Patrick McHenry Quotes

Mandated mail-in voting and other extreme changes to the 2020 election in response to the COVID-19 pandemic could further undermine public confidence in the American electoral system.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

No election in the United States is wholly free from human or machine error.

There is no evidence at all that a voting booth was hacked or one person's vote in America was taken from Trump candidate to Clinton candidate.

Clearly, dirty election rolls can mean dirty elections.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity.

The total bogus voters in Dera Bassi might be several thousand.

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.

We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.

It seems to me there has been some systematic disenfranchisement of voters … because people haven’t cared enough to spend the money to have good voting systems and voter education.

We find that fraud in election is an old ulcer … it is too old, it is too malignant, to warrant any generous surgery. We have got to cut it out if healthy flesh comes with it. If we do disfranchise now and then an honest elector it is really for his own benefit and the benefit of his own State and county.

This is not the first time. We’ve had this problem in nearly every election that we administer in the city of Detroit.

Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

Flooding the mails with ballots is an invitation for voter fraud and chaos on Election Day. There is a danger of votes being lost, tampered with and, frankly, not counted by overwhelmed election officials.

Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.

When I was in the state legislature, we asked for different examples of voter fraud, and the Republicans could never produce any sort of in-person voter fraud examples.

It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's not.

We're looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, voter registration fraud, voter intimidation, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of the various elections we have in each of the 50 states.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.