New York Mayor Eric Adams, the New York City Council, and New York City’s Board of Elections were sued Monday over a new law that lets noncitizens vote in elections. The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed the suit in New York Supreme Court along with City Council Minority Leader Joseph Borrelli, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.),…
Republicans Sue New York Officials Over Allowing Noncitizens to Vote
800,000 Noncitizens Allowed to Vote in NYC Elections
New York City mayor Eric Adams allowed a bill to become law Sunday, making about 800,000 noncitizens in the city eligible to vote in municipal elections. “I believe that New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation,” Adams said in a…
Trump Ramps Up Endorsements for Candidates With Strong Stances on Election Integrity
Former President Donald Trump is increasingly endorsing candidates for state and national office who align with his views on election integrity, according to a review of the nearly 90 endorsements Trump doled out since leaving office earlier last year. Of the 41 candidates Trump endorsed since the off-year election on Nov. 2, 36 had either…
Texas Audit Finds Over 11,000 Potential Non Citizens Registered to Vote, Other Problems
Voting irregularities—including potentially thousands of votes cast by non-citizens and the dead—were reported during the first phase of the Texas Secretary of State’s forensic audit of the 2020 general election, but critics deemed it more of a risk-limiting audit at this point. The Texas Secretary of State’s office released its findings on Dec. 31, but…
Grassroots Constitutional Rights Groups in North Carolina Combine Efforts to Change Leadership
With the primaries around the corner of the new year, grassroots constitutional rights groups in North Carolina are working to impact communities by localizing national issues such as medical freedom and election integrity with the intent of fostering new leadership. Tara Niebaum and Mindy Sportsman formed 2 Citizen Moms after meeting each other at lockdown…
Post 2020 Election Sees Barrage of Election Bills Limiting or Expanding Mail-in Voting
After the unprecedented expansion of mail-in voting in the 2020 election, dozens of states changed their mail-in voting rules. Republican-leaning states tended to introduce measures to make voting more secure, but less convenient. Democrat-leaning states were more likely on the opposite track. At least 36 states passed bills pertaining in some way to mail-in voting,…
Texas Attorney General Cannot Independently Prosecute Election Cases, Court Rules
Texas’s highest court for criminal matters has ruled that the attorney general cannot independently prosecute election cases. In an 8–1 decision Wednesday (pdf), the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stated, “the Attorney General can prosecute [election cases] with the permission of the local prosecutor but cannot initiate prosecution unilaterally.” At issue is a provision in section 273.021…
Harvard’s ‘Lawfare’ Programs Are an Omen of Elections Decided Not at Polls—but in Court
Before the Donald Trump-inspired challenges of the 2020 presidential election, Democrats and liberals alleged fraud and formally contested the results of the 2000, 2004, and 2016 Republican-won presidential elections. Those earlier challenges spurred the creation of a network of election litigators on the left—what J. Christian Adams, a conservative ex-Justice Department attorney pitted against them,…
New York City Council Passes Bill to Allow Non-Citizens Vote in Elections
The Democrat-led New York City Council on Thursday voted to pass an ordinance that allows non-citizens to vote in City Council races and other municipal elections starting in 2023. If the bill is signed by the mayor and if it survives lawsuits, New York City would become the largest city in the United States to…
DC Board of Elections Sued for Keeping Voter Data Secret
A good-government group is suing the District of Columbia in federal court for refusing to allow the inspection of voter list maintenance records as federal law requires. The D.C. Board of Elections claims it cannot provide these voter list maintenance documents because of its contract with the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a nonprofit that…
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