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opinion
The Latest, Fast-Moving Developments in the 2020 Election Season
I often write about the latest developments in the election area, including court decisions and legislative and regulatory changes. An unprecedented number of lawsuits have been filed by the radical left (at last count over 150 and counting) trying to use the COVID-19 health crisis as an excuse to nullify state requirements like voter ID… -
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Thousands of North Carolina Voters Double-Voted, Watchdog Group Finds
Thousands of voters in North Carolina voted twice in one or both of the past two elections, according to a court filing in the key battleground state. Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election integrity group, announced Thursday that it had filed a brief in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina outlining… -
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1 in 5 Ballots Rejected as Fraud Charged in New Jersey Mail-In Election
Following accusations of widespread fraud, voter intimidation, and ballot theft in the May 12 municipal elections in Paterson, New Jersey, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced Thursday he is charging four men with voter fraud—including the vice president of the City Council and a candidate for that body. With races still undecided, control of the… -
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Why All-Mail Elections Are Too Risky and Unwarranted
The push in Congress and in many states to force an all-mail national election in November and in the remaining state primaries is both unwise and unnecessary. It is unwise because absentee or mail-in ballots are voted outside the supervision and overview of election officials—thus destroying the secret ballot, an important hallmark of American elections… -
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Election Judge Pleads Guilty to Ballot Stuffing for Democrats
A former elected official in Philadelphia who accepted large payments from a political consultant to stuff ballot boxes for Democratic judicial candidates has pleaded guilty as part of a continuing federal investigation. The Justice Department announced Thursday that Domenick J. DeMuro, 73, who was an election judge in South Philadelphia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to… -
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Supreme Court Eyes Ballot Harvesting Case That Could Affect Election Integrity Across Nation
With mail-in voting becoming a national issue during the COVID-19 crisis, the Supreme Court could decide to hear a cornerstone election integrity case. On the line is Arizona’s ban on ballot harvesting. The state prohibits political operatives and activists from having access to large amounts of absentee ballots for the purpose of collecting votes. Arizona… -
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28 Million Reasons Not to Trust a Mail-In Election
“No idea.” That was the only answer state and local officials had. When a federal elections commission started asking questions, not one person had any explanation for the 28.3 million mail-in ballots that have gone missing since 2012. As far as they’re concerned, 1 in 5 absentee votes just vanished. No one knows if it’s fraud, system… -
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15 Election Results That Were Thrown Out Because of Fraudulent Mail-In Ballots
Voter fraud is too nominal to make a difference in any given election, goes one popular line of argument. But tell that to voters in parts of Florida, Missouri, New York, and North Carolina in recent years. Districts in these four states saw election outcomes overturned after absentee voter fraud came to light. Now, with… -
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Don’t Let Liberals Federalize Elections
I’m sorry, but you have no constitutional “right” to vote by mail. You have no constitutional “right” to vote six days after an election is over. Nor do you have any “right” to censor information related to an election. Not even during a pandemic. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal court was… -
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Potential for Fraud Is Why Mail-In Elections Should Be Dead Letter
Twice the usual number of suspects, including CNN’s combative Jim Acosta, have been criticizing President Donald Trump for the concerns he has raised about elections conducted entirely by mail. As the president said in a tweet, we do need absentee ballots for “many senior citizens, military, and others who can’t get to the polls on… -
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How the Left Seeks to Undermine America’s Elections
America’s free and fair elections are under threat at the local and state level and in the movement to switch to a national popular vote to pick presidents, speakers said Saturday at an annual gathering of conservative activists near Washington. Two panelists during a session at the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, explained… -
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Iran’s Sham Parliamentary Elections Aim to Strengthen Hard-Liners’ Hand
Iran is preparing for another set of rigged parliamentary elections Friday. Once again, Iran’s clerical regime has vetoed the candidacies of almost half of the 14,000 would-be office-seekers who registered to run for one of the 290 seats. The Guardian Council, which must approve candidates, disqualified a record number of them, including a majority of… -
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‘Voter Suppression’ Is a Myth, but It’s an Article of Faith to Liberals
I received a strong dose of the misinformation warping the minds of young people this past weekend when I spoke on a panel on the subject of election integrity at the Washington conference of Junior State of America. Conference attendees were high school students from the northeast and southeast parts of the country. I was… -
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Taiwanese Presidential Election Is a Victory for Democracy
Friends of Freedom, all hail a modern-day David—tiny, democratic Taiwan—which continues to confound its big bully of a neighbor—communist China. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen overwhelmingly won reelection, The Wall Street Journal reported, by promising to defend the island’s freedoms against threats by mainland China. Communist officials accused Tsai of stealing victory through smears of her… -
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The Voter Purge Myth
Maggie Haberman, the esteemed New York Times reporter, recently tweeted out a Mother Jones article to 1.2 million followers. It was titled: “GOP-Led Voter Purges in Wisconsin and Georgia Could Tip 2020 Elections.” The chilling piece warns readers that “hundreds of thousands of voters are set to be purged in two key swing states,” which… -
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Election Irregularities Persist in Palm Beach County 20 Years After Bush-Gore Standoff
You would think that after being one of the centers of the election storm in 2000 when the hotly contested Florida recount determined whether George Bush or Al Gore would be president of the United States, Palm Beach County would have gotten its act together. But as is evident from a recent report from the… -
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Liberals Setting the Stage to Claim 2020 Election Results Illegitimate
In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Democrats fretted openly about the possibility that Donald Trump, being a rather poor sport, might refuse to acknowledge an election loss. To be fair, Trump refused to state that he would accept election results, depending on the circumstances: “I’ll keep you in suspense,” he stated in his Oct…. -
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Nancy Pelosi Is Already Attacking the Legitimacy of the 2020 Election
“Nancy Pelosi just stated that ‘it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate.’ @FoxNews In other words, she thinks I’m going to win and doesn’t want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, she’s CRAZY!” tweeted President Donald Trump Tuesday…. -
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Virginia’s Elections Should Serve as Wake-up Call to Monochromatic GOP
Virginia Republicans got their heads handed to them on a silver platter in legislative elections Nov. 5. Democrats now have a majority in the state General Assembly for the first time since 1995, and they also hold the governorship. Virginia used to be a solid red state for Republicans. Now, the Old Dominion is the proverbial canary… -
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What’s Driving Unusually High Voter Turnout
American voters are motivated by a fever pitch. That’s the message from last week’s elections. The headlines were the Democratic sweep of the state legislature in Virginia that put the entire state government under Democrat control for the first time in 25 years and the defeat of incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in Kentucky. An…