Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton weighed in on the Republican state legislatures pursuing basic election integrity measures in their respective states, contending that it “shouldn’t be a partisan issue” to reject such efforts.
The Georgia Republican Party censured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday for “dereliction of his constitutional duty.”
CNN’s Jake Tapper has vowed to blacklist Republicans who question the results of the 2020 presidential election, despite giving Stacey Abrams a platform in 2018 to do just that and claim election interference following her loss to now-Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) said Thursday that voter integrity laws being established in states such as Texas are a “subversion of American democracy.”
Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R-Franklin), who has recently positioned himself as a leading advocate for the Keystone State’s fight for election integrity, actually voted for the measure, Act 77 (along with his Republican colleagues), which arguably caused many of the issues in the 2020 election, particularly approving no-excuse voting in exchange for the abolishment of straight-ticket voting.
GOP-controlled state legislatures drafting and passing election integrity laws are a threat to American democracy, academics claim.
Pennsylvania Republicans are calling for an Arizona-style election audit in the Keystone State, as three state lawmakers toured the Grand Canyon State’s audit site, the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, this week.
Hillary Clinton warned that the very “survival of American Democracy” could depend on Democrats passing legislation that would effectively loosen election safeguards by stripping states of their authority to impose basic election integrity measures, such as requiring voter ID and restricting vote by mail.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) sharply criticized President Joe Biden for mischaracterizing Republican legislative efforts to prioritize election integrity, telling the Dallas Morning News that he suspects Biden “doesn’t have a clue” what is in the Lone Star State’s legislation.
Texas Democrats in the state’s House blocked an election integrity bill on Sunday night, walking out of the floor of the chamber, thereby leaving Republicans without a quorum to vote on the measure, Senate Bill 7.
A Georgia judge ordered a delay in the audit of an estimated 147,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton County, Georgia during the 2020 election Wednesday after county officials filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by nine Georgia voters who requested the audit.
Heritage Action announced on Wednesday that it has been joined by more than 1,700 Nevada grassroots activists in opposing a Democrat-sponsored bill that passed the Nevada State Assembly in a straight 25 to 16 party-line vote the group says will weaken election integrity laws.
Minutes before the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a complaint on Wednesday that, if granted by the court, would require the Palm Beach County, Florida Supervisor of Elections to return an estimated $1.3 million in unspent funds from a grant the county received from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology in Civic Life (CTCL) in October 2020, Supervisor of Elections Wendy Link claimed in a letter to PILF she has “no legal obligation to immediately return outstanding funds to the CTCL.”
Heritage Action for America announced Wednesday their effort by a group of grassroots conservative activists, who wrote a letter to Nevada legislators to try and oppose the state’s election bill, set to weaken the state’s election laws.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, launched another attack on the Republican-controlled Arizona State Senate’s audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results on Monday, and complained that election officials in other states are concerned they may soon be subject to similar audits.
Legal counsel for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors sent a “litigation hold and preservation notice” letter to Arizona State Senate President Karen Fann on Friday.
Arizona Secretary of States may decertify the election machines used by the county in the 2020 election that were turned over to the organization conducting the Arizona State Senate audit of those election results.
Corporate leaders are targeting Republican election integrity efforts behind the scenes, hoping to shift the political dial in their favor by convincing lawmakers to reject basic election integrity laws in the future.
A department of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) administration claimed a package of election integrity bills are a “vicious attack” and “designed to intimidate black voters.”
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), who gained national attention while overseeing the state’s 2020 election process, which was rife with concerns about election integrity, confirmed Tuesday he is running for reelection next year.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) on Tuesday called for three Florida counties to return $2.1 million in unspent funds from grants received in 2020 from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors refused an invitation to meet with the Arizona State Senate to discuss how to resolve issues surrounding a State Senate authorized audit of the November 3, 2020 election results in Maricopa County in a sharply worded letter sent on Monday.
Three serious issues have been found in the audit of the returns of the November 3, 2020 general election in Maricopa County, AZ.
The Harris County Commissioners Court voted on Tuesday to file a lawsuit against an election integrity bill that has not yet been passed by the Texas State Legislature or signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Connecticut Republicans in the state House were successful Tuesday in blocking a 2022 referendum on a constitutional amendment that would permit no-excuse absentee voting in the state.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) signed an election integrity bill on Tuesday that will limit the number of absentee ballots automatically mailed out by cleaning up voter lists and removing those who have not voted in the past two election cycles.
Amid allegations of voter fraud in last week’s elections, Boris Johnson’s government will reportedly roll out a series of electoral reforms, including requiring voter ID, in the Queen’s Speech on Tuesday.
The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) began tallying votes for its gubernatorial candidates — through a complicated ranked-choice and weighted method — on Monday morning, more than a full day and a half after polls closed Saturday.
The Texas House of Representatives passed a major election integrity bill on Friday in a 78 to 64 vote.
The Texas House passed Senate Bill 7 Friday on a second reading despite push back from “woke” corporations and the liberal media, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said.
We must set the record straight that Georgia’s law makes it easy to vote and hard to cheat. If we don’t fight back against these lies now, activists will have carte blanche to follow a similar playbook in the future.
Democrats criticized Florida Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over SB 90, an election integrity measure banning ballot harvesting and enhancing voter identification requirements, accusing the GOP of going “full Jim Crow.”
State Rep. Bruce Griffey (R-TN) said Tennessee will continue improving election security, including the integration of watermarks on ballots.
Florida became the fifth state in 2021 to enact a law that prohibits the private funding of election administration on Thursday after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a comprehensive election integrity bill into law.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed an election integrity bill, SB 90, on Thursday, which implements a number of safeguards to protect elections in the Sunshine State, including limits on ballot box drop boxes, enhancements on voter ID requirements, and additional restrictions on voting by mail and ballot harvesting.
Rep. Chip Roy sent a letter on Wednesday to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and two influential state legislators encouraging them to pass election integrity legislation currently under consideration in the Texas State Legislature that includes several specific safeguards.
The Republican-controlled Louisiana House of Representatives voted 69 to 35 on Tuesday to ban private funding of election administration in the state.
The general counsel for the Arizona Legislative Council sent a memo to state Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-16) on Monday in which he stated that SB 1485, a bill that removes inactive voters from the list of those who are automatically mailed absentee ballots, is not retroactive prior to its effective date.
The Tennessee legislature included an amendment to an election-related bill that would require a “non-visible” watermark on every absentee ballot.
A plurality of U.S. adults say loose voting rules, which can result in illegal votes being cast, are a “bigger problem” than voter access, a CNN poll released Friday found.
