The GOP majority in the U.S. House of Representatives is zeroing in on election reform heading into the 2024 presidential contest. According to party leaders, the Republicans’ major strategy to clean up election administration across the nation before 2024 is the passage of the American Confidence in Elections Act (ACE). To date, the House Committee…

House Republicans don’t like how municipal officials run elections in the nation’s capital and aim to do something about it. The GOP-controlled House is pushing a reform bill called the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act which would ban Washington’s practice of automatically mailing actual ballots to every registered voter, the use of mail-in ballot…

Republican and Democrat state lawmakers across the country have been putting together their proposals in preparation for their next legislative sessions. Bills concerning voting and election laws are among the most popular themes following the midterms. Many election and voting bills are related to enforcing election laws, increasing election and voter fraud penalties, automatic voter…

Commentary Lying deep within Congress’s inflated and inflationary 4,155-page spending package is an attack on both democracy and the Constitution. Congress calls this nasty piece of work the “Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022.” The mainstream media would have you believe this measure merely updates an archaic law and forestalls another Jan….

Kristina Karamo, the GOP candidate for Michigan’s secretary of state, has warned voters that a disarmingly worded ballot proposal to amend the elections section of the state Constitution is really a poison pill. At an Aug. 10 press conference in suburban Detroit, Karamo outlined the provisions of what she believes to be a cynical ruse to…

Kristina Karamo, the GOP candidate for Michigan’s secretary of state, has warned voters that a disarmingly worded ballot proposal to amend the elections section of the state constitution is really a poison pill. At an Aug. 10 press conference in suburban Detroit, Karamo outlined the provisions of what she believes to be a cynical ruse to…

The Republican candidate for Michigan secretary of state is warning voters that a disarmingly worded ballot proposal to amend the elections section of the state constitution is really a cynical ruse to deceive voters into thinking they’re voting for elections to be more secure, although she says the opposite is true. Kristina Karamo told reporters at…

State statutes that make it a crime to violate election laws and subject convicted election officials to criminal penalties amount to “harassment.” That’s the conclusion of David Becker, founder and executive director of the non-partisan, non-profit Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR). Becker served as moderator for a national video conference on the topic…

The Department of Justice announced Thursday it filed a lawsuit against Texas and its secretary of state over parts of an election reform bill Gov. Greg Abbott signed into state law in September. The complaint (pdf) alleges that the measures, also referred to as Texas Senate Bill 1, violate Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday vetoed several bills aimed at tightening election security in the state, telling lawmakers the Republican-backed legislation would disenfranchise voters and disproportionally impact minority voters. The bills—Senate Bills 303 and 304, and House Bill 5007—would have prohibited election officials from accepting donations, toughened in-person voter identification rules, required people to…