Al Schmidt

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I’m confident that eligible voters in Pa. can and should approach this election like they always do, which means voting by whichever method works best for them.

I take seriously the obligations under both federal and Pennsylvania law to ensure that only eligible voters have access to the ballot box and to see to it that Pennsylvania’s voter rolls are appropriately maintained and updated.

On our watch, we prosecuted parents, we prosecuted grandparents, we prosecuted ministers, and we prosecuted coaches. Mr. Speaker, the only evidence you have is what that child can testify to in front of a bunch of strangers in a jury box…

Mr. Speaker, how do you look a rape victim or a domestic violence victim in the eye and tell them that the good folks in your community, the advocates and the supporters of domestic violence services or rape crisis centers or child…

It's really not a red state or blue state thing. It is a — in my view, a concerning attempt, a concerning effort to consolidate and overreach at the federal level. In the United States of America, it's the states who run elections, not the…

I will have no comment on that last comment from my colleague from Utah.

And when it does occur the extent to which there's evidence of it, and allegations of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania are completely and totally unfounded. Voters should have confidence that we will have a free, fair, safe and…

The most important people on Election Day, it's not the secretary of state, it's not even a county commissioner. It's those friends and neighbors who volunteer essentially for a 14-hour day in Pennsylvania to make sure that when you show…

It's important that none of this that we've experienced should keep people from voting, should keep people from stepping up.

Elections have never been more safe and secure with a voter-verifiable paper-ballot record of every vote that's cast that is used in not one but two audits after every election to ensure the tabulated results are accurate.

I am deeply grateful to Senator Klobuchar for introducing the Freedom to Vote Act and other proposed legislation that aims to help.

Now, more than ever, we need a sustained and robust Congressional commitment to support our efforts in protecting the democracy.

It's important that we, we stand up against these lies and that we not surrender the Republican Party.

It has nothing to do with being a Republican at all. It has to do with whether you're willing to lie, for the former President, or not.

Well, I think it's important that people know how widespread this was, especially for Republican election officials, across the country, and that the former President intentionally targeted them, targeted them by name.

After the president tweeted at me by name, calling me out the way that he did, the threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name, but included members of my family by name, their ages, our address…

Some basic, uniform election requirements for access for every state and every county across the country, I think would go a long way.

The misinformation and disinformation, the allegations of voter fraud that is widespread, when in reality, it is rare.

It is really about access to resources, to Federal government resources to test those systems to make sure that those systems are not vulnerable.