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When Gov. Brian Kemp signed Georgia’s new restrictive voting provisions into law, he claimed the controversial changes—including making it harder to request mail ballots and use drop boxes—are necessary to improve election security. These bills, of course, spring from the Big Lie about our elections, but there is another irony here. Much of the “election integrity” legislation in Georgia and around the country would actually weaken our election systems and reduce their capacity to re...

Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite Samantha Rhodes completes her civic duty for the November, 2020 election outside of the Carla Madison Rec Center on Colfax Avenue. Oct. 16, 2020. The first meetings of Colorado’s independent congressional redistricting commission were supposed to be about dry, bureaucratic tasks — like hiring attorneys and adopting rules of order. Instead, the group spent nearly two hours on Monday stripping its newly appointed chairman, Danny Moore, of his leadership role because o...

SHOW TRANSCRIPT The Texas Senate has advanced legislation placing new restrictions on voting.  The bill would limit extended early voting hours, prohibit drive-through voting and make it illegal for local election officials to send out vote-by-mail applications.  The Texas GOP argues the legislation is about election security, but Democrats and voting rights activists say the measures are suppressive and intended to limit access to the ballot box in Democratic strongholds. For full election c...

U.S. officials found no evidence that foreign actors changed votes or otherwise disrupted the voting process in last November's presidential election, according to government reports affirming the integrity of the contest won by President Joe Biden.

Since the hotly contested 2020 election, Republican state legislators have been advancing bills to bolster election integrity. Across ...

Conservative nonprofit Heritage Action for America is on Monday expected to announce plans to spend $10 million on a wide-ranging election integrity campaign to strengthen voting laws in eight swing states, according to reports.

Florida voters are currently allowed to receive VBM ballots over the next two years without filing for a new ballot.

Louisiana will remain the only state that doesnt use voting machines which utilize a paper-based component. Trump conspiracy theories help stop plan to modernize Louisianas voting equipment Louisianas unique standing as an election integrity risk, because its the only state without any paper trail for votes, is going to continue indefinitely. Thats because the top elections official on Wednesday called off his search to replace the states antiquated and entirely electronic fleet of 10,0...

bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission will hold a hearing Monday to determine if it should rescind a decision made recently to grant a variance for a property owner outside Williamstown to operate a video lottery establishment. The commission has scheduled the matter for 9:30 a.m. Monday, March 8. County officials took additional questions Thursday from a couple of residents who appeared before the commission earlier this week and also conferred with Wood Count...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last month said it intends to update the 119,973 Polling Units (PUs) and over 57,000 voting Points (VPs) Nigeria has been stuck with for 25 years. The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Festus Okoye, said this in Abuja at the end of the management meeting of the commission. The decision is to reflect the realities of population growth and the establishment of new settlements in the country. I...