The Motor Voter program went into effect in April with the simple goal of increasing the number of people who could register to vote. Since its launch in April, Secretary of State Alex Padilla has touted the increase in new voter registrations.Source: Motor Voter sparks unusual spike in ‘no party’ registrations at California DMV...
The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday said it has discovered it sent the Secretary of State’s Office 23,000 erroneous voter registrations.Source: California DMV mishandled thousands of voter registrations...
Longtime Kentucky Democratic operatives Jerry Lundergan and Dale Emmons were indicted by a federal grand jury in Lexington Friday for allegedly making illegal contributions to the 2014 U.S. Senate campaign of Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes and then conspiring to cover them up.Source: Father of Alison Lundergan Grimes indicted in campaign finance conspiracy...
Sometimes an empty chair can speak volumes. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intentionally set up a unoccupied seat to shame Alphabet at Wednesday's hearing on foreign meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Source: Senators blast Google executives for not showing up to hearings on election meddling...
When you build services that connect billions of people across countries and cultures, you’re going to see all of the good that humanity can do, and you’re also going to see people try to abuse those services in every way possible.Source: Mark Zuckerberg...
California Democratic Party Chairman Eric Bauman is calling for a boycott of In-N-Out burger because, horror of horrors, the company donates to Republicans. No discussion of whether In-N-Out burger is good or bad for the state.Source: Disclosure Laws Will Hurt Minority Views...
The longest-serving Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, expected to take over as chair in four months, and her top staffer are behind an anti-Trump and anti-GOP crusade, according to a new report from a critic.Source: Report: Top FEC Dem, staff behind anti-Trump jihad, fairness questioned...
President Trump is speaking forcefully about fixing a growing problem affecting our national discourse. He says we may need to regulate the giant tech companies that control vast swaths of our information landscape, due to their bias.Source: Hey, Google, Facebook, Twitter – Trump's got a point. You need to do a better job of self-regulating...
Republicans are calling for government action to correct ‘bias’ online. It wasn’t so long ago that the GOP rejected such arguments. Another day, another call for government intervention in free speech on the Internet.Source: The Internet Doesn’t Need a Fairness Doctrine...
Elvis David Fullerton has voted in 16 elections in North Carolina dating back nearly two decades. The only problem, authorities say, is he’s not a citizen and never should have been on the voter rolls, much less allowed to step into a polling booth to cast a ballot.Source: Illegal immigrants who exploited Motor Voter to register in North Carolina still...
