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Election Integrity Project California stated on June 22, 2021 in a headline:

"California Has 1.8M More Registered Voters Than It Should”

By Isabella Fertel• September 14, 2021

Bloggers stated on November 14, 2016 in an article on InfoWars:

"Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens."

By Allison Graves• November 18, 2016

Bill Nelson stated on May 29, 2012 in letter to Gov. Rick Scott:

"In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons. Many of those who were dropped showed up to vote and were told they could not."

By Katie Sanders• June 5, 2012

Hillary Clinton stated on June 04, 2015 in in a speech at Texas Southern University:

"In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off."

By Amy Sherman• June 9, 2015

Donald Trump stated on January 03, 2018 in a statement:

There is "substantial evidence of voter fraud."

By Louis Jacobson• January 4, 2018

Charlie Crist stated on August 17, 2013 in a speech to Louisiana Democrats:

In 2012, the state "put together a list of over 100,000 people that they thought were ineligible to vote. Came out there were less than 10."

By Amy Sherman• September 12, 2013

Donald Trump stated on April 07, 2020 in a press briefing:

With voting by mail, “you get thousands and thousands of people sitting in somebody's living room, signing ballots all over the place.”

By Louis Jacobson• April 9, 2020

Amy Klobuchar stated on February 25, 2020 in a debate:

“While we are all sitting here debating, Wisconsin has kicked hundreds of thousands of people off of their voting rolls.”

By Haley BeMiller• March 2, 2020

Bloggers stated on October 09, 2018 in blog post:

"Indiana has purged no less than 20,000 voters in violation of a federal court order."

By Manuela Tobias• October 17, 2018

MoveOn.org stated on June 27, 2012 in an email:

"Every one of the 67 supervisors of elections" in Florida refused to carry out the effort to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.

By Amy Sherman• July 10, 2012

MoveOn.org stated on June 27, 2012 in an email:

Gov. Rick Scott "tried to kick 180,000 people off the voter rolls."

By Amy Sherman• July 10, 2012

Robert Spindell stated on January 19, 2020 in a TV interview:

Says some of the names that may be purged from voter roll are people who have died.

By Eric Litke• January 30, 2020

Nancy Pelosi stated on December 17, 2019 in a tweet:

Says voter roll purge would mean "more than 200,000 registered Wisconsin voters will be prohibited from voting."

By Eric Litke• December 18, 2019

Barack Obama stated on November 02, 2016 in a rally in North Carolina:

The list of voters that North Carolina Republicans "tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic."

By Lauren Carroll• November 7, 2016

Donald Trump stated on November 27, 2016 in a tweet:

Says he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."

By Louis Jacobson• November 28, 2016

Florida for All stated on January 20, 2014 in :

"Rick Scott’s Administration spent over $100,000 of taxpayer money during their first voter purge attempt in 2012."

By Amy Sherman• January 23, 2014

Donald Trump Jr. stated on November 12, 2018 in in a tweet:

"Nearly 200,000 Florida voters may not be citizens."

By Amy Sherman, Manuela Tobias• November 13, 2018

Donald Trump stated on December 02, 2020 in a speech:

Residents the Wisconsin Election Commission suspected of moving are “illegal voters.”

By Eric Litke• December 4, 2020

Ohio Republican Party stated on June 12, 2018 in a tweet:

Says Sherrod Brown in 1978 "voted for stricter removal standards (for voter registration) and then enforced them as Secretary of State."

By Amy Sherman• June 29, 2018

Alcee Hastings stated on May 29, 2012 in a press conference:

Florida election officials’ requests to some residents to submit proof of citizenship is a "backdoor poll tax."

By Amy Sherman• June 7, 2012

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