How 7 Battleground States Rank on Election Integrity

The seven states most likely to decide the presidential race Nov. 5 vary in election security, with Georgia and Nevada showing the starkest contrast.  Georgia has the highest score of any swing state on The Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard, tied for the secon- highest score in the nation.  Nevada ranks 50th in the nation, beating only Hawaii. (Because of the District of Columbia, 51 jurisdictions are scored.) In most battleground states, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are separated by less than 2% in the presidential…

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Over 100 Former Clarence Thomas Law Clerks Defend His ‘Unimpeachable’ Integrity in Open Letter

Over 100 former law clerks of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas have written an open letter defending him from accusations of ethics violations. In the letter, the clerks wrote that Thomas’ integrity is “unimpeachable” and that he’s never wavered from his independence on the court. The letter recounted Thomas’ life story of being descended from African slaves, raised by his grandfather in segregated Georgia, going to law school, then eventually making his way onto the Supreme Court. “It is a story that should be told in every American classroom, at every American kitchen table, in every…

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Election Integrity 2022 in Review: More Improvements Than Damage

As state legislatures begin their 2023 sessions, Americans should know what their states did in 2022 to improve or damage the integrity of the election process.  They can now easily do that because 2022 marks the second year that The Heritage Foundation has tracked and scored the laws and regulations of every state and the District of Columbia that bear on the conduct and integrity of elections. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) The Election Integrity Scorecard scores the security and reliability of elections on…

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YouTube Bans St. Louis Talk Radio Station’s Channel for Discussing Election Integrity

The censor-happy goons at YouTube are at it again, but this time they struck a little too close to home.  The Big Tech streaming platform banned St. Louis radio station NewsTalk STL’s YouTube channel after it posted an interview with me discussing the 2020 election and the need for election-integrity legislation on the channel.   On March 14, I joined “The Vic Porcelli Show,” a NewsTalk STL program, to discuss election integrity and legislation aimed at making America’s elections more secure. Hosts Vic Porcelli and Ken Williams asked me about a…

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How to Earn Voters’ Trust: The Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard

The Heritage Foundation on Dec. 14 launched its Election Integrity Scorecard to give states and their residents and lawmakers a clear picture of whether their election laws and regulations meet best practices standards for fair, secure, and honest elections; to illustrate where vulnerabilities exist; and to provide them with information on how to fix them. Many have contacted us to tell us it’s a useful tool. They also have provided us with recommendations on how to improve it.  But some have misinterpreted it. It’s important to understand what the Scorecard…

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Congress must act to restore the integrity of American elections – The Hill

The Hill Congress must act to restore the integrity of American electionsThe HillIn this, Vladimir Putin continues to get a lot of assistance from us. We have paved the road to the public's diminished faith in Congress and created doubts about the fairness of the media. We undermine the integrity of our electoral process with …and more » us congress – Google News

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