The leaders of the House Oversight and Reform and House Administration committees sent letters on Wednesday to election officials in Florida, Arizona, Texas and Ohio — all Republican-led states — requesting the information while noting their concerns about new laws in the states affecting election administration.
The leaders of the House Oversight and Reform and House Administration committees sent letters on Wednesday to election officials in Florida, Arizona, Texas and Ohio — all Republican-led states — requesting the information while noting their concern about new laws affecting election administration.
“The Committees are seeking to understand the scope and scale of election misinformation in your state, the impact that this flood of false information has had on election administration, the risks it poses for upcoming federal elections, and the steps that your organization and local election administrators have taken in response,” Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn B.
In Florida, for example, Lofgren and Maloney reference GOP state lawmakers who spread false claims about election fraud to help enact legislation to fine election supervisors for operating a drop box that violates new restrictions and change the rules for election observers in a way that could “disrupt the vote count.”
“State Senator Travis Hutson claimed without evidence that ‘across the nation’ there had been instances ‘where ballot boxes can be tampered with,' ” Lofgren and Maloney write. “The law was recently struck down by a federal court that found the rationale for passing the bill was ‘nonsensical.' ”
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