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New Voting Rules Guide These 4 States That Had Closest Election Margins in 2020
Voting procedures will be significantly different in the most competitive battleground states in this fall’s midterm elections, compared with some of the controversies of 2020. The most narrow margins of the last presidential election were in the states of Arizona, where Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by just over 10,000 votes; Georgia, where Biden beat…Fred Lucas -
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Consequences: Voters Defund Library Over Graphic LGBT Books
At 12 miles southwest of Grand Rapids, it would lie at about 7 o’clock if a clock face were interposed on the famous “palm” map. It’s about a mile, as the crow flies, from Sunrise Acres Egg Farm. It’s a mile-and-a-half from the nearest Meijer grocery. Jamestown Township, population 9,630, is deep in Michigan’s Dutch…Joshua Arnold -
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Latest Federal Takeover of Elections Violates Law
Democrats haven’t stopped trying to take over elections, they just have new tactics to do so under voters’ noses. Employees throughout the federal government who are carrying out President Joe Biden’s executive order directing them to get involved in state elections are likely all violating the Anti-Deficiency Act, besides interfering in the election process and…Hans von Spakovsky -
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Liberal ‘Dark Money’ Groups Target Election Integrity, House GOP Watchdogs Say
“Dark money” groups on the left that seek to control local election offices across the country could further undermine confidence in American elections, some House Republicans fear. “Let’s call this what it really is—a blatant attack on the security and integrity of the fairness and transparency of our elections,” Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., the co-chairwoman…Fred Lucas -
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31 States Where Voters Defined Marriage as Union of 1 Man, 1 Woman
The Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage across the nation is in the news again with the House’s passage last week of legislation codifying that 2015 ruling as part of U.S. law. In the years before the high court ruled in the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, 38 states defined marriage by law as an exclusive union between…Gillian Richards -
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How Big Tech Plans to Keep a Grip on Local Elections Amid Funding Bans
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he has sworn off bankrolling local election administration, but other Big Tech executives are positioned to play a role in running future elections. The Center for Tech and Civic Life distributed $350 million in Zuckerberg-funded election grants to localities in 2020 to promote mail-in voting, drop boxes, and other projects….Fred Lucas -
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How the Left Hopes to Seize Control of Local Election Offices
Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead. “The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, which advocates clean elections, told The…Fred Lucas -
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Ensuring That Only Citizens Vote in US Elections
The latest politically motivated lawsuit—filed against Arizona by the Biden Justice Department over the state’s new law attempting to verify the citizenship of registered voters—demonstrates the importance of a bill just introduced by Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., HR 8223, that would stop that lawsuit in its tracks. Mark Brnovich, the attorney general of Arizona, calls…Hans von Spakovsky -
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Team Zuckerberg Masks Heavily Pro-Democrat Tilt of 2020 Election ‘Zuckerbucks,’ Study Finds
The $332 million that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, provided to a progressive group to help run the 2020 elections was distributed on a highly partisan basis that favored Democrats, according to a new analysis by election data experts. While these “Zuckerbucks” or “Zuck bucks” were touted as a resource meant…Mark Hemingway -
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New Jersey Rolls Include Duplicate, Centenarian, and Unborn Voters
New Jersey resident Patrick DePaola first registered to vote in June 1927. A 50-year employee as a printer for The New York Times, he died at age 105 more than a decade ago, in December 2010. But DePaola, who lived in Bayonne, remains listed as an “active” voter and is among 2,398 registered voters in…Fred Lucas -
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What Can Be Done About Troubling State of Our Elections? Deroy Murdock Has Ideas
Election integrity is essential to a functioning country. Americans deserve to know that their elections are being conducted fairly and that their votes count. Unfortunately, many have reason to think our elections aren’t secure. Deroy Murdock, a Fox News contributor and senior fellow at the Atlas Network, says he sees election integrity and voter fraud…Douglas Blair -
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YouTube Bans St. Louis Talk Radio Station’s Channel for Discussing Election Integrity
The censor-happy goons at YouTube are at it again, but this time they struck a little too close to home. The Big Tech streaming platform banned St. Louis radio station NewsTalk STL’s YouTube channel after it posted an interview with me discussing the 2020 election and the need for election integrity legislation on the channel. …Douglas Blair -
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Study Raises New Questions About 2020 Election Results in 6 States
At least 255,000 excess votes were cast in the 2020 presidential election across six battleground states, according to a new study that examined individual voting precincts. Economist John Lott, president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, is the author of the peer-reviewed study, which looked at precincts in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. …Fred Lucas -
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Pro Baseball Players Rejected ‘Political Supremacists.’ Voters Should, Too.
The lyrics from Bruce Springsteen’s song “Badlands” have seldom been more relevant: “Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and the king ain’t satisfied ’til he rules everything.” Translated: Give people a little power, and they will seize the moment and take up the scepter to impose their values on everyone else….Mike Stenhouse -
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Pennsylvania’s Ballot Battle Should Rattle GOP
As Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of state, Leigh Chapman oversees professional boxing, kickboxing, and wrestling. But those are hardly the most contentious items on her docket. As the Keystone State’s chief elections officer, Chapman is embroiled in a knock-down, drag-out fight over ballot integrity that has Democrats and Republicans pounding each other sillier than 12th-round rivals. Chapman and other Democrats consider mass mail-in…Deroy Murdock -
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Democrat on Federal Civil Rights Panel Targeted 2 GOP Election Reformers
Three prominent Washington lawyers have tangled for months in a partisan drama involving two relatively obscure federal government agencies. That drama involves one of Barack Obama’s Justice Department nominees, who proved too controversial for some Senate Democrats. Now in another post, that Obama appointee targeted two allies of Donald Trump, both lawyers who advocate secure…Fred Lucas -
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How Conservatives Can Engage Latino Voters
In recent elections, conservatives have seen gains with Latino voters. But what is causing this increase in conservative Latino engagement? Cesar Ybarra, vice president of policy at FreedomWorks, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to dive into the reasons. “The Democrats label [Donald] Trump as the most racist, anti-Hispanic president in America in history, and what…Douglas Blair -
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How the Left Upended Our Election Laws in 2020
The integrity of our elections is under assault from Democrats in Washington and left-wing forces across America. Using the pretext of COVID, a web of well-funded organizations, working with Democrat lawmakers and friendly judges, systematically changed state election laws in 2020. Cleta Mitchell, who has spent a lifetime fighting for free and fair elections, is…Rob Bluey -
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Election Law Landscape in Constant Flux Ahead of Midterms
In 2020, we saw more lawsuits filed over election laws and rule changes than in any prior year of American history. And with the congressional midterms fast approaching, litigation and other developments just keep coming. Pennsylvania In Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth Court, one of two appellate courts in the state, issued a ruling recently holding that…Hans von Spakovsky -
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Nationwide Battle Escalates Over Private Millions Bankrolling Public Elections
Democrats want to continue allowing private money to fund public elections. Republicans want to limit the practice, which they say gave Joe Biden an unfair and perhaps decisive advantage over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential contest. So far, at least 10 Republican-controlled states have passed laws to prohibit or limit the use of private…Steve Miller