Tag: ballot drop boxes

NTD Good Morning (Mar. 3): Alex Murdaugh Found Guilty of Murdering Wife and Son; Democrats React to Release of Jan. 6 Footage

A 12 person jury declares Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son.  Find out what compelled their unanimous decision to convict him. The Justice Department argued against former president Trump having absolute immunity from civil lawsuits. That’s in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach. This as democrats push back against House Speaker…


NTD Good Morning (March 3): Alex Murdaugh Found Guilty of Murdering Wife and Son; Democrats React to Release of Jan. 6 Footage

A 12-person jury declared Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. Find out what compelled their unanimous decision to convict him. The Justice Department argued against former President Donald Trump having absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach. This comes as Democrats push back against House…


Drop Box Ban Passes in South Dakota House, Bill Heads to Governor

The use of ballot drop boxes has effectively been banned in South Dakota, with the state House passing the final version of an election bill on Wednesday following the Senate’s passage earlier this week containing the amendment adding drop box changes. The bill is now headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Kristi Noem for…


South Dakota House Passes Bill to Ban Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes in Elections

The South Dakota House of Representatives has passed a bill proposing to make the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots illegal in all elections in the state. The bill, HB 1165, which requires all voters to return mail-in ballots either by mail or in-person to elections offices, advanced to the state Senate after the…


GOP-Backed Bill Would Overhaul Ohio Election Law

Introduced last year, a proposed overhaul to Ohio election law has reappeared with changes that would prevent the Ohio secretary of state and local governments from mailing unsolicited absentee ballot applications and eliminate early voting on the Monday before Election Day among other guidelines. On Nov. 17, an Ohio House Government Oversight Committee approved revisions…


Citizens’ Group Founder Responds to Suit Seeking to Block Ballot Drop Box Monitoring in Arizona

Melody Jennings, the founder of Clean Elections USA, (CEUSA) is seeking people’s prayers. Jennings is facing a civil lawsuit alleging that she, her group, and ten other unnamed defendants, engaged in a conspiracy to commit voter intimidation in violation of federal law, an accusation she says is untrue. The plaintiffs in the case are the…


Election Reform Ballot Proposal Sparks Opposition in Michigan

 Three former Michigan secretaries of state issued a joint statement this week urging a “No” vote on a citizen-initiated ballot proposition called Proposal 2. If approved by voters on Nov. 8, Proposal 2 would, among other things, amend the state constitution in order to legalize private funding of elections, require absentee ballot drop boxes in…


Trump Calls for Overturning Wisconsin Results in 2020 Election to the ‘Actual Winner’

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is calling for the 2020 Wisconsin election results to be overturned a day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled ballots dropboxes to be illegal. “Other States are looking at, and studying, the amazing Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring Ballot Boxes ILLEGAL, and that decision includes the 2020 Presidential Election,” wrote…


Facts Matter (April 15): Exclusive: Election Watchdog Exposes 4.8M Ballot Harvesting Scheme in 6 States: Catherine Engelbrecht

An organization called True The Vote, has been investigating since 2020 the illegal ballot harvesting operations that took place across six different states during the presidential election. And using their methodology of tracing cell phone ping data surrounding drop boxes, reviewing millions of minutes of surveillance footage, and interviewing the actual ballot harvesters themselves, they…


Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Ballot Drop Boxes to Be Banned in Spring Election

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled to allow a ban on absentee ballot drop boxes to go into effect for an upcoming election on April 5. The 4-3 decision (pdf) on Feb. 11 upholds a lower court’s ruling in mid-January, in which Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes…