Election News

Justices ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Moore v. Harper to reject the “independent state legislature theory,” the idea that legislatures have unrestricted power under the Constitution to administer federal elections without review from state courts. The Supreme Court held that the Constitution’s elections clause “does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The American Civil Liberties Union and the liberal think tank Demos are among “voter advocacy groups” assisting at least one federal agency in implementing President Joe Biden’s executive order requiring the government to register voters, The Daily Signal has learned.  Indian Health Service, which assists American Indians as part of the…

Former Vice President Mike Pence has officially announced that he is running for president. “I have long believed that to whom much is given, much is required. My family and I have been blessed beyond measure with opportunities to serve this nation, and it would be easy to stay on the sidelines. But that’s not how…

Eight House Republicans have introduced a bill to block the use of private money to operate elections and curb the controversial process called ballot harvesting.  If enacted, the Protect American Election Administration Act would block what the bill’s sponsors call a “private takeover of government election administration.”  The legislation, introduced Thursday, also would prevent private…

Voter ID requirements, dead people on the voter rolls, foreign nationals voting, and even Hunter Biden’s laptop were on the minds of lawmakers and expert witnesses Thursday during a House hearing.  The House Administration Committee held the first in a series of hearings leading up to reintroduction of the American Confidence in Elections Act, dubbed…

Maricopa County, Arizona, a lightning rod during recent elections, has removed 222 foreign nationals from the voter registration rolls over the past seven years, according to a new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election watchdog group.  Nine of those 222 noncitizens cast 12 ballots across a total of four federal elections, the…

When the next president takes office in January 2025, he or she will have the opportunity to reform the Federal Election Commission, which governs campaign spending and fundraising and has significant authority over activity protected by the First Amendment. The terms of five of the six FEC members either will expire or be about to…

Florida’s new office targeting election crimes is a model for the rest of the country, based on its transparency and capacity to restore trust in elections, a new report from a watchdog group says.  Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, last year signed a bill creating the Office of Election Crimes and Security.  The Foundation for…

Testifying to a congressional panel, a federal election official referred Thursday to citizens who seek public records as a “weaponization” targeting election workers.  The subject of the hearing by the House Administration subcommittee on elections was election observers, activists whom Democrats and the corporate media have criticized heavily in recent years as threats to democracy.  …

House Republicans pointed to the success of state election reforms during a hearing Friday, citing high turnout and smooth operations in the 2022 midterm elections as evidence.  Despite such results, House Democrats insisted Americans are having difficulty voting. In part, they blamed laws passed in almost half the states in 2021 and early 2022, among…

Sophie Lehman departed her job as Contra Costa County’s manager of elections operations last June. Several months later, Lehman was the point of contact for what eventually would be a $2 million election grant for the California county going into the 2024 election cycle.  Today, Lehman is associate director of the Center for Tech and…