election integrity
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Michigan House Holds Secretary of State Benson in Contempt for Defying Subpoena
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The Michigan House declared Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson in civil contempt on May 22 for defying a subpoena and refusing to turn over remaining election training materials that lawmakers seek for legislative oversight. The contempt resolution was adopted in a 128–58 party line vote. It directs House legal counsel to take the proper steps necessary,…
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Recorder Justin Heap Is Trying to Regain His Office from the Maricopa County Supervisors’ ‘Attempt to Undermine Election Integrity’
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Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap, an election integrity champion, has been unsuccessfully trying to regain control of his duties over early and mail-in voting, which the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) reduced before he assumed office this year. Heap attempted to renegotiate the Shared Services Agreement (SSA) with the MCBOS without success this year,…
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Arizona Legislature Files Amicus Curiae Brief at Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Supporting Idaho’s Voter ID Law
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The Arizona Legislature, along with 19 other states, submitted an amicus curiae brief at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week supporting Idaho’s voter ID law, which prohibits student ID cards as an acceptable form of identification for voting. A lower court judge appointed by former President Joe Biden, Amanda K. Brailsford, already ruled…
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Election Integrity Group Finds Laws Were Broken in Maricopa County’s 2020 Election, Including 200,000 Mismatched Signatures
We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA) issued a video earlier this month going over problems with the signature verification on ballot affidavits from the botched 2020 election. The alliance has been investigating voting irregularities in Maricopa County in recent elections. WPAA found that out of 1.9 million ballots, 10 percent or about 200,000 had “egregiously”…
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Maricopa County Supervisors Provide Draft Agreement to Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap Purporting to Give Some of His Office Back
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) held a special public meeting on Wednesday to discuss a Shared Services Agreement (SSA) drafted by the MCBOS to give Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap some of his job responsibilities back. The previous MCBOS, even though it was in lame duck status at the end of their term,…
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Judge Blocks Portions Of Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Executive Order, Seeking To Overhaul U.S. Elections
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A Washington, D.C., federal judge has blocked a portion of President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on election integrity, referred to as the Preserving And Protecting The Integrity Of American Elections initiative. This post was originally published on this site
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US Appeals Court Halts Ballot Curing Efforts in North Carolina Supreme Court Election
A U.S. appeals court this week temporarily blocked North Carolina state elections officials from contacting voters whose ballots were disputed in 2024’s state Supreme Court race and could be eliminated from the final vote count. In a 2–1 ruling issued on Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit paused state officials’ efforts…
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Wisconsin Election Problems Pile Up as Ex-Madison Clerk Investigated over November Election
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by Natalia Mittelstadt Election problems are piling up in Wisconsin cities as the actions of Maribeth Witzel-Behl, a former Madison clerk, are being investigated after her handling of the November election. The two most populous cities in Wisconsin are under scrutiny over problems that occurred in the last two elections. Both the state capital…
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Governor Katie Hobbs Continues Record for Vetoes, Rejects Arizona ICE Act, Bills on Election Integrity, and Bills Against Vaccine Mandates
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Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a large portion of the bills sent to her this session by the Republican dominated Arizona Legislature. So far this year, she vetoed 52 and signed 70 into law. The bills she signed were mostly mundane, with bipartisan support. She signed the controversial Axon bill, which carved out a zoning exception…
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Election Integrity Group Discovers Maricopa County Signature Verification in 2024 Occurred at ‘World Book Record’ Speed
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The election integrity organization We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA), which discovered in 2022 that Maricopa County ballot affidavit reviewers were verifying signatures at speeds of up to one signature per second, revealed in a new video this week that reviewers during the 2024 election also verified signatures at a similarly rapid pace. The group alleged that AI…
