Election News
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Election Watchdog Probes Colorado Offer of Voter Registration to 30,000 Noncitizens
An election watchdog group is seeking more information about why Colorado sent 30,000 postcards to noncitizens, inviting them to register to vote. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold admitted Monday that her office sent out the notices and called it an error that she is trying to address. The Public Interest Legal Foundation announced Wednesday that…Fred Lucas -
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Michigan’s Radical Proposition 3 Ballot Measure Would Go Far Beyond Just Codifying Roe v. Wade
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this summer, abortion did not become illegal in the U.S. The court simply ruled (rightly) that there is no right to an abortion in the U.S. Constitution. That returned the question of abortion to the states. Some…Jay Richards -
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Catholic Voters Strongly Pro-Life Across Party Lines, Poll Finds
A new poll commissioned by the Eternal Word Television Network and conducted by the Trafalgar Group finds that across party lines, Catholics are strongly in favor of restrictions on abortion and support public funding of pro-life pregnancy resource centers. The poll, co-sponsored by RealClear Opinion Research, was conducted in the run-up to the midterm elections from Sept. 12 to 17. The…Wallace White -
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In Minnesota, 6 Counties Have Duplicate Names on Voter Rolls
Minnesota election officials are investigating six counties where duplicate names were found on voter registration lists—in one case reaching more than 300 duplicate names in a single county. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election watchdog group, said it found 515 duplicate names on voter registration lists across six Minnesota counties where it filed complaints. …Fred Lucas -
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DC Council Bill Would Permit Noncitizen Voting in City Elections
The D.C. Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee has approved a bill that would allow legal noncitizens to vote in city elections. The Local Resident Voting Rights Act of 2021 would permit “permanent residents of the United States” to vote in local elections, according to the measure. The committee released a report Tuesday, recommending its approval by the D.C….Wallace White -
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Litigation Could Change Election Procedures in Key Battleground State
Litigation in Pennsylvania could change election procedures in one of the most closely watched battleground states in the country. In 2020, Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes statewide, beating Donald Trump’s 2016 victory margin in the state by about 45,000 votes. This year, the seats of outgoing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, and…Fred Lucas -
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Conservatives Gain Ground With Latino Voters. How Can Those Gains Be Made to Stick?
Latinos are becoming an increasingly important part of building a coalition. Shifts in allegiance in places like the Rio Grande Valley of Texas indicate that they aren’t a group that has become totally beholden to the Left. The question is, how do conservatives best court Latinos, and what is the voting bloc most concerned with?…Douglas Blair -
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What Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Stole From Voters After I Argued This Case
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled 5-2 last month that the state’s no-excuse, by-mail voting law is constitutional. But to do that, the state’s highest court had to ignore and overturn over 150 years of precedent holding that the Pennsylvania Constitution requires in-person voting. In 2019, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, signed the voting law,…Wally Zimolong -
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‘Zuckerbucks 2.0’: Lawmakers Eye Private Money to Get Out Vote in Milwaukee Elections
Two dozen states banned the use of private money to finance election operations in response to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pouring part of his $400 million fortune into the 2020 election process. Wisconsin wasn’t one of them. Now, an initiative to boost voter turnout called Milwaukee Votes 2022 involves some private partners, including a Democrat-aligned…Fred Lucas -
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Why ‘Voter Suppression’ Is a Myth
When Georgia and other states began passing new election laws, the political left called it voter suppression. But is voter suppression actually taking place in America? Do safeguards such as voter ID requirements discourage voting? In his new book “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections,” Fred Lucas dives into the…Virginia Allen -
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Karine Jean-Pierre’s ‘Election Denier’ Double Standard
The central hypocrisy of President Joe Biden’s indictment of the “MAGA Republicans”—as well as the Nancy Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6—is all the evidence of liberals and Democrats being “election deniers.” Democracy is crumbling when Republicans question election results, but everything Democrats say and do should be categorized as exercises in idealism. In Tuesday’s Biden…Tim Graham -
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After 5 Red States Passed ‘Voter Suppression’ Bills, Voting Turnout Boomed
A left-leaning New York think tank sounded a familiar warning about Arizona’s “voter suppression bills” being “dangerously close to becoming law.” The Brennan Center for Justice added in a press release that Arizona was “taking center stage in the relentless effort to rein in voter participation in the name of ‘election security.’” Pending bills, the…Fred Lucas -
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Another Leftist Attempt to Rewrite Election Rules Goes Down in Flames
Another left-wing attempt to rewrite election rules has gone down in flames. This time, liberals attempted to put a measure on the November ballot to gut election safeguards and skew voting rules in the influential swing state. But if the left thought it could buy its way onto the ballot, it was wrong. In its…Jason Snead -
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Former Texas Mayor Acquitted in Voter Fraud Case
A Texas jury acquitted a former mayor on 12 counts of election fraud in connection with what prosecutors said was a ballot harvesting ring. After six hours of deliberation Thursday, a Hidalgo County jury acquitted former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina, The Associated Press reported. Molina was found not guilty of one count of organized fraud…Fred Lucas -
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Voter Fraud Cases Continue to Occur, Putting Fair and Free Elections in Jeopardy
We recently added nine new cases to the Heritage Election Fraud Database, bringing the total number of entries of proven instances of voter fraud in the database to 1,374. The mounting collection of cases continue to disprove the narrative that voter fraud is not real and that further election integrity measures are not needed. The…Katie Samalis-Aldrich -
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New Voting Rules Guide These 4 States That Had Closest Election Margins in 2020
Voting procedures will be significantly different in the most competitive battleground states in this fall’s midterm elections, compared with some of the controversies of 2020. The most narrow margins of the last presidential election were in the states of Arizona, where Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by just over 10,000 votes; Georgia, where Biden beat…Fred Lucas -
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Ahead of Midterms, 14 States Improve Election Integrity Laws
With primaries underway and with midterms and other fall ballot contests looming, multiple states are demonstrating a commitment to ensuring that their elections remain worthy of public confidence. Since 2021, The Heritage Foundation has been tracking the content of every state’s laws (plus the District of Columbia since it casts three electoral college votes for…Jack Fitzhenry -
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Consequences: Voters Defund Library Over Graphic LGBT Books
At 12 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, it would lie at about 7 o’clock if a clock face were interposed on the famous “palm” map. It’s about a mile, as the crow flies, from Sunrise Acres Egg Farm. It’s a mile-and-a-half from the nearest Meijer grocery. Jamestown Township, population 9,630, is deep in Michigan’s Dutch…Joshua Arnold -
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Latest Federal Takeover of Elections Violates Law
Democrats haven’t stopped trying to take over elections, they just have new tactics to do so under voters’ noses. Employees throughout the federal government who are carrying out President Joe Biden’s executive order directing them to get involved in state elections are likely all violating the Anti-Deficiency Act, besides interfering in the election process and…Hans von Spakovsky -
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Liberal ‘Dark Money’ Groups Target Election Integrity, House GOP Watchdogs Say
“Dark money” groups on the left that seek to control local election offices across the country could further undermine confidence in American elections, some House Republicans fear. “Let’s call this what it really is—a blatant attack on the security and integrity of the fairness and transparency of our elections,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., the co-chairwoman…Fred Lucas