Virginia Senate Committee Approves Tighter Voter ID Law
Virginia Sen. Dick Black's measure to tighten ID voter requirements cleared a GOP-dominated Senate Privileges and Elections subcommittee on a 4-2 vote on Jan. 17.
South Carolina’s Photo ID Law Passes First Test
South Carolina's Voter ID law had its first test on Tuesday in the small town of Branchville in Orangeburg County, and apparently passed it without incident.
West Virginia Republicans to Push for Photo ID
CHARLESTON -- Armed with their largest share of the House of Delegates in decades, West Virginia Republicans plan to resume their push to require voters to show photo identification at the polls, adding the state to a growing group that expect to debate the topic this year.
Arizona Sec. State: No Voter Suppression with Voter ID
Secretary of State Ken Bennett told a U.S. Senate panel looking into voter suppression that there was no evidence of such efforts in Arizona in this fall's election. In testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Bennett said that minority-voter registration is at its highest level ever in Arizona, even as voter-identification requirements mandating proof of citizenship have been in force for nearly eight years.
South Carolina Town to Require Photo ID in Jan. 8 Election
The Jan. 8 special election in Branchville will be the first balloting in South Carolina in which voters must show photo identification, according to Howard Jackson, Orangeburg County's director of voter registration and elections.
Secretaries of State Blast Michelle Obama for Claiming GOP Voter ‘Suppression’
Seven Secretaries of State have released a statement criticizing First Lady Michelle Obama for her false claim that Republicans engaged in voter suppression in the November election: "Unfortunately the First Lady's comments continue the baseless attacks that have been made upon those leaders who are simply taking reasonable steps to protect the security and integrity of elections. This past election speaks for itself.
Election’s Over, but They’re Still Counting
County elections boards are deciding which of the more than 200,000 provisional ballots cast in the Nov. 6 election should be accepted and which rejected.
The Peculiar Voter Rolls of Wood County, Ohio
The Ohio secretary of state's site reports that 104,461 people are registered to vote in Wood County. According to the 2011 Census, Wood County has a population of 126,355. An estimated 21 percent are younger than 18 and unable to vote. That means that only about 100,000, give or take, of Wood County residents should be of voting age. So why are so many Wood County residents registered to vote?
Vote Fraud Alleged in Key States
Vote fraud has been alleged in key states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, and Florida where in St. Lucie County, the unofficial vote count showed 175,554 registered voters but 247,713 vote cards were cast.
Nevada Woman Charged With Vote Fraud
CARSON CITY -- FBI agents arrested a woman on Friday in Las Vegas on charges that she tried to vote twice in the presidential election.