Election Day Archives - The Connecticut Star

Commentary: Forget the Media Doomsaying — the GOP Will Be Ok

December 2, 2023 Connecticut Star Staff

If you follow politics and didn’t know that voters in Charleston, South Carolina, elected the city’s first Republican mayor in almost a century and a half, you can be forgiven. A lot of people missed it because, while it was covered, the legacy media failed, unsurprisingly, to recognize it for the landmark it is.

The scant attention paid to the outcome of that race compared to, say, the GOP’s failure to take over the Virginia Legislature is a discordant note that throws off an otherwise harmonious national narrative that has the Republican Party hopelessly divided and unable to win elections now that Bidenomics is working.

Election Integrity Issues for November Elections Begin with Absentee Ballots

October 18, 2023October 17, 2023 Connecticut Star Staff

As state and local elections are set to conclude on Election Day next month, election integrity issues have already begun with absentee ballots.

Counties across the country have already run into problems with absentee ballots for local November elections, as Republicans such as former President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate candidate for Arizona, Kari Lake, have repeatedly criticized issues with absentee ballots.

Commentary: Everyone Can Agree on Election Integrity

August 22, 2023 Connecticut Star Staff

At first glance, some Americans could mistakenly conclude that election integrity safeguards are deeply unpopular. After all, liberal politicians and the mainstream media regularly denounce commonsense measures like photo ID laws and routine voter roll cleanups.

No matter what they claim or how loudly they claim it, these voices do not speak for the majority of Americans. As recent polling conducted by Honest Elections Project Action shows beyond all doubt, an overwhelming bipartisan majority of Americans embrace commonsense voting laws that make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.

18 States, DC Accept Ballots after Election Day, with North Dakota’s Deadline Facing Lawsuit

July 14, 2023 Just the News

North Dakota is facing a lawsuit over its acceptance of mail-in ballots 13 days after Election Day and is among 18 states and Washington, D.C., that accept and tabulate ballots post-election.

The lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday against North Dakota State Election Director Erika White, alleges that the state’s law to accept ballots up to 13 days after Election Day violates federal law.

County Under a Cloud: Maricopa’s Decade-Long History of Election Issues, from 2012 to 2022

December 1, 2022November 30, 2022 Just the News

As voters, poll workers, and observers have voiced their concerns about issues they witnessed on Election Day in Maricopa County, Ariz., a review of the county’s history shows 10 years of election issues under various election officials.

Numerous issues occurred at vote centers on Election Day in Maricopa County earlier this month, from election machine problems to hours-long lines, according to widespread reports. However, election issues are not unique to the 2022 midterms in Maricopa, as some began a decade ago.

Nine Texas and Nebraska Cities Became ‘Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn’ on Election Day

November 15, 2022November 14, 2022 Susan Berry, PhD

Four Texas cities and six villages in Nebraska voted on Election Day on ballot measures that would outlaw abortion within their jurisdictions.

Of the 10 ballot measures, only one was rejected by voters, reported Mark Lee Dickson, founder of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn Initiative, at Live Action News.

Prominent Pollster Says Time for America to Mandate All Ballots Be Counted on Election Day

November 13, 2022November 12, 2022 Just the News

With states like Arizona, Nevada and Alaska taking days to determine midterm election results, influential pollster Scott Rasmussen says there is overwhelming support for America to mandate ballots be in and counted by Election Day.

“One of the 80% issues, and there aren’t a whole lot of 80% issues in America-one of them is that all ballots should be in by Election Day,” Scott Rasmussen said Wednesday night on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “We should know the results on Election Day.”

Commentary: A Post-Election Reflection

November 12, 2022November 11, 2022 Admin

I am an American, but I haven’t set foot in the states for years. Yes, my daily Internet access provides me with the illusion that I’m in touch with life back home and that I know how people are thinking and feeling. But I can’t really be sure at all that I’m getting the right bead on things.

So when a great many of the American political commentators and podcasters whom I most respect predicted a “red wave” or even a “red tsunami” on Election Day, I thought: Well, I hope so. How could I demur? After all, they’re at the center of the action. I’m not.

NBA Announces No Games on Election Day

August 23, 2022August 22, 2022 Admin

The NBA says it will not schedule any games on Election Day this year as part of an effort to increase voter participation in the 2022 midterms.

The multi-billion dollar basketball league, which will release its 2022 schedule on Wednesday afternoon.

Commentary: As New Trial Looms, Justice Department Silent on Whitmer Kidnapping Plot

July 31, 2022July 30, 2022 Admin

For the first time since the government failed to win a single conviction in the alleged criminal plot to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a top Justice Department official was publicly confronted about the FBI’s primary role in concocting the hoax.

It was not a welcome line of inquiry, to say the least.