Former Georgia Congressman Jody Hice talks about his new book, “Sacred Trust,” and his experiences in Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic that inspired him to write it. Mr. Hice says the founders of the United States did not federalize elections because they wanted to protect them from the potential for corruption.
A state appeals court on Wednesday declared as unconstitutional a New York City law permitting noncitizen voting in local elections—a victory for election integrity advocates and those opponents of the legislation who mounted the legal challenge. Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys are asking New York Supreme Court judge Arthur Engoron to delay enforcing the $355-million […]
The House Administration Committee held a hearing on Feb. 7 on America’s Confidence in Elections. Several lawmakers focused on private funding of election offices, which they say unfairly affects voter turnout.
The conservative vote-monitoring organization True the Vote’s challenges to Georgia voters’ eligibility did not amount to voter intimidation in the 2020 elections, a federal judge ruled on Jan. 2. U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones, in a 145-page ruling issued a little less than two months after the end of a civil trial, found that […]
A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law that requires an original pen-on-paper signature on a voter registration application, delivering a win for advocates of election integrity measures. “This is just one of the many election integrity laws we passed to make it harder for cheaters to cheat,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in […]
The military of the Gabon Republic seized control of the government last week amid a lack of transparency surrounding the recent election. NTD spoke with Gregory Copley, the International Strategic Studies Association’s president, about the frequency of military takeovers in Africa.
The House Committee on House Administration holds a full committee field hearing on “American Confidence in Elections: The Path to Election Integrity Across America” at 2:30 p.m. ET on July 10 at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was called out by a witness for misrepresenting facts in a past legal case to make a point during a House Committee hearing on election integrity in the District of Columbia.
The House Committee on House Administration and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability hold a joint hearing about “American Confidence in Elections: The Path to Election Integrity in the District of Columbia” at 10:00 a.m. ET on June 7. Ken Cuccinelli, chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative; Charles Spies, member of the Dickinson Wright, PLLC; […]
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed four election-related bills Friday. The rejected bills would have made a wide range of changes to the Copper State’s election laws on the voter registration system, poll site procedures, and mail-in ballots. Hobbs’s moves Friday raise her total number of vetos to 99, a number larger than that of any […]
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a law that, among other modifications of election rules, added security measures on the use of drop boxes and put restrictions on voting by mail in the Sunshine State. On Thursday, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling that struck down a […]
Harassment of election officials, misinformation, excessive public information requests, and frivolous lawsuits are driving many experienced poll workers into retirement and making it hard to recruit new ones. Those were some of the election administration problems that the Senate Rules Committee heard about on March 28. Committee Chairperson Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) opened the two-hour hearing […]
A coalition of election integrity and voting rights leaders made an unsuccessful 11th-hour appeal to the U.S. Senate on March 13 to block the District of Columbia Council from giving non-citizens the right to vote in municipal elections. Though the House of Representatives had passed a resolution of disapproval with strong bi-partisan support in February, […]
A race in Wisconsin for a seat on the state’s Supreme Court will decide the court’s ideological balance and the fate of abortion access in the state. The technically nonpartisan primary on Feb. 21 winnowed down a field of four contenders to two, a conservative-leaning judge and a liberal-leaning one, who will meet at the […]
In October 2022, the Colorado Secretary of State’s office acknowledged that it mailed more than 31,000 voter registration instruction cards to foreign nationals living in the state. The registration information was sent out in the months leading up to the 2022 midterm elections. In a Jan. 5, 2023 press release, the Public Interest Legal Foundation […]
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an election integrity case involving complaints from congressional candidates in 13 counties across California has standing to challenge the constitutionality of the state’s election laws, regulations, policies, and procedures in federal court. The case has been sent back to a federal district court in Los Angeles […]
Democrats across the country have been making it easier to vote in elections. The pandemic ushered in a wave of loosened election laws, but even before that, regulations were loosened and new innovations like mail-in ballots, early voting, and ballot harvesting were widely adopted. It can now take up to a week to get election […]
In this episode, we hear from Devin Nunes, former congressman and current CEO of Truth Social, on the midterm elections and Donald Trump’s campaign announcement; then we talk to former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis. She discusses election integrity and why the GOP is trying to push out the former president; next we talk to Cleta […]
A tight race is unfolding in the battleground state of Nevada as ballot counting continues. What is the balance of power looking like as of now in Congress? The elections are over, but there are still no answers as to who won in many key races throughout the country. Pennsylvania’s race for senator has been […]
NTD spoke with Hans von Spakovsky, the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Spakovsky said it is often difficult to find poll observers who are willing to stay for weeks while ballots are being counted which can lead to more opportunities for fraud.
