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4 Things to Know About Trump’s New Voter Fraud Claim
President Donald Trump and his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, began relitigating that contest on Twitter on Monday regarding the role that search results played in the election. “Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election!” Trump tweeted. “This was put out by a… -
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How We Can Safeguard Our Election Process
In the freest nation in the world, our system of government and our very liberty depend on free and fair elections. Whether they’re selecting a mayor or the president of the United States, every American must be able to trust the process, or the democratic system itself breaks down. When someone commits voter fraud, the… -
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Voter ID Opponents Lose Again. This Time in North Dakota.
Opponents of election integrity lost the latest in a long string of cases recently when a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated North Dakota’s voter ID requirement and tossed out an injunction that had been issued by a lower court. In Brakebill v. Jaeger, Judge Steven Colloton, writing for the… -
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How Red Tape and Bad Policy Make Way for Voter Fraud
Two years ago, I thought voter fraud was a rarity in the United States. I figured that such crimes took place only in nations with corrupt and broken governments—not in “the land of the free.” I was wrong. The first person to open my eyes to the amount of voter fraud in America was Hans… -
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Japanese Upper House Election Puts Abe in a Strong Position
Japan held elections over the weekend for 124 of the 245 seats in the upper house of Japan’s legislature, the House of Councilors, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, maintained its majority and how holds 113 seats. Upper house elections in Japan are held every three years, which means Abe,… -
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Over Half of Hispanic Voters Support Citizenship Question on Census
A poll released earlier this month includes a finding that may surprise those who say adding the citizenship question to the 2020 census will result in minority communities not being properly counted. Among the Hispanic registered voters polled in the survey sample for Harvard University’s latest national monthly public policy poll, 55% say they are… -
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After a Lawsuit, Los Angeles County Begins to Clean Up Its Voter Rolls
President Donald Trump cited a Los Angeles County legal settlement as evidence of improper voting in California, as the state’s largest jurisdiction moves to clean up its voter rolls. Los Angeles County began sending notices to inactive voters as part of a settlement of a 2017 federal lawsuit with watchdog groups and county residents who… -
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19 Arrests Later, a Texas Town Is Torn Apart Over Voter Fraud
EDINBURG, Texas—The story that thrust a Rio Grande Valley city into the national spotlight is hardly a new anomaly, say residents such as Richard Monte. “Down here, voter fraud is not all that unusual,” says Monte, a city planning consultant in a brown suit jacket, sitting with other activists at a table in Coffee Zone… -
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Rep. Omar Dinged for Campaign Finance Violations, Ordered to Repay Campaign Thousands
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar improperly spent thousands of dollars in campaign funds on noncampaign expenses in 2016 and 2017 while serving in the state legislature, Minnesota’s campaign finance and public disclosure board ruled Thursday. The state board ordered Omar to personally reimburse her campaign for just under $3,500 the campaign spent on out-of-state travel… -
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Will Nation-States Make a Comeback in EU Elections?
Poland recently enjoyed the so-called Long May Weekend—a local holiday weekend that combines Labor Day (May 1) and Constitution Day (May 3). The latter commemorates the enactment of the Polish Constitution in 1791. This year’s Long Weekend was of particular interest, as May 1 coincided with the 15th anniversary of Poland’s accession to the European… -
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Theresa May Bungled Brexit. Now, the Voters Will Have Their Say.
Prime Minister Theresa May and her government never liked Brexit. The compromise deal they devised would create more problems than it would solve, which is why it has been rejected three times in Parliament already. But they refuse to give it up. They gambled that they would finally be able to pass it through Parliament… -
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Voter Fraud Charges Endanger Texas Mayor, Topple Another in NJ
In a tale of two city mayors arrested last week on voter fraud charges, one resigned while the other says a jury will decide. Edinburg, Texas, Mayor Richard Molina doesn’t plan to go anywhere. Molina won the mayor’s race in November 2017 by 1,240 votes. But on April 25, Texas Rangers arrested the mayor and… -
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Euroskeptic Parties Cast Outsize Shadow Over EU Elections
In May 2017, when Emmanuel Macron arrived at the Louvre in Paris to celebrate his election as president of France, he took the stage to the European Union’s anthem, “Ode to Joy.” With EU flags fluttering in the wind, Macron stood as the great hope of Europe’s liberals—the man who would reverse the tide of… -
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Noncitizen Sentenced for Illegally Voting in Presidential Election
A Mexican national was sentenced to one month in prison for illegally voting in the 2016 presidential election, a U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Monday. Guadalupe Espinosa-Pena, 61, pleaded guilty to illegally voting in the 2016 general election in North Carolina. He was consequently sentenced to one month in prison… -
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We Hear You: Getting to the Bottom of Voter Fraud
Editor's note: Our coverage of evidence of voter fraud continues to register with The Daily Signal's audience, as you'll see below. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Get ready for a whole lot of this type of fraud in future elections, as described in your report by Fred Lucas, only… -
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California Audits DMV for 100,000 Voter Registration Errors
California’s secretary of state and Legislature have launched investigations of the state’s automatic voter registration system, which officials say enrolled noncitizens and minors and got addresses wrong. Democrats in Congress are promoting automatic voter registration nationally, as part of legislation dubbed the For the People Act, also known as HR 1. But a nonpartisan, nonprofit… -
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Ocasio-Cortez and Top Aide Should Be Investigated for Possible Campaign Finance Violations
An investigation is needed to determine if socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the media magnet on the far-left fringe of the Democratic Party, has broken federal campaign finance laws. If convicted of criminal conduct, she could get up to five years in prison for each violation. We don’t know at this point if the New York congresswoman has engaged… -
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America Doesn’t Need Automatic Voter Registration. Just Look to California.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have held up California’s new, error-plagued automatic voter registration program as a model for the nation, and are now pushing for a nationalized version of the program in a bill called the For the People Act. The bill would require all states to implement automatic voter registration systems, which advocates claim… -
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North Carolina Election Fraud Should Be a Wake-Up Call for the Left
Widespread fraud by a political operative working for a Republican is forcing a redo of the 2018 midterm race for North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. The news confirms just how vulnerable our elections are to voter fraud, and how profound the consequences can be. That should be the takeaway. Yet many on the left and… -
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15 Things Conservatives Say Democrats’ Election Bill Would Do
House Democrats tentatively have set a vote this week on election legislation that conservatives say would inhibit states’ powers to set qualifications for voters, remove safeguards on voter registration rolls, and undermine the integrity of elections. “HR 1 is one of the worst bills introduced in Congress in recent memory,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior…