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Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2021-01-05): After two months of failed efforts to pressure local election officials, state legislatures, and even his own attorney general to help overturn November’s presidential election, President Donald Trump on Tuesday set up a new scapegoat for his defeat: Mike Pence. In a late-morning tweet, Trump claimed that Pence has the unilateral authority during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress to overturn the results of the entire presidential election on the basis of fraud claims that have been universally rejected in court. [...] "The statute is structured to let the two bodies, the Senate and the House, deliberate on anything that gets submitted that purports to be a state’s electoral votes," Foley said. "But the vice president is the presiding officer, and if he were to say, ‘This is frivolous,’ or ‘This is too late,’ or ‘This is preposterous, I’m not going to bother the chambers, I’m not going to dignify this thing,’ he would have to be overruled. And there isn’t really a mechanism to overrule him." [...] Yale Law professor and leading constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman, for one, has pushed the notion that the president of the Senate has the authority under the 12th Amendment to ignore the Electoral Count Act and unilaterally decide the outcome of the Electoral College count. In September, Ackerman and progressive Rep. Ro Khanna wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times arguing that Pence could basically do whatever he wants, thanks to a precedent established by Thomas Jefferson in 1800.
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2021-01-06): On Tuesday, January 5, Trump tweeted that "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." [...] A lawsuit brought by Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and a number of would-be electors from Arizona against Pence also claimed that the vice president had the ability to choose which electoral votes count. According to USA Today, that lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge. [...] "Vice President Pence has no power whatsoever to send electoral slates back for recounting or 'correction' or to accept alternative slates or to do anything other than preside ceremonially over the joint session of Congress," Tribe said. "Any notion that he can change the result is sheer fantasy and has no basis in law or history."
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2021-01-06): "Still, Trump and his band of loyal followers continue to undermine democracy with more baseless claims. Their most recent lawsuit attempted to give Vice President Pence the authority to invalidate electoral college votes. However, Pence as Vice President, merely has the responsibility to announce and tally each state's election results; nothing more. Once again, their case was dismissed by the court. Still, yesterday, one day before the Congress was set to certify the electoral votes and after the court dismissed the lawsuit, President Trump took to Twitter to spread more false information, saying, "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." That is just not true.
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2021-01-05): "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors," Trump tweeted Jan. 5 [...] A federal judge threw out a suit that aimed to give Pence the power to reject electoral votes. The Justice Department also argued against it. That, however, was based on the standing of the plaintiffs, not the merits of the case itself. [...] "Neither the vice president nor Congress has the power to reject electoral votes," wrote Alan Charles Raul and Richard Bernstein in the Wall Street Journal. Raul is former associate counsel to President Ronald Reagan and Bernstein is a retired appellate attorney.
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2020-12-22): In a tweet Tuesday, Trump falsely asserted that Pence "has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." [...] His role is more akin to a ceremonial host. What's more, the electors are not fraudulent and were certified by officials in each state last month. [...] Late Tuesday night, Trump pushed again, this time dismissing a New York Times report that Pence had told the president he did not have authority to overturn the result. In the statement, Trump claimed that he and Pence "are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act."
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2021-01-06): "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors," Trump tweeted Tuesday, keeping up the pressure on Penceeven though the vice president's role as laid out by the Constitution does not give him that power. There are also no "fraudulently chosen electors"; each state has certified its results and sent electors to the Electoral College, which confirmed Biden's win last month. [...] "Vice President Pence shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election," his chief of staff Short said in a statement on Saturday. "The Vice President welcomes the efforts of members of the House and Senate to use the authority they have under the law to raise objections and bring forward evidence before the Congress and the American people on January 6th."
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2022-05-25): Under the theory proposed by former vice president Mike Pence, former circuit judge J. Michael Luttig, and other distinguished officials and scholars, however, Harris could play only a ceremonial role and would have no right to "overturn" electoral votes. Meanwhile, however, members of Congress of both parties, judging by their votes to challenge the results of the 2016 and 2020 presidential contests, believe that they instead enjoy the right to reject "irregular" electoral votes. They claim this authority under the Electoral Count Act of 1877 (ECA), which establishes a procedure under which, after a member of the House and a member of the Senate vote to raise the question, both houses of Congress by majority vote can agree to reject a state’s electors. Hoping to forestall a repeat of Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, an alliance of Republicans and Democrats hope to amend the ECA to eliminate any possible vice-presidential role and to raise the votes required in Congress to reject a state’s electoral vote.
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2021-01-11): Trump had tweeted earlier in the day, "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." In a late-night statement, Trump called the reports untrue and continued to argue Pence has the power to overturn the election: "The New York Times report regarding comments Vice President Pence supposedly made to me today is fake news. He never said that. The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act." However, the vice president's role as laid out by the Constitution does not give him that power and there are no "fraudulently chosen electors."
Claim: “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.” (Donald Trump, 2021-01-05)
Evidence (2021-01-06): "The New York Times report regarding comments Vice President Pence supposedly made to me today is fake news. He never said that. The Vice President and I are in total agreement that the Vice President has the power to act," Mr. Trump said in the statement. "Our Vice President has several options under the U.S. Constitution. He can decertify the results or send them back to the states for change and certification. He can also decertify the illegal and corrupt results and send them to the House of Representatives for the one vote for one state tabulation." [...] Earlier Tuesday, Mr. Trump had tweeted a false claim that "the vice president has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." [...] "I hope Mike Pence comes through for us," Mr. Trump said on Monday night. He also tweeted on Tuesday that the vice president "has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." There is no evidence the electors were chosen fraudulently, and the 12th Amendment suggests that Pence's powers are really more ceremonial. He "shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted."
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-08-29): Three Republican-led states — Alabama, Texas and Virginia — have taken steps to remove or flag ineligible people on the voter rolls, since at least 2021. This included noncitizens, or potential noncitizens, according to state officials. There are some unknowns about the people affected, and the number of people who turn out to be noncitizens could change. Congress banned noncitizen voting in federal elections in 1996. Noncitizens rarely cast ballots. If they do, they face stiff penalties including jail time, deportation or denial of citizenship applications.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-09-09): When people register to vote, they confirm under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens. Federal law requires states to regularly maintain their voter rolls and remove anyone who is ineligible, a process that could identify immigrants living in the country illegally. [...] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said last month that more than 6,500 potential noncitizens have been removed from Texas voter rolls since 2021, including 1,930 with "a voter history" who have been referred for investigation by the attorney general’s office. Texas has almost 18 million registered voters. [...] Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, recently announced that 3,251 people previously identified as noncitizens by the federal government are being switched to inactive status on the state’s voter registration rolls. They will be required to provide proof of citizenship and fill out a form to vote this fall. Alabama has more than 3 million registered voters.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-09-02): Here is what we know about the efforts to remove noncitizen voters in three states: [...] It could take several months or longer for authorities to determine whether any of the people the three states found on the voter rolls will face criminal charges. Additional information about these efforts could come out in potential lawsuits, meaning it could be years before some unknowns about the current removals are answered. [...] OUR SOURCES - X, Sen. Rick Scott post, Aug. 28, 2024 - X, Sen. Rick Scott post, Aug. 16, 2024 - Newsmax, Interview with Sen. Rick Scott, Aug. 28, 2024 - Texas Governor’s Office, Governor Abbott Announces Over 1 Million Ineligible Voters Removed From Voter Rolls, Aug. 26, 2024 - PolitiFact, Five years later, Texas never found voter registrations of 95,000 noncitizens, April 4, 2024 - The New York Times, Texas Ends Review That Questioned Citizenship of Almost 100,000 Voters, April 26, 2019 - Alabama Secretary of State, Secretary of State Wes Allen Implements Process to Remove Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Alabama, Aug. 13, 2024 - AL.com, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen says 3,251 registered voters were issued noncitizen ID numbers, Aug. 14, 2024 - Virginia’s Governor’s Office, EO 35 Comprehensive Election Security Protecting Legal Voters and Accurate Counting, Aug. 7, 2024 - NBC News, Virginia removes 6,303 'noncitizens' from voter rolls, fueling fraud allegations, Aug. 23, 2024 - VoteBeat, Abbott says a million names have been deleted from Texas voter rolls.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-08-08): A new executive order from the Republican governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, revealed the steps that leaders of the commonwealth have taken to shore up confidence in the election process, including removing tens of thousands of noncitizens and deceased voters from voter rolls. [...] Perhaps even more importantly, 6,303 noncitizens who are still alive and who either "purposefully or accidentally registered to vote" in Virginia have likewise been removed, the EO claimed. [...] The post More than 6,000 noncitizens removed from Virginia voter rolls appeared first on TheBlaze.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-08-23): Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said earlier this month he had issued an executive order removing 6,303 noncitizens who had "accidentally or maliciously attempted to register" to vote. [...] Local Virginia officials who spoke to NBC News attributed much of the presence of possible noncitizens on the voter rolls to errors made when people fill out paper or online forms or when they respond to a question about citizenship on a touchpad device at the department of motor vehicles. [...] The League of United Latin American Citizens of Richmond settled a 2018 defamation lawsuit it filed against a group run by Trump’s former vote fraud commissioner, J.Christian Adams, for publishing identifying information of people who were identified as noncitizens and removed from the state’s voter rolls. The group had to apologize and publicly state the people they targeted are U.S. citizens.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-08-30): Several Republican-led states have recently publicized new processes to identify and remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, though those efforts have often ensnared naturalized citizens. [...] States are required by federal law to maintain their voter lists and remove ineligible people. But it must be done carefully to avoid disenfranchising eligible voters. Federal law also restricts systematic voter purges within 90 days before an election. [...] Huddleston, an attorney with the group, said past data from the Texas secretary of state’s office suggests the majority of the 6,500 potential noncitizens who were removed likely refers to people whose registrations were canceled after they did not respond to a notice inquiring about their citizenship.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-07-16): Noncitizen voting is statistically rare, but some Republicans have made it a campaign issue in 2024. [...] In 1996, Congress banned voting by noncitizens, which includes people legally and illegally in the U.S., in federal elections. [...] Voting in federal elections by noncitizens "is already a crime several times over," said Sean Morales-Doyle, director of voting rights at the Brennan Center in a June statement. Noncitizens who vote face deportation or jail time. When people register to vote, they attest under penalty of perjury that they are citizens.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-09-02): Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said this past week that more than 6,500 potential noncitizens have been removed from Texas voter rolls since 2021, including 1,930 with "a voter history" who have been referred for investigation by the attorney general’s office. Texas has almost 18 million registered voters. WATCH:How the politically diverse Latino community can help moderate U.S. polarization Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, a Republican, said in August that he referred for potential prosecution 138 apparent noncitizens found to have voted in a recent election and 459 more who registered but did not vote. Those figures were higher than reviews from previous years but a small fraction of the more than 8 million registered voters in Ohio. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, recently announced that 3,251 people previously identified as noncitizens by the federal government are being switched to inactive status on the state’s voter registration rolls. They will be required to provide proof of citizenship and fill out a form to vote in November. Alabama has more than 3 million registered voters.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-09-30): Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a purge of 3,251 alleged "noncitizens" from the state’s voter rolls on Aug. 13. The National Voter Registration Act makes it illegal for states to purge voter rolls within 90 days of an election, a period which began on Aug. 7. [...] What these supposed noncitizen voter purges do, however, is kick actual U.S. citizens from the voter rolls. In Alabama, Allen’s purge of supposed noncitizens swept up hundreds, if not thousands, of actual U.S. citizens. Over 700 Alabamans who were removed have already re-registered to vote, according to the DOJ lawsuit, showing that these purged voters were citizens all along. Many of the other purged voters could also be citizens who either did not receive letters warning them of the suspension of their registration, or who have not been able to re-register yet. [...] U.S.-born and naturalized citizens have similarly been swept up in highly publicized purges of "noncitizen" voters in Ohio and Texas, in recent years. Similarly, Virginia officials were rebuked in 2023 after erroneously removing more than 3,000 voters they incorrectly claimed were illegally registered felons.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-09-03): Texas’ strong election laws removed over 1 MILLION ineligible voters from our voter rolls. [...] Of those scrubbed from voter rolls, the state said more than 457,000 — nearly 40% — are deceased, while over 19,000 canceled their own voter registrations. More than 6,000 can no longer vote in Texas due to a felony conviction, and another 6,500 were flagged as noncitizens, according to data from the Department of Public Safety. [...] Of the remaining voters removed, around 134,000 told their county elections office they had moved, while 65,000 did not respond to a notice of examination.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-08-29): With Republican officials around the country like Allen putting a fresh focus on preventing noncitizens from voting — which is already illegal and rare — it’s naturalized Americans like Esternita Watkins who will be most affected by such voter roll purges, voting rights advocates and attorneys say. [...] Allen announced he had put 3,251 voter registrations on track for removal in mid-August as part of a new process that flags anyone on the state voter rolls with a noncitizen identification number. Allen shared the list with the attorney general for "further investigation and possible criminal prosecution," his office said in a release. [...] Allen is among a spate of Republican officials who have sought to crack down on noncitizen voting ahead of the presidential election. Officials in Texas, Virginia and Ohio have recently said they are removing noncitizens from their voter rolls, while House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has championed legislation to require documentary proof of citizenship.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-08-30): Sen. Rick Scott said 3 states removed 16,000-plus noncitizens on voter rolls. What we know Three Republican-led states — Alabama, Texas and Virginia — say they've taken steps to remove or flag ineligible people on the voter rolls. [...] Here is what we know about the efforts to remove noncitizen voters in three states:
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-08-27): Republicans have celebrated the removal of noncitizens from voter rolls as a victory for election security after previously raising concerns about migrants voting in U.S. elections. Critics, however, have accused conservatives of overstating the issue of migrants illegally voting, arguing that while it does happen from time to time, the phenomenon remains rare. [...] Several other states have recently removed noncitizens from their voting rolls. [...] Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has also removed noncitizens from the state's voter rolls.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-01-05): Cases of noncitizens voting are statistically rare. Some noncitizens accidentally end up on voter rolls when applying for driver’s licenses. States and counties have safeguards to check for voter eligibility. [...] In Colorado, ahead of the 2022 midterm election, the secretary of state’s office mistakenly sent postcards to about 30,000 noncitizens who had driver’s licenses encouraging them to register to vote. The office sent a second postcard notifying these noncitizens about the error and worked with county clerks to ensure the ineligible voters did not register. [...] Voting by noncitizens carries high risks that include deportation or incarceration.
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Thousands of noncitizens removed from voter rolls, dozens of lawmakers want answers from Garland [...] The lawmakers in the letter cited an announcement by the Virginia attorney general that it had identified 6,303 noncitizens on its voter rolls in 2022 and 2023, while Texas had removed 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls. Of those, 1,930 had a history of voting. [...] Original article source: Thousands of noncitizens removed from voter rolls, dozens of lawmakers want answers from Garland
Claim: “This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.” (Rick Scott, 2024-08-29)
Evidence (2020-12-02): Cases of noncitizens voting are statistically rare. Some noncitizens accidentally end up on voter rolls when applying for drivers’ licenses. [...] Some states look at driver’s license records to see whether any noncitizens also registered to vote. But driver’s license records can be outdated and may not reflect if a noncitizen later became a naturalized citizen. That’s part of why an effort in Texas to find noncitizen voters fell apart in 2019. [...] PolitiFact Florida, "Noncitizen voter purge makes a comeback in Florida," Sept. 12, 2013