Category: Election Integrity

Arizona Senate Not Holding Maricopa County in Contempt Due to Holdout Republican

The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate is not voting to hold Maricopa County officials in contempt for refusing to fully comply with election audit subpoenas because of a single GOP senator. Republicans lost a seat in the state Senate in the 2020 elections and hold a narrow 16-14 majority. That gives state Sen. Paul Boyer, a Republican,…


Texas Democrat Leaves Washington, Returns to Austin to Work on Voting Bill

A Texas state Democrat lawmaker who left the Lone Star State to block a special session over a voting overhaul bill announced he’s returning to Texas to address the bill. Rep. Philip Cortez, who was one of about 60 Democrat lawmakers who traveled from Texas to Washington this month, said he was asked by other…


Texas Democrat Leaves Washington, Returns to State to Work on Voting Bill

A Texas state Democrat lawmaker who left the Lone Star State as part of an effort to prevent the passage of a Republican-backed voting measure said he’s returning to the state to engage in negotiations over the legislation. Rep. Philip Cortez, who was one of about 60 state lawmakers who traveled to Washington from Texas…


Pennsylvania Decertifies County’s Voting System, Cites Violation of Election Code

Pennsylvania’s top election official has decertified the voting system of rural Fulton County for future elections, saying that an election assessment by a third party had violated the Keystone State’s election code, according to a release on Wednesday. Acting Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid, an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, informed the Fulton County Board of…


North Carolina State Board of Election Denies Audit Request

Citing overriding federal authority under the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the North Carolina Board of Elections (BOE) has denied a North Carolina House Freedom Caucus (HFC) request to examine voting machines. Chairman of the caucus, Rep. Keith Kidwell (R-Beaufort), told The Epoch Times that although there is a statute that requires state employees…


Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Attempting to Overturn Georgia Senate Elections

A Georgia judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the state’s two Senate runoff elections in January, rejecting a case brought by a Fulton County resident. The plaintiff, Michael Daugherty, alleged the two January runoff contests, which were won by then-Democrat candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, were fraught with…


Arizona Attorney General Asks Secretary of State for Evidence of Potential Voter Fraud

The office of Arizona’s attorney general has asked the state’s secretary of state for a report on potential voter fraud violations after she asked him to probe how former President Donald Trump and allies of the ex-commander-in-chief allegedly pressured Maricopa County officials in the wake of the 2020 election. Attorney General Mark Brnovich, a Republican,…


Texas Rep. Introduces Bill to Audit 13 Most-Populous Counties’ Election Results

A Texas House representative announced Monday he’s introducing a bill for a forensic audit of the most populous counties’ election results. According to the text of House Bill 241, introduced by Republican state Rep. Steve Toth, forensic reviews of counties with more than 415,000 population should be carried out before Nov. 1, 2021, and they…


Second Pennsylvania County Raises Objections to Senator’s Election Investigation

Officials in a Pennsylvania county say a state senator may not have the legal power to compel it to provide election-related materials such as forensic images of ballot tabulators and voter information. Commissioners in York County, in a recent letter obtained by The Epoch Times, told Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano, a Republican, that the panel…


2020 Presidential Pre-Election Polls Marked Worst Performance in Decades: Report

A new report from an association of public opinion and survey research professionals found that supporters of former President Donald Trump who refused to take part in surveys were one of the likely reasons polls overstated President Joe Biden’s lead in the 2020 election, the biggest polling inaccuracy in 40 years. The report from the American…