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opinion
America Must Lead Free World in Elections to Interpol Commission
Interpol, the international organization of police organizations, has an important election coming up. That election will determine the new membership of a body known as the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files. The commission’s job is to check that the processing of personal data by Interpol complies with the police organization’s own rules, and… -
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6 Key Points From House Democrats’ Voter Discrimination Hearing
A House hearing on election laws included references to a constitutional amendment, institutional racism, and sumo wrestling Thursday as Democrats pushed a narrative of widespread voter suppression and discrimination. A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee titled the hearing “A Continuing Record of Discrimination” and used it to promote Democrats’ legislation to give the Justice Department… -
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No One Knows Full Extent of Election Fraud. That’s Why We Track It.
In “Thanks to Kobach, Trump and conservative think tank, we know extent of voter fraud,” Kansas City Star columnist Charles Hammer on May 20 wrote that The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database has 1,322 proven instances of election fraud, including 17 cases from Missouri. That, he said, is “measly” compared with the number of registered… -
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8 Takeaways as Senate Panel Deadlocks on Bill to Nationalize Elections, Nullify Voter ID
In a party-line vote Tuesday, a Senate committee deadlocked 9-9 on a bill that would nullify voter ID and other state election requirements after rejecting multiple Republican-proposed amendments. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee debated the amendments and merits of the legislation, S 1, which sponsors call the For the People Act. Committee Chairwoman Amy… -
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We Hear You: Voter ID, Clean Elections, and the Electoral College
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's coverage of the debate over election reforms continues to engage our audience. Here's a sampling from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: I was greatly encouraged by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s remarks on voter ID ("Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Explains Why It’s Not Racist to Require… -
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Voter Suppression? Democrats Flat-Out Wrong. Census Data Gives Real Story About US Elections.
There is no suppression going on of anyone’s votes anywhere in the country. Anyone who says otherwise is just making it up. The Census Bureau’s recent release of its 2020 election survey of voters clearly demonstrates that those who have been claiming, without justification or evidence, that we have been experiencing a wave of so-called voter suppression have… -
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Myth vs. Fact: Don’t Be Fooled by Misinformation on Florida’s Election Reforms
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an election integrity bill into law Thursday morning to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. Unfortunately, the mainstream media is helping to circulate misinformation about the law, known as SB 90. Here is what you need to separate myth from fact. Myth: Florida is trying to suppress… -
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Election Reforms Multiply in States Across Nation
Florida and Kansas this week became the latest states to enact election reforms expanding voter ID and curbing ballot harvesting, among other measures. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the reform live on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning. Florida’s new law applies the same voter ID requirements to absentee voting as to in-person voting. The new… -
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Minorities ‘Perfectly Capable of Getting Photo ID,’ Nikki Haley Says of Election Laws
Nikki Haley, previously U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and governor of South Carolina, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss what conservatives realistically can try to accomplish during the next 18 months while faced with a liberal Democratic president and Congress. Haley—a Republican and founder of Stand for America, a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that… -
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Florida Senate Advances Voter ID, Other Election Reforms
Florida, the nation’s third-most populous state, could join scores of other states in enacting election reforms as the state Senate advanced a bill Monday to apply the same voter ID requirements to absentee balloting as in-person voting. The proposal, which awaits action in the Florida House of Representatives, is similar to a measure that passed… -
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We Hear You: Democrats Don’t Seem Interested in Securing Our Elections
Editor's note: The Daily Signal's audience is skeptical to say the least about Democrats' proposals to "expand voting rights" rather than make sure our elections are secure. Here's what we found in the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Those who support HR 1 and its Senate counterpart, S 1, should be removed from… -
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Smearing Election Reforms as ‘Jim Crow’ Insults Black Voters Like Me
As a black woman who grew up in the segregated South, I’m shocked and appalled with the race-baiting from mostly white left-wing politicians who are throwing around the “Jim Crow” label to score political points in the debate over strengthening our voting laws. To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s line from the 1988 vice presidential debate with… -
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I Was a Black Teen in the ’60s. Don’t Believe Left’s Lies About ‘Jim Crow’ Election Reforms.
The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights that we as free citizens can exercise. Yet today, far too many Americans have lost trust in the fairness of our elections. That’s why we’ve made a commitment at The Heritage Foundation to work with state lawmakers across the country to make needed reforms… -
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Debunking the Left’s Big Lie on Election Integrity
It’s a sad, but inescapable fact: Today’s American left is incapable of honesty about elections. The lies are obvious, but the left’s control over all of the most powerful political, corporate, and cultural institutions provides a thick fabulist fog that obscures the truth Americans deserve to know. Perhaps the most abominable lie is the nationally… -
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These 107 Corporations Signal Opposition to Election Integrity
The top executives of some of the largest corporations on the planet released a statement on Wednesday saying they support “democracy.” If that sounds bland and terribly nonspecific, you get the gist of the statement, which was the product of a summit of more than 100 CEOs and executives. The summit was convened in response… -
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Green Bay Residents File Complaint, Saying City Allowed ‘Activist Groups to Control’ 2020 Election
MADISON, Wis.—A national election integrity watchdog announced Thursday it was filing a formal complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission on behalf of five Green Bay residents. The complainants allege city officials allowed “private activist groups to control significant aspects of the 2020 election, including ballot ‘curing’ and vote counting.” “Hundreds of millions of dollars purchased… -
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Fact-Checking 6 of Opponents’ Claims About Georgia’s Election Law
President Joe Biden and other Democrats, without offering evidence, equate Georgia’s new election law with the Jim Crow era, while many media outlets obligingly repeat Democratic talking points about it. A headline over a March 25 news report in The New York Times, not an opinion piece, referred to the legislation as a “major law to… -
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Mail-In Voting Audit of Montana’s 2020 Elections Finds Significant Number of Irregularities
MISSOULA COUNTY, Mont.—A mountainous, 2,600-square-mile region with a population of approximately 119,600 does not seem like your prototypical setting for machine politics. Yet a recent audit of mail-in ballots cast there found irregularities characteristic of larger urban centers—on a level that could have easily swung local elections in 2020 and statewide elections in cycles past…. -
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Israel’s Elections Again Yield Uncertain Political Results
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving prime minister, appears to have eked out a slim electoral victory in the March 23 parliamentary elections, but he faces a difficult task in forming a coalition government for the seventh time. Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party won the largest number of seats in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. But no party… -
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Top Democratic Election Lawyers Sanctioned for ‘Misleading’ Conduct
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order sanctioning lawyers at Perkins Coie—the Washington law firm that represents Democratic candidates, as well as prominent Democratic political organizations—for filing a “redundant and misleading” motion in the court in an election case out of Texas. Among the specific lawyers named in the March 11…