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Dear Judicial
Watch Supporter,
You may have seen the latest news from Judicial Watch on social media but I
wanted to be sure you received our latest press release that was
just sent to members of the media today. As always, Judicial Watch is
fighting on your behalf in Washington D.C. against government corruption
and abuse. Thank you for standing with Judicial Watch--you don’t
want to miss this!
Sincerely,
Amelia Koehn
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: 202-646-5188
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 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.”
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 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 and Pennsylvania to
force them to clean up their voter rolls. Judicial Watch also just filed
a lawsuit 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.
Video from the hearing is available here.
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