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Dec 21, 2022 · Buried in the year-end omnibus spending bill is Congress’s first sweeping attempt to prevent someone like former President Donald Trump from trying to steal a presidential election again.
- Andrew Prokop
Sep 21, 2022 · WASHINGTON — The House voted 229-203 on Wednesday to pass a bill aimed at preventing future election subversion, inspired by the investigation into Jan. 6 and a determination to prevent such...
Apr 15, 2024 · There are several perfectly legal ways to steal a U.S. presidential election, according to election law expert Lawrence Lessig. Lessig says the U.S.’s election and legal systems are vulnerable – and need immediate correction.
- Claim: Foreign Countries Could Counterfeit Mail Ballots
- Claim: We Haven’T Done Widespread Mail Voting Before
- Claim: Mail Elections Have Found Substantial Fraud and Coercion
- Claim: Trump Can Use Federal Law Enforcement to Prevent Voter Fraud
In late June, Barr suggested in an interview with NPR that foreign countries could counterfeit mail ballots – days after Trump madethe same claim in a tweet. "There's so many occasions for fraud there that cannot be policed. I think it would be very bad. But one of the things I mentioned was the possibility of counterfeiting,” Barr said then of vot...
“We haven’t had the kind of widespread use of mail-in ballots as being proposed. We’ve had absentee ballots, from people who request them from a specific address. Now, what we’re talking about is mailing them to everyone on the voter list when everyone knows those voter lists are inaccurate,” Barr said in the Sept. 2 interview with CNN. This is mis...
“Elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion,” Barr told CNN on Sept. 2. This is not the case in the U.S. Numerous studies have debunked the notion that there is substantial, widespread voter fraud in American elections, whether those elections are conducted predominantly by mail or otherwise. The five states t...
Asked on Fox News on Aug. 20 if he'd use "poll watchers" to prevent voter fraud, the president said he'd be sending "sheriffs" and "law enforcement" and "hopefully, U.S. attorneys, and we’re going to have everybody and attorney generals." Asked about the claim, Barr backed Trump up, saying in the Sept. 2 CNN interview that “it depends on if he’s re...
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Aug 5, 2022 · How Do You Actually Stop the Steal? A new bipartisan bill would revise how the presidential vote is certified. But it could come with risky loopholes. By Russell Berman. Getty; The New York...
Jan 6, 2022 · 1) Stop hardcore election deniers from winning key state offices. Much of Trump’s efforts focused on trying to get state officials to change the results of states Biden won.
Jan 20, 2022 · The John Lewis bill would restore key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that have been struck down or weakened by the Supreme Court, and change the way federal courts handle election...
