Palmetto State News

Rep. Stewart Jones, along with several other lawmakers have written a letter to the South Carolina Congressional delegation in support of Rep. Mo Brooks’ call to challenge electors.

Jones made the announcement in a Facebook post on Dec. 21.

“Today, my colleagues and I in the S.C. House of Reps sent a letter to Sen. Tim Scott, Sen. Lindsey Graham and the entire S.C. Congressional delegation to stand with Rep. Mo Brooks, Rep. Jeff Duncan and Rep. Ralph Norman calling for a full congressional investigation into voting irregularities and to reject the electors from contested states!” he wrote.

Jones also included a copy of the letter in his post detailing the growing number of concerns since the general election on Nov. 3.

“I know you are aware of the honorable Mo Brooks’ letter calling for floor debate on various states’ electoral college votes submissions, in which Rep. Brooks called for a thorough investigation into the extensive voter fraud, illegal voting, and election theft reported in the weeks subsequent to the November 3rd election,” the letter read.

Brooks’ call was met with a mixture of praise and criticism, with some on the right opting not to support his efforts. Two voices in Congress that joined Brooks were Ralph Norman and Jill Duncan 

“Fair elections, free from foreign and outside interference, are pivotal to the survival of our republic, which exists based on the consent of the governed,” the letter read. “If our elections cannot be trusted, the republic will no longer enjoy the consent of the governed.”

The letter went on to list several election irregularities which include: “numerous instances of outright voter fraud”; ballots that were accepted without postmarks or with backdated postmarks; the mishandling of ballots in five key states, reports of poll workers running ballots through tabulation machines multiple times in Wisconsin and Michigan; and Equal Protection Clause violations in all of the six contested states, among others reports. 

Despite the evidence of fraud, the lawmakers said little was being done to right the election wrong.

“Very few of these irregularities have been investigated in a professional manner for anyone in law enforcement or in a position to do anything about it...Our Judiciary has refused to listen to the many claims of impropriety, and as such, has not availed itself to the opportunity to judge the evidence of the numerous search cases on their merits,” the letter stated.

The letter urged Congress to hold a hearing on the matter.