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I told you this was coming. You know how people keep telling you that it's ridiculous to assert illegal aliens will be voting this year? It's not and Merrick Garland is going to make it happen. Eight million illegal aliens are poised to vote come November and Garland will be making sure they do. He promised to fight voter integrity laws all across the country. Speaking at a Selma church service to mark the anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on civil rights demonstrators, Garland recounted the history of voting rights since the end of slavery – a...

Al Schmidt, a former Republican Philadelphia commissioner, remembers the day he was singled out by the most powerful man in the world. Then came the death threats. For months, the 51-year-old civil servant was tasked with others in Philadelphia to oversee the process that would determine who would win the 2020 presidential election. With 253 electoral votes already collected across the country for Joe Biden, Pennsylvania's 20 were critical. Then came the tweet from President Donald Trump saying Mr. Schmidt was being “used” to cover up voter fraud. “He refuses to look at a mountain of corruption and dishonesty.” Suddenly,...

Remember all the conniption fits thrown by much of the media last year over the new Georgia election law in which liberals declared it amounted to voter suppression? Even big companies in Georgia such as Delta Airlines and Coca-Cola went woke in denouncing the law. Major League Baseball also joined the political fray by moving the All-Star baseball game scheduled to be played in Atlanta out of the state.Well, never mind. There has been a big change in voter turnout under the new law but instead of a suppressed vote, it has actually surged according to a report on page...

resident Joe Biden finally delivered his "voting rights" speech in Atlanta, telling a crowd: "The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a turning point in this nation's history. Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadows, justice over injustice? I know where I stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch. I will defend your right to vote, our democracy against all enemies foreign and domestic. And the question is: Where will the institution of the United States Senate stand?" These were little more than the mendacious ravings of a demagogue. Biden's...

Democrats in Congress are conspiring and plotting to federalize elections to make it easier for them to retain control of the federal government. They are pushing unconstitutional legislation that violates the power of states to run elections. To do this, Democrats need to blow up the filibuster. This desperate act by Democrats is nothing more than an insurrection against federalism. Democrats see cratering poll numbers for President Biden and are in panic mode about the fall midterm elections. If Republicans want to protect the integrity of elections, they need to fight the Democratic plan to put unelected federal bureaucrats in...

With the anniversary of January 6th this week, Democrats are using it to push massive election reforms. They claim the reforms are necessary to save Democracy. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the situation is so dire that it is necessary to change long-held Senate rules so that Democrats can pass the bill on a pure party-line vote. The For the People Act of 2021 replaces state voter ID rules with a signed statement from the voter, and makes permanent the pandemic’s mail-in ballot voting. The mailing out of blank absentee ballots en masse would become a fixture...

PITTSBURGH -- On the morning of Election Day in western Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf mentioned on a local radio show that his wife had submitted his mail-in ballot for him -- a direct violation of Pennsylvania election law punishable by up to a year in prison, a $1,000 fine or possibly both. Had the progressive Democrat signed the voting bill that passed this summer, HB 1300, any member of his household could have dropped it off for him. Moreover, it would have established early in-person voting and required signature verification of mail-in ballots. When he vetoed the bill, Wolf...

We are just a year away from critical mid-term elections. Finding a path to ensuring election integrity is a must to build trust in any result. But, unfortunately, any attempt to do so risks headlines like the following: "A damaging blow to voting rights." "Restrictive voting laws new Jim Crow." "The Supreme Court Kills the Voting Rights Act." Such headlines dominate mainstream liberal coverage whenever voting is in any way restricted. In our crazy COVID world, Democrats seem comfortable with mail-in ballots flying everywhere forever, last-minute voter registration, extended early and late voting, and the elimination of voter ID. It's...

Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Answers About its Challenge to Georgia’s Voter Integrity Bill HHS Documents Reveal Sexual and Physical Abuse of Unaccompanied Minors Judicial Watch Sues HHS for Details of Biden’s COVID-19 Community Corps Judicial Watch Sues HHS for Biodistribution Studies of the COVID Vaccines California Judge Heard Arguments on Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Answers About its Challenge to Georgia’s Voter Integrity Bill For years we have reported on Democrats blocking efforts to make elections honest. Not surprisingly, the problem continues under Joe Biden. The latest battlefield is Georgia. We filed a...

This morning, I was reading an open letter from Glenn Beck to Congress: How YOU Can Fight Back Against the Great Reset. It’s well worth YOUR read. The introduction says… In an attempt to secure vast amounts of wealth and influence over society, corporations, bankers, and investors, working closely with key government officials, have launched a unified effort to impose environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards on most of the industrialized global economy. I will not get into the full contents of the letter today or the chilling implications of this scheme. But I will be following up its goals...

Votes cast from the grave. Manipulation of the elderly. Zuckerberg payola. Burning drop boxes. Missing ballots. Double-voting. Election administrators arrested for fraud. And a full week of ballot counting. Despite all of this, Stacey Abrams assures us that the only election fraud we need to worry about is that which cheated her out of her bid for Georgia Governor in 2018. It's hypocrisy at its finest and, sadly, what we have come to expect from the Left. In response to the numerous clear cases of fraud, states across the country have taken action to pass their own election integrity reforms....

“The Department of Justice is going to lose,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told me during a Friday interview, referring to the Voting Rights Act lawsuit the Biden administration filed against Georgia a little more than a week ago. Georgia has been vindicated by the Supreme Court, Raffensperger added, stressing in last week’s interview that the high court’s decision in Brnovich v. DNC rendered the DOJ’s claims frivolous.A thorough analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich confirms Raffensperger’s assessment. In that case, the court held that Arizona’s in-precinct voting requirement and ban on ballot harvesting did not violate...

House Bill 1300, approved along party lines by a margin of 112-89 on Tuesday, provides for “voting system defects, disclosure, investigations and penalties” and establishes the “Bureau of Election Audits,” among other things. However, upon initial review of the large bill, it does not contain anything that would prevent the type of hanky panky that Pennsylvanians experienced in November, 2020.

Here are just some of the unconstitutional, absurd, nakedly partisan, and crime-indulging provisions in this bill that 220 House Democrats voted for.On Wednesday, House Democrats passed an 800-page bill that would mandate insecure voting processes and subject voting tallies to partisan manipulation. It’s a slap in the face to the half of Americans, including many Democrats, who believe the 2020 election was riddled with fraud and errors, largely due to the rapid expansion of mail-in balloting and other suspensions of state election laws.“It is difficult to imagine a legislative proposal more threatening to election integrity and voter confidence,” write 20...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn, a conservative, explained his ruling against a contest-of-election lawsuit brought in the state by President Donald Trump’s campaign.In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, Hagedorn said he found nothing in the law or the evidence presented in the case that would have allowed Trump to win the lawsuit.A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Dec. 14 rejected Trump’s lawsuit challenging the election results in the battleground state about an hour before the Electoral College cast Wisconsin’s 10 votes for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. In the 4-3 ruling, the court’s three...

If the state senator was in the field working, she certainly was not ‘indefinitely confined’ under the meaning and intent of state statute. So, did she break the law? How many others did?MADISON, Wis. — Outgoing Wisconsin state Sen. Patty Schachtner, a full-time county medical examiner, earlier this year claimed to be “indefinitely confined,” receiving the special status accorded under state election law. The Democrat and her husband signed a statement claiming they were confined to their home “because of age, physical illness or infirmity” in seeking an absentee ballot to be automatically sent to their Somerset home. It begs...

Noncitizens are embedded in North Carolina jury and voting pools, raising new questions about the integrity of elections, according to an immigration reform group. The Immigration Reform Law Institute on Monday said it had uncovered examples of noncitizens, and likely also illegal immigrants, in the pools in Charlotte, North Carolina, and other key areas dating back to 2012. Working with the Voter Integrity Project, IRLI conceded that the numbers were not enough to overturn election results but point to the lack of “political will” by government officials to clean up their rolls. Voter Integrity Project co-founder Jay Delancy said, “The...

President Trump should reject the liberal clamor to concede an election that was evidently stolen by hundreds of thousands of fake ballots in seven battleground states. Ballots from voters who never requested them, along with ballots not completely filled out and personally returned with signatures that were both witnessed and verified, have turned this election into an unverifiable farce. The United States Code (Title 3, Section 1) requires that the “electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November.” That means only one day for every state to...

Editor's Note: This post was co-authored by Bruce Abramson. Did America just hold a deeply fraudulent election? Many people believe so. Disturbingly few seem willing to vouch for its integrity; instead, they insist that “there is no evidence of fraud.” Fair enough. It’s actually possible to split that difference. America just held an election featuring many anomalies that have not yet been proven fraudulent. It thus seems obvious that what America now needs is a fraud investigation. Any inquiry into the integrity of Tuesday’s elections must consider the entire process. Taking things in order, ballots are produced (i.e., printed), distributed...

In the face of historic and unprecedented irregularities in the counting of votes in swing states including Michigan and Pennsylvania, Republican lawyers are suing to ensure the integrity of this election. The Trump campaign and state-level Republican Party organizations have filed lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia, as well as new lawsuits in Pennsylvania, where the U.S. Supreme Court has requested Democrats respond to a motion by the Trump campaign to intervene in an earlier suit over Pennsylvania’s decision to keep accepting new mail-in ballots for days after Election Day, in violation of state law. In addition, private, non-partisan groups such...