Category: Election Integrity

Pennsylvania County Completes Hand Recount of 2020 Presidential Election

A hand recount of 2020 election ballots in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania this week yielded only slight variations in the final numbers. In Lycoming, former President Donald Trump still beats President Joe Biden, with the new totals: Trump at 41,455 with seven voters fewer than the 2020 count, and Biden at 16,956 with 15 voters fewer…


Texas State Senator’s Election Reform Proposals Hold GOP Lawmakers’ Feet to the Fire

As the Texas Legislature convened on Jan. 10, State Senator Bob Hall (R-Rockwall) proposed a series of reforms that will give members of the GOP majority a chance to prove to voters that they are serious about election integrity. Both houses of the Texas State Legislature are controlled by Republicans by comfortable majorities. Hall, a…


Iowa Woman Arrested for Voter Fraud Scheme

The wife of a Woodbury County, Iowa, supervisor was arrested on Jan. 12 and charged with more than 50 counts of voter fraud, the Department of Justice announced. Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, of Sioux City, is married to Jeremy Taylor, who unsuccessfully ran in the Republican primary for Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District to replace Rep. Steve King in 2020. She appeared in court…


Marketing Over Policy: Former Special Forces Steps Down From Politics Citing Poor State of Discourse

Former special forces operative Heston Russell is stepping down as leader of the Australian Values Party citing the oversimplification of political debate in the country. The Australian Values Party ran candidates (many with military backgrounds) in the May 2022 federal election, as well as the recent Victorian state election where the party did not manage…


Alabama Official Indicted on Voter Fraud Charges, Ballot ‘Stuffing’ in Democratic Primary

The chairman of Alabama’s Perry County Commission was indicted on felony and misdemeanor voter fraud charges in connection to the midterm primary and general elections, officials said. Albert Turner Jr., the official who is also son of a well-known civil rights activist, was charged with voting multiple times in Alabama’s primary elections in the spring of 2022…


New Texas Bill Would Raise Penalty of Illegal Voting to Felony, Joins Similar Pre-Filed Bills

On the first day of Texas’s 88th regular legislative session, a Republican state representative filed a bill that would increase the criminal penalty for the offense of illegal voting from a Class A misdemeanor to a felony. It’s the latest in a string of similar bills that had been pre-filed by Republican lawmakers ahead of the state’s…


‘This is Election Interference’: House Oversight Veteran on Biden Classified Documents

A House Oversight Committee veteran said the delay in publicizing President Joe Biden’s retention of classified documents from his time as vice president amounts to election interference. “The documents were allegedly discovered on Nov. 2. The midterms are on Nov. 8. To me, this is election interference by omission,” said Mike Howell in a Jan….


Supreme Court Rejects Case Seeking to Overturn 2020 Election

The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9 turned down a case that sought to overturn the 2020 election. Justices decided against hearing arguments in Raland Brunson v. Alma Adams. They did not explain their reasoning. The move came after the case was distributed for justices to consider during their Jan. 6 conference. Brunson, a Utah…


Watchdog Group Clashes with Colorado Secretary of State Over 31,000 Non-Citizens Who Were Mailed Voter Registration Information

In October 2022, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office acknowledged to the media that it mailed more than 31,000 voter registration instruction cards to foreign nationals living in the state. The registration information was sent out in the months leading up to the 2022 midterm elections. In a Jan. 5, 2023, press release, the Public…


Colorado Secretary of State Admits It Mailed Over 31,000 Voter Registration Instruction Cards to Non-Citizens

In October 2022, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office acknowledged to the media that it mailed more than 31,000 voter registration instruction cards to foreign nationals living in the state. The registration information was sent out in the months leading up to the 2022 midterm elections. In a Jan. 5, 2023, press release, the Public…