Judicial Watch announced that President Tom Fitton
provided testimony to the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee
on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties during a
hearing titled “Protecting the Right to Vote During the COVID-19
Pandemic.”

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June 04, 2020
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JUDICIAL WATCH PRESIDENT TOM FITTON’S TESTIMONY TO THE HOUSE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ABOUT PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO VOTE
(WASHINGTON, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that President Tom
Fitton provided testimony
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to
the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution,
Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties during a hearing
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titled
“Protecting the Right to Vote During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Fitton noted that Judicial Watch has “been involved for almost a
decade in ensuring the honesty and integrity of our electoral
processes” and “is now the nation’s premier enforcer, public or
private, of the election integrity provisions of the National Voter
Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).”

“The American people see what they conclude are disingenuous fights
over electoral procedures and lose faith in the honesty of our
elections,” Fitton said. “With this background in mind I turn to
measures proposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the
more common suggestions now is to require greater reliance on mail-in
ballots. For example, last month Governor Newsom issued an executive
order requiring that county elections officials transmit mail ballots
to every registered voter in the State. I view this as a real threat
to the integrity of American elections.”

Fitton went on to point out that “it is now about five months until
election day, and the pandemic’s infection curve has flattened.
Insisting now on all-mail ballot elections seems less like a response
to a health crisis and more like a partisan application of the
immortal words of Rahm Emanuel: ‘Never allow a good crisis to go to
waste.’”

For more than 25 years, Judicial Watch has been known for its
aggressive, leading edge use of public records laws and lawsuits, as
well as taxpayer, civil rights, and whistleblower protection
litigation to fight government corruption. In 2012, it launched a
nationwide effort to promote voting integrity and protect voting
rights. As part of this effort, Judicial Watch assembled a team of
highly experienced voting rights attorneys who have fought
gerrymandering in Maryland, stopped discriminatory elections in
Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky,
among other achievements.

In 2018, California settled
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a
federal lawsuit with Judicial Watch and began the process of removing
up to 1.6 million inactive names from Los Angeles County’s voter
rolls. In April, Judicial Watch sued North Carolina
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and Pennsylvania
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to
force them to clean up their voter rolls. Judicial Watch also just
filed a lawsuit
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to
stop the special, statewide vote-by-mail mandate issued by California
Governor Gavin Newsom.

Other participants in the hearing included:

* Stacey Abrams, Chair, Fair Fight Action
* J. Christian Adams, President and General Counsel, Public Interest
Legal Foundation
* Barbara Arnwine, President, Transformational Justice Coalition
* Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State, State of Michigan
* Michelle Bishop, Disability Advocacy Specialist for Voting Rights,
National Disability Rights Network
* Dale Ho, Director, Voting Rights Project, American Civil Liberties
Union
* Myrna Pérez, Director, Voting Rights and Elections Program,
Brennan Center for Justice

Fitton’s written testimony is available here
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Video from the hearing is available here
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