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Mark Meadows, who spread false allegations of voter fraud, is now being investigated for alleged voter fraud
Mark MeadowsDonald Trumpthe White House chief of staff who spread fakes electoral fraud claims— and pressured government officials to Look at them– is currently being investigated ... -
Barr says he stands by his pre-election comments raising unsubstantiated concerns about voter fraud
“I stand by all of that,” Barr told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” “My view is that in such a tightly divided country with so ... -
Port Aransas residents demand investigation into alleged voter registration fraud
PORT ARANSAS, Texas — Several Port Aransas residents are concerned about a post circulating on social media regarding a popular vacation spot’s alleged attempt to encourage ... -
Cuomo rips ‘cancel culture’ and hints at political comeback
Just six months after stepping down from office in disgrace over allegations of sexual harassment, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared to hint at a ... -
Trump blasts Barr: ‘He was weak, ineffective’
Old President TrumpRepublicans backed by Donald TrumpMcCarthy win disputed Texas House primaries DHS grants temporary immigration status to all Ukrainians in US Senate GOP ignores latest ... -
Takeaway as Jan. 6 panel watches Trump’s ‘criminal conspiracy’
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising on Capitol Hill presented some of its findings in a filing in federal court, ... -
Georgia’s secretary of state is fighting for re-election as Trump’s target
item Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Members ... -
Should electric service payments be used in political races?
LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) – Kate High told state lawmakers on Friday that when she pays her electric bill, she expects the money to be used ... -
All in the family: the Pols continue to work to elect relatives
Albert Einstein was not the only one to believe in the theory of relativity. Over the years, relatives of politicians and insiders continue to run for ... -
Kennedy and Scott urge Biden DOJ to respect Durham investigation – Press releases
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today joined Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and more than 40 other senators in urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to respect ... -
Alarm as Trump backs ‘big lies’ candidates for key campaign posts in Michigan | donald trump
Donald Trump has endorsed right-wing Republican candidates who support his baseless claims of a stolen election for key Michigan positions, raising the prospect of a Trump ... -
This Week in Texas Politics: Lights, Camera, Campaign Ads
This Week in Texas Politics: The Primary Campaign Heats Up FOX 7 Austin’s Rudy Koski takes a look at the primary campaign starting to heat up ... -
The real impact of Texas’ new ‘election integrity’ law
Early voting begins Monday for the 2022 primary election — the first election since Republicans passed an “election integrity” law. Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa ... -
COLORADO ELECTION FRAUD: Elbert County Clerk gave copies of election hard drive to attorneys
DENVER (AP) — Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said a county clerk made copies of her electoral system that ended up in the hands of ... -
A moderate Republican will enter the gubernatorial race
“When I saw that Governor Baker wasn’t coming back and I didn’t see any other moderate Republicans, my wife said, ‘Hey, stop complaining about that. Take ... -
Michigan GOP co-chair says Trump’s campaign is pushing efforts to give him the state’s electoral votes
Michigan Republican Party Co-Chairman Meshawn Maddock said at a recent event that former President Donald Trump’s campaign had encouraged efforts by Republicans in Michigan to submit ... -
Alex Mendez denied pre-trial intervention
Joe Malinconico | Paterson Press Mail-in ballot: Paterson handles fraud case as national debate continues What Paterson’s voter fraud case means for the national debate on ... -
Trump slams Biden, voices unsubstantiated voter fraud allegations at first rally of 2022
Old President TrumpDonald Trump’s Wendy Sherman takes on the starring role as Biden’s “hard-core” negotiator for Russia. Senate must confirm Deborah Lipstadt as anti-Semitism envoy — ... -
Madison, Wis., Officials ordered turn over 2020 election documents
Two Madison, Wis. Officials have been subpoenaed to turn over communications and other documents relating to the 2020 presidential election and to appear in the office ... -
Craig Holman: 2022 will rebuild or break our democracy | Columns
Across the country, civic groups, religious leaders and alarmed citizens are holding hundreds of candlelight vigils and voting rights marches and contacting Congress to mark one ... -
Trump Could Be Charged With Attempt To Obstruct Election Certification, Legal Experts Sure | Attack on the US Capitol
Donald Trump is increasingly expected to be indicted for trying to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election this year, as House panel collects more evidence ... -
Jan 6 panel asks GOP representative Scott Perry to provide information
The House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack on Capitol Hill asked the representative. Scott perryScott Gordon PerryHouse Democrats pass Islamophobia bill in support of Omar House ... -
Trump loyalists knock on voters’ doors in latest quest to find 2020 election fraud
“They said they were with something called ‘the election verification committee’ or something – something I had never heard of,” said Snell, a retiree and former ... -
Governor DeSantis sparks false fear of fraud to suppress opposition votes
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks before the Department of Justice on April 21. Florida Republicans know what it means to fight to win, even at great ... -
Second phase underway in 4 counties
AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas Secretary of State’s office announced Friday that it is beginning phase 2 of its forensic audit of the 2020 general election ... -
Trump’s Senate picks stumble
Budd has been passed by McCrory, who lost his candidacy for re-election in 2016, and follows him in recent polls – McCrory’s internal poll shows him ... -
Laser-focused on 2020, Trump seeks Michigan legislature that could help him in 2024
Jon Rocha was settling down to watch the new “Ghostbusters” with his young daughter in theaters last week when he heard the news that former President ... -
Jan. 6 group donation shows Trump’s grip on attorneys general | Republicans
A key group of Republican attorneys general who donated $ 150,000 to co-sponsor the January 6 rally where Donald Trump pushed his bogus allegations of electoral ... -
Conservative group pushes US attorneys general to ‘join prosecution’
Grassroots political organization pushes attorneys general across the country – including South Carolina attorney general Alain Wilson – to sign a lawsuit which must be filed ... -
Alaska’s campaign finance laws need their teeth
Through Beverly Churchill and Veri di Suvero Updated: 7 hours ago Posted: 8 hours ago The Alaska State Capitol, photographed Monday, September 13, 2021 in Juneau. ... -
Elections Have Consequences | Richmond Free Press
Elections have consequences. We have already seen this with the rejection on November 2 by the voters of Richmond of the proposed development of a casino ... -
Why Punjab’s CM ‘Masterstroke’ Charanjit Singh Channi is racing against time to prove himself
Charanjit Singh Channi, the “masterstroke” of Congress as Dalit Chief Prime Minister of the Punjab in place of Captain Amarinder Singh, will he prove to be ... -
Widespread Election Fraud Allegations Lack of Specific Examples | New
Republicans had great success in the 2020 general election in New Hampshire, but that hasn’t stopped some GOP members from exposing major voter fraud. “I think ... -
De Blasio moves towards his political future as the spotlight turns on others
Mayor Bill de Blasio addresses the media during a press conference at City Hall on January 3, 2020 in New York City. | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez ... -
Analysis: Matt Krause’s campaign for Texas AG comes with a playlist
Editor’s Note: If you’d like to receive an email notification whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. If you’d like to listen to the column, ... -
Attorney General Daniel Cameron reminds Kentuckians of electoral fraud hotline
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WYMT) – As the 2021 special election approaches, Attorney General Daniel Cameron reminds Kentuckians that alleged violations of election law must be reported to ... -
GOP Election Leader Dismissing Heavy Job Fraud Allegations
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Republican Secretary of State who challenged former President Donald Trump’s false allegations of electoral fraud in 2020 is the frontrunner for a ... -
Nevada man accused of voting using his deceased wife’s ballot
Speaking to a Las Vegas news station in November, Donald Kirk Hartle described being “surprised” by the possibility that someone stole his deceased wife’s mail-in ballot ... -
Kaul seeks to block subpoenas in GOP election inquiry | Wisconsin News
By SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul asks court to block subpoenas issued by lawyer hired by Republicans to ... -
Congress takes stock: The Tribune India
Rajmeet singh Tribune press service Chandigarh, October 21 While Punjab affairs official Harish Rawat maintains that Capt Amarinder Singh’s announcement on the formation of a new ... -
John Scott appointed Secretary of State for Texas by Governor Greg Abbott
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to date with Texas’ most essential news. Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday appointed John ... -
Exposing the Chinese government’s oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang
In Ãœrümqi, a remote town in northwest China, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Political and Legal Affairs Commission sends “micro-clues” to neighborhood committees ... -
Texas Attorney General Sets Up Unit For Election Fraud Allegations In November Election – Houston Public Media
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, listens to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick during a panel discussion in 2018. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching a ... -
How a Pennsylvania state senator helped fuel Trump’s election lies
CNN, WFMZ, WGAL By Jeremy Herb and Sara Murray, CNN Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano went out of his way to help advance the former President ... -
How GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell joined Trump’s ‘deplorable team’ in arguing for false allegations of electoral fraud
Mark Meadows was on the other line. The Republican congressman turned Trump’s White House chief of staff wanted to know if Mitchell could visit Georgia, where ... -
House Republican No.2 refuses to say 2020 election was not stolen
WASHINGTON (AP) – Second-row House Republican Rep. Steve Scalise repeatedly refused to say on Sunday that the 2020 election was not stolen, supporting Donald Trump’s lie ... -
American Oversight launches investigation into Texas election audits – YubaNet
Today, the non-partisan watch group American Oversight launched an open investigation into Texas’ recently announced “forensic audit” of the 2020 election in Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and ... -
Pennsylvania Republicans will not hire a contractor for the 2020 election review until a judge agrees, aide says
Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate have said they will not hire a private contractor to help them with their 2020 election review until a judge rules ... -
Governor Noem sever ties with former Trump adviser Lewandowski | South Dakota News
By STEPHEN GROVES and JILL COLVIN, Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, SD (AP) – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sever ties with political adviser Corey Lewandowski after ... -
Florida governor considers possible Buffalo presidential campaign
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis arrived in town on Tuesday and flew off with likely tens of thousands of dollars for his 2022 re-election fund. While the ... -
Deciphering the confusion of the Punjab Congress: why did Sidhu leave in anger?
Sidhu’s resignation as Punjab unit leader threatens to push Congress deeper into the abyss of internal strife, just four months away from state assembly elections Sidhu ... -
WA weekly fined $ 15,000 for selling election coverage
The Tacoma Weekly agreed to pay a $ 15,000 fine for telling political candidates last year that they could buy a story – and even the ... -
How to prevent the legal strategy that nearly defeated the last election from ending democracy
Appalling as Eastman’s public performance was on January 6, his behind-the-scenes machinations were worse. Apparently, two days earlier, Eastman had met in the Oval Office with ... -
Texas governor defends upcoming 2020 election audits Trump demanded
Texas Governor Gregg Abbott speaks at a press conference near the international bridge between Mexico and the United States, where migrants seeking asylum in the United ... -
Democratic enthusiasm in Virginia is tested in 2021 statewide election
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Democrats have controlled the political landscape in Virginia for the past two years, following a trend seen statewide for nearly a decade. ... -
Black attorneys general lead the fight for voting rights
The release of a compromise bill on voting rights by eight Senate Democrats, coupled with the recent passage of John Lewis’s Advancement of Voting Rights Act ... -
Kansas City KS election vote count challenged by candidates
The county cannot investigate on its own, so who will assure voters that their ballots are counted? File photo illustration When Tscher “Cece” Manck, who was ... -
California Recall Vote Shows Trump’s Big Lie Is Now a Republican Playbook | American politics
It was a preemptive attack on the truth by some of the biggest names on the American right. Former President Donald Trump warned that the ballot ... -
Trump backs election fraud lawyer for Michigan AG
LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Lawyer who made false statements about vote-counting machines in Michigan’s 2020 election has obtained approval from former President Donald Trump for state ... -
Texas Republicans quietly cut penalties for honest voting errors
Republican priority voting reforms and restrictions signed last week added a number of new election-related offenses and increased criminal penalties for others, all of which have ... -
GOP aims to ‘fire Pritzker’ as party searches for statewide contender who can win
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (NEXSTAR) – Republicans in Illinois have rallied behind the battle cry of “Fire Pritzker” in the 2022 election, but they are far from hiring ... -
With fight for mask mandates, Gov. Abbott passes Trump’s GOP purity test
When Texas experienced its first big wave of COVID hospitalizations, Governor Greg Abbott responded by shutting down bars and making masks mandatory. When the second wave ... -
This governor had harsh words for those who continue to question the results of the 2020 election
“Since November 2020, we’ve seen Republican governors and lawmakers across the country working quickly to add more barriers to voting, to discredit the good work of ... -
City of Oakland | The AD-18 special election ends August 31!
The AD-18 special election ends August 31! Since Rob Bonta was appointed California’s new Attorney General, Voters in Assembly District 18 were fortunate enough to participate ... -
Malaysian government uses COVID-19 to consolidate influence
Malaysia’s new government has successfully used the pandemic to consolidate its power over the country, but its attempt to turn against the Agong (king) may be ... -
Pennsylvania Decertifies County Voting Machines After Partisan Election Audit ‘Compromises’ Them
Top line The Pennsylvania State Department decertified the Fulton County voting machines after they were inspected by a private computer company behind Arizona’s partisan election audit, ... -
Valley News – Upper Valley election officials say a count like in Windham, New Hampshire is unlikely to happen here
WEST LEBANON – Election officials in the Upper Valley say regular and rigorous testing of vote counting machines combined with other checks on polling day tally ... -
Whiteness helps protect Donald Trump from election consequences
Hervis Rogers, a 62-year-old black man, waited over six hours to vote in the Texas Democratic primary in March 2020. “I thought it was my duty ... -
AP: Few cases of AZ electoral fraud discrediting Trump’s claims | Arizona News
By BOB CHRISTIE and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) – Arizona County election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud ... -
Gardner proud of Granite State voting procedures | Local News
CONWAY – According to longtime NH Secretary of State Bill Gardner, New Hampshire is the most open state in the country when it comes to voting, ... -
Audit reveals fallbacks behind New Hampshire election count error
Auditors concluded that counting errors in an election in New Hampshire were mainly caused by the way the ballots were folded, according to a report released ... -
Did Myers just save Idaho’s own initiative law? | Notice
The best argument for reversing the Idaho legislature’s assault on the right of ordinary Idahoans to make their own laws has come from the most unlikely ... -
New York Election Officials Call for Federal and State Investigations into Suspected Ballot Harvesting
The city’s electoral council has asked the US Department of Justice and the state attorney general’s office to investigate whether a candidate for a Staten Island ... -
Massachusetts Gubernatorial Candidates Raise Campaign Money
BOSTON (AP) – With the election still over a year away, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates – both those already in the running and those still on the ... -
Lawyer raises huge sum to fight electoral fraud
Until late last fall, few people outside of Michigan had heard of Matthew DePerno. The Michigan lawyer remains a secondary figure in the national conversation, but ... -
Former US Senator Dole and Roberts endorse Schmidt in Kansas GOP primary for governor
Former U.S. Senators Robert Dole and Pat Roberts are supporting Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s campaign for the Republican Party to be governor of Kansas. (Noah ... -
US Supreme Court Allows Republican-Backed Arizona Voting Restrictions | Voice of America
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday eased state voting restrictions in place, approving Republican-backed measures in Arizona that a lower court had ruled disproportionately overburdening black, ... -
John Oliver exposes “Italygate”, the craziest electoral plot to date
RRepublicans recently pushed for nearly 400 new bills and laws to restrict voting rights in various parts of America – and this is “fueled by lies ... -
Mike Lindell vows to show “100%, non-subjective evidence” of voter fraud in August
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell continued to promote baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, promising to reveal in August “100% non-subjective evidence” that the election was ... -
Republican official claims ‘honest mistake’ after admitting to voter fraud in 2020 election
Election worker casts ballot in Ohio drop box in 2020 election (REUTERS) A small town Republican The official said he made an “honest mistake” in forging ... -
Dr Chris Jones viral ad shows how amazing black politicians must be
Until Monday, the only thing I knew about the Arkansas gubernatorial race was that former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had thrown her hat ... -
The predictable presidential election in Iran
Here is today’s one Foreign police in short: Iran holds its presidential election, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza resume, and the North Korean leader Kim jong un ... -
Federal judge launches trial of Republicans in California echoing Trump election fraud allegations
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit brought by Republicans in California that echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims about the validity ... -
Utah AG aide apologizes for sending angry email to SLC city councilor for campaigning at his home
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – A Utah assistant attorney general has apologized for sending a hateful email to a member of Salt Lake City council after ... -
Documents show Trump pushed election fraud allegations against prosecutors as Michigan voted for Biden
Newly released documents show that members of President Donald Trump’s administration have told federal prosecutors Michigan should not certify election results on the day Democratic voters ... -
Florida Taxpayers May Pay Millions To Defend New Election Law
ORLANDO, Florida – Florida taxpayers risk paying millions of dollars in legal fees as the state defends its latest election law. Governor Ron DeSantis enacted Senate ... -
Primary Voter’s Guide for June 8
RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY / WRIC) – Tuesday, June 8 is primary election day in Virginia. If you are registered, you can vote in person at your ... -
One Texan’s “electoral integrity” is another’s “voter suppression”. A question about the vote? We have answers.
One person’s “electoral integrity†is always another person’s “voter suppression†– even after all the ink poured into these pages to clarify the difference. Today, we’re ... -
The race is on! Smart Money Picks for Governor Come 2025
The snooze fest replacing a 2021 gubernatorial election already has insiders – newly unleashed on state stools in the supposed wake of the COVID-19 disaster – ... -
Democrats rally to defeat Ron Johnson at state convention
MADISON Wis (CBS 58) – A key target for Democrats at their annual state convention was U.S. Senator Ron Johnson, who has yet to announce whether ...
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