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Election news and analysis from The Daily Signal, featuring reporting, commentary, and conservative insights on campaigns, candidates, and ballot issues.
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How the Left Seeks to Undermine America’s Elections
America’s free and fair elections are under threat at the local and state level and in the movement to switch to a national popular vote to pick presidents, speakers said Saturday at an annual gathering of conservative activists near Washington. Two panelists during a session at the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, explained… -
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Iran’s Sham Parliamentary Elections Aim to Strengthen Hard-Liners’ Hand
Iran is preparing for another set of rigged parliamentary elections Friday. Once again, Iran’s clerical regime has vetoed the candidacies of almost half of the 14,000 would-be office-seekers who registered to run for one of the 290 seats. The Guardian Council, which must approve candidates, disqualified a record number of them, including a majority of… -
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‘Voter Suppression’ Is a Myth, but It’s an Article of Faith to Liberals
I received a strong dose of the misinformation warping the minds of young people this past weekend when I spoke on a panel on the subject of election integrity at the Washington conference of Junior State of America. Conference attendees were high school students from the northeast and southeast parts of the country. I was… -
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Police: Driver Who Targeted GOP Voter Registration Tent ‘Did Not Like’ Trump
The man who allegedly drove his van through a Republican voter registration tent in Florida did so because he dislikes President Donald Trump, according to a copy of the police report reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Gregory William Loel Timm, the alleged driver, showed police videos he recorded on his phone up until… -
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‘Learn Their Issues’ to Engage Minorities, Former Mississippi Governor Advises
Conservatives need to make an effort to be in the spaces of blacks and other minorities to grow their numbers and influence in the movement and the Republican Party, a former governor and party chairman argues. “First, try,” Haley Barbour, former Mississippi governor and Republican National Committee chairman, said Tuesday during an event in Washington… -
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Taiwanese Presidential Election Is a Victory for Democracy
Friends of Freedom, all hail a modern-day David—tiny, democratic Taiwan—which continues to confound its big bully of a neighbor—communist China. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen overwhelmingly won reelection, The Wall Street Journal reported, by promising to defend the island’s freedoms against threats by mainland China. Communist officials accused Tsai of stealing victory through smears of her… -
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North Carolina Voter ID Ruling Puts Security of Democracy at Stake
It’s a cornerstone of our democracy: Government is to be of the people, by the people, and for the people, deriving its authority from the consent of the governed. These fundamental principles are at stake in North Carolina, due to a ruling from an activist federal judge on voter ID. It’s amazing that we’re still… -
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The Voter Purge Myth
Maggie Haberman, the esteemed New York Times reporter, recently tweeted out a Mother Jones article to 1.2 million followers. It was titled: “GOP-Led Voter Purges in Wisconsin and Georgia Could Tip 2020 Elections.” The chilling piece warns readers that “hundreds of thousands of voters are set to be purged in two key swing states,” which… -
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Election Irregularities Persist in Palm Beach County 20 Years After Bush-Gore Standoff
You would think that after being one of the centers of the election storm in 2000 when the hotly contested Florida recount determined whether George Bush or Al Gore would be president of the United States, Palm Beach County would have gotten its act together. But as is evident from a recent report from the… -
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Liberals Setting the Stage to Claim 2020 Election Results Illegitimate
In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Democrats fretted openly about the possibility that Donald Trump, being a rather poor sport, might refuse to acknowledge an election loss. To be fair, Trump refused to state that he would accept election results, depending on the circumstances: “I’ll keep you in suspense,” he stated in his Oct…. -
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Did Trump Critic Rep. Rashida Tlaib Violate Campaign Finance Laws and Ethics Rules?
“It’s pretty simple,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted last March, in calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. “No one is above the law, including the President of the United States.” But perhaps Tlaib—among Trump’s harshest critics in Congress—needs to follow up with another tweet, in the interests of transparency. This tweet could read: “No one is above the law…. -
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Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election
“Nancy Pelosi just stated that ‘it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate.’ @FoxNews In other words, she thinks I’m going to win and doesn’t want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, she’s CRAZY!” tweeted President Donald Trump Tuesday…. -
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Virginia’s Elections Should Serve as Wake-up Call to Monochromatic GOP
Virginia Republicans got their heads handed to them on a silver platter in legislative elections Nov. 5. Democrats now have a majority in the state General Assembly for the first time since 1995, and they also hold the governorship. Virginia used to be a solid red state for Republicans. Now, the Old Dominion is the proverbial canary… -
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What’s Driving Unusually High Voter Turnout
American voters are motivated by a fever pitch. That’s the message from last week’s elections. The headlines were the Democratic sweep of the state legislature in Virginia that put the entire state government under Democrat control for the first time in 25 years and the defeat of incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in Kentucky. An… -
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Bizarre Court Ruling Halts Indiana’s Efforts to Clean Up Voter Rolls
With the 2020 presidential election less than a year away, America’s voter registration rolls are woefully out of shape. Yet well-funded liberal organizations are working to stop states from cleaning up their rolls. Their latest victim is Indiana. A federal district court has temporarily halted the state’s effort to compare its voter rolls with those of… -
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Vote Harvesting a Recipe for Coercion, Election Fraud
Vote harvesting gives party activists, campaign consultants, and other political guns for hire the ability to manipulate election outcomes either through coercion of voters or outright ballot theft and forgery. Yet, in places such as California and the District of Columbia, vote harvesting is perfectly legal. Vote harvesting occurs when third parties—campaign workers, for example—collect… -
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This Type of Voting Doesn’t Rank as Real Election Reform
Progressives are floating yet another election reform: It’s called ranked-choice voting. This idea is so bad, even some dyed-in-the-wool liberals reject it. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, vetoed a bill expanding ranked-choice voting because it is “overly complicated and confusing” and “deprives voters of genuinely informed choice.” In ranked-choice voting, voters don’t vote… -
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Elections Watchdog Seeks Answers in Michigan Voter Fraud Case
A Michigan municipal election official being charged with six felonies in the discarding of nearly 200 votes is not likely an indication of voting problems nationally, election experts say. But an election integrity watchdog still wants to get to the bottom of the matter. “Whether it changed the outcome is not really an issue when… -
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More Proof That Voter Fraud Is Real, and Bipartisan
A California jury on Aug. 23 convicted a Mexican citizen of identity theft and voter fraud. Two decades ago, Gustavo Araujo Lerma took on the identity of a deceased U.S. citizen and proceeded to vote illegally in a number of U.S. elections. But Lerma didn’t vote for who you might expect. Lerma is a Republican… -
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No, the Electoral College Is Not ‘Affirmative Action’ for Rural Voters
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves to hate on the Electoral College. Once again, she has the nation up in arms about America’s unique presidential election system. The Electoral College, the New York Democrat said on Instagram last week, is a “scam” that “effectively weighs white voters over voters of color.” Then on Friday afternoon, she doubled…