Republican congressman from Alabama, Mo Brooks says he plans to challenge the electoral college votes on Jan. 6 when Congress officially certifies Joe Biden’s victory.
Without providing any evidence, Brooks echoed Donald Trump’s claim of widespread voter fraud claiming that the election is “badly flawed” and most mail-in voting is “unconstitutional.”
“In my judgment, if only lawful votes by eligible American citizens were cast, Donald Trump won the Electoral College by a significant margin, and Congress’s certification should reflect that,” Brooks told Politico. “This election was stolen by the socialists engaging in extraordinary voter fraud and election theft measures.”
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Brooks confirmed his plan of a last ditched effort to overturn the results of the elections, in an interview with The Hill.
“I’m doing this because in my judgment this is the worst election theft in the history of the United States. And if there was a way to determine the Electoral College outcome using only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, then Donald Trump won the Electoral College,” he said. “I’m not focused on what is in the legal pleadings in all these lawsuits all over the country. There’s some number of votes that probably were illegal in some different places to some degree. That is not that abnormal.”
[READ: Bill Barr says the DOJ hasn’t found any evidence of widespread voter fraud in the election.]
Brooks told Politico that he discussed the procedural maneuver with some members of GOP leadership, but they gave him neither a “thumbs up” nor a “thumbs down.”
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One lawmaker from both the Senate and House needs to challenge the results in order to force a deliberation on the matter. Brooks would not say whether or not he spoke with senators or their staffs but, he is actively seeking a lawmaker in the upper chamber to join his efforts.
[READ: Michael Flynn calls for ‘Martial Law’ and the Military to oversee new election.]
It’s not outside the realm of possibility that we could be faced with this scenario. But, overturning the results of the election in Congress will most definitely fail, given the makeup of the House and Senate. Norman Ornstein from Washington, D.C.-based think tank American Enterprise Institute told The Hill, “the likelihood of having a sizable number who would vote against a slate of electors making a difference in the outcome I think is extremely unlikely.”
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Even Republicans in the Senate are aware of this. The No. 2 Senate Republican, John Thune told reporters Wednesday that he found it unlikely that someone would object to elector certification.
“I can’t imagine that that would ever happen,” Thune said, adding that while a Republican “could” stand up and object, he doubted “that goes anywhere,” according to the Hill.
