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Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, launched another attack on the Republican-controlled Arizona State Senate’s audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results on Monday, and complained that election officials in other states are concerned they may soon be subject to similar audits.

Arizona Secretary of States may decertify the election machines used by the county in the 2020 election that were turned over to the organization conducting the Arizona State Senate audit of those election results.

Five rural Oregon counties voted on Tuesday to secede from the state of Oregon and join the state of Idaho.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) on Tuesday called for three Florida counties to return $2.1 million in unspent funds from grants received in 2020 from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).

Former President Donald Trump released a statement Thursday about new developments in the Arizona State Senate audit of the November 2020 election results in Maricopa County.

Three serious issues have been found in the audit of the returns of the November 3, 2020 general election in Maricopa County, AZ.

Jessica Anderson, executive director of Heritage Action, said that Tuesday’s Senate Committee on Rules and Administration mark up hearing on S. 1, the bill designed to nationalize the administration of elections in the United States, “was just a farce and allowed Democrats to just double down on their extreme provisions.”

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) signed an election integrity bill on Tuesday that will limit the number of absentee ballots automatically mailed out by cleaning up voter lists and removing those who have not voted in the past two election cycles.

The Texas House of Representatives passed a major election integrity bill on Friday in a 78 to 64 vote.

Florida became the fifth state in 2021 to enact a law that prohibits the private funding of election administration on Thursday after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed a comprehensive election integrity bill into law.

Rep. Chip Roy sent a letter on Wednesday to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and two influential state legislators encouraging them to pass election integrity legislation currently under consideration in the Texas State Legislature that includes several specific safeguards.

The Republican-controlled Louisiana House of Representatives voted 69 to 35 on Tuesday to ban private funding of election administration in the state.

The general counsel for the Arizona Legislative Council sent a memo to state Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-16) on Monday in which he stated that SB 1485, a bill that removes inactive voters from the list of those who are automatically mailed absentee ballots, is not retroactive prior to its effective date.

A comprehensive election integrity bill passed by the Florida State Legislature on Thursday prohibits the private funding of election administration in the state.

A spokesman for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced on Wednesday that the Attorney General’s office will not investigate allegations of election irregularities in the 2020 presidential election by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, as former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), requested in a letter dated earlier that same day.

Heritage Action said on Wednesday an Arizona election integrity bill that will “clean up the state’s early voting list and remove registrations that have been inactive in two consecutive election cycles,” will go into effect immediately, and not in 2026, as State Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-16) said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday.

The Texas House of Representatives is currently considering a comprehensive election integrity bill that would, among other things, place executive and legislative checks and balances on the private funding of the administration of the state’s electoral procedures.

Republican Gov. Brad Little of Idaho signed a bill into law on Thursday that is designed to ban the private funding of election administration.

Arizona State Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-16) explained her recent “no” vote on an election integrity bill that would have tightened the rules for maintaining lists of voters who are automatically mailed absentee ballots in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday.

Five residents of Racine, Wisconsin filed an election complaint with the city for “involv[ing] private corporations and their employees” in the administration of the November 2020 general election in Racine.

The Democrat governor of Kansas vetoed two election integrity bills on Friday.

The Republican-controlled Arizona State Senate failed to pass an election integrity bill that tightens the rules for maintaining lists of voters who automatically are mailed absentee ballots Thursday when State Sen. Kelly Townsend (R-16) surprised her colleagues by joining with all 14 Democrats who voted no when the bill came to the floor.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R-MT) signed two election integrity bills into law on Monday.

A poll released Tuesday by former Trump administration National Security Advisor John Bolton’s Super PAC claims that former President Donald Trump’s “GOP base is weakening,” but pollster John McLaughlin quickly countered with a poll showing 82 percent of Republicans would vote for the former president if he runs for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.

A joint committee of the Idaho State Senate and Idaho House of Representatives heard on Monday from a group representing residents of Oregon counties who want their counties to leave Oregon and join Idaho.

The Florida State Legislature moved one step closer to a ban on the private funding of election administration in the state earlier this month.

The Wisconsin State Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit counties and municipalities from accepting private funding for election administration, but would allow the Wisconsin Election Commission to accept such funding and distribute those funds equally within the state on a per capita basis.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) says former President Donald Trump is “energized and engaged” after meeting with him last week at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill into law on Friday that prohibits the private funding of election administration in the state.

The Arizona State Legislature passed a resolution on Tuesday vowing defiance of HR1, the effort by Democrats to nationalize the administration of elections, should it become law.

Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson praised the Arizona State Senate for passing HB 2569, a bill that prohibits the private funding of election administration, and said Gov. Doug Ducey “should promptly sign the bill into law.”

The Arizona State Senate passed a bill on Tuesday the prohibits the private funding of election administration.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) released a report Tuesday documenting the $36 million spent in 14 urban counties of Texas in the 2020 election by the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL).

A bill that prohibits the private funding of election administration moved one step closer to becoming law in Arizona on Tuesday.

The executive director of Heritage Action praised the new Georgia “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday evening, as a model for other states to follow.

Legislation to prohibit private funding of election administration and limit the number and location of drop boxes for the deposit of vote by mail absentee ballots is moving through key committees in Georgia.