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What Merrick Garland Gets Wrong About US Elections
Partisan, political, designed to inflame. That’s what Merrick Garland’s recent speech on voting rights was. It certainly was not objective, measured, and deliberate—the kind of speech you expect from an attorney general. What’s worse, his central assertion—that state efforts to improve the integrity of the election process will make it “harder” for eligible citizens to vote—is demonstrably false…. -
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Since the First Juneteenth, Black Americans Have Struggled to Participate in Elections. Now, We Must Defend Election Integrity.
On the 156th anniversary of Juneteenth, protecting the integrity of an electoral system that black Americans have struggled so hard to participate in is more important than ever. Here is what thought leaders and black Americans have to say about defending election integrity in America. Curtis Hill: On Juneteenth, We Must Commit to Protecting the… -
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Democrats’ Bad-Faith Attacks on Election Integrity Are Failing in Court
A recent legal proceeding in Florida proves the cheap, theatrical partisanship driving nationwide Democratic attacks on election integrity. Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC, sued the state of Florida, claiming it made voting-by-mail too difficult. One of the plaintiffs, a Yale graduate student, was asked in a deposition to explain why returning his ballot was… -
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Iran’s Presidential ‘Selection’
Iran is in the final phase of its presidential “selection” Friday to determine who will succeed Hassan Rouhani, who is term-limited from running again. The process is more of a selection than an election because Iran’s theocratic leaders hand-pick the candidates who are allowed to run. Only seven of the 592 candidates who threw their… -
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US Civil Rights Commissioner Slams Chicago Mayor for Barring White Reporters From Interviews
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, blasted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s policy that barred white reporters from interviewing her in a letter Monday. The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch sued Lightfoot after she announced her policy on Twitter May 19. Thomas Catenacci, a foundation reporter, was denied… -
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North Carolina Senate Sends Bill Banning Abortions Based on Down Syndrome, Sex, Race to Governor’s Desk
North Carolina lawmakers have sent a bill banning abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome to the governor’s desk for signing. House Bill 453, or the Human Life Nondiscrimination Act/No Eugenics, not only bans abortions based on Down syndrome but also prohibits the procedure based on the unborn baby’s sex or race. If a mother… -
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Republicans Win Big in Texas Mayoral Races With Increased Latino Support
Republicans swept Texas’ mayoral elections over the weekend, relying on increased Hispanic support to win in large and mid-sized cities alike. In Forth Worth, a city of just over 1 million, 37-year-old Republican Mattie Parker cruised to victory against Democrat Deborah Peoples, making her the youngest mayor in the city’s history, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. In… -
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Will California Expats Turn Texas Blue? Here’s the Surprising Polling Data
Chuck DeVore moved his family from California to Texas a decade ago. The move was prompted by several factors, he says, including “seeing [California] drifting further and further to the left.” Today, many people are making the same decision that DeVore, vice president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, made: They are leaving California for the… -
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Philadelphia Isn’t Los Angeles: Putting a Rogue Prosecutor’s Primary Win Into Context
Philadelphia’s rogue prosecutor, Larry Krasner, won the Democratic primary in his quest for reelection. He ran against a relatively weak, underfunded opponent, but one who promised, if elected, to restore law and order to the DA’s office and tackle exploding crime rates in Philadelphia. Krasner, one of several George Soros-backed rogue prosecutors in the country,… -
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In Europe, Voter ID Is the Norm
Democrats and much of the media are pushing to make permanent the extraordinary, pandemic-driven measures to relax voting rules during the 2020 elections—warning anew of racist voter “suppression” otherwise. Yet democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story—of the benefits of stricter voter ID requirements after hard lessons learned. A database on voting rules… -
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America Must Lead Free World in Elections to Interpol Commission
Interpol, the international organization of police organizations, has an important election coming up. That election will determine the new membership of a body known as the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files. The commission’s job is to check that the processing of personal data by Interpol complies with the police organization’s own rules, and… -
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6 Key Points From House Democrats’ Voter Discrimination Hearing
A House hearing on election laws included references to a constitutional amendment, institutional racism, and sumo wrestling Thursday as Democrats pushed a narrative of widespread voter suppression and discrimination. A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee titled the hearing “A Continuing Record of Discrimination” and used it to promote Democrats’ legislation to give the Justice Department… -
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No One Knows Full Extent of Election Fraud. That’s Why We Track It.
In “Thanks to Kobach, Trump and conservative think tank, we know extent of voter fraud,” Kansas City Star columnist Charles Hammer on May 20 wrote that The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database has 1,322 proven instances of election fraud, including 17 cases from Missouri. That, he said, is “measly” compared with the number of registered… -
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Arizona Republicans Clash Over Audit of County’s Election Results
Arizona Republicans at the state level are squaring off against their counterparts at the county level over an election audit, even though leaders on both sides agree that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to win Arizona’s 11 electoral votes. “This has nothing to do with overturning the election or decertifying electors or anything else. It… -
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8 Takeaways as Senate Panel Deadlocks on Bill to Nationalize Elections, Nullify Voter ID
In a party-line vote Tuesday, a Senate committee deadlocked 9-9 on a bill that would nullify voter ID and other state election requirements after rejecting multiple Republican-proposed amendments. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee debated the amendments and merits of the legislation, S 1, which sponsors call the For the People Act. Committee Chairwoman Amy… -
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We Hear You: Voter ID, Clean Elections, and the Electoral College
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's coverage of the debate over election reforms continues to engage our audience. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I was greatly encouraged by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s remarks on voter ID ("Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Explains Why It’s Not Racist to Require… -
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Voter Suppression? Democrats Flat-Out Wrong. Census Data Gives Real Story About US Elections.
There is no suppression going on of anyone’s votes anywhere in the country. Anyone who says otherwise is just making it up. The Census Bureau’s recent release of its 2020 election survey of voters clearly demonstrates that those who have been claiming, without justification or evidence, that we have been experiencing a wave of so-called voter suppression have… -
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Myth vs. Fact: Don’t Be Fooled by Misinformation on Florida’s Election Reforms
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an election integrity bill into law Thursday morning to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is helping to circulate misinformation about the law, known as SB 90. Here is what you need to separate myth from fact. Myth: Florida is trying to suppress… -
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Election Reforms Multiply in States Across Nation
Florida and Kansas this week became the latest states to enact election reforms expanding voter ID and curbing ballot harvesting, among other measures. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the reform live on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning. Florida’s new law applies the same voter ID requirements to absentee voting as to in-person voting. The new… -
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Teaching Critical Race Theory to End in Arkansas Agencies Without Governor’s Signature
Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson allowed legislation to become law without his signature Monday that ends the use of critical race theory education for state agencies. Hutchinson effectively approved SB 627 Monday, “an act to prohibit the propagation of divisive concepts” and “to review state entity training materials.” The legislation bans state agencies from teaching “divisive concepts,”…