Category: election laws

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…


Election, Voting Bills Top the Agenda for Texas’ 88th Legislative Session

Many Texas state lawmakers have spent the last couple of months pre-filing and refiling bills ahead of the state’s 88th regular legislative session, which convened on Tuesday. More than 70 pre-filed bills are related to voting and election laws. Republicans aim to pass legislation to create county-level forensic audit processes, appoint election marshals, record ballot…


Judge Strikes Down Controversial Clause in NY’s New Election Laws

A New York state court judge on Friday struck down one controversial sentence in New York’s new election laws. New York Supreme Court Justice Dianne Freestone said the sentence deprived the rights of courts to rule on disputed ballots. The last sentence in Article 9-209(8)e of the 2022 Election Law—which has been amended recently by…


Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren to Resign as Part of Plea Deal Over Alleged Campaign Finance Violations

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren will resign from office by Dec. 1 after accepting the terms of a plea deal in court on Monday where she faced charges over alleged campaign finance violations, Rochester First reported. Warren, along with two assistants, Albert Jones Jr., her campaign treasurer, and Rosiland Brooks-Harris, political action committee treasurer and Rochester finance director, were each…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (July 1)

The Manhattan District Attorney is charging the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer for tax fraud and grand larceny, President Biden is briefed on rescue efforts in Surfside, Florida, and the Supreme Court upholds Arizona’s election laws.


ACU Urges MLB to Correct ‘False Claims’ on Election Reforms and Return Games to Georgia

The American Conservative Union (ACU) is urging Major League Baseball (MLB) to publicly correct recent comments it made against Georgia’s election reform law while moving the All-Star Game to another state. MLB moved the game and its 2021 draft from Georgia to protest lawmakers passing a new election reform law that was signed by Republican Gov….


The Democrats Do Not Want Voting Integrity

Commentary Earlier this week I wrote about how Democrats and their media allies are lying about Georgia’s new election integrity law. Not only are they claiming the bill does things which it doesn’t do, but they are also falsely claiming that its provisions are unpopular with voters or damaging. This helped me realize something: Not…


Former Florida Senator Arrested For Violating Election Laws

Former Republican senator in Florida, Frank Artiles, was charged Thursday with campaign finance violations related to last year’s Miami-Dade state senate race, authorities said. Artiles, 47, who resigned in 2017 after making racially inflammatory remarks toward colleagues, was charged with three criminal counts involving a sham candidate intended to siphon votes away from a Democratic…