Election Integrity
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opinion
Bitter ‘Harvest’: Don’t Scoff, Virginia, Over California’s Elections. We’re Not Far Behind
Virginians should not be giggling over the issues that are dogging California’s primary results—we could be next. All of the laws regarding mail-in voting and ballot harvesting are in Virginia’s law books, too. Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, now president of the Election Transparency Initiative, pointed this out in a visit with me on… -
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DHS Directs ICE to Deport Noncitizens Who Illegally Vote in US Elections
Noncitizens who illegally vote in U.S. elections will face deportation, among other stricter penalties, according to new guidance from the Department of Homeland Security. The general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, James Percival, directed the leadership of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce the stricter penalties against noncitizens who vote. Percival’s letter cites… -
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Trump’s Message After LA Vote Count Disaster: ‘Pass the SAVE America Act’
President Donald Trump is renewing his call to pass the SAVE America Act to secure elections after late-arriving ballots in the Los Angeles mayoral election flipped the race against the Republican candidate. “The chaos happening in California only further underscores what the president has said many times—pass the SAVE America Act,” White House spokeswoman Abigail… -
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LA Mayor’s Race Proves Elections Need to Be Retrofitted
The 1994 Northridge Earthquake moved Los Angeles about 8.7 inches north toward San Francisco. The 2026 Democrats moved Los Angeles all the way into the Third World. First came the squalor, the homelessness, and the smash-and-grab lawlessness, and now, straight out of the banana republic playbook, come election shenanigans so blatant it makes North Korean… -
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7 States Uncovered Noncitizen Voter Registrations as SAVE Act Debate Heightens
Just this year, at least seven states identified noncitizens on their voter registration lists. This comes as Congress continues to debate the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Several states obtained the names of noncitizens by cross-referencing the voter registration list with the… -
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‘We Should Move On’: These Republicans Think the Voter ID Fight Is Over
After months in which the SAVE America Act—a bill to require photo identification and proof of citizenship in federal elections—has been a major topic of discussion among Republican senators, some in the upper chamber are willing to call it quits and “move on.” “It’s a well-known fact around here, sometimes perhaps not fully grasped around… -
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California’s Election Problems Keep Getting Worse
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: So, Victor, let’s start out local. California election. This thing—no, there’s no state in America, and in fact, I’ve read there’s no country, non-first-world or… -
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Rick Scott: Late LA Mayor Race Results Prove SAVE America Is Necessary
Angered by Los Angeles’ late-arriving mayoral election results that locked Spencer Pratt out of the city’s runoff election, Republican Sen. Rick Scott is arguing the SAVE America Act would strengthen Americans’ faith in their elections. The bill would require photo identification and proof of citizenship in federal elections and require local governments to regularly purge… -
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California’s Slow Roll Vote-Counting Is an Outrage
Americans should expect, at a minimum, to have elections that are free and fair, and results that are delivered promptly. But California is taking its laid-back reputation too far, failing to deliver its election results in a timely manner and creating the perception that they are neither free nor fair. Slothful election results have plagued California for… -
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US Judge Won’t Block Trump’s Mail-In Voting Executive Order for Now
REUTERS—A U.S. judge on Thursday declined to immediately block President Donald Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting, but left the door open for the Democratic Party to challenge it again after the administration takes further steps to implement the measure. Washington-based U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols’ order did not address whether Trump’s March 31… -
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Kansas AG Vows to Prosecute ‘Very Significant Number’ of Noncitizen Voters
Kansas will be prosecuting more cases of noncitizen voting, the state’s Attorney General Kris Kobach says, as the national debate continues about requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration and identification to vote. The state this year has prosecuted three noncitizens who cast ballots, one an incumbent mayor who was also not legally allowed to… -
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‘Corruption’ or ‘Incompetence’? Maryland Rushes to Reprint, Resend 500,000 Mail Ballots
Scrambling to repair its mail-ballot boondoggle, the Maryland State Board of Elections began reprinting ballots Thursday, with plans to have more than 500,000 ballots resent to voters by next Friday. The elections board first announced last week that an undetermined number of mail ballots for the June 23 party primary were sent to the wrong… -
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Virginia Dems Make Glaring Errors in Rushed Court Motion to Save Gerrymandering Scheme
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Virginia Democrats’ motion urging the state supreme court to temporarily halt its order against the 2026 gerrymandering referendum appears to include two major typos. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, alongside Virginia House Speaker Don Scott and State Sen. Louise Lucas, petitioned the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay its order which struck down the gerrymandering referendum,… -
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Legal Earthquake in Virginia Shakes Democrats at Highest Levels
An earthquake occurred today in the Commonwealth of Virginia that was felt at the highest levels of power in the U.S. House of Representatives, particularly shaking the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries. On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court rejected the unconstitutional push by the Democrat majority in the Virginia General Assembly…. -
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Virginia Supreme Court Rules Redistricting Referendum Unconstitutional: A Victory for Voters
In an opinion written by Justice D. Arthur Kelsey, the Virginia Supreme Court has today ruled that the controversial redistricting referendum—narrowly approved by voters on April 21, 2026—was unconstitutional. The court determined in a 4-3 vote, with no dissenting opinion, that the Democrat-led General Assembly violated key procedural requirements under the Virginia Constitution when it… -
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Thomas: Be Ready for Extremism if VA Referendum Result Tossed Out
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones asked the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn a ruling by Judge Hurley in Tazewell that blocked the State Board of Elections from certifying the results of the April 21 redistricting referendum. That is notable—so is the justices’ denial of that motion. First, most anyone that remembers 2020 knows that the… -
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Can California Elections Be Saved? Voter ID Qualifies for the Ballot
Californians will get a chance to vote for more secure elections this November after a voter identification and citizenship verification initiative qualified for the ballot. Following a successful signature-gathering campaign led by Assemblyman Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, the ballot question, if approved, would require government-issued identification for in-person voting. Californians voting by mail would need… -
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Senate Dems Claim Victory Over Thune on SAVE America Act
Senior Democrat senators told The Daily Signal that voter citizenship and identification legislation backed by President Donald Trump—the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act—has stalled amid unified Democrat opposition. “I haven’t heard officially that it is dead, but it shows no signs of life,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D‑Conn., told The Daily Signal. Democrats have repeatedly… -
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Play Moderate, Rule Progressive: The New Dem Playbook
On Virginia’s gubernatorial campaign trail, Abigail Spanberger showed real acting chops. The former CIA spook and congresswoman made a great show of how moderate she was in the face of withering attacks from Republican Winsome Earle-Sears. Spanberger trotted out her cop dad to tout her law-and-order credentials, claimed she would be a bipartisan governor for… -
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Dead Could Be a Sizable Voting Bloc in This Battleground State
About 34,000 dead people were on the voter rolls in North Carolina, a key battleground state in most election years, the North Carolina State Board of Elections reported. The board used data from the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, known as SAVE, made available to states last year by the Department of Homeland…