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‘Make Voting Great Again’: GOP Warns Against Government Election Meddling
The Biden administration appears poised to put the government’s thumb on the scale in the 2024 election, House Republicans say. The administration’s lack of transparency about implementing President Joe Biden’s executive order for federal agencies to help get out the vote—combined with a warning from Attorney General Merrick Garland—has sparked some concern among lawmakers. “You… -
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DOJ Keeps Plan Secret for Biden’s Election Executive Order
The Biden Justice Department continues to claim presidential privilege to block release of its strategic plan to turn out the vote, although at least two other federal agencies have made their plans public. In defending a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, the Justice Department is keeping under wraps its plans to implement President… -
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Progressivism Shunned by Voters in Blue Cities, States
Although Super Tuesday may have been predictable on the presidential front, the big primary day held some surprises lower down the ballot. Deep-blue cities and states are rejecting leftist policies. In San Francisco, voters backed ballot measures to strengthen the city’s police force and mandate drug tests for welfare recipients, prompting the San Francisco Chronicle to declare… -
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Garland Calls Election Reforms ‘Discriminatory, Burdensome, and Unnecessary’
Attorney General Merrick Garland, in an address Sunday at a church in Selma, Alabama, characterized state election laws designed to verify mail-in ballots, restrict drop boxes, and require voter ID as “discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.” Experts say the attorney general’s comments don’t line up with the views of a supermajority of Americans, and that the Biden administration… -
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‘Thank You, DC’: City Ends Haley’s GOP Primary Losing Streak
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley won the District of Columbia’s GOP primary on Sunday, her first win in a Republican nominating contest after a string of losses to former President Donald Trump. Haley carried the Washington, D.C., primary with just under 63% of the vote, according to The Associated Press. The primary came two days before Super Tuesday… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Railroading the Election: How 1 Small Agency Conforms to Biden’s Get-Out-the-Vote Agenda
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Even seemingly obscure federal agencies are working to turn out more voters under President Joe Biden’s executive order on elections. The Railroad Retirement Board’s strategic plan includes calls for distributing flyers and posters; keeping metrics on directing individuals to the federal voter registration website Vote.gov; and working with an “equity team”… -
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Fani Willis’ Father, Former Governor Take Stand in Trump Disqualification Case
The father of embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the stand Friday, testifying that he backs up her story about storing cash at home, listens avidly to conservative talk radio, and knew about COVID-19 well before most other Americans. Willis is defending herself from accusations that her affair with the man she hired… -
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Mayorkas Personally Denied RFK Jr.’s Secret Service Protection
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas personally declined a request from presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secret Service protection last July. The newly revealed records were obtained by Judicial Watch, which sued the Department of Homeland Secretary in September over an unanswered Freedom of Information Act request. On July 21, 2023, Mayorkas sent the… -
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VOTER FRAUD ALERT: Georgia Specialist Finds Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2020, 2021, and 2022
An expert in election data asserts that almost 35,000 Georgia voters in 2020 cast ballots from the wrong jurisdictions, but Georgia’s top election official hasn’t responded to his request for an investigation. Mark Davis, president of Georgia-based Data Productions Inc., has pushed for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office to investigate his data since May… -
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Why Taylor Swift, Super Bowl, and Mark Zuckerberg Get a Shoutout in This Election Reform Hearing
Impartial referees are just as important in the big election in November as in the big game this Sunday, a lawmaker argued Wednesday during a congressional hearing on private funding for administering elections. “The millions of private dollars being funneled to local offices raises serious questions about the conditions placed on their use,” House Administration… -
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‘Got It All Figured Out’: Arizona’s Election Chief Defends Split Rules on Proving Citizenship to Vote
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes contends that his state’s “bifurcated ballot system” requiring proof of citizenship to vote in state elections, but not federal ones, has worked effectively. An oath of legal eligibility taken by voters for federal elections for Congress and president is entirely sufficient, Fontes says. “We have the strictest regime in the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Campaign Highlights Oreo’s Partnership With ‘Militant’ LGBTQ Group
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is taking aim at Oreo for partnering with an organization promoting a “militant LGBTQ agenda.” The NLPC will release a video Wednesday that begins by citing the names of infamous books on gender and sexuality that have been marketed to young people in… -
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As Mail-In Voting Expands, Bipartisan Bill Would Require Barcodes on Ballots
Mail-in ballots would be required to include a barcode when being processed by the Postal Service, as an extra level of election security under a measure set to be advanced Tuesday by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced Friday that his committee would hold a markup on several bills,… -
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Heritage’s One-of-a-Kind Election Fraud Database Hits 1,500 Cases
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, the only such database in existence, now contains over 1,500 proven cases of election fraud. The sampling of cases vary from lone wolves stealing one vote to conspiracies that stole many votes, defrauding citizens and candidates of honest elections and sometimes changing the outcome of an election. (The Daily… -
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Biden Election Denialism or Just a ‘Joke’?: McAuliffe Is Virginia’s ‘Real Governor’
“Today, I make this sacred pledge to you. The defense, protection, and preservation of American democracy will remain, as it has been, the central cause of my presidency.” So said President Joe Biden during a Jan. 5 speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. That “sacred pledge” lasted about two-and-a-half weeks. At an abortion rally in Manassas, Virginia,… -
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Trump Defeats Haley in New Hampshire Primary
Former President Donald Trump appeared poised to win his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination after a clear victory Tuesday over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary. The results seemed likely to set up a rematch in November between Trump and President Joe Biden, the Democrat who unseated him in the… -
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That Other Primary in New England Is a Do-Over After Massive Voter Fraud Scandal
Another New England primary is happening Tuesday, this one outside New Hampshire and between Democrats—and it’s a do-over to one that was stained by voter fraud caught on video. Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, garnered national attention last year after a judge tossed the results of a September mayoral primary because a Democrat operative… -
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After Pro-Life Movement Suffers Ballot Losses, Its Strategy, Tactics Need to Change
Thousands of members of the pro-life movement will gather in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 51st annual March for Life. While there is plenty for marchers to celebrate in light of 50 years of hard work that resulted in Roe v. Wade being overturned in 2022, the movement has suffered big losses over the… -
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Trump’s Ballot Disqualification Case Reaches Supreme Court
In what may turn out to be the most pivotal election case since Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a short order on Jan. 5 granting the request by former President Donald Trump asking the court to overturn the Colorado state Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 decision disqualifying him from appearing on the state’s… -
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Voter Fraud More Widespread Than Some Think
The 2020 election involved a criminal voter fraud scheme with mass absentee ballots and phony voter registrations, according to the Justice Department and the New Jersey attorney general. This verdict and indictment happened in 2023. Prosecutors in Massachusetts and New York brought election fraud charges in the closing weeks of December. The Justice Department secured…