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A group of Tennessee lawmakers want two Republican U.S. senators to join in an effort to object to the votes by the Electoral College in several battleground states in light of allegations of fraud.

The legislators authored the letter to voice their support for U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks’ (R-Ala.) decision to call for an investigation into the election irregularities. 

Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said he would challenge the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6 in the Senate after Brooks and a handful of other Republican representatives said they would challenge the vote in the House.

“Fair elections, free from foreign and outside interference, and fraudulent actions by State officials in violation of state law are pivotal to the survival of our republic, which exists based on the consent of the governed,” the letter states.

The Tennessee lawmakers said in their letter that Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all had allegations of violations of the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, as well as allegations of voting machine irregularities and statistical anomalies in five states. They claim there were also poll workers who were allegedly seen running ballots through tabulation machines multiple times in both Michigan and Wisconsin.

The lawmakers also claim the ballots were mishandled in five states, as well as several other problems.

Election officials and the secretaries of state in the six contested states have said multiple times that there were not enough irregularities or cases of fraud to overturn the election in each state, the Epoch Times reported.

The state representatives are asking Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) to support Brooks’ effort.

“It is with these laws and their continuation in mind that we, the undersigned, ask you on January 6th to vocally support the rule of law, transparent government by joining Rep. Brooks in objecting to the contested electors from those states where Republicans have offered opposing slates of electors,” they wrote in the letter.