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SCOTUS Rulings on Voting Rights & Nonprofit Disclosure Make Clear Congress Must Pass For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
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House Votes to Establish Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Insurrection
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Washington Post: This law helped the Capitol riot happen. So why does nobody want to change it?
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USA Today: Eric Adams sees lead in New York City mayoral election narrow after first ranked choice voting tally
Exit polling from Lerner's group also found that voters took advantage of the new system. More than 80% of voters ranked at least two candidates in the mayoral primary, and more than 40% ranked five candidates.
Lerner also stressed the delay in results is not because of ranked voting but rather state laws protecting voters' rights around when absentee...
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Common Cause Urges U.S. House Members to Support Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Insurrection
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International Business Times: Manhattan DA Won’t Charge Trump, Organization Over ‘Hush Money’ Payments, Lawyer Says
“But it’s head-scratching that the mastermind of this criminal enterprise, Donald Trump, has...
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Roll Call: FEC reviewing rules on salaries, benefits for candidates
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Salon: GOP using new laws to drive out local Democratic election officials — and not just in Georgia
Depending on the state, "these individuals might now have the power to close polling stations or limit voting machine access," Albert warned. "This is part and...
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Philadelphia Inquirer: The political rhetoric over Pa. Republicans’ election bill obscures the truth: It’s complicated
Ali spoke approvingly of increased poll worker pay and changes that would allow processing of mail ballots before Election Day — something elections officials have long requested and that could have prevented...
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DOJ Challenges Georgia Attacks on the Freedom to Vote
The suit challenges Georgia’s so-called “Election Integrity Act,” which was passed in March by the Republican majority in the state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp. The law imposes new limits on the use of absentee ballots, gives the legislature greater control over elections in the...
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ABC News: Threats, pressures faced by poll workers pose ‘existential threat to our democracy,’ experts warn
Albert says that what election officials have described represents "a level of threat and intimidation against election officials that you just don't see in a democracy."
"We're seeing election officials receive...
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50 Senators Vote to Advance Boldest Democracy Package in Nearly 50 Years, But Republican Senators Block It with a Filibuster and Refuse to Even Allow a Debate