A clear majority of Pennsylvania voters “strongly” support requiring an individual to show photo ID prior to casting a ballot, a Franklin & Marshall College Poll released this week found.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) claimed Thursday that he has “never been opposed to voter ID,” ignoring his own history of bashing “unnecessary and discriminatory voter ID laws,” describing them as both “secretive” and “subversive.”
In a message to her 5.5 million Twitter followers, the “Scandal” star Kerry Washington said “Black and Brown voters are being specifically targeted when it comes to voter suppression.” That claim is false.
Failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Republican state lawmakers forwarding voting legislation is a continuation of the January 6 Capitol riot “insurrection.”
Actress Jennifer Lawrence claimed this week that there is a “radical wing” of the Republican Party that is actively dismantling Americans’ right to vote. The “Hunger Games” and “X-Men: Dark Phoenix” star begged fans to support the far-left’s For the People Act, which would nationalize U.S. elections and gut voter ID provisions.
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that the questions over the 2020 presidential election were over and that Joe Biden is president.
Giving non-citizens the right to vote in local elections across the United States invites foreign interference in the electoral process, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) says in a statement shared with Breitbart News.
Communist candidate Pedro Castillo appears to have won the Peruvian presidential election as of Wednesday afternoon, in a tight race separating him from rival conservative Keiko Fujimori by less than 0.5 percent of the vote.
Former President Barack Obama said Monday during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that it is cause for concern that the Republican Party “cowed” to former President Donald Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election by passing restrictive voting laws.
Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” called on the U.S. Senate to bypass the filibuster by using the reconciliation process to protect the constitutional right of voting or America would be “going the way of the Roman empire.”
MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that it was not clear the Democrats’ sweeping election bill H.R.-1 For the People Act is constitutional while discussing Sen. Joe Manchin (R-WV) opposition to it.
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.
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the election reform so-called For The People Act was “the wrong piece of legislation” at this time to unite the country, and said that was why it did not have his support.
Senator Angus King (I-ME) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he would prefer to go with a simple majority vote and forgo the filibuster rule if it came down to voting rights.
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.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Thursday CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” Republicans are in a “disgraceful, cowardly way,” making it “harder for people of color, young people, poor people to vote.”
Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that he believed ten Senate Republicans would join with the Democrats to pass voting legislation if it has a narrow focus to create “a uniform set of standards” on early voting, mail-in voting and absentee voting.
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) is asking state lawmakers to pass an elections law that would allow non-citizens across the state to vote in local municipality elections.
Election officials in Alachua County, Florida, are being investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for allegedly registering to vote inmates at the county jail for the 2020 presidential election.
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.
Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that Texas, Arizona and Georgia’s Republican-led state legislatures advancing election laws are making “un-American” moves.
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden have to do whatever it takes to pass the For the People Act because it was “do or die for America right now.”
Representative Colin Allred (D-TX) said Monday on MSNBC that the Texas Senate Bill 7, a Republican-backed bill on election rules, is “so explicitly discriminatory that it’s embarrassing.”
Representative Marc Veasey (D-TX) said Monday on MSNBC that the Texas bill tightening election rules showed Republicans had “no morals” and “they’re not going to lose any sleep at all about discriminating against voters of color.”
Representative Marc Veasey (D-TX) said Monday on MSNBC that the Texas Senate Bill 7, a Republican-backed bill tightening election rules, was something you would see done “in Zimbabwe or Venezuela.”
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.
The speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly announced Thursday he is expanding the state legislature’s investigation into the conduct of several city officials and the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) during the 2020 election.
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.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) has signed into law legislation that makes it a crime to vote in Alabama and at least one other state in the same election.
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.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) is marking its third win in the last few years on protecting the right to inspect state voter rolls for non-citizen registrations and voting.
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.
Comedian Sarah Silverman is the latest celebrity urging Congress to pass H.R. 1, the so-called “For the People Act,” that would gut voter identification requirements, protect illegal immigrants, and federalize election oversight by seizing power from states.
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.”
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.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said Monday night on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) are “standing up for our democracy” by opposing the notion former President Donald Trump didn’t lose the 2020 presidential election.
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.
A majority of Americans believe basic voter ID requirements, such as requiring a valid photo ID prior to casting a ballot, would make elections “more fair,” despite the steady stream of mischaracterizations from top Democrats, who contend that such requirements are oppressive and akin to the Jim Crow era.
Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that while she would like to see the filibuster rule go, she would settle for lifting it for “constitutional matters, in particular, the right to vote.”
