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03-06-2025
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Red state tops annual Heritage Foundation scorecard for strongest election integrity: 'Hard to cheat'
FIRST ON FOX: The Heritage Foundation released its annual Election Integrity Scorecard on Tuesday, which ranks the states it believes are strongest in terms of election integrity, in a review that resulted in Arkansas topping the list. Arkansas, led by GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, moved up from No. 8 and earned the No. 1 ranking in the new report that was compiled by looking at factors including voter ID implementation, accuracy of voting lists, absentee ballot management, verification of citizenship and other attributes. In a press release, Sanders touted several accomplishments in a recent legislative session, including Act 240, Act 241 and 218, which the state said "strengthened protections on Arkansas' ballot amendment process so that bad actors cannot influence and change the Natural State's Constitution." Sanders also signed legislation to prevent foreign entities from funding state and local measures. Election Investigation Uncovers Alleged Illegal Voting By Noncitizens And Double Voters In Multiple States "My goal this session was simple: make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," Sanders said in a statement. "I was proud to work with my friend, Secretary of State Cole Jester, to make Arkansas ballot boxes the safest and most secure in America and end petition fraud to protect our Constitution. Today's announcement shows that all our hard work paid off." Read On The Fox News App In a statement, Jester said, "As Secretary of State, I have said from day one we would have the most secure elections in the country." Gov. Sanders Announces Plan To Empower Parents To Sue Big Tech For Role In Teen Mental Health Crisis "I'm proud of the work my team has completed implementing new procedures and technology. None of this would be possible without the great work of Governor Sanders and the men and women of the Arkansas legislature." Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told Fox News Digital that Sanders and the state of Arkansas "deserve serious credit" for their efforts at election integrity. "States across the country should follow Arkansas' lead by implementing these critical election reforms that make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," Snead said. Red states made up the entirety of the top-10 ranking and included Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The last of the states on the list included Oregon, Vermont, California and Hawaii. Earlier this year, Snead's Honest Elections Project released a guide, first reported by Fox News Digital, outlining what it said are must-needed reforms to be taken up in states across the country to ensure election integrity. The report listed more than a dozen "critical" measures ranging from voter ID to cleaning up voter rolls to banning foreign influence in elections. "Election integrity ballot issues passed with flying colors across the board on election night," Snead said at the time. "Now that state legislative sessions are starting up, lawmakers have a duty to fulfill the mandate the American people gave to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat."Original article source: Red state tops annual Heritage Foundation scorecard for strongest election integrity: 'Hard to cheat'
Yahoo
28-04-2025
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Elections watchdog urges Senate GOP to close noncitizen voting loophole
FIRST ON FOX: As the Senate reconvenes this week after a spring break, the Honest Elections Project is urging GOP leaders to move quickly to close a loophole they say is allowing noncitizens to vote in federal elections. According to Honest Elections Project, an election integrity watchdog group, judicial interpretation of the National Voter Registration Act, often called the Motor Voter Act, effectively ties states' hands, making it difficult to put commonsense voter ID requirements in place and opening the window for noncitizens to influence and tip the balance in elections. The group said current federal law makes it so that voter registration essentially operates on an honor system in which all a noncitizen needs to do to be added to the voter rolls is check a box indicating he or she is a citizen. Doing so is punishable as perjury but is not sufficient as a deterrent, critics say. To stop this, Honest Elections sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Rules Committee Chair Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday, urging them to immediately bring the SAVE Act to the Senate floor for a vote. Senator Joins Group Of Far-left Lawmakers Who Think Trump Has – Again – Committed Impeachable Offenses The SAVE Act, which passed the House this month, would require voters to show proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate, passport, naturalization certificate or Real Id that notes citizenship status. According to the Senate received the legislation for consideration from the House on April 10. Read On The Fox News App When the House was considering the bill, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said, "This will be one of the most important votes that members of this chamber will ever take in their entire careers." Johnson urged House members to vote in favor of the bill, posing the question: "Should Americans and Americans alone determine the outcome of American elections? Or should we allow foreigners and illegal aliens to decide who sits in the White House and in the people's House and in the Senate?" Critics of the bill, largely Democrats, argue that it would make voter registration more difficult by adding new documentation requirements and red tape to register. Opponents have argued that people in rural areas, as well as elderly people who have trouble accessing ID offices, would find it difficult to register to vote, effectively disenfranchising them. As Real Id Rollout Approaches, Congressional Privacy Hawks Largely Silent On Concerns Opponents have also said that recently married women who have had a name change would be disenfranchised because their identification would be outdated. The House passed the measure in a 220-208 vote, with just four Democrats joining Republicans to vote in favor. Honest Elections Executive Director Jason Snead argued in the letter that adding the proof of citizenship requirement to voter registration would make it "easy to vote, but hard to cheat." Snead slammed opponents of the SAVE Act, saying they "rely on a familiar litany of debunked and misleading arguments" that "have been made about voter ID laws for decades but were never borne out." House Republican Enters Race For Mitch Mcconnell's Senate Seat, Setting Up High-stakes Gop Primary He explained that the SAVE Act has safeguards in place that would require states to establish a process to resolve identification discrepancies, such as a married woman's new name, allowing them to show additional documentation, such as a marriage license. Snead said that "by the same token, alternative evidence of citizenship could be offered by any American who may lack common records." On the other hand, Snead said "the evidence clearly shows that noncitizens are able to register and vote" under current law. "In 2018, the Department of Justice charged 19 noncitizens with illegally registering and voting," he said. House Dem Jumps Into Crowded Michigan Senate Race Snead also cited Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson recently announcing that 15 noncitizens voted in 2024 and officials in Ohio, Texas and Virginia recently identifying "significant numbers of noncitizens on their voter rolls and reported that many appear to have voted in recent years." "Many races are decided by razor-thin margins – sometimes by a single vote. Each illegal vote cancels out the voice of a lawful citizen voter," said Snead. In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, Snead said proof of citizenship for voter registration is widely popular among most Americans. He cited a recent Gallup survey that found that 83% of Americans support having to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. "As the Senate returns to session, I urge Leader Thune to take up the SAVE Act without delay," Snead said. "We urge Leader Thune to take this opportunity to allow every Senator to go on the record supporting the fundamental principle that only citizens should vote in American elections." Fox News Digital has requested comment from the offices of both Thune and article source: Elections watchdog urges Senate GOP to close noncitizen voting loophole
Fox News
28-04-2025
- Politics
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Elections watchdog urges Senate GOP to close noncitizen voting loophole
Print Close By Peter Pinedo Published April 28, 2025 FIRST ON FOX: As the Senate reconvenes this week after a spring break, the Honest Elections Project is urging GOP leaders to move quickly to close a loophole they say is allowing noncitizens to vote in federal elections. According to Honest Elections Project, an election integrity watchdog group, judicial interpretation of the National Voter Registration Act, often called the Motor Voter Act, effectively ties states' hands, making it difficult to put commonsense voter ID requirements in place and opening the window for noncitizens to influence and tip the balance in elections. The group said current federal law makes it so that voter registration essentially operates on an honor system in which all a noncitizen needs to do to be added to the voter rolls is check a box indicating he or she is a citizen. Doing so is punishable as perjury but is not sufficient as a deterrent, critics say. To stop this, Honest Elections sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Rules Committee Chair Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Monday, urging them to immediately bring the SAVE Act to the Senate floor for a vote. SENATOR JOINS GROUP OF FAR-LEFT LAWMAKERS WHO THINK TRUMP HAS – AGAIN – COMMITTED IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES The SAVE Act, which passed the House this month, would require voters to show proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate, passport, naturalization certificate or REAL ID that notes citizenship status. According to the Senate received the legislation for consideration from the House on April 10. When the House was considering the bill, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said, "This will be one of the most important votes that members of this chamber will ever take in their entire careers." Johnson urged House members to vote in favor of the bill, posing the question: "Should Americans and Americans alone determine the outcome of American elections? Or should we allow foreigners and illegal aliens to decide who sits in the White House and in the people's House and in the Senate?" Critics of the bill, largely Democrats, argue that it would make voter registration more difficult by adding new documentation requirements and red tape to register. Opponents have argued that people in rural areas, as well as elderly people who have trouble accessing ID offices, would find it difficult to register to vote, effectively disenfranchising them. AS REAL ID ROLLOUT APPROACHES, CONGRESSIONAL PRIVACY HAWKS LARGELY SILENT ON CONCERNS Opponents have also said that recently married women who have had a name change would be disenfranchised because their identification would be outdated. The House passed the measure in a 220-208 vote, with just four Democrats joining Republicans to vote in favor. Honest Elections Executive Director Jason Snead argued in the letter that adding the proof of citizenship requirement to voter registration would make it "easy to vote, but hard to cheat." Snead slammed opponents of the SAVE Act, saying they "rely on a familiar litany of debunked and misleading arguments" that "have been made about voter ID laws for decades but were never borne out." HOUSE REPUBLICAN ENTERS RACE FOR MITCH MCCONNELL'S SENATE SEAT, SETTING UP HIGH-STAKES GOP PRIMARY He explained that the SAVE Act has safeguards in place that would require states to establish a process to resolve identification discrepancies, such as a married woman's new name, allowing them to show additional documentation, such as a marriage license. Snead said that "by the same token, alternative evidence of citizenship could be offered by any American who may lack common records." On the other hand, Snead said "the evidence clearly shows that noncitizens are able to register and vote" under current law. "In 2018, the Department of Justice charged 19 noncitizens with illegally registering and voting," he said. HOUSE DEM JUMPS INTO CROWDED MICHIGAN SENATE RACE Snead also cited Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson recently announcing that 15 noncitizens voted in 2024 and officials in Ohio, Texas and Virginia recently identifying "significant numbers of noncitizens on their voter rolls and reported that many appear to have voted in recent years." "Many races are decided by razor-thin margins – sometimes by a single vote. Each illegal vote cancels out the voice of a lawful citizen voter," said Snead. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, Snead said proof of citizenship for voter registration is widely popular among most Americans. He cited a recent Gallup survey that found that 83% of Americans support having to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections. "As the Senate returns to session, I urge Leader Thune to take up the SAVE Act without delay," Snead said. "We urge Leader Thune to take this opportunity to allow every Senator to go on the record supporting the fundamental principle that only citizens should vote in American elections." Fox News Digital has requested comment from the offices of both Thune and McConnell. Print Close URL
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06-02-2025
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'Fulfill the mandate': New election integrity report calls for critical changes to guarantee secure elections
FIRST ON FOX: A nonpartisan election integrity watchdog has released a detailed report outlining what it says are must-needed reforms to be taken up in states across the country to ensure election integrity. The Honest Elections Project (HEP) released its 2025 "Safeguarding our Elections" report that lists over a dozen "critical" measures, ranging from voter ID to cleaning up voter rolls to banning foreign influence in elections. "Election integrity ballot issues passed with flying colors across the board on election night. Now that state legislative sessions are starting up, lawmakers have a duty to fulfill the mandate the American people gave to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," HEP Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital. "Honest Elections Project's 2025 'Safeguarding Our Elections' report gives legislators a roadmap to do exactly that." Selling Americans A 'Lie': How Election Integrity Attorneys Battled Left-wing Efforts To Upend Voting Laws HEP has been active in recent years advocating against foreign influence in statewide elections via dark money and various loopholes, which the report discusses in the first section and points to polling showing 78% of Americans oppose foreign funding in elections. Read On The Fox News App "It is illegal for foreign nationals to contribute to political candidates, but a legal loophole allows them to contribute both directly and indirectly to ballot measure campaigns," the report states. Stephen A. Smith Argues He Can Win Presidential Election After Democrats' 'Pathetic' 2024 Run "A single left-wing group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, has simultaneously accepted approximately $243 million from foreign billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and spent $130 million supporting or opposing ballot issue campaigns in 25 states. Ballot issues can rewrite election laws and change state Constitutions. These campaigns should not be a Trojan Horse for foreign influence, whether from activists like Wyss or hostile foreign powers like China and Russia." The report also warns against Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), which some states have banned but other states, including Alaska, continue to use it. "RCV makes it harder to vote, harder to understand election results, and harder to trust the voting process," the report explains. "Nevertheless, a small group of left-wing megadonors are pushing RCV as a way to drag politics to the left. In 2024, donors like John and Laura Arnold collectively spent $100 million on ballot measures to bring RCV to six new states. Voters rejected them all, defeating ballot issues in states as diverse as Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon." "Zuck Bucks" became an increasingly controversial aspect of election security after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg poured $400 million in grants during the 2020 election to fund a variety of work and equipment. HEP's report urges states to prevent similar instances from occurring in the future. "Elections should be accountable to the public, not to special interest groups and liberal megadonors," the report says. "In 2020, left-wing nonprofits pumped more than $400 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into thousands of election offices, giving more money to places that ultimately voted for Joe Biden." Other issues in the report include, requiring transparency and robust post-election audits of election processes and procedures, ensuring that elected lawmakers write election laws, and protecting vulnerable mail article source: 'Fulfill the mandate': New election integrity report calls for critical changes to guarantee secure elections
Fox News
06-02-2025
- Politics
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'Fulfill the mandate': New election integrity report calls for critical changes to guarantee secure elections
FIRST ON FOX: A nonpartisan election integrity watchdog has released a detailed report outlining what it says are must-needed reforms to be taken up in states across the country to ensure election integrity. The Honest Elections Project (HEP) released its 2025 "Safeguarding our Elections" report that lists over a dozen "critical" measures, ranging from voter ID to cleaning up voter rolls to banning foreign influence in elections. "Election integrity ballot issues passed with flying colors across the board on election night. Now that state legislative sessions are starting up, lawmakers have a duty to fulfill the mandate the American people gave to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat," HEP Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital. "Honest Elections Project's 2025 'Safeguarding Our Elections' report gives legislators a roadmap to do exactly that." HEP has been active in recent years advocating against foreign influence in statewide elections via dark money and various loopholes, which the report discusses in the first section and points to polling showing 78% of Americans oppose foreign funding in elections. "It is illegal for foreign nationals to contribute to political candidates, but a legal loophole allows them to contribute both directly and indirectly to ballot measure campaigns," the report states. "A single left-wing group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, has simultaneously accepted approximately $243 million from foreign billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and spent $130 million supporting or opposing ballot issue campaigns in 25 states. Ballot issues can rewrite election laws and change state Constitutions. These campaigns should not be a Trojan Horse for foreign influence, whether from activists like Wyss or hostile foreign powers like China and Russia." The report also warns against Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), which some states have banned but other states, including Alaska, continue to use it. "RCV makes it harder to vote, harder to understand election results, and harder to trust the voting process," the report explains. "Nevertheless, a small group of left-wing megadonors are pushing RCV as a way to drag politics to the left. In 2024, donors like John and Laura Arnold collectively spent $100 million on ballot measures to bring RCV to six new states. Voters rejected them all, defeating ballot issues in states as diverse as Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon." "Zuck Bucks" became an increasingly controversial aspect of election security after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg poured $400 million in grants during the 2020 election to fund a variety of work and equipment. HEP's report urges states to prevent similar instances from occurring in the future. "Elections should be accountable to the public, not to special interest groups and liberal megadonors," the report says. "In 2020, left-wing nonprofits pumped more than $400 million from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into thousands of election offices, giving more money to places that ultimately voted for Joe Biden." Other issues in the report include, requiring transparency and robust post-election audits of election processes and procedures, ensuring that elected lawmakers write election laws, and protecting vulnerable mail ballots.
