David Thomas: “following the statement of the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. Gejdenson], some of my colleagues might be surprised to…”

“following the statement of the gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. Gejdenson], some of my colleagues might be surprised to find out that I was an original cosponsor of the motor-voter bill, and in fact we think it is a good idea to reach out and get as many people as we can on the rolls. But they fail to understand one fundamental point. Get all the people on the rolls who legally should be on, get all the people off who should not be on. What we are doing now in Orange County, and the attorney for the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Sanchez] has finally admitted, there were people who voted in that contest who should not have voted. They were registered illegally, and they participated in the election illegally. The question is not if; the question is how many. We are in the process of determining how many. It is interesting that the minority already knows there were not enough to make a difference in the election. What we try to do on our side of the aisle with the new majority is investigate the facts and then come to a conclusion rather than coming to a conclusion based upon what they want the end result to be. We are working with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. It has been very difficult. We had to subpoena them to go through their records to provide us with the thousands of names.…”