Category: Election Integrity

Arizona Republicans File Lawsuit to Remove Mail-In Voting

The Arizona Republican Party has filed a lawsuit seeking to remove absentee voting and no-excuse mail-in voting in the state. In the suit filed on Friday, the political party argued that “in-person voting at the polls on a fixed date (election day) is the only constitutional manner of voting in Arizona.” In the petition to…


Whistleblower Sues Delaware Over Election Laws That Unconstitutionally Extend Voting Time

An election integrity group is representing a state government whistleblower who claims in a new lawsuit that Delaware is playing fast and loose with state election laws, enforcing statutes that violate the state’s constitution. The Delaware General Assembly passed a law in 2019 that allowed early voting in person at least 10 days before the…


Bill Banning Ballot Harvesting Passes in Idaho House

The Idaho state House on Monday passed a bill that bans ballot harvesting in a bid that proponents say is intended to shore up election integrity. The bill, from Republican Rep. Mike Moyle, seeks to prevent ballot harvesting by making it a crime for someone to convey another individual’s mail-in ballot unless they are a…


Private Money Seeks to Fund South Carolina Elections Via Non-Profits: Study

 Non-profit organizations gave hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize the conducting of state and local elections across America in 2020, but their efforts were not confined to hotly contested swing states, a new study has found. According to a report about private funding of public elections in South Carolina, released Feb. 17 by the Public…


Fraudulent Use of Absentee Ballots, Dirty Voter Rolls Must Be Sorted Out Before 2022 Midterms: Experts

Fraudulent mail-in ballots and dirty voter rolls could spawn a series of messy elections around the country, experts fear, saying their threat to election integrity cannot be underestimated. When a person dies or fails to provide notification of change of address, a “dirty voter roll” is often the result, because the resident essentially remains eligible…


Theory Touting State Legislature Supremacy in Elections Administration Gains Traction in Court Cases

An arcane theory resuscitated during legal challenges before the U.S. Supreme Court in the wake of Florida’s disputed 2000 election is finding traction in post-2020 election integrity lawsuits. Proponents are espousing “Independent State Legislatures Doctrine” in legal arguments seeking to cuff state courts from “acting like ‘super legislators’” and assert state legislatures’ right as “necessary…


Doctrine Touting State Legislature Supremacy in Elections Administration Gains Traction in Court Cases

A constitutional doctrine resuscitated during legal challenges before the U.S. Supreme Court in the wake of Florida’s disputed 2000 election is finding traction in post-2020 election integrity lawsuits. Proponents are espousing “Independent State Legislatures Doctrine” in legal arguments seeking to cuff state courts from “acting like ‘super legislators’” and assert state legislatures’ right as “necessary…


Indiana Officials Unanimously Reject Democrat’s Effort to Disqualify Rep. Jim Banks From 2022 Election Run

The bipartisan Indiana Election Commission on Feb. 18 unanimously dismissed a Democratic challenger’s bid to force an outspoken pro-Trump Republican congressman off this year’s ballot for contesting the 2020 presidential election results. Aaron “A.J.” Calkins of Fort Wayne, who is running in a three-way Democratic Party primary for the right to face third-term U.S. Rep….


Plaintiffs in Michigan Lawsuit Over Zuckerberg Funding of Elections Fighting State’s 3rd Attempt to Dismiss Case

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat who wants communities in her state to continue accepting private funding for election administration, is trying for the third time to have a lawsuit challenging the practice thrown out. The legal controversy arose after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife gave $419.5 million to left-wing activist…


EpochTV Review: Biden Questions Election Integrity When it Helps Him Politically

Commentary Questioning election integrity may not be new for Americans since the 2020 Presidential election, but it is new for President Joe Biden, who, when asked if there may be reason to question the legitimacy of the upcoming 2022 midterm elections, replied “it all depends.” It turns out that the Democrats are now posing themselves…