By Bart Marcois Commentary My first experience as an international election observer was in Yemen, in the fall of 1992. I was the American Embassy liaison with the professional election observer community. To the shock of the international community, and to my personal surprise, those elections were mostly free and fair, which was how we certified them. Not […]
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Crucial Logs Missing From Michigan County Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report
By Ivan Pentchoukov A court-sanctioned forensic audit of voting systems in Michigan’s Antrim County determined that crucial security and ballot-adjudication logs were missing from machines by Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the epicenter of the dispute over whether voter fraud occurred during the 2020 general election. The findings are part of a preliminary forensic report (pdf) […]
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Nevada DMV Records Suggest 3,987 Non-Citizens Voted in 2020 Election
By Ivan Pentchoukov Nevada Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) records suggest that nearly 4,000 legal and illegal aliens cast votes in the 2020 general election, according to a sworn affidavit filed with a state court. As part of legislation enacted by the state’s Democrats, the DMV automatically registers to vote every person who obtains a driver’s license. […]
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Powell Asks Supreme Court to Immediately Order States Decertify Election Results
By Janita Kan Attorney Sidney Powell is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately intervene in her lawsuits challenging the integrity and outcome of the 2020 elections in four states. In an announcement on Friday, Powell said she had filed emergency requests to the nation’s top court, asking the justices to order officials in Georgia, Michigan, and Arizona to immediately de-certify their 2020 […]
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Trump Approves Filing Retooled Texas-Style Election Challenges: Giuliani
By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump’s legal team is planning on filing retooled lawsuits, his lawyer said Saturday. “We move immediately, seamlessly, to plan B, which is to bring lawsuits now in each one of the states. We had them ready. They’re just a version of the one that was brought in the Supreme Court. […]
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Texas GOP Chair Floats Forming Union of ‘Law-Abiding’ States After SCOTUS Election Ruling
By Ivan Pentchoukov Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West on Friday mused whether a group of “law-abiding states” should form a union after the Supreme Court rejected an election challenge filed by Texas earlier this week. “This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable. This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for […]
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YouTube Blocks Trump Campaign’s 2 New Election Fraud Ads
By Tom Ozimek YouTube has removed two new ads from the Trump campaign, which allege widespread corruption in the 2020 election and call on voters to contact state legislators “to demand a free and fair election.” In a Dec. 11 press release, the Trump campaign announced that it had released two new ads, which besides being posted […]
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Texas Tells SCOTUS That Defendant States Didn’t Address ‘Grave’ Election Issues
By Zachary Stieber The state of Texas argued in a filing to the Supreme Court on Friday that the four states it is suing didn’t address “grave issues,” instead “choosing to hide behind other court venues and decisions.” Texas sued Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin in the nation’s top court this week, alleging that the states unconstitutionally changed election laws, treated voters unequally, […]
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Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania
By Jack Phillips Pennsylvania’s House speaker and majority leader on Thursday filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas’s lawsuit against the commonwealth and three other states. A brief (pdf) filed by Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, requests that the Supreme Court “carefully consider the procedural […]
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6 States Ask Supreme Court to Join Texas Election Lawsuit
By Ivan Pentchoukov The states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah on Dec. 10 asked the Supreme Court to let them intervene in an election lawsuit filed earlier in the week by the state of Texas. In a brief motion to intervene filed on Thursday, the six states outlined the reasons they […]
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‘Bought by Beijing’: Pompeo Warns of China’s Threats to US Colleges
By Cathy He American colleges are becoming “hooked on Chinese Communist Party cash,” while Beijing works to siphon cutting-edge U.S. research to China, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Dec. 9. “So many of our colleges are bought by Beijing,” Pompeo said during a speech at the Georgia Institute of Technology, outlining Beijing’s aggressive efforts targeting […]
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Infographic: What Happened in Atlanta on Election Night
By Petr Svab On the night of Nov. 3, tens of thousands of absentee ballots for Fulton County, Georgia, were counted at the State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Atlanta. In recent days, the fog of incomplete and conflicting information provided by interested parties has begun to clear. It now appears that a state election monitor was absent for a […]
