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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… -
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8 Ways That HR 1, ‘For the People Act,’ Imperils Free and Fair Elections
HR 1, the deceptively titled “For the People Act,” has arrived in the U.S. Senate after a party-line vote in the House of Representatives. It is without doubt the most dangerous and irresponsible election bill I have ever seen. If it becomes law, it will interfere with the ability of states and their residents to determine the qualifications and eligibility of… -
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HR 1 Would Allow Federal Micromanagement of State Elections, Ohio Secretary of State Says
The bill known as HR 1, or the For the People Act, should be called “the Federal Takeover of Elections Act,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose says. LaRose, who oversees Ohio’s elections, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain why HR 1, a bill the political left touts as positive election reform, is an… -
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‘Easy to Vote, but Hard to Cheat’: Iowa Passes Major Election Legislation
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed significant election reform legislation on Monday. The new law decreases Iowa’s early voting period and closes polls an hour earlier on Election Day. State Sen. Roby Smith, a Republican, says the new law “enhances Iowans’ confidence in the elections in this state by implementing common sense reforms like providing a… -
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House Democrats Vote to Nullify, Nationalize State Election Laws
Voter ID laws and most other election integrity measures in the states would be nearly wiped out under a sweeping bill passed late Wednesday night by House Democrats that also makes felons eligible to vote while expanding Election Day registration and the controversial practice known as ballot harvesting. The House voted 220-210 along party lines to… -
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Supreme Court Hears First Case Regarding Voting Laws Since Election
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about Arizona’s election laws Tuesday, marking the first time the justices were presented with a case on voting laws since the 2020 election. The twin cases were brought before the court in order to resolve whether the laws violated Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which bans voting procedures… -
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Election Integrity Is a National Imperative
After an election marked by significant voting irregularities and numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law, I share the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of the 2020 election. That’s why when I was serving as presiding officer at the joint session of Congress certifying the Electoral College results, I pledged… -
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New Cases in Election Fraud Database Show Vulnerabilities in System
State legislatures, take note: Americans have legitimate concerns over election integrity, as amply demonstrated by the many proven instances of voter fraud that we continue to add to The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database. These vulnerabilities within the electoral process need to be addressed as soon as possible. The right to self-government depends on free…