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Times Union (Op-Ed): To boost voter participation, simplify wording on ballots
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Indianapolis Star: Voting rights advocates worry new Indiana law will disenfranchise vulnerable voters
Several organizations including Common Cause say the legislation would disproportionately affect the elderly, minorities who already facing barriers to voting and voters who use alternate voting methods like travel boards or the military post card application. Voting rights groups are especially worried those who are...
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Mother Jones: Republicans Are Trying to Seize Control Over Voting In Texas’ Largest Democratic County
“It’s a really intentional form of partisan takeovers of local election offices,” says Katya Ehresman, voting rights program manager for Common Cause Texas.
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Texas Tribune: Harris County must remove its elections chief under new legislation headed to Gov. Greg Abbott
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Unions, public interest advocates thwart hedge fund’s attempted takeover of local news and set groundbreaking FCC precedent
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Arizona Republic: After vowing to back LGBTQ Arizonans, Hobbs vetoes bill on transgender student names
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PolitiFact: Fact-checking ‘Succession’: What happens if a fire destroys 100,000 absentee ballots in Milwaukee?
"Unfortunately, I think politics would play a role in both state Supreme Court and in the U.S. Supreme Court," Heck said, "which is why this hypothetical scenario I hope never happens, because it would be awful."
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Houston Chronicle: Texas lawmakers decline online voter registration bills, despite 40-plus states having the option
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Broadcasting & Cable (Op-Ed): Why Standard General’s Proposed Tegna Merger Hurts Our Democracy
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NPR: Is drawing a voting map that helps a political party illegal? Only in some states
"For several decades, people in the states had held out hope that the Supreme Court would lay down a standard for finding that partisan gerrymandering had happened and potentially overruling maps where that kind of vote rigging had happened," says Kathay Feng, vice president of programs at Common Cause, the advocacy group that has also helped lead the ongoing case...
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Anchorage Daily News: Alaska Redistricting Board adopts final political map after landmark gerrymandering ruling
“Whether it happens in a red state or a blue state, a constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering is always a landmark victory for the...
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Politics PA: Federal Suit Over PA Voter Rolls Settled