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‘Dirty Voter Rolls’ Plus Huge Mail-In Vote Risk ‘Disaster,’ Election Law Experts Say
Election security is paramount, but it will be hard to achieve in the 2020 elections due to the massive increase in mail-in voting, experts said during an online briefing Thursday held by The Heritage Foundation. “I’m focused on Nevada, because that’s the state that rushed to vote by mail,” said J. Christian Adams, president and… -
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More Examples of Election Fraud Prove the Left Is in Denial About It
The 2020 presidential election is less than three weeks away, and many Americans have already voted early or through the mail. Unfortunately, at the same time that they are exercising their franchise, there are others out there who are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in our system to try to steal their vote or dilute… -
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California’s Governor Mocked Me, but I Received Ballot 8 Years After Moving
As you undoubtedly have heard on television, the internet, and social media, the right to vote is fundamental to the American system. But as we near Election Day, it’s important to remember that the right to vote means little if our officials can’t maintain election integrity. Fraudulent votes undermine our electoral system and take rightful… -
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Mayoral Candidate in Texas Charged With Over 100 Counts of Voter Fraud
When police arrested Zul Mirza Mohamed on suspicion of voter fraud Wednesday night, prosecutors say, the candidate for mayor in Carrollton, Texas, was stuffing envelopes with mail-in ballot applications to send to Dallas County. However, Texas state and local law enforcement officials allege that Mohamed’s illicit activities ran far deeper than what he was caught… -
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New Jersey Mail Carrier Charged With Throwing Away Mail-In Ballots
A New Jersey postal worker was arrested and charged Wednesday with discarding multiple pieces of mail, including election ballots, CBS News reported. Over 1,800 pieces of mail were retrieved from dumpsters, 99 of which were ballots, according to CBS. Federal prosecutors told the network that the postal worker, identified as Nicholas Beauchene, 26, was scheduled to deliver mail in… -
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Supreme Court Acts to Protect Election Integrity in South Carolina
The U.S. Supreme Court acted in the best interests of the voters of South Carolina on Monday by dissolving a preliminary injunction issued by a lower court. The high court responded to an emergency appeal. The injunction from U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, an Obama appointee, would have prevented South Carolina from applying its… -
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Tens of Thousands of Cases of Possible Voter Fraud Cited in New Report
One of the constant refrains from those who oppose election reforms designed to protect the security and integrity of the voting process is that serious vote fraud is a myth. But as a shocking new report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows, those naysayers could not be more wrong. The foundation’s report, “Critical Condition,” highlights the… -
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Ensuring the Integrity of Our Election System
This article is an excerpt from the “2020 Mandate for Leadership: A Clear Vision for the Next Administration.” It looks back at policy decisions made by the Trump administration over the past four years. You can purchase your copy of “Mandate 2020” here. The progressive left has created a false hue and cry about a supposed… -
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Protect Elderly Votes Project Aims to Thwart ‘Ballot Harvesting’ Fraud
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the push for widespread mail-in voting and other alternatives to going to the polls ahead of the presidential election has increased the risk of vote fraud through “ballot harvesting,” and the elderly are particularly vulnerable, advocates warn. To protect seniors, especially those with physical impairments, the American Constitutional Rights Union is… -
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YouTube Adds Disclaimer to Heritage Foundation Video on Mail-In Ballots
YouTube has posted a disclaimer to a video produced by The Heritage Foundation that warns of the potential problems of mass voting by mail. YouTube didn’t say it disputed any of the facts in the video, which was posted Sept. 2 and details recent problems with mail-in primary elections. The video cites mainstream media reporting… -
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‘Shocked and Panicked’: New Yorkers Receive Invalid Ballots With Wrong Names, Addresses, Sparking Confusion
New York City residents have reported receiving ballots with wrong information, sparking confusion and a response from the city board of elections department. Multiple voters who live in Brooklyn have reported errors—including a wrong name on their ballot envelope—which would invalidate their ballots, according to Gothamist. The error was due to an “outside vendor error,” the… -
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How ‘Weaponizing’ Mail-In Ballots Could Create Constitutional Crisis
The ongoing process of “weaponizing and abusing mail-in voting” could lead to an “unprecedented constitutional crisis” because of lack of reliability and the potential for fraud, a new report from two House Republicans contends. Earlier this year, all mail-in balloting in a Democratic primary for a House seat in New York led to six weeks… -
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4 Things to Know About Supreme Court Vacancies in Election Years
As the nation stands bitterly, even violently, divided with weeks to go before a hotly contested presidential election, another tremor hits when a Supreme Court justice of three decades dies. This leaves the Republican president and fierce rival of the departed, Democrat-appointed justice to fill the vacancy. In this instance, the Supreme Court was not… -
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Support for BLM Drops Among Hispanics, White Voters, and Republicans, New Poll Shows
Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen since June, dropping more than 12 percentage points over the past three months among non-black Americans, according to a poll published Thursday. Roughly 55% of American adults said that they supported BLM in September, compared to 67% of people who said the same thing in June, according to… -
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Voter Fraud Cases Emerge in Battleground States of North Carolina, Georgia
Two states seen as possible battlegrounds for the November presidential election had major revelations of alleged voter fraud within a week’s time. The Georgia secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday that about 1,000 people voted twice in the state’s June primary, with charges likely to follow. They were referred for possible prosecution. Just six days earlier,… -
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Expect Chaos for the November Election
It’s becoming increasingly clear that we should conduct the November election in as normal a manner as possible. We should have as many of our regular polling places open as we can—and we should resist the ongoing push to have an all-mail election or a massive increase in absentee balloting with an elimination of the… -
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The Left’s Dangerous Delegitimization of the Election
A recent article in The Washington Post’s Outlook section, “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?”—which explores various potential outcomes of the 2020 presidential election—found that in “every scenario except a [Joe] Biden landslide, our simulation ended catastrophically.” According to the Post, any other outcome is destined to spark “violence” and a “constitutional crisis.” Or, in… -
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Voter Fraud More Likely to Affect Election Than Foreign Meddling
Washington used to abide by the maxim: “Politics stops at the water’s edge.” Those days are gone. Consider the reaction to a recent unclassified overview of foreign threats to the 2020 elections delivered by National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director William Evanina. It should have sparked sober discussions of how to safeguard our electoral process. Instead, it triggered… -
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NY Primary ‘Mess’ Seen as Omen for Big Problems With Mail-In Voting in November
The more than 84,000 mail-in ballots that were disqualified in the June 23 primary in New York—where two congressional nominations were just decided this week—underscore prospective problems posed by the universal mail-in voting being called for by liberal politicians for the November elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The massive problems with the primary… -
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Nevada Democrats’ Shocking Midnight Run on Election Integrity
Bills that genuinely promote the common good typically don’t get rushed to passage under the cover of night on strict party-line votes. Yet that’s what Nevada Democrats have done with an “election reform” measure they just pushed through an emergency special session of the state Legislature. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak and his legislative allies claim…