Hans von Spakovsky is manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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The Heritage Foundation on Dec. 14 launched its Election Integrity Scorecard to give states and their residents and lawmakers a clear picture of whether their… Read More
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a good idea with his budget proposal to create an “election crimes agency” that would “investigate election crimes and irregularities… Read More
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Do U.S. election laws need reform? Yes. But not the misguided reforms being pushed by Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. While… Read More
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has been trying to gut the filibuster rule to bulldoze two dangerous election bills through Congress. While the Freedom… Read More
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William F. Buckley Jr. famously described the role of conservatives as standing athwart history yelling, “Stop.” Usually, we stand in front of what liberals claim… Read More
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In 2018, journalists from The New York Times and The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for their biased and inaccurate coverage… Read More
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Gerald “Jerry” Lundergan, a former Kentucky state representative and chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party, has been convicted of violating federal campaign finance laws, and… Read More
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A recent lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division against Texas may make the Biden administration’s political allies happy, but it borders… Read More
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Why did Attorney General Merrick Garland form a law enforcement task force and threaten to use the FBI and several other divisions of the Department… Read More
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“Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote” by Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund (Encounter Books) is a deep dive into the issues that threaten America’s elections… Read More
