Rae Oliver Davis

In Alexander County, Illinois, there are more registered voters than people who were counted in the census.

Not everyone in the election process is a do-gooder like all of us sitting here at this table. There are bad people, and bad people are going to take advantage of bad processes.

This amendment strikes Section 1014. This provision requires a one-time transfer of data from contributing agencies to State election agencies for the purposes of registration.

There have been no credible reports of fraudulent or otherwise illegal provisions in California.

Same-day voter registration invites fraud and undermines the voter-registration process.

I just don't think that is reasonable. I think this amendment is misplaced. I would urge that we oppose the amendment.

We are addressing a process that is legal in the State of California right now for anybody to go and pick up ballots and then be trusted to bring them back to the election officials' office without any bipartisanship that occurs.

If a candidate is receiving great sums of money outside the district, then the donors should be disclosed like others.

I support this--I support the passage of this amendment, and I yield back, Madam Chairperson.

Because the sheer fact is, if somebody grabs a bunch of ballots and they are coming in, in California, and it was so late to count these ballots because they kept coming in, your congressional districts aren't that big.

Creating this program is taking the federalization of elections and campaign financing to a whole new level.

Previous statements by the Speaker have not given me the confidence.

McCrae Dowless, who could possibly go to jail in North Carolina, would be walking free in California for what he did. That is wrong.

The Federal Government has not done a good job of implementing any online voter registration system.

As a matter of fact, who is going to make sure that colleges don't raise tuition just to cover the cost of another unfunded mandate?

Nobody--and I mean no one--who is eligible to be registered should be dissuaded from doing so.

This amendment requires voting by mail in Federal elections. We wish to strike this provision because this provision would force no-excuse no voting on every State and locality.

Again, I certainly wish we had more time to debate this bill, just as much as this bill requires local officials to give for individuals to early vote, and we have not had that opportunity.

I like when our Chairperson uses the word 'righteous.'

Our system of government today when it comes to election registration is at its highest level of access.

This legislation overreaches our Constitution. It violates a citizen's basic free speech rights under the First Amendment.

In my home State of Illinois, also, for example, the requirements imposed by the State for somebody to prove that they are part of the university community are so lax...

William Wilberforce said, you can choose to look the other way, but you can never again say that you did not know.

I appreciate the comments, Chairperson Lofgren, and my good friend, Mr. Raskin.

H.R. 1 also overreaches our Constitution by taking the power away from States to decide how their elections should be administered.