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Progressivism Shunned by Voters in Blue Cities, States
Although Super Tuesday may have been predictable on the presidential front, the big primary day held some surprises lower down the ballot. Deep-blue cities and states are rejecting leftist policies. In San Francisco, voters backed ballot measures to strengthen the city’s police force and mandate drug tests for welfare recipients, prompting the San Francisco Chronicle to declare… -
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Garland Calls Election Reforms ‘Discriminatory, Burdensome, and Unnecessary’
Attorney General Merrick Garland, in an address Sunday at a church in Selma, Alabama, characterized state election laws designed to verify mail-in ballots, restrict drop boxes, and require voter ID as “discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.” Experts say the attorney general’s comments don’t line up with the views of a supermajority of Americans, and that the Biden administration… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Railroading the Election: How 1 Small Agency Conforms to Biden’s Get-Out-the-Vote Agenda
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Even seemingly obscure federal agencies are working to turn out more voters under President Joe Biden’s executive order on elections. The Railroad Retirement Board’s strategic plan includes calls for distributing flyers and posters; keeping metrics on directing individuals to the federal voter registration website Vote.gov; and working with an “equity team”… -
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Why Taylor Swift, Super Bowl, and Mark Zuckerberg Get a Shoutout in This Election Reform Hearing
Impartial referees are just as important in the big election in November as in the big game this Sunday, a lawmaker argued Wednesday during a congressional hearing on private funding for administering elections. “The millions of private dollars being funneled to local offices raises serious questions about the conditions placed on their use,” House Administration… -
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‘Got It All Figured Out’: Arizona’s Election Chief Defends Split Rules on Proving Citizenship to Vote
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes contends that his state’s “bifurcated ballot system” requiring proof of citizenship to vote in state elections, but not federal ones, has worked effectively. An oath of legal eligibility taken by voters for federal elections for Congress and president is entirely sufficient, Fontes says. “We have the strictest regime in the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Campaign Highlights Oreo’s Partnership With ‘Militant’ LGBTQ Group
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is taking aim at Oreo for partnering with an organization promoting a “militant LGBTQ agenda.” The NLPC will release a video Wednesday that begins by citing the names of infamous books on gender and sexuality that have been marketed to young people in… -
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As Mail-In Voting Expands, Bipartisan Bill Would Require Barcodes on Ballots
Mail-in ballots would be required to include a barcode when being processed by the Postal Service, as an extra level of election security under a measure set to be advanced Tuesday by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced Friday that his committee would hold a markup on several bills,… -
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Heritage’s One-of-a-Kind Election Fraud Database Hits 1,500 Cases
The Heritage Foundation’s Election Fraud Database, the only such database in existence, now contains over 1,500 proven cases of election fraud. The sampling of cases vary from lone wolves stealing one vote to conspiracies that stole many votes, defrauding citizens and candidates of honest elections and sometimes changing the outcome of an election. (The Daily… -
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That Other Primary in New England Is a Do-Over After Massive Voter Fraud Scandal
Another New England primary is happening Tuesday, this one outside New Hampshire and between Democrats—and it’s a do-over to one that was stained by voter fraud caught on video. Bridgeport, the largest city in Connecticut, garnered national attention last year after a judge tossed the results of a September mayoral primary because a Democrat operative… -
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After Pro-Life Movement Suffers Ballot Losses, Its Strategy, Tactics Need to Change
Thousands of members of the pro-life movement will gather in Washington, D.C., on Friday for the 51st annual March for Life. While there is plenty for marchers to celebrate in light of 50 years of hard work that resulted in Roe v. Wade being overturned in 2022, the movement has suffered big losses over the… -
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Trump’s Ballot Disqualification Case Reaches Supreme Court
In what may turn out to be the most pivotal election case since Bush v. Gore, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a short order on Jan. 5 granting the request by former President Donald Trump asking the court to overturn the Colorado state Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 decision disqualifying him from appearing on the state’s… -
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Voter Fraud More Widespread Than Some Think
The 2020 election involved a criminal voter fraud scheme with mass absentee ballots and phony voter registrations, according to the Justice Department and the New Jersey attorney general. This verdict and indictment happened in 2023. Prosecutors in Massachusetts and New York brought election fraud charges in the closing weeks of December. The Justice Department secured… -
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Election Year Brings Fresh Criteria for Election Integrity, Improvements by States
The primary election season is about to start, and the country is just 10 months away from the general election, which will determine control of the White House, Congress, and state and local offices. With the increased use of mail-in ballots and early voting, voters will be returning their ballots weeks, if not months, before… -
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Biden’s Order Puts Bureaucrats’ ‘Thumb on the Scale’ in Elections, House GOP Warns
House Republicans are calling out President Joe Biden’s push, under an executive order, to field federal employees to vote, register voters, and serve as poll workers during elections. “Biden’s EO is another attempt for this administration to put a thumb on the scale and expand its overreach in our elections,” Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of… -
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Will Elections Finally Be Secure and Honest in 2024?
Looking back on what happened in the election field in 2023 can give us a better sense of what to expect in this year’s presidential election. Legislators in many states improved procedures for ensuring secure and honest elections. But other states either failed to act or made things worse by failing to implement effective practices for accurately administering voter… -
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Poll: 1 in 5 Mail-In Voters Admit Fraud in 2020 Election
About 1 in 5 mail-in voters in the 2020 election admit to engaging in some type of voting irregularity, a poll released Tuesday shows. The Rasmussen poll of 1,085 likely voters was sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 6. The Heartland/Rasmussen poll found that 17% of mail-in… -
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Jimmy Carter Personally Experienced Voter Fraud. His First Election Was Stolen.
With the passing of Rosalynn Carter, former President Jimmy Carter lost his lifetime partner, and my deepest sympathies go out to him and his family. The former first lady’s death, however, reminded me of something relevant to election integrity that many Americans may not realize: Organized voter fraud in Jimmy Carter’s first run for office… -
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Democrats Changed Campaign Finance Laws Ahead of Contentious Election in This State, It Ultimately Benefited Them
A new campaign finance law helped Democrats to outraise and outspend Republicans in New Jersey’s November legislative elections, according to NorthJersey. The Democrat-controlled New Jersey State Legislature passed the Elections Transparency Act in March that, among other things, doubled campaign contribution limits from $2,600 per candidate per election to $5,200 per candidate per election. Democrats raised $10.8… -
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The Left Conspires to Keep Election Fraud Under Wraps
You can see it with your own eyes. But Democrats and their left-wing media allies call it a “fantasy.” What is it? Election fraud. A Lawrence, Massachusetts, voter who had been turned away from the polls on Election Day and told he had already voted found out he was the victim of fraud. He checked… -
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What States Can and Should Do to Ensure Fairness, Honesty in 2024 Elections
The 2024 primary season is already in full swing, but it’s not too late for states to improve the security and integrity of their election process to the benefit of all voters, no matter their political preferences. The American public wants and deserves an election system in which the candidates who get the most legitimate…