Dear Secretary of State Merrill and Attorney General Strange:
Thank you for your service in the critical work of helping ensure that elections across the country are free, fair, and administered in a way that upholds the fundamental tenets of the United States Constitution. We are writing given recent claims of voter fraud and its potential impact on our nation’s elections. To investigate these claims, we are seeking information regarding confirmed incidents of voter fraud.
To assist in our inquiry, we request that you provide a list of all specific cases in which either of your offices has determined that an individual who cast a vote in the federal elections held in November 2016 was legally prohibited from doing so. For each specific case, please include the following information:
1) the identity of the individual who cast the prohibited vote;
2) the date on which the prohibited vote took place;
3) the polling place where the prohibited vote occurred;
4) the specific legal reason the individual’s vote was prohibited; and
5) the result of the individual’s prosecution, if any.
Please include in this list all cases in which the state has determined that a prohibited vote was cast, regardless of whether a prosecution was initiated or concluded. Please feel free to provide joint or separate responses.
We request this information by Feb. 22, 2017. Please contact Karen Kudelko of Ranking Member Cummings’ staff at (202) 225-5051, Khalil Abboud with Ranking Member Brady’s staff at (202) 225-2061, or Amy Miller Pfeiffer with Assistant Democratic Leader Clyburn’s staff at (202) 226-3210 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Elijah E. Cummings Robert A. Brady James E. Clyburn
Ranking Member Ranking Member Assistant Democratic
Committee on Oversight and Committee on House Leader
Government Reform Administration
cc: The Honorable Jason Chaffetz
Chairman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
The Honorable Gregg Harper
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
