Election News Roundup - August 22 Edition

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MFEI original articles

• MFEI PRESS RELEASE: Research Shows Ranked Choice Voting Could Disenfranchise Michigan Voters

  
  

• Whitmer's Nuclear Option . . . Just Don't Hold the Election

MICHIGAN

• House passes bill protecting Michigan from ranked choice voting

• Jocelyn Benson suffers meltdown over Trump’s promise to end mail-in ballots

• Study: Ranked choice voting ‘drives down voter turnout’ — ‘a startling number of ballots could be nullified’*

*Discusses the MFEI Ranked Choice Voting report

• Michigan city councilman caught on camera stuffing election drop box with absentee ballots days before primary

• Second Video Surfaces of Michigan Democrat City Councilman Allegedly Stuffing Ballots in the Dead of Night

• Report points to flaws in Michigan’s post-election audits — notes 2024 audit still not published 10 months after Election Day

• A losing candidate wants federal and state investigations of last week's Flint city council election

  
  
  
  

AROUND THE NATION

• Trump vows to lead effort to end mail-in ballots

  • Trumps' Truth Social posting on mail-in ballots

• White House Gives Update on Trump's Plan to 'Eliminate' Mail-In Voting

• Ballotpedia's Daily Brew, August 21: A look at the state of mail-in voting in the U.S.

• Memo: The Many Flaws of Ranked Choice Voting

• Mike Dunleavy: Why I support a return to traditional elections

• Ranked-choice voting fails in Denver

• Election Integrity Activists Hit The Road To Save The SAVE Act

• Illegal Aliens Rig The Census For Blue States

• Trump wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program

• Public Interest Legal Foundation Sues Arizona Secretary of State for Withholding Voter List Maintenance Records

• Californians Overwhelmingly Back Redistricting Commission Newsom’s Trying To Bypass, Poll Shows

• Democrats Have a Massive Voter Registration Problem

• Judicial Watch: Supreme Court Sets October 8 Argument for Challenge to Illinois’ 14-Day Post–Election Ballot Counting

• Turnover among election officials reaches new high, report finds

• Incorrect sample ballots mailed to nearly 89,000 Orange County voters

• 2 arrested in Phenix City, Alabama for absentee voter fraud

• Election results, 2024: Analysis of rejected ballots

  
  

NEWS AGGREGATOR SITES:

• ElectionBriefing.com

• ETI Media Report

• RealClearPolitics

• CitizenFreePress.com

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