A Texas lawmaker introduced a bill that would require states to verify that a voter is alive to cast a ballot by checking with the Social Security Administration.
“My bill would actually penalize these states and these counties from getting any kind of federal money from the Department of Transportation or the Department of Education if they do not [update registration lists] on an annual basis,” Republican Rep. Brian Babin told One America News Network of his bill, the You Must Be Alive to Vote Act.
It is intended to ensure election integrity following the 2020 election, which President Trump says was “rigged.”
“The right to vote is one of the most vital pillars of our democracy, the foundations of which are election integrity and confidence in our democratic processes,” Babin said in a statement. “The ease with which someone is able to steal the ballot of a deceased person and cast an illegitimate vote should disturb, alarm, and outrage every American citizen, no matter what side of the aisle they sit on. To protect our democratic process and Americans’ faith in our elections, we must ensure that deceased individuals are not allowed to remain on state voter rolls.”
Babin added to OANN that his bill is “a necessary item that we must introduce in light of the fact that we still have a lot of problems with a lot of perception out there by half of America that we don’t have a open and transparent election process.”
“You would think it would be unnecessary to have a bill like this. I mean, it goes without saying, you should be alive before you get to vote,” he said.
The president, his lawyers, and some in the media have claimed that dead people voted in the last election, which has been met with condemnation from some election officials.
“Many people received two, three, and four ballots. They were sent to dead people by the thousands. In fact, dead people, and we have many examples filled out ballots, made applications and then voted, which is even worse. In other words, dead people went through a process. Some have been dead for 25 years,” Trump said last week in an address.
