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‘People’s Alternative to Impeachment’: 4 Things to Know About Recalling Governors
Angry Californians, fed up with some of the governor’s policies, started a petition to recall him, knowing that the incumbent had two more years in office until going before voters again. The 1968 push to recall Gov. Ronald Reagan fell on the ash heap of history, however. The effort failed to collect enough valid signatures… -
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New Cases in Election Fraud Database Show Vulnerabilities in System
State legislatures, take note: Americans have legitimate concerns over election integrity, as amply demonstrated by the many proven instances of voter fraud that we continue to add to The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database. These vulnerabilities within the electoral process need to be addressed as soon as possible. The right to self-government depends on free… -
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Supreme Court’s Decision Not to Hear Elections Cases Could Have Serious Repercussions
With the U.S. Supreme Court’s “baffling” refusal on Monday to grant review of the Pennsylvania election cases that had been appealed to the justices, the majority of the court is—to quote Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent—“leav[ing] election law hidden beneath a shroud of doubt” and “invit[ing] further confusion and erosion of public confidence” in our elections…. -
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Bill Overhauling Elections Would ‘Eviscerate’ FEC Bipartisanship, 9 Former Members Warn
In a letter to congressional leaders, nine former members of the Federal Election Commission warn that a Democrat-backed bill to overhaul elections, now before Congress, is a “threat to bipartisanship” at the agency. The former FEC members’ four-page letter cautions the Democratic and Republican leaders about provisions of HR 1, dubbed the For the People… -
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How to Restore Faith in Our Federal Elections
True democracy hinges on the integrity of the election process. Without the assurance that all legal votes are counted—and all illegal votes are weeded out—trust in our government dissipates. Unfortunately, Americans’ faith in the integrity of our electoral process is eroding—and with good reason. Election fraud is all too real, as proved by the more… -
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This Governor Faces Impeachment Over COVID-19 Mandates
As the nation’s capital braces for its second impeachment trial in just over a year and far-flung states clash over COVID-19 restrictions, Kentucky’s governor faces an impeachment probe by state legislators for what his critics say were overly strict rules during the pandemic. With impeachment threatened by foes who say his COVID-19 mandates violated the… -
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Don’t Enshrine Our Election Problems in Law
The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights that we as citizens can exercise. We select the individuals who will lead us and the policies we will live under in our daily lives. Yet the system is broken. Growing up as a black teen during the 1960s, I knew of the tremendous… -
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9 Election Reforms States Can Implement to Prevent Mistakes and Voter Fraud
Election fraud is real. The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, which has chronicled more than 1,300 cases of election fraud, proves that election fraud does occur in American elections. Errors and omissions by election officials and careless, shoddy election practices and procedures or lack of training can also cause and have caused problems for voters… -
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The Left Wants to Transform and Nationalize Our Election System
Editor’s Note: Democrats in Congress have renewed efforts in the House and Senate to make sweeping changes to America’s electoral laws. As Jarrett Stepman wrote in 2019, when H.R. 1 was first proposed, these reforms would be a significant threat to the federalist system under the Constitution of the United States and would undermine election… -
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Did Dead Voters Tip the Election? 4 Things You Need to Know
Dead voters—or at least votes recorded in the name of someone who has died—have drawn much attention in the disputed outcome of the presidential election. Ballots apparently cast by dead registered voters make up one of many fraud allegations lodged by President Donald Trump’s campaign legal team either in court or in press conferences. As… -
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Our Upside-Down Postelection World
After Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones? Media cross-examination of the president is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you… -
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7 Takeaways From a Senate Panel’s Hearing on Election Fraud
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday held its first hearing looking into the issues of vote fraud and other irregularities surrounding the 2020 election. The committee’s chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., defended the hearing against Democratic detractors. Johnson said the hearing was about ensuring confidence in the electoral system and getting… -
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How Conservatives Must Counter the Media’s Left-Wing Election Advocacy
While there’s little doubt that left-leaning bias is rampant throughout much of the political media, is that bias powerful enough to swing a presidential election? According to a survey of those who voted for Joe Biden in November, it made a big enough difference to hand six swing states to the former vice president. Unfortunately,… -
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4 Big Highlights From Wisconsin’s Investigative Hearing of Election Fraud Allegations
Postal employees in Wisconsin backdated mail-in ballots in the presidential election and nursing home staffers pressured elderly residents on how to vote, witnesses told state lawmakers. A state election official, meanwhile, assured the Wisconsin lawmakers that there is no evidence of widespread fraud. These and other witnesses testified Friday before two committees of the Wisconsin… -
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The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database Tops 1,300 Cases
With the addition of the newest batch of cases, all from the state of Texas, The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database now has 1,302 cases of proven election fraud, and we are following numerous other ongoing prosecutions. As these cases and the database demonstrate, the threats to election integrity and instances of election fraud throughout… -
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Portland Mayor Wheeler’s Tough Talk on Lawlessness Is Too Little, Too Late
Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, is discovering the hard way that even virtue signaling has diminishing returns. So, no, prattling on about how much “our nation’s systems and structures are fundamentally racist and require significant reform” will not allow you to finally protect your city from marauding mobs, if the vandals themselves see… -
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17 States, Trump Campaign Join Texas in Lawsuit Questioning Election Results
President Donald Trump says his campaign supports the lawsuit filed by Texas at the U.S. Supreme Court seeking new elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin because of voting irregularities in those states. A total of 17 states have joined the court challenge in less than two days. “We will be INTERVENING in the Texas… -
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Election Day ‘No Longer Exists’ in America, Victor Davis Hanson Says
Mail-in voting instituted during the pandemic has changed the concept of Election Day forever, a well-known conservative writer and historian says. “We’ve lost the idea of Election Day and it no longer exists anymore as we know it,” columnist and commentator Victor Davis Hanson said Monday night during The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 President’s Club meeting. … -
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These 3 Presidential Elections Also Went Into Overtime. Here’s How They Were Resolved.
Donald Trump and Joe Biden will have to get in line for bragging rights. This fall’s presidential election, the results of which the Trump campaign continues to challenge in key battleground states, is hardly the first national election that went into overtime. As I examined in my book “Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and… -
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How to Make Sure the 2020 Election Never Happens Again
To see what’s wrong with our election system, just look at all the claims and allegations being made in the litigation filed by the Trump campaign and other organizations contesting the outcome of the presidential election. Regardless of what happens with that challenge, state legislatures should take note of the underlying problems, which have existed…