Florida GOP threatens to sue Broward County over lack of sunshine of mail ballot counting
Things are heating up in the Sunshine State as Florida Republicans have sent a notice letter to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections threatening to sue over the lack of transparency in the handling of mail ballots and refusal to allow observation of the process. The letter states that the office is only…
Days before the Election, Arizona Absentee Ballot Harvesting Law at the 9th Circuit
In case you weren’t following it, the Arizona v. Feldman case is still at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals with a last minute gasp request for en banc review of the case. The Purcell doctrine should be in play as we head into the last week of the election. If accepted by the Court and…
Complaining about campaign poll watchers is just “pregame hype”
NPR reports on some of the generated hysteria over allowing watchers in the polling place to observe the voting process and where many simply ignore the right of parties and candidates to have representatives in the polls. All of this comes amid heightened concerns among election officials about confrontations at…
Will a President Trump make fighting voter fraud a priority in first 100 days?
Tom Spencer, a senior fellow with the Lawyer’s Democracy Fund (LDF), lays out the case in Lifezette for voter fraud being a top priority in a new Trump Administration and arguing for a task force to be immediately convened to review the irregularities of the 2016 election. Spencer lays…
Serious Problem of Vote Fraud
In a new op-ed, LDF senior fellow Tom Spencer wrote about the serious problem of vote fraud [auto-play video warning]: Every day, we learn of new and frightening attacks on the heartbeat of American democracy. Voting machines switching votes from Trump to Hillary Clinton. Voters long since dead being resurrected…
Double Voting in Iowa
Three instances of double voting have been discovered in Polk County, Iowa: Three people have tried to vote multiple times in the general election this month in Polk County, according to Des Moines police reports. The Polk County Auditor’s Office reported the cases to police Wednesday, according to the reports. It’s the…
Two Arrests for Election Fraud in Florida
Two recent arrests for election fraud in Florida demonstrate the importance of having checks at every point of the process. One was of a temporary election worker who was filling in blanks on mail-in ballots she was processing, and the other was a person hired by a non-profit to register…
Miami Dade Supervisor of Elections Is Violating Election Law By Returning Mail Ballots to Early Voters
According to sources in Miami, the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections is inexplicably violating Florida election law and increasing the election’s vulnerability to double voting. By direction, poll workers are failing to “cancel and collect mail ballots” returned back to the early voting polling place by mail voters who decide to vote at an early voting site. …
New York Keeps Sending Ballots to Deceased Voter
The New York Post highlights a common problem that occurs when state and local election officials fail to identify and remove deceased voters from the voter rolls. Absentee or mail ballots are sent year after year, election after election and the deceased person may remain on the rolls for decades. …
Election Assistance Commission Says Voting Process is Secure, Hacking Will Not Choose Next President
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post this morning, entitled “Don’t believe the hype. Foreign hackers will not choose the next president.” The key paragraph of the piece: Election officials work diligently to better secure the voting process. Because of their efforts, the process is…