{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyburn.house.gov/cummings-brady-and-clyburn-demand-proof-of-unsubstantiated-republican-claims-of-voter-fraud/", "Cummings, Brady, and Clyburn Demand Proof of Unsubstantiated Republican Claims of Voter Fraud", "2017-01-25", "2017", "2017-01", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "James E. Clyburn", "C000537", "clyburn.house.gov", "clyburn", "https://clyburn.house.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "UNITED STATES CONGRESS\n\nFor Immediate Release\n\nJanuary 25, 2017\n\nContacts:\n\nJennifer Werner (Cummings): 202-226-5181\n\nJamie Fleet (Brady): 202-225-2061\n\nPatrick Devlin (Clyburn): 202-226-3210\n\nCummings, Brady, and Clyburn\n\nDemand Proof of Unsubstantiated\n\nRepublican Claims of Voter Fraud\n\nIn Letters to Top Election Officials of All 50 States and DC,\n\nMembers Request Incidents of Actual, Confirmed Voter Fraud\n\nThis morning, President Trump tweeted: \u201cI will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!\u201d\n\nHis tweet follows reports that he stated during a meeting with congressional leaders on Monday that \u201cmillions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority.\u201d\n\nAfter being pressed by members of the White House press corps yesterday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended the President\u2019s claim, stating: \u201cHe believes what he believes based on the information he was provided.\u201d\n\nHe added: \u201cThe president does believe that, he has stated that before. I think he\u2019s stated his concerns of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign and he continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence people have presented to him.\u201d\n\nSpicer went on to cite a study \u201cthat came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14% of people who have voted are non-citizens.\u201d That claim itself has also been thoroughly debunked by the Washington Post, PolitiFact, and NPR.\n\nIn November, weeks after winning the election, President Trump tweeted: \u201cIn addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.\u201d\n\nWhen pressed by George Stephanopoulos to explain the tweet, Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway said: \u201cTo your question, the president-elect has been talking to different people, including Kris Kobach of Kansas, about voting irregularities or the number of illegal votes that may have been cast, and I believe that he based his information on that.\u201d\n\nKobach served as secretary of state of Kansas, and in June 2016, Cummings, Brady and Clyburn launched an investigation into an Election Assistance Commission action to amend the federal voter registration form to require proof of citizenship in Alabama, Georgia, and Kansas. In September, a federal judge blocked the action after finding that it would disenfranchise legitimate voters.\n\nClick here or read below for one sample letter.\n\nJanuary 25, 2017\n\nThe Honorable John H. Merrill The Honorable Luther Strange\n\nAlabama Secretary of State Alabama Attorney General\n\nP.O. Box 5616 Office of the Attorney General\n\nMontgomery, AL 36103 P.O. Box 30015\n\nMontgomery, AL 36130-0152\n\nDear Secretary of State Merrill and Attorney General Strange:\n\nThank 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\u2019s elections. To investigate these claims, we are seeking information regarding confirmed incidents of voter fraud.\n\nTo 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:\n\n1) the identity of the individual who cast the prohibited vote;\n\n2) the date on which the prohibited vote took place;\n\n3) the polling place where the prohibited vote occurred;\n\n4) the specific legal reason the individual\u2019s vote was prohibited; and\n\n5) the result of the individual\u2019s prosecution, if any.\n\nPlease 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.\n\nWe request this information by February 22, 2017. Please contact Karen Kudelko of Ranking Member Cummings\u2019 staff at (202) 225-5051, Khalil Abboud with Ranking Member Brady\u2019s staff at (202) 225-2061, or Amy Miller Pfeiffer with Assistant Democratic Leader Clyburn\u2019s staff at (202) 226-3210 with any questions.\n\nSincerely,\n\nElijah E. Cummings Robert A. Brady James E. Clyburn\n\nRanking Member Ranking Member Assistant Democratic\n\nCommittee on Oversight and Committee on House Leader\n\nGovernment Reform Administration\n\ncc: The Honorable Jason Chaffetz\n\nChairman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T21:17:04Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://clyburn.house.gov/cummings-brady-and-clyburn-demand-proof-of-unsubstantiated-republican-claims-of-voter-fraud/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8720268961042166, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}