FBI Director Kash Patel says prior administrations looked the other way on election cheating but “those days are over.” Despite evidence to the contrary, liberal voting activists have spent years minimizing cheating concerns and portraying those who want to investigate such problems as “election deniers.” But the Justice Department, FBI and Homeland Security are now systematically exposing electoral fraud from noncitizen voting to ballot-box-stuffing schemes that are turning the table in epic fashion. The latest strike came Monday when a longtime voting activist in California reached a deal with federal prosecutors to admit to illegally paying homeless people to sign election petitions and paying people to register to vote in a two-decade scheme that allegedly leveraged the Democratrun state’s lax mail-in voting system, which sends ballot forms to everyone whether they ask for them or not.

OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma City television station (KFOR) has aired a story stating Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt may be considering calling a special session of the legislature to ban the use of artificial intelligence in political ads, following a News 4 investigation into an AI-generated attack ad running in the Republican primary to pick his successor.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Ross Ford, R-Broken Arrow, recently commended the governor for signing into a law a bill that adds the operational area of an airport to the list of places considered as critical infrastructure.

to point The political season is heating up across Oklahoma and a number of other states, and new technologies are already causing problems that were rare in the past. A recent “AI” generated ad in the Oklahoma governor’s race has a photo of one candidate embracing Hillary Clinton as if they were buddies and makes other false or speculative comments about them.

the point to change... Publisher The middle of May represents the busiest time of the year for our newspaper.

Oklahoma Watch A long-overdue raise for lowincome workers struggling to make ends meet? Or a burdensome mandate on small businesses that will lead to reduced hours for workers and higher consumer prices?

ByNuria Martinez-KEEL OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt has vetoed a continuation of Oklahoma’s state-funded TV station, contending taxpayer dollars shouldn’t subsidize public broadcasting.

OKLAHOMA CITY – A bill increasing the services dental assistants and hygienists are allowed to perform for patients has been signed into law by the governor. Rep.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Growing weary of hearing the State of Oklahoma’s educational report card at or near the bottom of regional states in recent years, members of the Oklahoma Legislature have begun seeking new and better ways to boost the 46th State’s scores.

It’s been a few decades ago, but a member of the Hugo city council approached me in the middle of May and told me the council was going to be in a jam getting the annual budget out... because they had just fired the city manager.