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31 States Where Voters Defined Marriage as Union of 1 Man, 1 Woman
The Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the nation is in the news again with the House’s passage last week of legislation codifying that 2015 ruling as part of U.S. law. In the years before the high court ruled in the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, 38 states defined marriage by law as an exclusive union between…Gillian Richards -
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How Big Tech Plans to Keep a Grip on Local Elections Amid Funding Bans
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he has sworn off bankrolling local election administration, but other Big Tech executives are positioned to play a role in running future elections. The Center for Tech and Civic Life distributed $350 million in Zuckerberg-funded election grants to localities in 2020 to promote mail-in voting, drop boxes, and other projects….Fred Lucas -
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Latest Election Fraud Cases Underscore Importance of Election Integrity
With the latest cases of impersonation, registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, bribery, and illegal vote trafficking added to The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, the database now contains 1,365 proven instances of election fraud. These cases demonstrate the wide variety of ways in which bad actors set out to submit fraudulent ballots or steal elections….Katie Samalis-Aldrich -
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How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices
Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead. “The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, which advocates clean elections, told The…Fred Lucas -
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Ensuring That Only Citizens Vote in US Elections
The latest politically motivated lawsuit—filed against Arizona by the Biden Justice Department over the state’s new law attempting to verify the citizenship of registered voters—demonstrates the importance of a bill just introduced by Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., HR 8223, that would stop that lawsuit in its tracks. Mark Brnovich, the attorney general of Arizona, calls…Hans von Spakovsky -
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This Supreme Court Ruling Will Prove Vital to Defending Voter ID and Other Laws
The Supreme Court’s important ruling last week on voter ID in North Carolina has been overlooked in the fervor over the high court’s spot-on decisions upholding the Second Amendment and religious freedom and overruling Roe v. Wade. But the court’s procedural decision Thursday in Berger v. NAACP will help prevent state officials from sabotaging the…Hans von Spakovsky -
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Team Zuckerberg Masks Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuckerbucks,’ Study Finds
The $332 million that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, provided to a progressive group to help run the 2020 elections was distributed on a highly partisan basis that favored Democrats, according to a new analysis by election data experts. While these “Zuckerbucks” or “Zuck bucks” were touted as a resource meant…Mark Hemingway -
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New Jersey Rolls Include Duplicate, Centenarian, and Unborn Voters
New Jersey resident Patrick DePaola first registered to vote in June 1927. A 50-year employee as a printer for The New York Times, he died at age 105 more than a decade ago, in December 2010. But DePaola, who lived in Bayonne, remains listed as an “active” voter and is among 2,398 registered voters in…Fred Lucas -
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3 Laws That Biden’s Voter Registration Order Could Break
President Joe Biden’s executive order spurring an “all of government” approach to registering voters could raise questions about whether the effort squares with a law prohibiting political activity on federal property. Congress will look into such questions, Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., co-chair of the House Election Integrity Caucus, told The Daily Signal. “We’re looking at…Fred Lucas -
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Pennsylvania’s Drawn-Out Senate Primary Underlines Need to Reform Mail-In Voting, House Republican Says
Pennsylvania’s second prolonged election in two years demonstrates a need to reform both the mail-in voting process and ballot counting, the co-chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Election Integrity Caucus says. “This mail-in-ballot voting is really an issue,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Tuesday. “And it’s an…Fred Lucas -
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Latest Cases of Election Fraud Underline Need for Vigilance and Action
Election integrity continues to be an important issue to citizens across the country, regardless of their political affiliation. While many politicians on the left continue to downplay the issue of election fraud to the dismay of their constituents, threats to free and fair elections continue at an alarming rate, as our newest batch of cases…Katie Samalis-Aldrich -
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Film ‘2,000 Mules’ Offers Vivid Proof of Voter Fraud
Like an incantation at high Mass, Democrats chant their claim that election fraud does not exist. “Vote fraud is almost incalculably rare in the United States,” according to defeated Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. “And make no mistake,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York declared on the Senate floor. “There has been no evidence of any…Deroy Murdock -
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YouTube Bans Video Featuring Conservative Expert on Voter Fraud
UPDATE: Jacob Kersey, whose video was removed from YouTube as described below, informed The Daily Signal that a day after this story was published on Wednesday and two days after YouTube's action, the video was restored to the site without notification. Kersey said he still has not received an explanation for why the video was taken…Douglas Blair -
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HUD Pushes Voter Registration Drives in Public Housing Under Biden’s Executive Order
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will engage in voter registration efforts that in some cases allow mass collection of voter registration forms by public housing officials, raising concerns about the potential for voter fraud among other legal issues. HUD’s voter registration drive comes as part of the “all-of-government” approach described in an…Fred Lucas -
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What Can Be Done About Troubling State of Our Elections? Deroy Murdock Has Ideas
Election integrity is essential to a functioning country. Americans deserve to know that their elections are being conducted fairly and that their votes count. Unfortunately, many have reason to think our elections aren’t secure. Deroy Murdock, a Fox News contributor and senior fellow at the Atlas Network, says he sees election integrity and voter fraud…Douglas Blair -
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YouTube Bans St. Louis Talk Radio Station’s Channel for Discussing Election Integrity
The censor-happy goons at YouTube are at it again, but this time they struck a little too close to home. The Big Tech streaming platform banned St. Louis radio station NewsTalk STL’s YouTube channel after it posted an interview with me discussing the 2020 election and the need for election integrity legislation on the channel. …Douglas Blair -
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Study Raises New Questions About 2020 Election Results in 6 States
At least 255,000 excess votes were cast in the 2020 presidential election across six battleground states, according to a new study that examined individual voting precincts. Economist John Lott, president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, is the author of the peer-reviewed study, which looked at precincts in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. …Fred Lucas -
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Pro Baseball Players Rejected ‘Political Supremacists.’ Voters Should, Too.
The lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Badlands” have seldom been more relevant: “Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and the king ain’t satisfied ’til he rules everything.” Translated: Give people a little power, and they will seize the moment and take up the scepter to impose their values on everyone else….Mike Stenhouse -
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Pennsylvania’s Ballot Battle Should Rattle GOP
As Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman oversees professional boxing, kickboxing, and wrestling. But those are hardly the most contentious items on her docket. As the Keystone State’s chief elections officer, Chapman is embroiled in a knock-down, drag-out fight over ballot integrity that has Democrats and Republicans pounding each other sillier than 12th-round rivals. Chapman and other Democrats consider mass mail-in…Deroy Murdock -
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Democrat on Federal Civil Rights Panel Targeted 2 GOP Election Reformers
Three prominent Washington lawyers have tangled for months in a partisan drama involving two relatively obscure federal government agencies. That drama involves one of Barack Obama’s Justice Department nominees, who proved too controversial for some Senate Democrats. Now in another post, that Obama appointee targeted two allies of Donald Trump, both lawyers who advocate secure…Fred Lucas