This is a huge, unfunded mandate that we are placing on 50 States, many of those which have struggled financially in recent years.
Rae Oliver Davis
The Public Record
We have not heard from States regarding this provision, nor voting equipment manufacturers.
I think that this has good intentions. I think it is a lot of unintended consequences.
This provision opens a huge door to voter fraud by allowing students to vote at their university without any change in their legal residency.
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.
Bipartisanship will matter when we have a fair election process that does not allow ballot harvesting.
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.
I think that your amendment doesn't even have the courage of its convictions.
By all appearances, H.R. 1 is simply a way for political operatives to enrich themselves.
Somebody who wrote the bill shouldn't be able to profit from it, because it is going to put billions upon billions upon billions of dollars.





