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opinion
New Report Exposes Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2016 Election
A new bombshell study released by the Government Accountability Institute shows why President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity has such an important job ahead of it. The institute concluded in its report that thousands of votes in the 2016 election were illegal duplicate votes from people who registered and voted in more than… -
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Voter Fraud Database Tops 1,000 Proven Cases
As the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity convenes its first meeting on Wednesday, the issue of voter fraud in American elections has become even more contentious and hyperbolic. One of the left’s main arguments against reform is that voter fraud simply does not occur. How liberals arrive at this conclusion, we cannot say. Time… -
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Trump Assembles Federal Commission to Investigate Voter Fraud
Note: The following is based on remarks made at the White House by Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow Hans von Spakovsky. I want to thank President Donald Trump for the honor of having appointed me to the Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. I come at this issue of election integrity from very personal history. My… -
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Meet the Elected Democrat Who Wants to Fight Voter Fraud
Mark Rhodes, the Wood County, West Virginia, clerk, has seen both sides of the argument over enhancing voter access and enhancing election security, first when he was found to be deceased, and later when he won an election. “Every time voter fraud occurs; it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen,” @POTUS says. Rhodes,… -
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Recent Elections Speak Loud and Clear: Americans Want Regulatory Relief and Pro-Growth Tax Reform
Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., often decry Republican policy proposals as "unfair" or as catering exclusively to the rich. But this couldn't be further from the truth—and Americans know it. Since President Donald Trump took office, Democrats are 0-for-4 against Republicans in special elections. The American people aren’t… -
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White House Panel on Voter Fraud Begins Work
A presidential commission to examine voter fraud and the soundness of election systems across the country has a big job ahead as it convenes Wednesday for the first time. Not only is the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity charged with investigating what to do about voter fraud cases and establishing best practices, it must… -
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Some States Have No Interest in Fighting Voter Fraud
It was a simple request—hardly one to stir up controversy. Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state and vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, recently sent letters to his fellow secretaries of state requesting “publicly-available voter roll data” and soliciting feedback on ways to secure America’s electoral system against fraud. Yet the… -
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Some States Resisting Trump Voter Fraud Commission Probe
An odd assortment of states are taking varying positions on whether to cooperate with the Trump administration’s investigation into potential voter fraud. Some red states—whose voters solidly backed the president—are declining to collaborate and some solidly blue states are participating in the investigation. As of early Thursday, at least 20 states have agreed to provide… -
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Growing Pile of Data Shows That Voter Fraud Is a Real and Vast Problem
This week, The Heritage Foundation is updating its Voter Fraud Database with 89 new entries, including 75 convictions and a slew of overturned elections and civil fines targeting vote fraudsters. With these latest additions, the database now documents 581 cases of proven voter fraud and 848 criminal convictions. Heritage’s database proves not only that voter… -
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Up to 5.7 Million Noncitizens Voted in Past Presidential Elections, Study Finds
As many as 5.7 million noncitizens voted in the 2008 election and potentially more voted in 2016, according to a new study by Just Facts, a New Jersey-based research group, drawing on information from other studies. The study—based on data compiled from Harvard University’s Cooperative Congressional Election Study, an analysis published in the journal Electoral… -
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For Scotland, Independence, Not Terrorism, Is the Closing Argument to Thursday’s British Election
EDINBURGH, Scotland—The police armed response vehicles patrolling here in Scotland's capital city are practically invisible unless you know what to look for. As part of a nationally heightened terrorism threat level in the wake of three deadly terrorist attacks by Islamist militants in the United Kingdom in as many months, specially trained, armed police personnel… -
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Recent Voter Fraud Cases White House Commission Could Review
Last week, a former Florida mayor was escorted to the Orange County Jail after a jury convicted him on a felony voter fraud charge. Eatonville is a suburb of Orlando, where in the 2015 municipal race, former Mayor Anthony Grant lost by just 15 votes on election day, but won 196 to 69 among mail-in… -
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We Hear You: ‘Illuminating,’ ‘Thoughtful’ Reporting on France’s Presidential Election
Editor's note: We get a fair amount of passionate comment addressed to or about Nolan Peterson, The Daily Signal's Ukraine-based foreign correspondent. When Peterson traveled to France to cover the final days of the French presidential election campaign, his reporting attracted your attention. Here's a sample at the top of the mailbag.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily… -
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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear North Carolina’s Voter ID Appeal. Here’s Why It’s Not a Big Deal.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up an appeal filed by the North Carolina Legislature in response to the three-judge panel striking down its state voter ID law and other election reforms. No one should read anything substantive into this. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote Monday in a two-page supplement to… -
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Supreme Court Won’t Revive North Carolina’s Voter ID Law
The Supreme Court declined to review a ruling that struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law Monday, dealing a blow to ballot integrity measures around the country. The law, adopted days after the Supreme Court effectively struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, requires voters to present a government-issued… -
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Trump Establishes Panel to Probe Voter Fraud
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing a panel to investigate voter fraud, a commission he first talked about in early February. “The president is committed to the thorough review of registration and voting issues in federal elections,” @SHSanders45 says. The president named Vice President Mike Pence to lead the Presidential Advisory Commission… -
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A 2016 Election Battleground State Is Investigating Potential Voter Fraud
New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate race was decided by little more than 1,000 votes in November, while the spread between the top two presidential candidates was fewer than 3,000 votes. While 458 potentially fraudulent votes aren’t enough to have changed the outcome of either race, the questionable votes prompted an investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney… -
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Uninspired French Voters Choose a ‘Centrist’ President Rather Than a Far-Right One
PARIS—As is the case most Sundays, Rue de Bac in central Paris was quiet this morning. The shops were closed, as were most cafes on this day when self-styled centrist Emmanuel Macron would defeat the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, to become France's next president. Except for Le Saint Germain cafe, at the corner of… -
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French Malaise Over This Sunday’s Election Cuts Across Party Lines
PARIS—After three years under a state of national emergency in France due to terrorism, it is no longer extraordinary to observe armed military patrols weaving among the hordes of fanny-packed, selfie-stick-wielding tourists below the Eiffel Tower. Similarly, an army squad with weapons drawn on the Renaissance-era Cours Mirabeau in the southern city of Aix-en-Provence on… -
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While the Left Ignores Voter Fraud, More Evidence Mounts to Prove Them Wrong
The 2016 elections have passed, but courts still have plenty of work to do sorting out cases of voter fraud throughout the country. Convictions have continued to roll in this spring, and The Heritage Foundation’s voter fraud database is growing longer by the day. This week, we are adding 19 convictions, including cases from Texas,…