All posts tagged "Election Integrity"

Some prominent Arizona Republicans are preparing for an uphill battle in their attempt to restore voter confidence in the state’s elections.

“It’s going to be tough,” former Gov. Jan Brewer told the Arizona Mirror.

Brewer is a board member for the newly minted Democracy Defense Project, a bipartisan group of current and former politicians with the goal of bolstering faith in the election system. ...

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To understand the forces tearing apart California’s Shasta County, consider what has happened to Cathy Darling Allen.

In five consecutive elections, voters in the rural county have selected her as their chief election official. That means that since 2004, she’s been responsible for voter registration, the administration of elections, and a host of related tasks. She’s consistently been the only Democrat in countywide office in the conservative county, where Donald Trump won more than 60% of the vote in 2020. In 2022, her most recent appearance on the ballot, she took in nearly 70% of the vote. By those indicators, she seems pretty popular. ...

The mayor of Glendale complained that two of Wisconsin’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists were disruptive while observing voting in the Milwaukee suburb of Glendale during Tuesday’s primary in the special election for the 4th Senate District.

First reported by Fox 6, Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy said he thought the actions of the two election deniers, Peter Bernegger and Harry Wait, were “despicable.”

“You have every right to observe the process, but our poll workers are incredibly well trained,” Kennedy told the TV station. ...

The big show in Atlanta may be Thursday evening, but the days leading up to the first presidential debate have been filled with a flurry of campaign events that put on display how each side plans to win a state that narrowly backed President Joe Biden in 2020.

On the Democratic side, Republicans took centerstage on the eve of the debate and issued dire warnings about the threat to democracy if former President Donald Trump is put back in the White House.

A press conference held at the state Capitol Wednesday featured former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and former Illinois GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who have both endorsed Biden, and a former police officer, Harry Dunn, who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ...

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — When Milton Kidd leaves work at the end of the day, he slips out the back door of the domed Douglas County Courthouse, avoiding the public entrance where people might berate him or demand his home address.

He never takes the same route home two days in a row, and he makes random turns to avoid being followed.

Kidd, a Black man, has a very dangerous job: He is the elections and voter registration director for Douglas County. ...

Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson's announcement of a new "election integrity" was met with scorn from fellow conservatives Friday.

Trump and Johnson addressed the nation from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida social club, to promote their solution to what they described as a looming problem in the 2024 presidential election.

“If an individual only asserts or simply states that they are a citizen, they don’t have to prove it, and they can register that person to vote in a federal election,” Johnson said. “We only want U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections.”...