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    Watch Our Live Election Results Coverage

    Tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, The Daily Signal will be hosting a live election show, exclusively on Gettr. Hosted by our own Rob Bluey and Samantha Aschieris, and in partnership with The Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action for America, we’ll interview top commentators and policy analysts for their insights on the races and the results….
    Katrina Trinko
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    The Latest Election Myth Pushed by the Left

    For years, liberal activists—with the assistance of their corporate media allies—have been pushing the myth that there is a wave of “voter suppression” going on across the country. As the record registration and turnout numbers in recent elections prove, as well as their numerous losses in litigation show, this is a false claim created by…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Elections Need More Transparency. Why Do Some on Left Want Less?

    Why are some self-proclaimed “champions of democracy” calling for less transparency in elections, rather than more?  The hundreds of thousands of law-abiding poll observers nationwide who volunteer to monitor elections safeguard one essential component of democracy; namely, transparent elections.  Poll observers are the true champions of democracy. In the past few years, election officials have…
    Lisa L. Dixon
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    8 Races to Watch as Ballots Are Counted

    It’s Election Day once again in the U.S. As millions of Americans head to the polls, here are eight races to watch throughout the day. 1. Michigan Governor Race: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vs. Tudor Dixon  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, is facing Republican challenger Tudor Dixon in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election.  Whitmer won the governorship…
    Samantha Aschieris
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    Transgender ‘Treatments’ for Kids Are Hiding in Plain Sight on the Ballot in 2 States, Critics Warn

    The transgender agenda appears to have weaseled its way onto the ballot in two states, but voters may not know it. Hidden in the language of two proposed state constitutional amendments is a "right" to transgender medical interventions that would undermine parental rights and make children vulnerable to "treatments" that would leave them scarred, stunted,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    What You Need to Know About Election-Related Referenda on State Ballots

    Next Tuesday, voters in many states will weigh in on several election integrity-related referenda. Some are good changes that would improve election integrity; others are bad and would make elections in those states less secure; and one is downright ugly—written in a way intended to fool voters. The good ballot measures include: Arizona Proposition 309, which…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    These 400 Elections Over 2 Years Show How 1 Voter Can Make a Difference

    As voting is about to conclude Tuesday in the nation’s midterm elections, data shows that one vote can matter more often than Americans might suspect. More than 400 elections ended in ties or were decided by a single vote in 2021 and 2022, according to a tally by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election…
    Fred Lucas
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    Voter Rolls Are Essential to Victory in the Election Integrity Fight. Here’s Why.

    Voter rolls are the most important election integrity documents. They tell election officials who is eligible to vote. The voter rolls also tell election officials where to send mail ballots, so it is even more important that they are accurate in states that automatically send registered voters mail ballots. It is essential that states have…
    J. Christian Adams
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    Michigan’s Radical Proposition 3 Ballot Measure Would Go Far Beyond Just Codifying Roe v. Wade

    When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this summer, abortion did not become illegal in the U.S. The court simply ruled (rightly) that there is no right to an abortion in the U.S. Constitution. That returned the question of abortion to the states. Some…
    Jay Richards
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    Catholic Voters Strongly Pro-Life Across Party Lines, Poll Finds

    A new poll commissioned by the Eternal Word Television Network and conducted by the Trafalgar Group finds that across party lines, Catholics are strongly in favor of restrictions on abortion and support public funding of pro-life pregnancy resource centers.  The poll, co-sponsored by RealClear Opinion Research, was conducted in the run-up to the midterm elections from Sept. 12 to 17. The…
    Wallace White
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    In Minnesota, 6 Counties Have Duplicate Names on Voter Rolls

    Minnesota election officials are investigating six counties where duplicate names were found on voter registration lists—in one case reaching more than 300 duplicate names in a single county.  The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election watchdog group, said it found 515 duplicate names on voter registration lists across six Minnesota counties where it filed complaints. …
    Fred Lucas
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    DC Council Bill Would Permit Noncitizen Voting in City Elections

    The D.C. Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee has approved a bill that would allow legal noncitizens to vote in city elections.   The Local Resident Voting Rights Act of 2021 would permit “permanent residents of the United States” to vote in local elections, according to the measure. The committee released a report Tuesday, recommending its approval by the D.C….
    Wallace White
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    Litigation Could Change Election Procedures in Key Battleground State

    Litigation in Pennsylvania could change election procedures in one of the most closely watched battleground states in the country.  In 2020, Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by about 80,000 votes statewide, beating Donald Trump’s 2016 victory margin in the state by about 45,000 votes.  This year, the seats of outgoing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Conservatives Gain Ground With Latino Voters. How Can Those Gains Be Made to Stick?

    Latinos are becoming an increasingly important part of building a coalition. Shifts in allegiance in places like the Rio Grande Valley of Texas indicate that they aren’t a group that has become totally beholden to the Left. The question is, how do conservatives best court Latinos, and what is the voting bloc most concerned with?…
    Douglas Blair
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    What Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Stole From Voters After I Argued This Case

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled 5-2 last month that the state’s no-excuse, by-mail voting law is constitutional. But to do that, the state’s highest court had to ignore and overturn over 150 years of precedent holding that the Pennsylvania Constitution requires in-person voting.   In 2019, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, signed the voting law,…
    Wally Zimolong
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    ‘Zuckerbucks 2.0’: Lawmakers Eye Private Money to Get Out Vote in Milwaukee Elections

    Two dozen states banned the use of private money to finance election operations in response to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pouring part of his $400 million fortune into the 2020 election process.  Wisconsin wasn’t one of them.  Now, an initiative to boost voter turnout called Milwaukee Votes 2022 involves some private partners, including a Democrat-aligned…
    Fred Lucas
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    Why ‘Voter Suppression’ Is a Myth

    When Georgia and other states began passing new election laws, the political left called it voter suppression. But is voter suppression actually taking place in America? Do safeguards such as voter ID requirements discourage voting?  In his new book “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections,” Fred Lucas dives into the…
    Virginia Allen
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    Karine Jean-Pierre’s ‘Election Denier’ Double Standard

    The central hypocrisy of President Joe Biden’s indictment of the “MAGA Republicans”—as well as the Nancy Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6—is all the evidence of liberals and Democrats being “election deniers.” Democracy is crumbling when Republicans question election results, but everything Democrats say and do should be categorized as exercises in idealism. In Tuesday’s Biden…
    Tim Graham
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    After 5 Red States Passed ‘Voter Suppression’ Bills, Voting Turnout Boomed

    A left-leaning New York think tank sounded a familiar warning about Arizona’s “voter suppression bills” being “dangerously close to becoming law.”  The Brennan Center for Justice added in a press release that Arizona was “taking center stage in the relent­less effort to rein in voter parti­cip­a­tion in the name of ‘elec­tion secur­ity.’” Pending bills, the…
    Fred Lucas
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    Another Leftist Attempt to Rewrite Election Rules Goes Down in Flames

    Another left-wing attempt to rewrite election rules has gone down in flames. This time, liberals attempted to put a measure on the November ballot to gut election safeguards and skew voting rules in the influential swing state. But if the left thought it could buy its way onto the ballot, it was wrong. In its…
    Jason Snead
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