By Zachary Stieber The 2020 election audit in Arizona’s largest county is projected to end by June 26, officials said in a new update. Audit teams led by Florida-based Cyber Ninjas finished counting virtually all of the nearly 2.1 million ballots earlier this week, with fewer than 100 braille ballots remaining to be counted. Workers were shifted to […]
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Michigan Senate Passes Legislation to Add Voter ID Requirements: ‘Overwhelmingly Popular’
By Jack Phillips Michigan’s GOP-led Senate on Wednesday passed several bills that, if signed into law, would implement more voter identification requirements for in-person voters and absentee voters, adding Michigan to a growing list of states pursuing more stringient election measures. All Senate Republicans voted in favor of the three bills, while every Senate Democrat […]
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Newsom Insists California’s Pending COVID-19 Verification System Not a ‘Vaccine Passport’
By Zachary Stieber California is developing a COVID-19 vaccine verification system that will enable people who have gotten a jab to show proof of the shot to businesses, Gov. Gavin Newsom says. “We’ll be doing something that provides you the opportunity, and we’ll announce this later this week, to have an electronic version of your paper version of […]
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Election Assessment in Pennsylvania County Uncovers Five ‘Issues of Note’
By Zachary Stieber An election assessment conducted in a Pennsylvania county months ago and quietly released to the public in recent weeks uncovered five errors, including three linked to Dominion Voting Systems, whose election management system is used in the county, the assessing firm said. Wake Technology Services Inc. (Wake TSI), a Pennsylvania-based firm, conducted the assessment in Fulton […]
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Lawmakers From Other States Descend on Arizona to See Election Audit
By Zachary Stieber Lawmakers from multiple states have visited the 2020 election audit in Arizona’s largest county in recent days, with more visits planned. Delegations from Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Alaska were given tours of Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where the audit is taking place in Phoenix. Michael McDonald, the Nevada Republican Party chairman, went to the venue […]
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Vernon Jones, GOP Gubernatorial Candidate, Headed to Arizona to Observe Election Audit
By Zachary Stieber Georgia gubernatorial candidate Vernon Jones is heading to Arizona this week to tour the 2020 election audit taking place there. Jones, a Republican who is challenging Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, plans to touch down in Arizona late Tuesday. On Wednesday, he will visit with Arizona legislators and see firsthand the forensic audit at Veterans Memorial Coliseum […]
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Trump: ‘Too Early’ to Tell If Pence Would Be Running Mate in Potential 2024 Bid
By Isabel Van Brugen Former President Donald Trump said Saturday night that it’s “too early” to tell if he would consider former Vice President Mike Pence to be his running mate if he runs for president in 2024. Trump told Fox News in an interview at the North Carolina GOP Convention that while he and Pence have a “very […]
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Pennsylvania Legislators Travel to Arizona to Observe Election Audit
By Zachary Stieber A delegation from Pennsylvania is set on Wednesday to tour the audit taking place in Arizona’s largest county. The delegation will visit the Arizona Capitol to meet with members of the Arizona Legislature before touring the audit at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. “I kind of see this as a fact-finding mission to see what’s happening […]
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Texas Senate Passes Major GOP-Backed Election Reform Bill
By Jack Phillips The Texas state Senate passed a sweeping election overhaul bill on May 30 that has been criticized by high-profile Democrats over provisions that they say expands restrictions and penalties. The legislation was approved largely along party lines after an overnight debate stretched into the morning of May 30, according to local media. The House had a deadline of […]
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Arizona’s Top Elections Official Tells Maricopa County to Get New Election Machines
By Zachary Stieber Machines being audited may have been compromised, Arizona’s secretary of state alleges. Arizona’s secretary of state on Thursday warned the state’s largest county not to try to use election machines that are being audited or she would decertify the equipment. “I have grave concerns regarding the security and integrity of these machines, […]
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Trump to Hold Rallies in Four States Soon
By Zachary Stieber Former President Donald Trump plans to hold rallies in a handful of states, he said in a newly released interview. Trump, who has teased future rallies since leaving office, told One America News that he will hold some “relatively soon.” “We’ll be doing one in Florida, we’re going to do one in […]
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Over 15,000 Gas Stations Out of Fuel Nationwide
By Zachary Stieber Gas shortages ease in some states, but worsen in others. Gas shortages eased slightly overnight in some states but worsened in others as Colonial Pipeline works to bring one of the nation’s major fuel conduits back online. More stations were out of gas in Florida, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi early Thursday compared to […]
