The first national True The Vote Summit was conducted by the folks that successfully rooted out vote fraud in Harris County, Texas during the 2010 elections. Folks from 27 different states were in attendance to learn how the Harris County effort was conducted in hopes of replicating the same back home, but with the hard lessons already learned.
In April of 2011, John Fund, Wall Street Journal columnist and author of several books including Stealing Elections, appeared as a speaker at the first national summit of True The Vote. Upon mounting the dais, Fund said he was taken aback by the enthusiasm, commitment, and professionalism of the participants he encountered who had come from all across the country to learn how to assure the integrity of elections back in their home district. He was so impressed that he decided he was going to dispense with the speech intended to give.
-By Warner Todd Huston. Many anti-voter reform advocates claim that there is no such thing as voter fraud in the United States. That might be news in Rensselaer County, New York where an eighth local Democrat has been brought up on charges in connection with a 2009 attempt by Democrats to forge absentee ballots for the Working Families Party.
True the Vote is proud to announce that it is teaming with Judicial Watch on an election integrity project to pressure the states to clean up voter registration rolls to satisfy Section 8 of the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), a law that all too many states have been violating for years.
A self identified Wisconsin watchdog group called Citizens for Responsible Government of Racine reports that a Racine man found his name signed four separate times to the petition to recall Republican State Senator Van Wanggaard, but the voter, Jeff Demet, said had never signed the recall petitions at all.
In an effort to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (along with the Lieutenant Governor and 4 Senators) the union backed group United Wisconsin led a massive drive to fill petition pages by any means necessary, flooding Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board with more signatures than anyone ever expected. When the GAB stated they couldn't process such an influx and planned only to do visual spot checks, True the Vote decided to take action.
On February 24, now former Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was sentenced to home detention despite being convicted on six felony charges, all Class D felonies. at the beginning of February White was convicted on three counts of voter fraud, two counts of perjury, and one count of theft.
Several different left-wing political sites as well as the Democrat Party of Wisconsin are pulling out all their rhetorical tricks to cast aspersions on the recall petition signatures verification effort in an attempt to damage the legitimacy of the campaign in the minds of Wisconsin's voters. These organizations have launched a campaign of attacking the messenger by turning against True The Vote and its partners in the verification process.
This month two states, Indiana and Virginia, have indicted Democrats and convicted felons on charges of vote fraud during the 2008 election cycle.
In a shocking new video, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas demonstrates to the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, just why he should be concerned about a lack of voter ID laws by walking into Holder’s Washington D.C.
Breitbart.com interviewed Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of anti-fraud organization True the Vote. Engelbrecht has taken citizen journalism and activism to the next level, leading the way in making sure the 2012 elections are free, fair, and transparent, in the face of efforts by the institutional left to suppress wildly popular voter ID legislation.
John Fund, the reporter and freelance pro-voter-ID speaker, encouraged the morning audience at Herman Cain's "Solutions Revolution" to mark April 27-28 on their calendars.
A 12-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a requirement in a 2004 Arizona law that voters show identification before they can cast ballots, saying that there wasn't evidence that the mandate disparately affected Latinos as the challengers had alleged.
A new poll is out. The bad news for voter fraud deniers and Eric Holder: 70% disagree. Read the full story here, and view a breakdown of the results.
Many inaccurate statements have been made in the media about True the Vote, including three recent articles in our hometown paper, The Houston Chronicle. The most recent article, “Tea Partiers Confer in Houston to Fight Vote Fraud,” on April 29, 2012 repeats factually incorrect statements made in the previous two.
What's the dirty little secret of the 2012 election? Despite a disturbing resistance by our federal government to acknowledge the problem, election fraud is all over the map.
A new right-leaning star was born last weekend at the True the Vote summit in Houston, while the dynamo who heads True the Vote simultaneously achieved multiple goals related to ballot integrity.
Here is a congratulatory letter sent from Governor Rick Perry to Catherine Engelbrecht.
Here is a message from Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina.
The 2012 elections will feature many close races, likely including the presidential contest. That makes concern about voter fraud and ballot integrity all the more meaningful, and a conference held here last weekend by the watchdog group True the Vote made clear just how high the stakes are.
If you have questions about True the Vote or are interested in bringing True the Vote to your area, please contact us at info@truethevote.org.
