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    📺 Who Will Control Congress? Watch the Results LIVE
    Americans will decide the balance of power in Washington on Tuesday, and the Daily Signal will be there as the results come in. Beginning at 7 p.m. ET, national correspondent Tony Kinnett will host five hours of live midterm election night news on the Daily Signal’s YouTube channel and through the nationally syndicated “The Tony…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Ballot Scanner Problems Hit Heart of Key Battleground House District on Election Day
    Westchester County, New York, experienced ballot scanner problems Tuesday morning during in-person voting in one of the nation’s most competitive U.S. House races. The Westchester County Board of Elections announced that voting machines were not accepting paper ballots at polling locations throughout the county. Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, the incumbent, is defending his seat against…
    Fred Lucas
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    10,000 Swing-State Voters Were Asked About Socialism. Here’s What They Said.
    Summary A growing number of socialist candidates are running for Congress this year, promising to bring radical changes to Washington, D.C. They’ve embraced a nickname, “The Bloc,” and an ambitious agenda of far-left policies aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America. Fortunately, a majority of voters in America’s swing states hold an unfavorable opinion of…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Britain’s New Populist Right Makes Big Gains in Local Elections
    Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party made big gains in Thursday’s local elections and gained another seat in Parliament as it positions itself as a new right-leaning party of opposition to the reigning Labour Party. Reform UK gained hundreds of new local council seats, while the Conservative and Labour parties conversely lost hundreds. The results are…
    George Caldwell
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    Why Local Election Results in Taiwan Have Implications for America
    Taiwan has been one of America’s key allies in deterring Communist China’s power expansion since the end of World War II. But the failure of the ruling pro-independence party in recent local elections showed that even with U.S. political and military backing, the Taiwanese people’s concerns over a potential Chinese military invasion may have swayed…
    Min-Hua Chiang
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    After Telling 31,000 Noncitizens How to Register to Vote, Colorado Kept Information From Local Election Officials
    Less than a month before the November election, the office of Colorado’s secretary of state declined to provide the names of noncitizens who received voter registration notifications by mail, according to records obtained by a watchdog group.    The Public Interest Legal Foundation released a report Thursday about how Colorado handled sending out 31,093 notifications on how…
    Fred Lucas
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    Michigan’s New Voting Rules Explicitly Allow ‘Zuck Bucks’ for Local Election Offices
    EAST LANSING, Michigan—Michiganders voted “yes” Tuesday on an election-related amendment to their state constitution.  The amendment, known as Proposal 2, passed with more than 58% of the vote.   “I’d like to thank the millions of Michigan voters who said, ‘Yes’ to Proposal 2 which protects the fundamental right to vote while enhancing security and…
    Virginia Allen
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    Southern Poverty Law Center Takes Aim at School Boards, Local Elections With New PACs
    The Southern Poverty Law Center, notorious for branding mainstream conservatives and Christians as “hate groups” and equating them with the Ku Klux Klan, is taking aim at school boards and local elections.  The SPLC Action Fund announced the launch of two political action committees on Monday, targeting local government races in the South and countering…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Big Tech Plans to Keep a Grip on Local Elections Amid Funding Bans
    Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he has sworn off bankrolling local election administration, but other Big Tech executives are positioned to play a role in running future elections.  The Center for Tech and Civic Life distributed $350 million in Zuckerberg-funded election grants to localities in 2020 to promote mail-in voting, drop boxes, and other projects….
    Fred Lucas
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    How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices
    Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead.  “The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, which advocates clean elections, told The…
    Fred Lucas
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