LAS VEGAS (Legal Newsline) - There are very simple local ways in which voters can ensure their elections have integrity, according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky).
“Don't give up on the elections,” Paul said at Freedom Fest last week. “If you want election integrity, the number one thing you can do is volunteer to sit at the desk in your precinct and make sure all the people in the book vote.”
Paul made the comments while he was a featured speaker at Freedom Fest where he also signed copies of his book, The Case Against Socialism, alongside his wife Kelley Paul and former U.S. Presidential candidate Steve Forbes.
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“One of my biggest complaints about the election is what happened in Wisconsin where Mark Zuckerberg brought in $450 million and gave the money directly to the election officials to help with turnout,” Paul said. “That sounds innocuous. That sounds nonpartisan. How could that be wrong? If you only do turnout in the cities and you only do turnout in Democrat precincts, that's a party function and not a government function. It’s an unfair advantage but that's what they did.”
Running for re-election this November, Paul vows to investigate Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, next session if re-elected.
“Our state is leaning Republican, but we have a Democrat governor, so our state still can go either way,” Paul said of elections in Kentucky. “The consequences of me winning again are that I will be chairman of a committee and I pledge to every one of you and everyone in America that I will use all of my subpoena power to subpoena every last record of Dr. Fauci.”
Paul has repeatedly clashed with Fauci during multiple Senate hearings about NIH funding and the COVID-19 vaccine. Last month, during a hearing about the coronavirus response, Paul asked Fauci whether anyone on the NIH Vaccine Advisory Committee had ever received money from vaccine manufacturers.
“He thinks he's above being challenged,” Paul said. “There are a lot of things that have come out through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) inquiries. They have resisted everything that we've asked and when it comes out, they redact everything.”
As previously reported in Legal Newsline, some $350 million in royalties were paid by third parties between 2010 and 2020 to co-inventors who work at the NIH.
“They were asked how many of your scientists cap royalties from drug companies and they wouldn't reveal it,” Paul added. “A judge forced them to reveal it and it was 1,800 doctors got $193 million. I'm not against making money. I'm all for making money. I'm not against intellectual property. I'm all for it. But shouldn't we want to know if any of them made money from the companies who make the COVID vaccines?”