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Nevada Election Chief Blocks Inspection of Suspect Voter Names in Swing State

Nevada’s top election official told local election directors not to investigate the names of thousands of people who left the state but remain on its voter rolls.

The watchdog group Citizens Outreach Foundation recently sued four jurisdictions in Nevada to force a review of the voter registration lists. 

The plaintiff, responding to an August memo from the office of Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar, a Democrat, asks that the court order the local offices to process or review challenges to some voters’ names.

In what Citizens Outreach Foundation President Chuck Muth calls a “David vs. Goliath” battle, the Left’s well-financed big guns have intervened to fight any efforts to maintain the accuracy of voter lists. Those big guns include Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The foundation flagged the suspect names using data from voter registration files and the U.S. Postal Service’s change-of-address list.

“Several counties had started to process the challenges, until the secretary of state memo,” Muth told The Daily Signal. “After that, they said that in light of the secretary’s memo, we are not going to process.”

Litigation was the last resort, Muth said, asserting that election clerks “got caught between a rock and a hard place.” 

The Citizen Outreach Foundation is suing the state’s largest jurisdiction, Clark County, which includes Las Vegas. The suit also targets Washoe County, Carson City, and Storey County.

The foundation established what it calls the Pigpen Project, aimed at cleaning Nevada’s voter registration rolls. It’s critical that election offices process challenges in order to flag mail-in ballots from ineligible voters, Muth said. 

The organization initially flagged just under 4,000 names for election clerks in late July. After findings in late August and early September, the total number of suspect names on Nevada’s voter rolls is about 33,000 statewide, Muth said. 

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Served At Home in Latest Lawsuit that Alleges THOUSANDS of Invalid Registrations on State Voter Rolls

On September 26, Georgia citizens filed suit in Federal Court against Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State. The plaintiffs argued that according to data from Georgia state voter rolls and U.S. Postal Service (USPS), there are many individuals who have moved out of the state, but remain registered to vote in Georgia. This violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

Their suit demands that Raffensperger follow the NVRA and Georgia law to maintain accurate and timely registrations in Georgia’s voter rolls. The lawsuit seeks to enforce laws that protect Georgians’ right to vote from dilution.

The plaintiffs in the suit are William Quinn and David Cross from Georgia.

Georgia’s current voter rolls contain thousands of invalid registrations because the voters in question either permanently moved out of state and are no longer citizens of Georgia or permanently moved to a different county in Georgia from the county in which they are presently registered.

Because the Secretary of State Offices were closed due to weather, members of the plaintiff party served Secretary Raffensperger at his home with the lawsuit.

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Swing State Voters Receive Mail Ballots For Relatives Who Died, Moved Away

An 81-year-old Illinois man was shocked to receive a mail-in ballot for his wife, who died in October 2022. 

George, who lives in Kane County about 50 miles west of Chicago, showed The Daily Wire the ballot which he found in his mailbox on Saturday. He also received a ballot addressed to his late wife ahead of the Illinois primary in March. This was especially confusing, George said, because he had shown his wife’s death certificate to Kane County election officials — who also told The Daily Wire that George’s wife was no longer on the voter rolls.

The saga has George concerned about the integrity of the presidential election — and he’s not alone. Voters in several swing states have reached out to The Daily Wire to share stories like George’s, and raise concerns about what’s going on with mail-in ballots.

“There are states that do better than others in terms of identifying and removing all forms of inaccurate voter registration,” says Honest Elections Project executive director Jason Snead, adding that there are “widespread” issues with voter rolls throughout the country. 

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Mayor of California Charter City Defies Newsom’s Ban on Voter ID Laws ‘That Law Does Not Apply to Us’

A California mayor is defiant after Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law in direct response to the city’s attempt to secure elections.

The saga began on March 5, when Huntington Beach voters weighed in and passed ballot measure 1, the Voter ID and Election Rules Amendment.

According to Ballotpedia, the charter amendment authorized the city to require voter identification for elections and allowed infrastructure to support the initiative.

In 2023, then-Mayor Tony Strickland supported the measure in the face of pressure from local and state Democrats seeking to torpedo it.

“Our democracy does not work if people do not have faith in the election results,” Strickland told Voice of OC. “Anytime you can put safeguards in I think it’s important to do so people have faith in our election outcomes.”

Huntington Beach voters passed the measure with 53.4 percent approving the measure and 46.6 percent rejecting it. The increased election security was set to begin in 2026.

After the initiative passed, state legislators were quick to react to Huntington Beach voter’s approval of the measure and moved to crush it entirely.

In April, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber sued the city over what it called an “unlawful” voter ID amendment.

The two officials said, without evidence, that the measure would hurt the poor, elderly and “people of color.”

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Arizona Lawmakers Attempted To Cover Up Massive Voter Registration Glitch

Lawmakers in Arizona scrambled desperately to spin news of a massive voter-registration glitch that saw nearly 100,000 people included on voter rolls for decades without having provided proof of citizenship.

Audio of a phone call between Governor Katie Hobbs, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and Attorney General Kris Mayes was obtained by The Washington Post. The circumstances of the Post’s obtaining the audio are unknown.

Governor Hobbs called it an “urgent, dire situation” and Attorney General Mayes said he worried they would be accused of trying to rig the 2024 election.

“When this goes public, it is going to have all of the conspiracy theorists in the globe—in the world—coming back to re-litigate the past three elections, at least in Arizona,” Hobbs said.

“And it’s going to validate all of their theories about illegal voting in our elections, even though we all know that’s not true.”

The 40-minute phone call took place on 10 September. Initially, it was thought around 150,000 voters were affected, but the figure was revised to just under 100,000.

Although the voters affected included Democrats and independents, the biggest proportion were Republican.

The three officials engage in tense debate throughout the phone call over how to respond to the problem without disqualifying citizens who are eligible to vote and, perhaps most importantly for the administration, how to save face and avoid accusations of electoral impropriety.

Fontes, who spoke most during the conversation, said: “They’re going to beat us up no matter what the hell we do, no matter what the hell we say.”

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Gavin Newsom Signs Bill Barring Local Authorities from Requiring Voter ID

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Sunday that will bar local authorities from requiring photo ID to vote, which exceeds the state’s requirements.

California is one of 14 Democrat-run states that do not require any ID to vote, despite requiring it for many other purposes. Voters at polling places are checked off against voter rolls without further proof being required; voters who submit mail-in ballots must include their signatures on the envelopes that are checked by a machine against the signatures on file in voter registration records.

The City of Huntington Beach, one of the last conservative bastions in the state, which often opposes Democratic policies, planned to require photo ID for voting in 2024, after a ballot initiative passed to that effect in March.

The new law, SB 1174, “would prohibit a local government from enacting or enforcing any charter provision, ordinance, or regulation requiring a person to present identification for the purpose of voting or submitting a ballot at any polling place, vote center, or other location where ballots are cast or submitted, as specified.”

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When Government Becomes The Enemy Of Liberty, Principles Are The Antidote to Politics

Only four percent “of US adults say the political system is working extremely or very well.” Sixty-five percent say we “always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics.” Yet, we keep doubling down, thinking that more attention on politics will somehow fix what ails society.

In 2020, candidates spent over $14 billion seeking the presidency. This was double the amount spent in 2016. The 2024 presidential campaign is far from over. How much will candidates spend this time to fix our attention on politics?

If you are one of those who find politics dispiriting, C. S. Lewis would understand. In his essay “Membership,” contained in his collection The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis wrote, “A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other.” Politics, Lewis explained, is not “the natural food of the mind” but a “necessary evil.” However, too much emphasis on politics has become “a new and deadly disease.”

Lewis compared fresh fruit to canned fruit. The latter can be necessary for storage, but Lewis observed he had met people who learned to prefer the tinned fruit to the fresh.

Similarly, among us are those who prefer to weigh the promises of candidates as a pathway to societal advancement rather than shore up the foundations of a free society.

If candidates still fix your mind on their empty promises, Ralph Waldo Emerson has an instant mindset cure. In his essay “Experience,” he wrote, “A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough, with planted trees on either side, to tempt the traveler, but soon became narrow and narrower, and ended in a squirrel-track, and ran up a tree.”

Running ourselves up trees has consequences. Milton Friedman, in Capitalism and Freedom warned, “The use of political channels, while inevitable, tends to strain the social cohesion essential for a stable society.”

Friedman continued, “Every extension of the range of issues for which explicit agreement is sought strains further the delicate threads that hold society together.”

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DoJ Sues Alabama For Voter Roll Purge Program Targeting Noncitizens

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama, accusing the state of breaking the law with its voter roll purge program that targets individuals who are—or once were—noncitizens.

The DOJ announced the legal action in a Sept. 27 press release, in which the agency contends that Alabama’s program, which targets individuals with noncitizen identification numbers, violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by removing potentially eligible voters within the federally mandated 90-day “Quiet Period” before an election.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said that Alabama’s actions risk disenfranchising eligible voters just weeks before a key federal election.

“As Election Day approaches, it is critical that Alabama redress voter confusion resulting from its list maintenance mailings sent in violation of federal law,” Clarke said in a statement. “The Quiet Period Provision of federal law exists to prevent eligible voters from being removed from the rolls as a result of last-minute, error-prone efforts.”

The NVRA’s Quiet Period provision prohibits states from conducting systematic voter roll purges within 90 days of a federal election to prevent errors and ensure eligible voters are not wrongfully removed.

The legal dispute centers around a program initiated by Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen that aimed to remove noncitizens registered to vote in Alabama from the state’s voter rolls.

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One Citizen Platform Has Found a Way to Catch the Fraudulent Ballots and Illegal Voters Before November 1st – Here’s How They Are Doing It

This week, a group of citizens, attorneys, investigators, writers, former elected officials, tech entrepreneurs unveiled a powerful technology platform to even up the fight with Leftist NGOs stealing U.S. elections.

Their site, StopBogusBallots.com is an initiative of Common Sense Elections, a PAC applying quantum speed technology, innovative, successful legal strategies, top flight investigative talent – to exposing mail-ballots from nonsensical addresses BEFORE the votes get counted.

2024 will be decided by mail-in ballots, from 7 swing states, each of which is currently too close to call.

NGOs are active in each swing state, operating ballot mills registering illegal aliens and other migrants – capturing their ballots – and voting them.

The Common Sense Elections Dark Money Tracking System tracks every NGO influencing U.S. elections – dollars they spend, dollars they receive.

There is no organization in America, who can, with 3 clicks from a phone, expose every connection between the Chinese Progressive Association, Tides Advocacy, down to Leftist street-level GET-OUT-THE-VOTE organizations impacting the 2024 election.

Now there is – and the Common Sense Elections team is publishing the roadmap of influence, from foreign and domestic actors secretly impacting the 2024 election – using Fractal quantum technology.

The first Fractal analysis of Dark Money groups is available today at StopBogusBallots.com.

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New Study Claims Millions of Non-Citizens May Vote in 2024

A recent study suggests that up to 2.7 million non-citizens could vote illegally in the 2024 election, raising alarms about the integrity of the democratic process. The report from Just Facts, a nonprofit research institute, estimates that between 10% to 27% of adult non-citizens in the U.S. are illegally registered to vote. With millions of potential illegal votes, critics fear the results of key elections may not reflect the true will of American citizens. The findings have ignited debate about election security, illegal immigration, and the challenges of ensuring only citizens vote in federal elections.

Key Facts:

– The Just Facts study estimates that between 10% to 27% of non-citizen adults are illegally registered to vote in the U.S.
– The U.S. Census counted over 19 million non-citizen adults in 2022, meaning between two and five million could be illegally registered voters.
– In 2008, a study showed that 81% of non-citizen votes went to Democrats.
– Former President Trump has promised to address illegal immigration and voter fraud by strengthening border security and deporting non-citizens.
– Critics, including think tanks like the Cato Institute, have questioned the accuracy of the study’s estimates.

The Rest of The Story:

The report by Just Facts has sparked significant concern about illegal voter registration ahead of the 2024 election. According to the study, anywhere from two to five million non-citizens are currently registered to vote, which could influence the outcomes of major races, including the presidency. These estimates are derived from U.S. Census data showing that 19 million non-citizen adults live in the country.

James Agresti, the author of the study, explained that non-citizens can easily register to vote because states don’t require proof of citizenship. “In no state in the nation are they required to provide proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote,” Agresti noted, highlighting the loopholes in voter registration processes.

The report has drawn attention to how these illegal votes could skew results, as seen in past elections. In 2008, for example, 81% of non-citizens who voted reportedly favored Democratic candidates. Concerns about election integrity have grown since the 2020 election when a vast number of votes were cast by mail or early, which some critics believe made it harder to detect potential fraud.

While supporters of voter registration reforms are pushing for stronger verification processes, critics have downplayed the study’s findings. The Cato Institute, for instance, claims that the number of non-citizens voting could be closer to zero, casting doubt on the validity of the study’s estimates.

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