Election Integrity
Protecting the integrity of America’s elections. News and analysis on election integrity, voter ID, ballot security, election reform, and the fight for transparent, secure voting.
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Virginia Removed 6,531 Declared Noncitizens From Voter Rolls Over 2 Years
Virginia removed 6,531 noncitizens from its voter registration rolls over the last two years, according to public records obtained by Judicial Watch. The Virginia Department of Elections classified each as a “declared noncitizen” removed from the state’s voter registration lists between June 2024 and June 2026. The state produced no record of whether the noncitizens… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Findings Add to Growing Concerns Over Noncitizen Voting
A Kentucky lawmaker found that at least 159 noncitizens have voted in the state and said the U.S. Justice Department may bring prosecutions. The findings come as President Donald Trump has raised concerns about the number of noncitizens on state voter rolls. State Rep. John Hodgson, vice chairman of the House Committee on Elections, Constitutional… -
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‘Democrats Want Illegal Aliens to Vote’: Cruz Pushes GOP to Pass SAVE America Act
Sen. Ted Cruz is calling for Senate Republicans to do “everything humanly possible to pass the SAVE America Act.” With only one week left, the Texas lawmaker is intensifying pressure on his colleagues to act. Cruz appeared on “Mornings with Maria” on Fox Business today to urgently repeat a demand he has made for months:… -
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Voter ID Advocates Take California AG to Court Over Ballot Description
Advocates for voter ID in California have sued the state over altered ballot language for the November initiative. The ballot initiative Proposition 39, which would amend the state constitution to require that voters provide government-issued identification to vote, originally included the description, “Establishes additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements.” However, last week, California Attorney… -
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Interview: Ken Cuccinelli Brings His Election Transparency Initiative to Heritage
Former Virginia Attorney General and acting Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli recently announced he was bringing his Election Transparency Initiative (ETI) into the Heritage Foundation. ETI helps conservatives fight election fraud before it happens. Cuccinelli spoke this week with Daily Signal Virginia correspondent Joe Thomas about the initiative and the new partnership with Heritage. This… -
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail-in Ballot Restrictions
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow implementation nationwide of his executive order aimed at tightening rules for mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. In a filing, the Justice Department requested that the justices put on hold a judge’s ruling preventing the… -
Voter ID, Citizenship Verification Measures Head to Ballots Across America
As Congress struggles to pass the SAVE America Act, voters in states across the nation will decide this November on election procedures such as photo ID requirements, citizenship verification, and other election security matters. Two states feature ballot initiatives with both voter ID requirements and calls for some form of citizenship verification and voter list… -
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10 States Checked Their Voter Rolls With a DHS Database to Find Startling Info
Twenty-five states, with the help of a Department of Homeland Security database, have identified hundreds of thousands of dead people and noncitizens registered to vote, and they haven’t finished counting yet. So far, just 10 states—including key battlegrounds Georgia and North Carolina—have fully processed the voter data through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or… -
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After DHS Release of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls, How Have States Responded?
A week after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote to top election officials in four states warning of hundreds of thousands of potential noncitizens on their voter rolls, only New Jersey has admitted to a problem. The other three states have been either noncommittal in responding or have pushed back on Mullin’s claims. The Department… -
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News Networks Challenge Mark Warner on Voter ID, President’s Speech
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner told a gathering of supporters in Staunton this past weekend that “this is it” for him. It is his last run for the U.S. Senate seat he first won in 2008 after serving as Virginia’s governor. Funny, you don’t have to look hard in the archives to find a famous video… -
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‘FINISH THE MISSION’: Chip Roy Pulls Back the Curtain on Intra-GOP Fight Over SAVE America Act and Border Security
The following is an excerpt of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, for “Signal Sitdown,” which premieres on the Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. EDT on July 23. This transcript has been edited for clarity. Bradley Devlin: You just came out with a letter outlining 14 different items… -
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Heritage Foundation Brings Election Transparency Initiative Into Fold
The Election Transparency Initiative, which advocates for voter integrity issues at the federal and state levels, is joining The Heritage Foundation. The initiative was first founded in 2021 and has been led by its chairman, Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia attorney general and former acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. “ETI is excited… -
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6,600 Noncitizens Added to NJ Voter Rolls, Sherrill Admits
More than 6,000 noncitizens were mistakenly added to New Jersey’s voter registration rolls between June 2023 and June 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said Tuesday. Roughly 400 of those noncitizens voted, the Democrat governor said, before adding, “We have no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed.” The names have been removed from the… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: Changing Voting Laws Only Benefits the Left
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. Jack Fowler: Donald Trump gives a speech to the nation on the 2020 election and the involvement of our… -
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Election Fraud Convictions Offer Real-World Test of SAVE Act’s Potential Impact
The SAVE America Act could have curbed hundreds of documented instances of noncitizens registering to vote and dozens of instances of noncitizens voting in elections, based on recent state data and criminal cases. A review of adjudicated election fraud cases suggests that a federal law requiring verified citizenship and photo ID—such as the SAVE America… -
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Johnson Needs SAVE Before Congress Leaves Town. He Plans to Get It.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and fellow Republicans are gearing up to vote on four major funding bills left undone until the last minute. The lawmakers are considering multiple road maps for election security ahead of their monthlong recess that begins Friday. Aiming to pass everything under one rule, the bills will address a ban on… -
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Trump Administration USPS Wins Key Court Fight Over Mail-In Ballot Oversight
The Trump administration scored a partial court victory on election integrity in a case involving mail-in ballots and voter rolls. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday paused a lower court ruling against a U.S. Postal Service rule that conditioned delivery of mail-in ballots on… -
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RNC Opens New Front in Election Integrity Battle Over ‘Never Residents’ Voting in 6 States
After a victory in the battleground state of North Carolina, the Republican National Committee has pending litigation against six other states to stop U.S. citizens who never lived in those states from voting in their elections. The RNC has sued battleground states Arizona and Nevada; blue states such as Colorado, New Jersey, and Virginia; and… -
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Address on Chinese Election Interference
Much of President Donald Trump’s address to the nation about Chinese election interference cited newly declassified documents, but at several points he made claims on matters already known before the release of the new material. Contrary to speculation ahead of the speech, Trump did not outright assert that Chinese interference in the 2020 election determined… -
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Mullin Announces Major Steps for Election Security Following China Revelations
In just four states, 250,000 noncitizens are registered to vote, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Friday as he announced new measures to bolster election security. The four states—California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada—did not cooperate with the Trump administration in its review of voter information, but the Department of Homeland Security obtained the information…