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Some States Resisting Trump Voter Fraud Commission Probe
An odd assortment of states are taking varying positions on whether to cooperate with the Trump administration’s investigation into potential voter fraud. Some red states—whose voters solidly backed the president—are declining to collaborate and some solidly blue states are participating in the investigation. As of early Thursday, at least 20 states have agreed to provide… -
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Growing Pile of Data Shows That Voter Fraud Is a Real and Vast Problem
This week, The Heritage Foundation is updating its Voter Fraud Database with 89 new entries, including 75 convictions and a slew of overturned elections and civil fines targeting vote fraudsters. With these latest additions, the database now documents 581 cases of proven voter fraud and 848 criminal convictions. Heritage’s database proves not only that voter… -
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Up to 5.7 Million Noncitizens Voted in Past Presidential Elections, Study Finds
As many as 5.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2008 election and potentially more voted in 2016, according to a new study by Just Facts, a New Jersey-based research group, drawing on information from other studies. The study—based on data compiled from Harvard University’s Cooperative Congressional Election Study, an analysis published in the journal Electoral… -
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The Left Spent at Least $32 Million on 4 Special Elections. And They Still Lost All of Them.
Sometimes, politics boils down to narratives. This was the case in Tuesday’s special election in Georgia, where Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff to take a House seat previously occupied by Tom Price—now the secretary of health and human services. The election became a nationalized proxy war between Republicans and Democrats, drawing intense news… -
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Results of Virginia’s Primary Hint at Future for Trump, Sanders Movements
In one of the first major primary races after the 2016 presidential election, a Republican candidate for governor who campaigned on a pro-Trump platform nearly pulled off an upset, while a Democrat candidate who cast himself in Bernie Sanders’ progressive mold lost. Candidates perceived by some as establishment won in both the Democratic and Republican primaries… -
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For Scotland, Independence, Not Terrorism, Is the Closing Argument to Thursday’s British Election
EDINBURGH, Scotland—The police armed response vehicles patrolling here in Scotland's capital city are practically invisible unless you know what to look for. As part of a nationally heightened terrorism threat level in the wake of three deadly terrorist attacks by Islamist militants in the United Kingdom in as many months, specially trained, armed police personnel… -
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Recent Voter Fraud Cases White House Commission Could Review
Last week, a former Florida mayor was escorted to the Orange County Jail after a jury convicted him on a felony voter fraud charge. Eatonville is a suburb of Orlando, where in the 2015 municipal race, former Mayor Anthony Grant lost by just 15 votes on election day, but won 196 to 69 among mail-in… -
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We Hear You: ‘Illuminating,’ ‘Thoughtful’ Reporting on France’s Presidential Election
Editor's note: We get a fair amount of passionate comment addressed to or about Nolan Peterson, The Daily Signal's Ukraine-based foreign correspondent. When Peterson traveled to France to cover the final days of the French presidential election campaign, his reporting attracted your attention. Here's a sample at the top of the mailbag.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily… -
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2 Republicans Battle in Razor-Tight Runoff Primary Ahead of South Carolina June Special Election
In South Carolina’s hotly-contested primary runoff for Mick Mulvaney’s old seat, it looks like the Republican candidates are headed for a recount. Two GOP candidates, Ralph Norman and Tommy Pope, were running to fill a seat vacated by Mulvaney, who now serves as director of Office of Management and Budget. Norman received 50.3 percent of… -
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear North Carolina’s Voter ID Appeal. Here’s Why It’s Not a Big Deal.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up an appeal filed by the North Carolina Legislature in response to the three-judge panel striking down its state voter ID law and other election reforms. No one should read anything substantive into this. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote Monday in a two-page supplement to… -
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Supreme Court Won’t Revive North Carolina’s Voter ID Law
The Supreme Court declined to review a ruling that struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law Monday, dealing a blow to ballot integrity measures around the country. The law, adopted days after the Supreme Court effectively struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, requires voters to present a government-issued… -
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Trump Establishes Panel to Probe Voter Fraud
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing a panel to investigate voter fraud, a commission he first talked about in early February. “The president is committed to the thorough review of registration and voting issues in federal elections,” @SHSanders45 says. The president named Vice President Mike Pence to lead the Presidential Advisory Commission… -
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A 2016 Election Battleground State Is Investigating Potential Voter Fraud
New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race was decided by little more than 1,000 votes in November, while the spread between the top two presidential candidates was fewer than 3,000 votes. While 458 potentially fraudulent votes aren’t enough to have changed the outcome of either race, the questionable votes prompted an investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney… -
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Blasphemy Conviction for Christian Governor Could Be Sign of Deteriorating Religious Freedom in Indonesia
Jakarta’s Chinese Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, more popularly known as Ahok, was found guilty of blasphemy by a panel of five judges in Indonesia and sentenced to two years in prison. This latest application of blasphemy laws calls into question the commitment to religious freedom in a country often held up as an example… -
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Uninspired French Voters Choose a ‘Centrist’ President Rather Than a Far-Right One
PARIS—As is the case most Sundays, Rue de Bac in central Paris was quiet this morning. The shops were closed, as were most cafes on this day when self-styled centrist Emmanuel Macron would defeat the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, to become France's next president. Except for Le Saint Germain cafe, at the corner of… -
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French Malaise Over This Sunday’s Election Cuts Across Party Lines
PARIS—After three years under a state of national emergency in France due to terrorism, it is no longer extraordinary to observe armed military patrols weaving among the hordes of fanny-packed, selfie-stick-wielding tourists below the Eiffel Tower. Similarly, an army squad with weapons drawn on the Renaissance-era Cours Mirabeau in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence on… -
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While the Left Ignores Voter Fraud, More Evidence Mounts to Prove Them Wrong
The 2016 elections have passed, but courts still have plenty of work to do sorting out cases of voter fraud throughout the country. Convictions have continued to roll in this spring, and The Heritage Foundation’s voter fraud database is growing longer by the day. This week, we are adding 19 convictions, including cases from Texas,… -
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Home Caregivers Identify Evidence of Voter Fraud in Bid to Oust Union
EDINA, Minn.—An in-home caregiver named Edison is supposed to live in a unit on the seventh floor of the Cedars of Edina apartment complex, according to a list supplied by the state government. “We scrolled through the electronic directory where the names are listed alphabetically. There is no one listed here named Edison,” @workerfreedom’s Matt… -
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First Round of French Presidential Election a Blow to the Establishment
France held a presidential election Sunday under the looming threat of Islamist terrorism, and winnowed the field to two candidates at opposite ends of what has become the new ideological battle line of our era: nationalism vs. globalism, for lack of better terms. One candidate, Marine Le Pen, hails from the pitchfork end of European… -
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Key Players in the French Presidential Election
France is only a few days out from the first round of its presidential elections—a contest that could go down to the wire. The election on Sunday features several key issues of concern to French voters, among them being terrorism and the failure to assimilate immigrants into French society. This week’s foiled terror plot, planned…