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🚨NEW: CNN's Harry Enten: "A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party — and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with @NICKIMINAJ."

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What sensible forward thinking cutting edge leading nation is having a DEBATE on whether or not there should be VOTER ID?!?!!!! Like?!?!? They’re actually fighting NOT to have ppl present ID while voting for your leaders!!!!! Do you get it?!?!!!! Do you get it now?!?!!!
9:57 AM · Feb 3, 2026

Enten said support for voter ID has been "north of 75 percent" for years. Indeed, in 2025, it was 83 percent. I don't think you have 83 percent agreement on almost anything, so that's phenomenal support.

Democrats also largely support it, he explained, polling at 71 percent. Republicans are at 95 percent.

Even if you break it down by race, the majority still support it, with white people at 85 percent, Latinos at 82 percent, and black people at 76 percent.

So the only people who don't seem to agree with voter ID are Democrat politicians. //

anon-297t
2 hours ago
There's a very specific way to couch this argument. Every vote counted from an ineligible voter disenfranchises an eligible voter. The balance of harms is not on, 'can we find one eligible voter who, for some reason, can't obtain an ID,' but instead, which option disenfranchises fewer people? Does a lack of voter ID allow more ineligible voters to cast a ballot than eligible voters that a voter ID requirement would prevent? There are data-backed arguments that that is the case.

‘I thought is was a little absurd because we were such a small community,’ Thornapple election chief Suzanne Pinnow said.

Fulton County, Georgia, recently made an admission that should have commanded national attention. During a hearing before the Georgia State Election Board, county officials acknowledged that approximately 315,000 early ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election were unlawfully certified yet were nonetheless included in Georgia’s final, official results, in a race Joe Biden was officially declared to have won by just 11,779 votes.

The admission arose from a challenge filed by David Cross, an election integrity activist, who alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia election law in its handling of early voting. Under state statute, each ballot scanner is required to produce tabulation tapes at the close of voting, and poll workers must sign those tapes to certify the reported totals. These signed tapes are not merely an administrative safeguard. They are central to determining whether the vote count itself is legitimate. //

But even as the man accused of attacking democracy for questioning the process has now been vindicated on a central factual point, the people and institutions that failed to follow the law have faced no consequences.

The fact that President Trump ultimately won reelection does not undo what was done in Georgia. Accountability is not contingent on electoral reversal. It is contingent on whether the law still binds those who administer elections, and whether violations of that law still matter once the political moment has passed.

If nothing comes of Fulton County’s admission, the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding. Lawful certification will remain a matter of convenience instead of necessity. Future officials will understand that essential checks on the integrity of the vote can be ignored so long as the results are politically convenient.

Even more troubling, inaction would validate a deeper inversion of responsibility. The individual who raised concerns was punished, while the institutions that failed to follow the law remain protected.

Cross, whose persistence brought these revelations to light, has asked the State Election Board to decertify Fulton County’s 2020 advanced voting results for the historical record. His request is not aimed at changing past outcomes. We cannot undo the fact that for four years Joe Biden was president. But an official acknowledgment that Fulton County’s vote certification, and by extension the Georgia outcome, was invalid would place a permanent mark on the deliberate misconduct of those responsible and the institutional failure that enabled it, while reinforcing the principle that election law is not optional.

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We were disappointed, and honestly, angry over our New Jersey polling.

Our first September Labor Day poll showed Sherrill +10.

By late September, after debates, campaign controversies, and the Kirk assassination, everything changed. The race tightened fast.

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🔵Mikie Sherrill - 6,280 - 62.6%
🔴Jack Ciattarelli - 3,700 - 36.9%

2016: Clinton +25
2020: Biden +13
2024: Harris +4
2025: Sherrill +26
4:07 PM · Nov 6, 2025

But wait until you hear this: Right Angle News Network points to some eyebrow-raising numbers out of the race. Somehow, from 2021 to 2025, the state’s number of voters in the gubernatorial election jumped 500,000 — over twice the pace of population growth — and virtually all of those new votes went Democrat, even though Republicans have had the advantage in new voter registrations. It’s the kind of “coincidence” that’s starting to look a lot less like chance and a lot more like something worth investigating. //

It certainly raises some eyebrows. The polling was off by double digits, the turnout surge defied demographic trends, and the lack of voter ID requirements combined with lax enforcement of mail-in ballot rules created an environment ripe for abuse. Whether you call it irregularities, anomalies, or something more sinister, the New Jersey results deserve a closer look. Republicans got shellacked in a race that everyone believed was more competitive.

Something happened in New Jersey, and until someone can explain where half a million Democratic voters came from and why every pollster in the country got it so spectacularly wrong, the questions aren't going away.

A decades old consent decree has been lifted against the Republican National Committee's so-called "ballot security" measures. It's a big victory in the RNC's efforts to monitor polling activity and it's a sobering moment for activists who fear this could accelerate voter suppression — especially among minorities.

The Elias Law Group is suing again – this time to kill an Ohio law aimed at blocking foreign nationals from voting in U.S. elections.

On Monday, President Donald Trump announced he would be signing an executive order that would prohibit mail-in ballots and voting machines in the run-up to the 2026 midterm elections. He wrote on Truth Social:

"I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly 'Inaccurate,' Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election."

The president added that, "We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting." He also predicted what we already know: that the fight against ensuring election integrity will come from Democrats. He said the effort would be "strongly opposed by the Democrats because they cheat at levels never seen before."

Trump continued, writing:

"Remember, the States are merely an 'agent' for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do." //

The ideal scenario: Election Day becomes a national holiday, so that more Americans can vote in person. Nothing but paper ballots are used; when polls close, there are both Republican and Democratic poll watchers ensuring a fair and honest vote count, although, understandably, one could ask if there actually are any fair and honest Democratic poll watchers. Finally, a requirement that a winner be announced that night. //

Robert A Hahn
20 hours ago
There is a list of items that cannot be sent through the US Postal Service. Alcoholic beverages, ammunition, gasoline, explosives... there are bunch.

I'm pretty sure that making and maintaining that list is an Executive Branch responsibility. I don't think Congress spells out every line item on the 'prohibited' list.

The way you could get rid of mail-in ballots via an Executive Order is to add 'completed ballots' to the list of things that the postal service will not carry.

U.S. military members, their family members, and other overseas citizens have been allowed to vote absentee since 1986 under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). But 38 states, like Georgia, and Washington, D.C. permit non-military citizens who have “never resided in the U.S.” to vote so long as they have a parent or legal guardian that was last registered in that state. Even if the voter’s parents no longer live there, their last registered address can still be used. Citizens currently living overseas can also vote using their last U.S. address of domicile, even if they no longer currently reside there or have any affiliation with the state. //

The legislation would amend UOCAVA to require that non-military overseas voters to prove they or a spouse or parent/guardian hold current residency in a state in which they are trying to vote. If a voter cannot prove a current residence of himself or his parents, spouse, or legal guardian in the state in which he is trying to vote, he will be able to vote as a federal-only voter in Washington, D.C.

The scheme highlights still unaddressed vulnerabilities in the voting process that leave elections ripe for fraud. //

In Pennsylvania, where officials swear elections are safe and secure, three elected officials are headed to prison after admitting they cheated in the 2021 election. Their cases reveal common vulnerabilities in the voting process that have yet to be cured.

The three men, who all at one time were elected Democrat members of the Millbourne Borough Council, tried to rig the mayoral election in favor of one of them. They failed by 30 votes, got caught, and in June each was sentenced to prison. Among the charges were conspiracy to commit voter fraud, giving false information in registering to vote, and fraudulent voter registration. //

The scheme highlights how easily electronic voter registration and ballot requests, drop off boxes, signatures, photo identification, and in-person voting each have a role in allowing or preventing election fraud. If they had been forced to vote in person and verify their address with a photo ID, this cheating would not have happened.

Even if everyone who is eligible to vote in the country would have voted, President Trump still would have won the 2024 presidential election, a new study out Thursday from the Pew Research Center finds.

Trump won in 2024 with just under 50% of the vote, 49.7%-48.2% over Democrat Kamala Harris.

Roughly 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out in 2024, the second highest since 1904. 2020 was the highest.

But even if everyone who could vote did, Trump would have won by an even wider margin, 48%-45%, according to Pew's validated voters survey.

The survey of almost 9,000 voters was conducted in the weeks after the 2024 presidential election. Pew verified whether they had voted or not over the last five presidential elections using publicly available commercial voter files. For context, most well-conducted national polls include roughly 1,000 interviews.

Pew asked non-voters how they would have voted and found they would have broken for Trump, 44%-40%. That's a big change from 2020 and 2016 when they said they would have chosen Democrats. In 2020, they said they preferred Joe Biden 46%-35%. In 2016, it was Hillary Clinton, 37%-30%.

That upends a longstanding belief in politics that higher turnout generally helps Democrats. Younger and non-white voters, who tend to vote Democratic, are also among the least likely to vote.

But in 2024, Trump's coalition grew – it got more ethnically diverse and younger.

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose on Tuesday revealed his office found evidence of 30 noncitizens registered to vote in the state. The election chief also discovered that individuals from seven different states and Washington, D.C., may have illegally voted in multiple jurisdictions.

These new charges appear to confirm that the ballot was cast. It is no longer an "unauthorized attempt." It is a very tangible case of illegal voting. //

Whether or not it sends a message to Gao himself remains to be seen.

The case against him has a significant problem - Gao was granted a $5,000 personal bond with conditions by a Michigan state court, which included surrendering his passport. Unfortunately, it appears the man who was charged with perjury wound up - shocker! - allegedly forging another passport in his name but with a different serial number.

As a result, the accused citizen and national of the People’s Republic of China managed to flee the country the day before President Trump took the oath of office. He hitched a flight to Shanghai.

Stealing from the taxpayers is one thing, but stealing the franchise is worse. Why? Well, here's why, and I'm going to tell you: The franchise, more than anything else, belongs to the citizens and only to the citizens. The ballot box is one of three boxes in which our right to hold the government to account depends, in addition to the soap box - and you all know the third. The vote is us exercising our self-determination as a people, as a nation, as a country, at every level of government.

And only citizens should have that determination, that privilege, and responsibility to have a say in our government. From the very beginning, this American experiment, this constitutional republic, has been established by the people and for the people - the people being Americans.

Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez is not an American. She's in the country illegally. She came here illegally, she defrauded the American people for thousands and thousands of dollars in benefits, she stole someone's identity to do so, and worst of all, she stole a portion of the self-determination of the American people by voting illegally.

This is a person that shouldn't be repatriated - not until she has had a trial and, if convicted, a long and comprehensive acquaintance with the American penal system.

Customers rejected Smartmatic for reasons unrelated to Fox. For example, the filing said, Smartmatic’s equipment was not certified.

Trump issued the order on March 25, 2025, and Ward Clark gave us an overview of what's in it:

The EO discusses the integrity of voter registration:

Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Election Assistance Commission shall take appropriate action to require, in its national mail voter registration form issued under 52 U.S.C. 20508:

(A) documentary proof of United States citizenship, consistent with 52 U.S.C. 20508(b)(3); and

(B) a State or local official to record on the form the type of document that the applicant presented as documentary proof of United States citizenship, including the date of the document’s issuance, the date of the document’s expiration (if any), the office that issued the document, and any unique identification number associated with the document as required by the criteria in 52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(5)(A), while taking appropriate measures to ensure information security.

And, there is a section strong-arming the states into strictly abiding by federal election laws:

The Election Assistance Commission shall, pursuant to 52 U.S.C. 21003(b)(3)and 21142(c) and consistent with applicable law, take all appropriate action to cease providing Federal funds to States that do not comply with the Federal laws set forth in 52 U.S.C. 21145, including the requirement in 52 U.S.C. 20505(a)(1) that States accept and use the national mail voter registration form issued pursuant to 52 U.S.C. 20508(a)(1), including any requirement for documentary proof of United States citizenship adopted pursuant to section 2(a)(ii) of this order. //

On Thursday, Kollar-Kotelly issued a 120-page memorandum opinion in support of her order granting the plaintiffs in the LULAC and League cases a preliminary injunction, prohibiting the administration from giving effect to section 2(a) of the order (requiring proof of citizenship in the national mail voter registration form). //

anon-15qo
15 minutes ago
Article II, Sec. 3, ...he [president] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,...
Article I, Sec. 4, of the Constitution gives states the responsibility of overseeing federal elections.
Amdt. 15, Sec.1, The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–
Amdt. 19, The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Amdt. 24, sec. 1, The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Amdt. 26, sec. 1, The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

The previously legislation passed in July, 221 to 198, after Democrats stated noncitizen voting is already illegal.

But just because noncitizen voting is already illegal doesn’t mean it’s not happening — or that current law does anything to prevent it. Current law prohibiting noncitizens from voting is largely toothless, with prospective voters simply checking a small square box on a federal registration form attesting under penalty of perjury that they are a citizen.

The SAVE Act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to make documentary proof of citizenship a requirement to register to vote.

In the dumpy little borough of Millbourne, Pennsylvania, three elected Democrats cheated in the 2021 election in almost every imaginable way. Their candidate, one of the three cheaters, still lost his bid for mayor by some 30 votes. Two are still in office as of April 4, according to a phone call to the borough hall.

The three pleaded guilty April 1 to a host of election fraud offenses at separate hearings before United States District Judge Harvey Bartle III.

To examine their scheme is to see in play many of the red flags election integrity experts have warned about. It is a textbook for cheaters to study, and they will, unless Pennsylvania changes some laws to make it harder to cheat. //

Requiring in-person voting and photo voter ID would have prevented this scam. While some states require photo ID, Pennsylvania does not.

New York’s top court has struck down a law that would have let noncitizens vote in New York City elections, with the court’s progressive majority overwhelmingly siding with Republicans who challenged the idea.

The law would have made more than 800,000 people eligible to vote in municipal contests such as mayoral races. //

In a decision handed down by the Court of Appeals on Thursday, the judges brushed off the Democratic argument by a 6-1 margin.

“Under that interpretation, municipalities are free to enact legislation that would enable anyone to vote – including … thirteen-year-old children,” Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote for the majority.

“It is plain from the language and restrictions contained in [the state constitution] that ‘citizen’ is not meant as a floor, but as a condition of voter eligibility: the franchise extends only to citizens whose right to vote is established by proper proofs,” Wilson wrote.

The deceitful propaganda that voter ID laws suppress the vote and disenfranchise voters was spread only to demonize efforts to make elections more secure. //

The report noted that while “it is likely too large of a leap to say voter ID has increased turnout due to the correlational nature of our analysis, it seems that there is no negative relationship.” Further the report found there is “no evidence of a negative effect” on minority voters “from the implementation of voter ID.”

Billy Baroo
13 hours ago
Rank choice voting is as crooked as ballot harvesting. //

anon-rnsl
14 hours ago
Here is my solution as a Constitutional amendment:

If you're not eligible to vote for a candidate for public office, you cannot contribute to their campaign.... Period.

But this is a high bar indeed.

Better results might occur at the state level.... after all Sates, not the Federal Government, runs elections.

So here ya go....

You're not eligible to vote for an initiative, proposition, or candidate... you can't contribute to them.... Period.

FWIW - For Whatever Its Worth

mopani anon-rnsl
14 hours ago
I like it. Cuts out the outside money, helps focus the candidates on their constituents.