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Are voters ready to let illegal immigrants vote? A sizable number, including most Democrats, are. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that one-out-of-three Likely U.S. Voters (35%) now believes that illegal ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 26, 2015) — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to states giving more political power to areas with high illegal alien populations. In a brief filed ...

CONCORD, N.H. –The New Hampshire Supreme Court on May 15 upheld a lower court ruling that struck down a 2012 voter registration law, saying language that links voting to getting a driver’s ...

A bill has been passed by the New Hampshire state Senate that would require voters to reside in the state for 30 days before becoming eligible to vote. Senate Bill 179 was passed ...

Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) want every state to offer same-day voter registration for federal elections. The Democratic senators have reintroduced the Same Day Registration Act, which would require states ...

Approximately 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in the 2008 presidential election, according to a study released last year by professors at Old Dominion University and George Mason University. The figure for the ...

There are millions of green card holders in the United States, and sources inside the Department of Homeland Security say a new program is urging them to become citizens in time to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 21, 2015) — Non-citizens, even some admitting so on their application forms, are registering to vote under current federal law, as exposed in documents submitted today by the American ...

RALEIGH – The new election laws the Republican-led General Assembly passed in 2013 in many ways put North Carolina more on par with other states across the country. Up to that point, the ...

FRANKFORT (AP) – On election day in Magoffin County, Jerry Adams said his second cousin drove him to the local Save-a-Lot and gave him $25 to vote for Michael “Doc” Hardin for ...

A federal judge has ruled that the American Civil Rights Union has standing to sue Zavala County, Texas, over its inflated voter registrations. The ACRU filed the lawsuit in March 2014, citing ...

— The chairwoman of the Democratic Organization in Perth Amboy has resigned after a scathing ruling by a judge that pointed toward pervasive voter fraud in the November city council elections. “This distraction ...

It’s been a long, costly court battle, but Wisconsin’s attorney general says the fight over Voter ID is over — despite attempts by opponents to find a different legal appeal. Last week the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal to overturn Wisconsin’s voter identification law, upsetting civil rights and liberal groups that say the law discourages minorities from casting their ballot. On Monday the justices ...

SANDERSON, TX (March 18, 2015) — The United States District Court in Del Rio, Texas, has entered a consent decree requiring a Texas county to maintain clean voter rolls. Terrell County had ...

Legal challenges to Wisconsin’s voter photo identification law have been underway for four years. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court might decide whether to rule on the law’s constitutionality. Justices blocked the photo ...

Texas authorities have formally charged two men accused of cheating during the 2012 Democratic Party 2012 Primary near the Texas border. The most recent arrest was carried out by the Cameron County ...

DENVER – Colorado lawmakers on Feb. 18 once again took up the issue of photo identification as a requirement to vote, killing two measures that would have mandated the practice. The Republican-backed measures ...

LINCOLN — A bill that would require voters to show government-issued photo identification is dead for this year. Nebraska lawmakers voted 25-15 on Feb. 18 on a motion to bracket — or table ...

The Missouri House has passed two pieces of legislation to require voters to show government-approved photo identification at the polls.The first, House Joint Resolution 1, is a proposed constitutional amendment to allow ...

Last month, for the third time in a decade, a bill was introduced in the D.C. Council to allow legal immigrants to vote locally. The measure has little chance of passage, but ...

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana legislative committee has backed a proposal that would require the use of voter identification numbers for mail-in absentee ballots. The Senate Elections Committee voted 5-4 Monday to advance the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it overruled a District Court’s opinion upholding a law reforming North Carolina’s voting process just before the 2014 election, the ...

MARTINSBURG — Two bills have been introduced in the state Legislature that would require voters to produce a photo ID to vote: House Bill 2092 and Senate Bill 340. State Delegate Tim Manchin, ...

WASHINGTON – Texas Voter ID advocate Catherine Engelbrecht, who sued the IRS over its targeting of conservative groups, slammed the Justice Department as a “rogue agency” Thursday in testimony before a Senate ...

ALBUQUERQUE – A state legislator is pushing for voter identification requirements in New Mexico. Cities and state around the country have enacted voter ID legislation. It’s required in Albuquerque during city elections, and ...

Federal lawsuits against North Carolina claim that recent changes to the state’s election laws will “suppress” minority votes. For example, in N.C. State Conf. of NAACP v. McCrory, plaintiffs assert that the ...

Rep. Daryl Metcalfe has renewed his call to impeach Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane for what he called “blatant disregard and disrespect for the law.” The Republican, who represents Butler County, had introduced ...

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania State Rep. Ron Waters was charged Dec. 16 with allegedly accepting a $8,750 bribe to oppose a voter ID bill and take other official actions on behalf of an ...

PIKEVILLE, Ky. (WSAZ) — The 69-year-old former mayor of Martin, Ky. was sentenced to 90 months in a federal prison. Ruth Robinson was sentenced Monday afternoon in U.S District Court in Pikeville. Earlier this ...