An Obama nominee presiding over the photo voter ID lawsuit issued an order on Monday finding that the State of Texas did not meet its burden to show that the law was not passed with a discriminatory purpose in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
The protracted public relations campaign on behalf of a non-U.S. citizen found to have voted illegally in north Texas continued over the weekend pages of The New York Times.
The Associated Press is reporting that the Trump Administration will be ending the federal government’s opposition to Texas’ photo voter identification law.
Leading Texas Republican lawmakers and officials publicly endorsed a bill that would make permanent a voter ID “safety net” allowing those without proper documentation to cast a regular ballot if they sign an affidavit.
The Texas voter ID “fix” instituted before the November presidential election, which allowed citizens without proper documentation to sign a sworn affidavit indicating why they could not procure one in time, now leaves local election officials considering whether “hundreds” of voters should be referred to prosecutors for abusing the safety net.
Partisan outrage and media curiosity swirled anew early Wednesday morning when President Trump announced on Twitter his decision to charge his administration with investigating “voter fraud”, potentially leading to reforms made in the future.
On Monday, the Supreme Court denied requests to review several prominent federal appeals—called petitions for certiorari—including a Utah case asserting a constitutional right to polygamy and a challenge to Texas’s voter-ID law.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Texas’ appeal from an adverse ruling in the Texas voter ID case.
A federal magistrate delayed the next hearing in the Texas voter ID case so that the Trump Administration has time to reassess.
Voters in Britain will have to bring proof of identity to polling stations for the first time next year as the government tries to crack down on electoral fraud.
A Democrat senator from Austin, Texas, has pre-filed a bill that if passed, would add a college or university ID to the list of forms of identification that could be used for voting in Texas.
While it’s clear that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States, it wasn’t clear until Thursday that he carried Arizona. A quarter of Arizona’s vote has not been counted a full day after the election because of mail-in voting, a fraud-prone practice that disserves the nation and should end.
TANGIPAHOA PARISH, Louisiana – A voting machine in Louisiana reportedly counted votes at a polling site before any residents had even voted on the machine.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Amid allegations of a “rigged system” and mass election fraud, Louisiana voters can actually report voting violations through a hotline thanks to the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office.
On Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton about a study from the Center for Immigration Studies that revealed that “there could be as many as 43 million non-citizens in the United States right now.” Fitton had previously spotlighted this study on Twitter as evidence of potential voter fraud issues.
Texas-based election integrity organization True the Vote is calling into question whether Los Angeles County election officials are properly training poll workers to follow voter identification standards.
Texas-based election integrity organization True the Vote has released a smartphone app that allows users to report voter fraud and irregularities.
Chambers County election officials have executed an emergency protocol to remove all electronic voting machines available during early voting until a software update can be completed to correct problems experienced by straight-ticket voters.
After a week of controversial rulings by United States district judge Mark Walker, a President Obama nominee, he has finally decided to rule against a third pro-Democrat initiative put forth by the Florida Democratic Party in regard to voter ID. On Thursday, Walker ruled against allowing rapid verification to take place during early voting that starts Monday in some major counties in Florida.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – As the 2016 presidential election nears, voter fraud has become a real issue not only for voters, but for state election officials, as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump warns of a “rigged system” on Election Day.
A recently-released email thread reveals that the Clinton camp was seriously concerned about potential voter fraud harming her chances in the 2016 caucuses again as top operatives were “reliving” their 2008 experiences.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the nation’s highest court to fully reinstate the Lone Star State’s voter ID law. The petition will not affect the November 2016 Election.
The Obama appointee presiding over the Texas voter photo ID lawsuit ordered the State to toss some of its voter education materials because federal lawyers did not like the exact language in printed. Although lawyers for the State gave the DOJ and liberal voting rights groups a copy of the proposed language on August 11, they waited until less than 60 days before the November election to complain. This was after financial and other resources had been expended by the State.
In an interview with Breitbart News, the president of voters’ rights and election integrity organization True the Vote says her organization is training and equipping citizens to report suspected election illegalities amid the left’s continued claim that Voter ID laws prevent people from voting.
“Though many of the arguments for early voting and against voter ID laws frequently cite minorities’ voting access, nonwhites’ views of the two policies don’t differ markedly from those of whites,” Gallup states. White and nonwhite voters also strongly support early voting, 80 percent and 77 percent respectively.
Comparing allegations of racial discrimination to a government cover-up of extraterrestrials at Area 51, prominent federal appeals judges criticized their court’s invalidating of Texas’ voter ID law—a ruling that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton now promises to take to the U.S. Supreme Court.
DENVER, Colorado—Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in Colorado on Saturday was pushing states to adopt the Secure and Fair Elections (“SAFE”) Act, model legislation he wrote to prevent vote fraud by requiring voter identification and proof of citizenship.
Houston-based True the Vote, a prominent player in the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal from 2013 has reportedly won critical portions of its appeal in a lawsuit against the IRS.
An agreement between the State of Texas and groups that attempted to strike down the state’s photo voter identification law came to an agreement Wednesday that will keep the election integrity policy largely in place for the November elections and thereafter.
A voting rights lawsuit filed against the State of Texas alleges that the makeup of the Supreme Court and Criminal Court of Appeals do not sufficiently reflect the Latino population.
Shortly after an appeals court ruled Texas’ voter identification law to have discriminatory effects requiring fixes before the November election, a federal judge released guidelines for a remedy on Thursday.
Texas’ photo voter identification law was ruled discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act Wednesday by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
A decision from a federal appeals court — to likely be made this week — is expected to determine whether the Texas photo voter identification requirement will be enforced for the 2016 Election.
Ben & Jerry’s announced Tuesday that proceeds from its newest flavor of ice cream, “Empower Mint,” will help benefit the North Carolina NAACP’s campaign to repeal the state’s voter ID law.
WASHINGTON—On April 29, the Supreme Court issued an unusual order denying the relief requested by challengers to Texas’s voter-ID law, but also sending a signal to the appeals court currently examining the law, informing the lower court that it only has until July 20 to make a final decision, so that the Supreme Court would have time to act if necessary before the 2016 election.
HBO host Bill Maher argued “long lines are the new poll tax” and Republicans “an’t get the votes anymore, so what they do, is f*cking cheat” on Friday’s “Real Time.” Maher said, “I think that long lines are the new
The first day of early voting in the primary election begins in Texas on Tuesday, February 16, and Texans always have questions on how and where to participate. Participating in this primary and general election has never been more important.
Civil rights veteran Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) compared Republican frontrunner Donald J. Trump to segregationist George Wallace in an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Saturday.
In an effort to defy a law requiring voters to present a photo ID in North Carolina, Irving Joyner, North Carolina NAACP Legal Redress Chair, held a press conference Tuesday and said, “We are going out and we are mobilizing people and telling them wherever they are to go to the polls whether you have a picture voter ID or not and demand their right to vote.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged people to fight “efforts to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, and poor people, and young people” on Thursday’s broadcast of “Keeping It Real with Al Sharpton.” Hillary stated, “There is doubt that the
