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Find Out Which States Best, Worst for Honest Election Laws
Georgia ranks at the top among states for the strongest laws in the nation to guarantee honest elections, while Hawaii ranks at the bottom, according to a new Election Integrity Scorecard from The Heritage Foundation. Heritage’s scorecard, announced Tuesday, measures all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on a dozen election-related categories. Categories… -
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In Interpol Elections, the Autocracies Take Control
Thanks to “Red Notice,” the new Netflix movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds, Interpol is enjoying new fame. Of course, the International Criminal Police Organization is nothing like Hollywood depicts it. Interpol doesn’t chase criminals. In reality, it’s more like an electronic bulletin board on which police agencies around the world can… -
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What Biden’s Dismal Polling Teaches Us About Our Leadership and Ourselves
Recent polls show President Joe Biden sitting at a dismal 38% approval rating and Vice President Kamala Harris at an equally, but unsurprisingly, depressing 28% approval rating just nine months into their terms. Even with the army of political propaganda outlets—or, dare I say, “journalists”—vehemently opposing former President Donald Trump and supporting Biden and his… -
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Down With Foreign-Citizen Voting in American Elections
Approximately 808,000 “noncitizens” may vote in future New York City elections, if the City Council welcomes them to do so, as early as December. These potential new members of the electorate would include green card holders and those with certain work permits. This is a rotten idea. However, love or hate it, everyone at least… -
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I Live Here. Voters’ Choice for City Attorney Provides Hope That We Can Take Back Seattle.
SEATTLE—Did my city put an end to the chaos with last week’s election? It took an off-year election for Seattle voters to stop the city’s ever-devolving political scene, where anti-police activists routinely gain more power. Last Tuesday, voters said there is a limit to their tolerance of progressive and socialist tendencies. In three out of… -
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Elections Show Conservatives, Not Leftists, Winning on Cultural Issues
President Joe Biden returned the morning of Nov. 3 to a nation that no longer supports him or his party. Virginia, which he carried 55% to 44% in 2020, has elected Republican Glenn Youngkin as governor, Republicans for lieutenant governor and attorney general, and recaptured a majority in the House of Delegates. Even more startlingly,… -
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Voters to Democrats: Drop Dead
No means no. From the White House to school boards across America, voters on Tuesday screamed at Democrats: “No!” to reckless spending, meddlesome bureaucrats, bear hugs for criminals, racial fetishism in classrooms and beyond, soaring energy prices, a monthly average of 179,779 illegal aliens invading the southern “border” on President Joe Biden’s watch, and much… -
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Abolishing Police Measure Fails in Minneapolis. Here’s What Voters Understand That Left-Wing Activists Don’t.
Common sense prevailed in Minneapolis on Tuesday. The city won’t replace police officers with social workers after all. Minneapolis’ ballot Question 2, which would have eliminated the city’s police department and replaced it with a “Department of Public Safety,” went down in flames. It lost by a wide margin—nearly 17,700 votes—despite the huge amount of… -
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How Government Worker Unions Manipulate Municipal Elections
Liberal special interests have effective control of many municipal governments and government arms. The most notable case is school boards. The teachers union’s endorsement frequently determines the winner of school board races. The endorsed board members do the union’s bidding, as school closures and eternal mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate. Liberal partisans see… -
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Voters Reject Government Overreach at All Levels, but Leftists Won’t Listen
It’s pretty fitting that voters elected Glenn Youngkin as governor of Virginia on the same night that the Atlanta Braves won the World Series. Youngkin focused largely on public schools in his campaign, with parents outraged over leftist curricula. His victory over Democrat Terry McAuliffe can be seen as a triumph over the woke revolution…. -
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‘We Need the Police’: Minneapolis Voters Reject Measure to Abolish Police
Minneapolis residents overwhelmingly rejected a measure to replace the city’s police department with a public safety force on Tuesday. Voters rejected the measure by a margin of roughly 56% to 43%, according to the Minnesota state database. The measure proposed to alter the Minneapolis City Charter to completely eliminate the existing police department and replace it with… -
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4 Facts to Know About Democrat Election Lawyer Marc Elias
Lawyer Marc Elias has in some ways been the Democrats’ Forrest Gump of election controversies, showing up in the most high profile election cases of the past two decades. Elias’ involvement spans the improbable Senate victory of comedian Al Franken in 2008 to litigation both before and after the 2020 election. The lawyer’s reputation may… -
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Philadelphia Charges Again Rebut ‘No Election Fraud’ Claims
Philadelphia has a long, unfortunate history of election fraud, so the latest federal criminal charges of election fraud against Marie Beren, a former staffer for City Council member Mark Squilla, are no surprise. They are probably also a disappointment to opponents of election reform who constantly claim there is no such thing as election fraud…. -
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18 States Passed Election Reforms This Year. Here’s What They Did.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this week capped off a year of major election reforms across America by signing hotly debated legislation after a prolonged drama that saw Democratic legislators flee the state in a bid to prevent its passage. Texas, with its Republican governor, is among at least 18 states to enact election reform measures… -
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We Hear You: Losing Ballots, Stiffing Landlords, and Rethinking Afghanistan
Editor's note: Here's a sampling of your responses to some of The Daily Signal's recent coverage, gleaned from the mailbag at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Regarding Fred Lucas’ article, mail-in voting is an invitation to cheat, period (“15 Million Votes in 2020 Election Not Accounted For, Report Finds”). It was not necessary to institute… -
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Latest Alleged Election Fraud in California May Have Changed Election Outcome
The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2008, when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, that “not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.” It seems we have a perfect example of this in Compton, California, where felony voter fraud charges have been filed… -
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HR 4 ‘Gives Federal Bureaucrats Control’ Over State Election Laws, Expert Says
The House Rules Committee voted Monday on rules governing debate on election legislation known as HR 4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The controversial bill now goes to the House for a vote. After Democrats failed to pass HR 1, a partisan piece of election legislation, they crafted HR 4, which Heritage Foundation… -
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15 Million Votes in 2020 Election Not Accounted For, Report Finds
Almost 15 million mail-in ballots were unaccounted for in the 2020 presidential election, and more than a million more ballots were undeliverable, according to a new study. The Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative watchdog group on election integrity, released a research brief Wednesday assessing the effect of mass mail-in balloting in an election with… -
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Judge Denies Motion by Giuliani, 2 Other Trump Allies to Dismiss Libel Lawsuits Over Voter Fraud Claims
A federal judge refused to dismiss defamation lawsuits filed by Dominion Voting Systems over election fraud claims made by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, lawyer Sidney Powell, and My Pillow founder Mike Lindell. Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia criticized the arguments made by Giuliani, Powell, and Lindell in… -
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George Gascon’s Sinking Poll Numbers
If George Gascon, the rogue district attorney for Los Angeles County, had Scooby-Doo as a dog, he would be hearing “ruh roh” around the house a lot these days. That’s because Gascon’s radical policies are infecting the electorate, and they don’t like it. That’s why there is a recall effort to boot him from office,…