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34,000 dead people found on voter rolls prompts expert to slam Dems for resisting ‘commonsense’ cleanup
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North Carolina’s discovery of 34,000 dead people on its voter rolls has sparked renewed calls for voter roll cleanup measures, including increased pressure on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act.
After a state election official said the number of dead people found on North Carolina’s voter rolls was «higher than we anticipated,» Republican Rep. Mark Harris of North Carolina called for immediate action to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, commonly known as the SAVE America Act.
«North Carolina confirms 34,000 deceased individuals on our voter rolls,» he wrote in an X post. «This isn’t a mistake—it’s a failure. Election integrity is non-negotiable. Fix it now. Pass the SAVE America Act!»
This discovery has also prompted questions about how many other states have deceased voters still on their rolls. Jason Snead, executive director of Honest Elections Project Action, said he is especially concerned about blue states he believes have been refusing «commonsense» measures to clean up voter rolls.
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The discovery of more than 34,000 dead people on North Carolina’s voter rolls has led to increased pressure on Senate Democrats and Republicans to pass the SAVE America Act. (Kylie Cooper-Pool/Getty Images; Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Earlier this month, the North Carolina State Board of Elections submitted over 7.3 million voter records to the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database as part of an initiative to strengthen the accuracy and integrity of the state’s voter registration list. Following a comprehensive data comparison with the federal database, the elections board identified approximately 34,000 dead people on the state’s voter rolls.
Sam Hayes, executive director of the State Board of Elections, said in a press release after the discovery, «While we expected to find some cases, this is higher than we anticipated.»
«The benefit of entering into cross-state and federal database checks is that it allows us to uncover issues like this. Our goal is to use every available and legal tool at our disposal to achieve the most accurate voter rolls possible,» he continued. «Now, we must roll up our sleeves and begin the hard work to act of verifying that every person registered to vote in North Carolina is eligible. Our team, along with our state and federal [partners] will do what’s necessary to meet this responsibility.»
The state board said it will work with county boards of elections to remove the deceased individuals from the voter rolls in accordance with state and federal law.
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Voting booths are set up during a primary election. (iStock)
While North Carolina is collaborating with the federal government and taking steps to clean up its rolls, Snead expressed concern that Democratic-run states are not doing the same.
«Voter list maintenance takes effort from state officials,» he told Fox News Digital.
He called North Carolina «another example of a state doing the work to root out bad registrations using federal records like the SAVE system.»
«But too many Democrat-controlled states are refusing to do the commonsense work of cleaning up bloated voter rolls or stopping ineligible people from registering in the first place,» he said.
«That’s why it’s so important for Congressional Democrats to end their obstruction of the SAVE America Act, a commonsense, popular piece of legislation that keeps it easy to vote and makes it harder to cheat,» he added.
The SAVE America Act would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It mandates states to verify voter rolls using citizenship data, remove ineligible registrants and impose civil and criminal penalties on officials who register voters without required proof.
The legislation is currently stuck in limbo in the Senate. Last week, a cohort of Senate Republicans joined Democrats to sink a late-night attempt to attach a version of the voter ID and citizenship verification legislation to the GOP’s bill funding federal immigration enforcement.
Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Susan Collins, R-Maine; and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., all voted against a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., prepare for a floor battle over Trump-backed voter ID legislation as Senate Republicans and Democrats aim to find a compromise on healthcare after the enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies expire. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu)
President Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed for passage of the SAVE America Act. Last month, he vowed not to sign any other bills until it gets through, and said he wouldn’t approve of a «watered down version.»
Last month, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif.; and Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., released a statement explaining their opposition to the legislation. The statement posited that the legislation would «disenfranchise up to 21 million citizens who can’t readily access their passports and birth certificates.»
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If enacted, the three asserted the SAVE America Act would be «sowing chaos in state election administration and fueling attacks against hardworking election officials by exposing them to new criminal liability.»
Schumer charged «MAGA Republicans» with «trying to make it harder for Americans to vote.» He asserted that «they know their agenda is failing, so they’re changing the rules.»
Fox News Digital’s Alec Schemmel and Alex Miller contributed to this report.
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Estados Unidos aprobó ventas de armamento militar por USD 8.600 millones a sus aliado de Medio Oriente
La administración del presidente estadounidense Donald Trump aprobó ventas militares por más de USD 8.600 millones a sus aliados de Medio Oriente. Israel, Qatar, Kuwait y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos figuran entre los países beneficiados por estas transacciones, anunciadas por el Departamento de Estado el viernes.
El secretario de Estado estadounidense, Marco Rubio, determinó que existía una emergencia que requería la aprobación inmediata de las ventas, por lo que quedaron exentas de los procedimientos habituales de revisión por parte del Congreso.
Entre las operaciones autorizadas se encuentra la venta a Qatar de servicios de reabastecimiento de defensa aérea y antimisiles Patriot por USD 4.010 millones, además de sistemas avanzados de armas de precisión (APKWS) por USD 992,4 millones.
El permiso para Kuwait incluyó un sistema integrado de mando de batalla por USD 2.500 millones, mientras que Israel recibió autorización para adquirir sistemas APKWS valorados en USD 992,4 millones. Los Emiratos Árabes Unidos podrán acceder también a APKWS por USD 147,6 millones.
El Departamento de Estado especificó que BAE Systems (BAES.L) es el contratista principal en las ventas de APKWS a Qatar, Israel y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos. RTX (RTX.N) y Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) lideran los contratos para el sistema de mando de batalla a Kuwait y el sistema Patriot a Qatar. Northrop Grumman (NOC.N) figura como contratista principal en la venta a Kuwait.
En paralelo, la agencia de telecomunicaciones de la ONU condenó los ataques de Irán contra la infraestructura de telecomunicaciones en Medio Oriente desde el inicio de la guerra. La Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones (UIT) indicó que mantiene una supervisión sobre las consecuencias de estos incidentes.
El Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo, con el respaldo de Jordania, presentó una demanda ante la UIT por los ataques dirigidos a las redes de comunicaciones en Bahréin, Kuwait, los Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Jordania.
La aprobación de las ventas de armamento coincide con el contexto de la guerra entre Estados Unidos e Israel contra el régimen iraní, que suma nueve semanas desde su inicio y más de tres semanas de un alto el fuego. Las negociaciones, pausadas por las exigencias de Teherán, no vislumbran un final concreto del conflicto.
Desde Estados Unidos, el inquilino de la Casa Blanca expresó el viernes su insatisfacción con la nueva propuesta de Irán para iniciar negociaciones de paz con Washington, en un contexto marcado por el estancamiento de las conversaciones y la vigencia de un alto el fuego desde hace varias semanas.
“En este momento no estoy satisfecho con lo que están ofreciendo”, afirmó Trump ante periodistas, aunque reconoció que el régimen iraní “ha hecho avances” en las conversaciones con Estados Unidos. El mandatario también admitió no estar seguro de que Irán pueda cumplir con los requisitos solicitados por su administración.
Consultado sobre la posibilidad de enviar una nueva delegación a Pakistán para reanudar conversaciones, luego de la cancelación del viaje la semana pasada, Trump respondió: “Sentimos un gran respeto por Pakistán e Islamabad, y un enorme respeto por el primer ministro y el mariscal de campo. Están colaborando con nosotros. Siguen colaborando con nosotros”.
El presidente añadió que, a pesar de la distancia, su administración “está haciendo todo lo posible en cuanto a negociaciones en este momento”, en referencia a las comunicaciones telefónicas sostenidas entre las partes.
Luego, durante un discurso en Florida, Trump atribuyó a los bombarderos B-2 la interrupción del programa nuclear iraní antes de que Teherán pudiera desarrollar un arma atómica. “Si no hubiéramos hecho eso, habrían tenido un arma nuclear. Israel habría quedado destruido. El Medio Oriente habría quedado destruido. Creo que Europa también”, afirmó.
A su vez, describió a Irán como una potencia militar desmantelada. Según sus palabras, el país no dispone de armada, fuerza aérea, equipos antiaéreos, radar ni liderazgo operativo: “Sus líderes han desaparecido. El primer grupo, el segundo grupo, Khamenei, todos se han ido”.
El conflicto comenzó el pasado 28 de febrero, cuando Estados Unidos e Israel atacaron a Irán, que respondió con ataques propios contra Israel y estados del Golfo con bases estadounidenses.
(Con información de Reuters)
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pushed back on claims this week that ending deportation protections for Haitian migrants was racially motivated, pressing an attorney to explain how that argument works when the policy has been applied broadly to migrants from many countries.
«You have a really large — you have a really broad definition of who’s White and who’s not White,» Alito, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, said during oral arguments, challenging a claim leveled by the migrants’ lawyer that the Trump Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intentionally targeted non-White migrants when it decided to terminate their temporary protected status (TPS).
The exchange came as the Supreme Court weighed a high-stakes case over the Trump administration’s authority to end TPS protections for tens of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants.
The high court’s decision could strip their legal protections and have similar implications for hundreds of thousands of other migrants, meaning DHS could then move to detain and deport them.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pushed back on claims that ending deportation protections for Haitian migrants was racially motivated. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Congress created temporary protected status as a form of protection for migrants fleeing war and natural disaster, and the law requires DHS officials to periodically review whether an origin country qualifies under those terms.
Attorney Geoffrey Pipoly, representing the migrant plaintiffs during oral arguments, argued the courts had some authority to review the government’s TPS decisions and that the decision to end the protected status for Haitians, in particular, did not follow the law because it was driven by racial bias against «non-White immigrants.»
«The president has disparaged Haitian TPS holders specifically as undesirables from a ‘s—hole country,’ and days after falsely accusing them of ‘eating the dogs and eating the cats of Americans,’ he vowed that he would terminate Haiti’s TPS, and that is exactly what happened,» Pipoly said.
Alito grilled the lawyer over the claim, noting the government’s TPS terminations applied to a range of countries.
«Do you think that if you put Syrians, Turks, Greeks and other people who live around the Mediterranean in a lineup, do you think you could say those people, that all of them, are they all non-White?» Alito asked.
«I don’t like dividing the people of the world into these groups.»
Alito began to test Pipoly on which bucket he would sort various nationalities into, White versus non-White, leading Pipoly to argue that the bar for finding racial animus was low.
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A protester raises a sign seeking protection for Haitians in the U.S. (Lynne Sladky/AP)
«Irrespective of how you do the classification … bare dislike of an unpopular group is a sufficient basis,» Pipoly said.
The case is centered on whether courts can review the government’s TPS decisions and the processes that went into reaching those decisions. Migrants’ lawyers have also made arguments that DHS officials failed to properly assess a country’s conditions or relied on unlawful factors, such as whether termination was of national interest.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) told the Supreme Court those decisions are not subject to judicial review and fall solely under the purview of the executive branch. The DOJ warned that allowing challenges could open the door to widespread litigation over immigration policy.
The migrants’ lawyers, meanwhile, argued in court papers that the DOJ had taken an «extreme position that would insulate flagrantly unlawful executive action from judicial review.»
COURT OF APPEALS TO HEAR ORAL ARGUMENTS IN HIGH-PROFILE DEPORTATION SUIT INVOLVING VENEZUELAN NATIONALS
The facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., in October 2024. (Valerie Plesch/picture alliance)
The conservative justices appeared largely sympathetic to the Trump administration’s arguments, while the liberal justices zeroed in on whether the government’s alleged racial bias could be unconstitutional.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, suggested Trump’s public claim that migrants are «poisoning the blood of America» would be a violation of constitutional prohibitions on discrimination by the government, since it was «showing that a discriminatory purpose may have played a part in this decision» to end temporary protected status.
Homeland Security has already terminated the legal status of migrants from six countries, including Venezuela and Honduras, moves that the Supreme Court temporarily greenlit through previous emergency requests. The high court is making a decision on the merits regarding the Haitians and Syrians, meaning it will carry finality and could apply more broadly.
The status of migrants from seven other countries remains on hold while the case is pending, including more than 6,000 Syrian and almost 350,000 Haitian migrants, as well as those from Ethiopia, Myanmar, Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan.
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The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling by the end of June.
Fox News’ Bill Mears contributed to this report.
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