Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has called out voter fraud, “especially in Houston,” after a judge ruled that more than 1,400 votes in a 2022 district court race were invalid, forcing the results to be thrown out.
A Delaware court has ruled that state laws allowing for permanent absentee voting and early voting violate the state constitution. Lawfare has become a nationwide political tactic.
At CPAC 2024 in Washington DC, we got a chance to sit down with Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas. During the interview he was able to give us an update on the barbed-wire related standoff between the federal government and Texas, his office’s effort to crack down on NGOs facilitating human smuggling, as well as a recent court decision which quashed his efforts to prosecute voter fraud.
Here is an adapted excerpt from the book “The Myth of Voter Suppression” that looks at six notable and, in some cases, comical examples of voter registration scandals that dispel the Left’s myth that vote fraud doesn’t exist.
The Arizona Secretary of State has been sued for allegedly overstepping state law by permitting unstaffed ballot drop boxes.
A lawsuit to obtain Colorado’s ERIC data reports concerning “registered voters identified as deceased or potentially deceased” may proceed, a federal district judge ruled on Friday.
~…the crimes committed were serious criminal offenses that destroyed their clients’ campaign prospects and aimed to defraud the Bureau of Elections, all in service of a scheme to con these campaigns out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Florida continues a crackdown on election-related crime, announcing the arrests of two more individuals Wednesday on charges of casting illegal votes in last year’s election.
The office referred another 70 individuals to law enforcement after they allegedly voted unlawfully in 2022.
The state GOP pointed to the fraud indictment of a former top Prince William County election official related to the 2020 election, saying that prosecuting the official and forming the Election Integrity Unit sends “a strong message to election officials throughout the state to follow the law, because our election process must be held to a high standard.”
The think tank recently released data through its online publication that ranked each state on election integrity, showing improvements on many levels since 2021. That’s good news for voters who questioned the results of the 2020 election and states that took steps to make cheating more difficult.
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