Tag: Election Integrity

Pennsylvania Report Recommends 5 Changes to Election Code

Pennsylvania’s Election Law Advisory Board has released an interim report making five recommendations for how the legislature can address grey areas in the state election code as it relates to mail-in voting. In 2019, the Pennsylvania legislature passed Act 77, changing some of the rules in the state’s Election Code. Then in 2020, shortly before…


Republicans’ New Federal Bill Takes Aim At Defunding Bad Election Practices

Republicans have introduced federal legislation that would block millions of dollars in election assistance money from being sent to states that allow unvetted voters and illegal immigrants to participate in elections. The bill also targets a list of other common practices blamed for compromising the credibility of elections in America—including lax drop box standards for…


Arizona Official Demands Investigation of Kari Lake on Felony Charges for Sharing Images of ‘Illegally Counted’ Ballots

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has asked Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate and consider taking enforcement action against gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for a potential felony offense after her Twitter account shared a graphic containing images of voter signatures on ballots she identified as having been “illegally counted.” Fontes asked the attorney general…


Arizona Official Demands Investigation of Kari Lake on Felony Charges

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has asked Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate and consider taking enforcement action against gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for a potential felony offense after her Twitter account shared a graphic containing images of voter signatures on ballots she identified as having been “illegally counted.” Fontes asked the attorney general…


Arizona Official Demands Investigation of Kari Lake on Potential Felony Charges

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes has asked Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate and consider taking enforcement action against gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for a potential felony offense after her Twitter account shared a graphic containing images of voter signatures on ballots she identified as having been “illegally counted.” Fontes asked the attorney general…


Kari Lake Asking Republican National Committee to Help Pay Her Legal Fees

Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake said she’s asking the Republican National Committee (RNC) to pay for her bills after she filed several election lawsuits challenging the state’s results. During an interview on Jan. 27 with Steve Bannon, Lake stated that “I heard that [the RNC] raised a couple hundred million for election integrity” and she’s now “asking…


‘Zuck Bucks 2.0’ Gears up for 2024

The same nonprofit that distributed nearly $420 million in privately funded pandemic and operations grants to election offices nationwide before the 2020 elections is orchestrating a refashioned program for the 2024 election cycle.  The Chicago-based Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) said its U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence will funnel $80 million to local…


Arizona Supreme Court Responds to Kari Lake’s Second Election Petition

The Arizona Supreme Court struck down gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s second request to take up her election appeal that is currently being heard by a state Appeals Court as Lake said Wednesday that she believes her case will be eventually heard by the Supreme Court. In an order issued on Wednesday (pdf), the state’s high…


24 States Banned ‘Zuckerbucks’ Grants After 2020 Election

In the wake of the 2020 elections, Republicans across the nation raised alarm over revelations that a Chicago-based nonprofit had dispersed nearly $420 million in grants, technical assistance, and other monetary contributions to assist local officials in administering elections. The little-known Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) had, with little attention, issued grants to…


Georgia District Attorney: ‘Charging Decisions are Imminent’ in Trump 2020 Election Probe

A district attorney in Georgia on Jan. 24 urged a judge not to release a report from a grand jury investigating possible 2020 election interference, at least until she decides whether to charge anybody. “At this time, in the interest of justice and the rights of not the state but others, we are asking that…