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Election Year Brings Fresh Criteria for Election Integrity, Improvements by States
The primary election season is about to start, and the country is just 10 months away from the general election, which will determine control of the White House, Congress, and state and local offices. With the increased use of mail-in ballots and early voting, voters will be returning their ballots weeks, if not months, before… -
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Ohio House Votes to Override Governor’s Veto of Bill Protecting Kids From Transgender Surgeries, Hormones
The Ohio House of Representatives voted Wednesday to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that would protect children from irreversible transgender sex-change procedures and medical interventions, such as puberty blockers and hormones. The state’s House of Representatives met Wednesday afternoon to vote 65-28 to override the governor’s veto. It now heads to… -
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Biden’s Order Puts Bureaucrats’ ‘Thumb on the Scale’ in Elections, House GOP Warns
House Republicans are calling out President Joe Biden’s push, under an executive order, to field federal employees to vote, register voters, and serve as poll workers during elections. “Biden’s EO is another attempt for this administration to put a thumb on the scale and expand its overreach in our elections,” Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of… -
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Will Elections Finally Be Secure and Honest in 2024?
Looking back on what happened in the election field in 2023 can give us a better sense of what to expect in this year’s presidential election. Legislators in many states improved procedures for ensuring secure and honest elections. But other states either failed to act or made things worse by failing to implement effective practices for accurately administering voter… -
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Stop Funding ‘Rights for Migrants’ Legal Scam
As a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health care, even the right to… -
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Vimeo Cancels Conservative Group’s Account, Refuses Refund, After SPLC Attack
The parental rights group Moms for America has faced public attacks, the deletion of its accounts, and threats after the far-left smear factory known as the Southern Poverty Law Center put the group on its “hate map” earlier this year. “I definitely attribute hateful messages, shadow-banning, and outright threats to Moms for America being on… -
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As Planned Parenthood’s Abortion Market Share Goes Up, So Does Its Taxpayer Funding
To borrow from an old saying, nothing can be certain except for death and taxpayer funding for the abortion industry. At the request of pro-life members of Congress, the Government Accountability Office released the latest round of data detailing how much taxpayer funding goes to Planned Parenthood and other international abortion organizations. From 2019 through… -
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Poll: 1 in 5 Mail-In Voters Admit Fraud in 2020 Election
About 1 in 5 mail-in voters in the 2020 election admit to engaging in some type of voting irregularity, a poll released Tuesday shows. The Rasmussen poll of 1,085 likely voters was sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 6. The Heartland/Rasmussen poll found that 17% of mail-in… -
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Jimmy Carter Personally Experienced Voter Fraud. His First Election Was Stolen.
With the passing of Rosalynn Carter, former President Jimmy Carter lost his lifetime partner, and my deepest sympathies go out to him and his family. The former first lady’s death, however, reminded me of something relevant to election integrity that many Americans may not realize: Organized voter fraud in Jimmy Carter’s first run for office… -
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Why Does GoFundMe and Just About Everyone Else Normalize Double Mastectomies?
How is it possible that a 19-year-old woman posts a fundraiser to pay a portion of her $60,000 health care costs to remove healthy breasts, and this is considered normal — even heroic? Why does GoFundMe allow someone to put up a plea like this? Why do “friends and family” salute this — rooting for… -
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Pentagon Bill Now Includes Taxpayer Funding for Abortion, Sex Changes
The Heritage Foundation’s grassroots advocacy arm called Thursday for congressional lawmakers to reject the proposed National Defense Authorization Act, which includes funding for abortion and sex changes as well as to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the military. “Americans agree that maintaining a strong national defense involves having a mission-driven military that prioritizes restoring strength… -
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Democrats Changed Campaign Finance Laws Ahead of Contentious Election in This State, It Ultimately Benefited Them
A new campaign finance law helped Democrats to outraise and outspend Republicans in New Jersey’s November legislative elections, according to NorthJersey. The Democrat-controlled New Jersey State Legislature passed the Elections Transparency Act in March that, among other things, doubled campaign contribution limits from $2,600 per candidate per election to $5,200 per candidate per election. Democrats raised $10.8… -
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The Left Conspires to Keep Election Fraud Under Wraps
You can see it with your own eyes. But Democrats and their left-wing media allies call it a “fantasy.” What is it? Election fraud. A Lawrence, Massachusetts, voter who had been turned away from the polls on Election Day and told he had already voted found out he was the victim of fraud. He checked… -
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What States Can and Should Do to Ensure Fairness, Honesty in 2024 Elections
The 2024 primary season is already in full swing, but it’s not too late for states to improve the security and integrity of their election process to the benefit of all voters, no matter their political preferences. The American public wants and deserves an election system in which the candidates who get the most legitimate… -
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What Iowa Voters Have to Say About 2024 Election
DES MOINES, IOWA—The United States could collapse if it can’t control the border, says Jay Hayward, 68, of Grinnell, Iowa. “Illegal immigration, this is serious,” Hayward told The Daily Signal on Saturday while standing in line to attend a Donald Trump rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa. “This is a great nation. If it doesn’t turn… -
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Sens. Vance, Rubio Oppose Census Bureau Funding to Push Sexual Orientation-Gender Identity Agenda
The Census Bureau is asking Congress for $10 million to figure out how best to promote the fiction that sex is assigned at birth, rather than the scientific fact that it is present at conception. It is part of a new set of questions on sexual orientation and gender identity that the bureau wants to ask residents, even as… -
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For Election Integrity, Ramaswamy Urges Federal Standards
DES MOINES, IOWA—National standards, including requiring an ID to vote and making Election Day a national holiday, are needed to ensure free and fair elections, says Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. While states typically run elections, the federal government has set minimum standards under the Help America Vote Act of 2001, and prior to that,… -
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These 6 Election Fraud Scandals Saw Overturned Results, Indictments
It’s been an off-year for elections, but voter fraud scandals were on in 2023, affecting local races in New England, Iowa, New Jersey, and Texas. At least three of these scandals—in New England states—affected races that were on the ballot this year. Others involved formal charges brought for alleged fraud in past elections. In the… -
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‘Most Improved’: Iowa Governor Explains How Hawkeye State Won School Choice Revolution
“I truly believe that school choice will make the most consequential change for our education system in decades,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says. The Heritage Foundation feted the state of Iowa in Des Moines on Thursday for the state’s dramatic rise on Heritage’s Education Freedom Report Card after a flurry of reforms. In January, Reynolds,… -
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Another Government Agency Secretly Plans to Follow Biden’s Election Executive Order
The Biden administration continues to shield from the public its plans for federal agencies to turn out the vote, citing “presidential communications and deliberative process privilege.” Newly released emails, however, demonstrate the focus of the White House and various government departments on registering voters and getting them out. In a response to a request by…