Category: Election Integrity

Voter ID a Sticking Point in Pennsylvania Voting Reform

A voting reform bill, moving quickly through the Republican-led Pennsylvania General Assembly, would require voter identification and impose hefty fines for election tampering. But Democrat Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has vowed to veto the Voting Rights Protection Act, which the state House passed Tuesday and the Senate State Government Committee passed on Wednesday. It now…


Letter to California’s Secretary of State Demands Answers to 2020 Election Irregularities

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber has received a letter from Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa)—a non-profit and non-partisan watchdog organization that demands answers to irregularities in the state’s 2020 elections. The letter (pdf), sent June 17 from EIPCa President and co-founder Linda Paine to the Secretary of State who oversees the California Elections Division office,…


Congressional Candidates, Election Observers Speak on Voting Irregularities

Two of the 13 Congressional candidates listed in an Election Integrity Project California lawsuit being filed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals spoke at a June 21 election event held in Thousand Oaks and challenged attendees to fight to protect ballot and voting procedures in California. “What happened in November was fraudulent,” said 35th…


Texas Governor Announces Special Legislative Session on Voting and Critical Race Theory Bills

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday announced a special legislative session in an attempt to pass a measure targeting the state’s election laws and regulations—coming weeks after Democrats blocked a GOP-backed election reform package from advancing by leaving the Capitol building. The governor, a Republican, did not specify in his announcement Tuesday the legislative priorities…


‘We Need an Audit:’ Georgia Lawyer on Latest Fulton County Updates

The series of new revelations about how the 2020 election unfolded in Fulton County, Georgia, show the need for an audit, a lawyer representing voters in the state says. The county acknowledged it is missing absentee ballot transfer forms last week, prompting Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to announce his office was investigating the…


Pennsylvania House Passes Election Integrity Bill: ‘The System Does Not Work’

The Pennsylvania state House on Tuesday night approved a Republican-backed election reform bill that would include a requirement that voters present identification, among other measures relating to polls, audits, and procedures. The bill passed mostly along partisan lines, with most Republicans supporting the measure and nearly all Democrats opposing it. The bill heads to the…


House GOP Members Demand Details of $350 Million in Grants From Nonprofit in 2020 Election

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) and 13 Republican House representatives asked a nonprofit foundation that is partly funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to publish details of how it spent $350 million in grants during the 2020 general election. “During the 2020 election cycle, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) distributed…


Michigan County Requests Hand Recount of 2020 Election

Michigan’s Cheboygan County voted on June 22 to authorize a hand recount of the 2020 election. Cheboygan County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 to authorize a letter to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) requesting the recount, according to The Hill. In the letter (pdf), the text of which appeared in a packet for the…


Arizona Republicans Advance Two Election Bills: ‘Biggest Yellow Flag for Voter Fraud’

Arizona House Republicans moved to advance two election-related bills, including when recounts can be initiated and about how mismatched signatures should be handled. On Monday, the House approved an amendment to  Senate Bill 1241 that would mandate county election authorities to refer mismatched signatures to the Attorney General’s office or county attorneys for a potential…


Georgia Conducting Secret 2020 Ballot Review—Keeping Plaintiffs in the Dark

After several Fulton County, Ga., poll monitors testified last year that boxes of mail-in ballots for Joe Biden looked liked they’d been run through a photocopy machine, state investigators quietly broke the seal on one suspicious box and inspected the hundreds of votes it contained for signs of fraud, RealClearInvestigations has learned exclusively. At the…