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By Robert Knight
The Democrat felon voting express train in Virginia hit a sharp curve on Monday when Republican lawmakers went to the state’s highest court to derail it.
Constitutional attorney Charles J. Cooper’s ...
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By J. Christian Adams
Giving violent felons the automatic right to vote is not morally defensible.
In elections, just as in society, it is important that everyone follow the rules.
Automatically restoring the right to ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky
In what is likely an unconstitutional state action seemingly calculated to ensure that the purple state of Virginia goes blue in the November election, Governor Terry McAuliffe (D.) signed ...
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By J. Christian Adams
Imagine an election for president where votes cast at the ballot box mean next to nothing. While activist groups gripe about long lines and the return of Jim Crow ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery
In a loss for voters, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against two residents of Texas who had argued that the Texas legislature diluted their votes ...
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The household advice column “Hints from Heloise” weighed in this week on the importance of accurate voter registration rolls:
Dear Heloise: In 2012, my father died, and in 2014, I was still getting ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky
Polls consistently show that Americans — regardless of race or ethnicity — agree that requiring identification to vote is a common-sense way to ensure the integrity of our elections. ...
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Amidst their voluminous Super Tuesday 3 coverage, the CBS Evening News found just over two minutes to trot out the tired liberal argument that voter ID laws, like the one in North ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky
The free-for-all boxing match between the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, Kansas, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) resumed on Wednesday, ...
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By Don Palmer
The use of photo identification to confirm the identity of voters serves an essential election security function in America’s polling places and boosts citizens’ confidence in the voting process.
In perhaps ...
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By Hans A. von Spakovsky
Electoral integrity has scored big — District of Columbia federal district court Judge Richard Leon just issued an order denying the request by the NAACP, the League of ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky
Several well-funded organizations — including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP — are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election. And ...
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By Roger Clegg & Hans A. von Spakovsky — January 15, 2016
The Maryland state legislature is back in session, and the Democrats have announced that one of their priorities is overriding Governor ...
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By Barbara Joanna Lucas
Capital Research Center
The Left seeks power, and at least for the time being, that requires winning elections. So the Left pursues every scheme it can concoct to boost ...
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By Eitan Hersh (fivethirtyeight.com)
In the ongoing fight between Democrats and Republicans over election procedures like voter ID and early voting, the Democrats are supposedly the champions of higher turnout and reducing barriers ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky
Call the cops! It looks like someone is committing voter fraud in Indiana again! Ironically, in this case, however, the alleged fraudster who has been arrested by the Indiana ...
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By Walter Williams
Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that’s because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification. Interesting ...
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson dismissed the idea that restrictive anti-voter fraud requirements could be racist, echoing the position of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — a champion of such measures ...
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By Hans A. von Spakovsky
Many on the left are in a ferment over Alabama’s closure of some part-time Department of Motor Vehicles offices. It’s being done for budgetary reasons, but liberals are ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky
In an article in Politico, Mark Rozell, acting dean of the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University, and Paul Goldman, a weekly columnist for ...
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Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey delivered a sharp criticism of the Obama Justice Department, particularly the DOJ Voting Section in a speech republished in Hillsdale College’s Imprimis. In a broadside aimed at ...
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By Robert Knight
The White House has doubled down on its efforts to use massive
immigration for political advantage.
On September 17, traditionally known as Constitution Day, the White House chose to highlight it as ...
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By Robert Knight
If you think that the politicians who now run our government are bad, how about a system with leaders chosen by people too lazy even to register to vote?
That’s the ...
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In Dothan, Ala., the verdict is in: it was election fraud.
Last week, a jury convicted 66-year-old Olivia Reynolds on 24 felony counts of absentee ballot fraud in the contested 2013 election for ...
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By Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery
The Supreme Court has held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause includes a “one-person, one-vote” guarantee requiring voting districts to be drawn “on a basis ...
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By J. Christian Adams & Hans A. von Spakovsky — August 31, 2015
The recently concluded federal trial over North Carolina’s election rules proved one thing beyond a reasonable doubt: The Obama administration ...
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By Robert Knight
Although people in the nation’s smallest state can obtain photo voter IDs with ease, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says that requiring an ID in order to vote is ...
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By Susan A. Carleson
Although Rhode Island residents can easily get a photo voter ID, requiring one at a polling place suppresses “minority, low-income, disabled, and elderly voters,” according to the state chapter ...
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The Heritage Foundation’s list of nearly 300 documented cases of voter fraud in the United States continues to grow.
Recent additions reveal that voter fraud is not just an individual or isolated crime; ...
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By J. Christian Adams
The United States Supreme Court has been asked to end a political subsidy to aliens through the use of alien population in allocating legislative seats. In a case arising ...
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