In light of recent allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election, Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, introduced a bill this week that would block federal funding to counties that do not commit to cleaning their voter rolls.
The bill, called the “You Must Be Alive to Vote Act,” would tie federal education and transportation funds to states’ commitment to deleting names of deceased persons from their voter registration lists.
If it passes, the bill would require the states to annually check their voter rolls against the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File, which helps track who is alive and who is not.
“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,” Babin said in a statement.
The states are legally required to regularly clean and maintain their voter rolls, but it often takes several lawsuits for election officials to start the process.
This leaves the election process vulnerable to voter fraud, as it did during the 2020 presidential election.
In fact, Fox News host Tucker Carlson estimates that hundreds, and maybe even thousands, of dead people cast ballots in this year’s presidential election due to states’ mass mail-in ballot scam.
“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,” Babin said in a statement.
“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,” he added.
