Senate member must both ask the bodies to debate and vote to accept or reject a state’s electors. A state’s electoral slate is tossed if both the House and Senate then vote to reject it. That scenario is unlikely.
Further, allegations of systemic voter fraud by the president and some of his allies have been largely unsubstantiated. Some lawsuits have challenged far fewer votes than the tens of thousands that Biden won by in key states. Others have included typos, factual errors or and more defects.
Sweeping allegations of vote-switching by the voting software company Dominion, which some states used, also have not been borne out, and judges routinely have ruled against suits brought by the Trump campaign and its allies. Attorney General Bill Barr said this week that his Justice Department has not seen fraud on the kind of scale that could flip the election.
"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election," Barr told The Associated Press.
Moore, though, said he would like Congress to address election security with federal legislation to ensure confidence and more uniformity.
"We passed the voter I. D. bill in Alaba... (Read more)
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