A special election for RI’s First Congressional District has been set; it will be held Nov. 7th with the primary Sept. 5th.
Will Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis return fire for former President Donald Trump’s attacks or hold back?
A former agent testified that the FBI manipulated data to make it seem domestic terrorism was linked to January 6th.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Legislation has been submitted in the RI General Assembly to switch to a ranked-choice-voting scheme for elections. The RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity and election expert, Ken Block, oppose such a confusing system that has been proven to disenfranchise voters in other states. Fact Sheet by the Heritage Foundation, January 2023 THE […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: On the heels of the charges brought against US Congressman, Republican George Santos, for promoting and campaigning on a falsified personal biography; and with a Democrat candidate, John Goncalves, for the soon to be open US Congressional seat in Rhode Island’s 1st District caught constantly changing his personal biography … Democrat candidate for […]
A bill allowing independent votes to disaffiliate after primary voting is headed to the Rhode Island Senate.
Rhode Island Secretary of State Gregg Amore is scheduled to speak this week at conference held by the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR) in Washington DC. As reported last month on The Current, Are RI Elections Officials Part of a National Scheme to Unfairly Tip the Scales Towards Democrats?, CEIR has recently been exposed as […]
Originally posted on Travis Rowley’s “Listen to the Good Men” podacst, as “Channeling Harry Reid“ Please excuse this critique of all the expressions of shock by conservative hosts and pundits last week — shock over the revelation that it was, in fact, the Biden campaign that orchestrated the drafting and dissemination of the “intel letter” […]
President Donald Trump called the charges against him unprecedented election interference in a speech Tuesday night from his Mar-a-Lago home.
New Leadership Promises to Broaden the Party and Support Candidates Who Can Win WARWICK – The RI GOP elected three new leaders Saturday to re-build the state Republican party and to ensure a slate of qualified candidates for future elections. Joe Powers, who was unsuccessful last year in a bid for a Cranston state Senate […]
RI is a member state in ERIC. Is it part of a partisan voter tracking scheme? Many states are fleeing after startling revelations. Emails from Rhode Island Elections Director show private voter data is being shared with partisan third-party groups. It appears that Rhode Island may be part of a national scheme to identify, register, […]
America faces the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression, warns a former Rhode Island Mayor Steve Laffey who last month announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.
The Ocean State Current will host a “town hall” style forum with U.S. Presidential candidate, Steve Laffey, this Friday, March 17, at 12:30 PM at the Chapel Grille restaurant in Cranston, Rhode Island. . Laffey, the former two-term mayor (2003-2007) of the city of Cranston, Rhode Island and 2006 Republican primary candidate for the U.S. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Recently, in an effort to increase public trust in their statewide elections and to protect the privacy of its voters, many states have abandoned ERIC … but the state of Rhode Island continues to spend taxpayer dollars to subscribe to this service, which recently has been exposed for its partisanship. Why? What is […]
Rhode Island has removed more than 60,000 voters from the registry. According to a release, a voter’s registration is deemed inactive when the department’s elections mail is returned to the sender as “undeliverable.”
Voting Was Anticipated After Law to Provide Driver’s Licenses Process for Determining Residency Remains Uncertain Democrats in the Rhode Island General Assembly have introduced legislation that, if passed, would grant localities the ability to give non-U.S. citizens the right to vote in municipal elections. The measure marks the latest attempt by leftists to give foreigners […]
by Sara Vieira, chapter leader of Fair Elections RI According to their website, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) is a nationally recognized organization that, ostensibly, helps local election offices with their election operations. Along the way, CTCL became otherwise known as Zuckerbucks. Per the image below, my organization, Fair Elections RI, […]
Originally published by the Conservative Brief on January 12, 2023, written by Martin Walsh *** A former county elections commissioner in New York has pleaded guilty to applying for absentee ballots in the names of other registered voters. “Jason Schofield, age 43, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to unlawfully using the names and […]
Colorado Resident Plans to Campaign in New Hampshire Top Issues are Fiscal Responsibility and Rescuing Social Security from Potential Insolvency Former Cranston mayor and one-time candidate for US Senate Steve Laffey Announced Thursday (2/2) he will challenge former President Donald J. Trump and others for the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential race. In the […]
Pete Buttigieg, colloquially referred to as “Mayor Pete”, previously an unknown mayor of a small Indiana city, has quickly risen to national prominence and has become a popular figure among Democrats, after his 2020 primary run for President of the United States. Steve Laffey, the former mayor of a similarly-sized Rhode Island city, who I […]
The Center for Tech and Civic Life forms an $80 million Alliance to push left-wing voting policies. Earlier this week, the Honest Elections Project (HEP) released a report in conjunction with the John Locke Foundation, exposing the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence as an $80 million left-wing initiative launched to target local election offices and […]
Earlier this year, The Ocean State Current posted an interview with Cesar Marques, a Brazilian citizen who was in Rhode Island for business, about the volatile post-election powder-keg that was brewing in Brazil, amid claims and protests by millions of election fraud. The November 14 interview with Marques on In The Dugout with Mike Stenhouse […]
New Hampshire Democrats are blasting a proposal from President Joe Biden to move South Carolina’s primary date ahead of the Granite State in the party’s presidential nominating cycle.
Allen Waters, who just two weeks ago lost his bid to unseat longtime incumbent US Congressman, David Cicilline, is seeking a new position as a member of the Providence School Board. Waters is an outspoken supporter of educational freedom and school choice. The city of Providence this year amended its charter such that the School […]
Democratic Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline is leading an effort to ban former President Donald Trump from holding public office again.
EDITOR’s NOTE: The Ocean State Current does not condone violence or any illegal activity by citizens. Both a summary and a more detailed accounting of the incident appear below. *** Summary from the Tennessee Encyclopedia: Officially, the “Battle of Athens” in McMinn County began and ended on August 1, 1946. Following a heated competition for local […]
Republicans took a majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after multiple media outlets projected California Republican Mike Garcia would win the 27th Congressional District. CNN, Fox News, the New York Times and the Washington Post all reported the GOP took the House majority as of Wednesday night.
On Tuesday morning, The Gateway Pundit reported that when polls opened in Maricopa County at 6 am on Election Day, voters were told that the tabulators were not working. This was happening across Maricopa County and resulted in long lines and voters being told to go to another location to vote.
Editor’s Note: For a first-time organization that did nothing more than post information on the web and ask candidates to take their pledge, with a 100% volunteer team, raising and spending no money at all, and raising awareness only via social media and word-of-mouth … the Parents United RI slate of candidates was an unqualified […]