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Delaware News Journal: Voting rights for Delaware corporations being weighed; Bill advanced to allow artificial entities say in Seaford elections
"We're seeing attacks on freedom to vote all over the country, and mostly Republicans trying to create barriers to voting," she told Delaware Online/The News Journal. "And this is kind of a different way of getting at the same thing, right?
"It's like 'Oh, we...
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The Guardian: ‘Impossible to hold him accountable’: DeSantis signs laws to ease 2024 run
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Texas Tribune: Eliminating countywide voting in Texas would make the process harder on voters, cost more money, election leaders say
“If we end countywide voting, we are just ramping up more and more confusion for Texans,” Gutierrez said. He pointed to a study by the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs, which found that confusion over voter ID laws kept some people from voting in Harris County.
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Politico: The Supreme Court has an electoral ‘bomb’ on its hands. Will it defuse it before 2024?
“We need to have a definitive answer from the Supreme Court,” she continued.
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Associated Press: Air Force One doubles as a campaign jet for Biden’s reelection run. Who pays what?
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Roll Call: DOJ urges Supreme Court not to decide case on federal elections
“Petitioners’ core contention before this Court is that the Elections Clause prohibits state constitutions—and state courts—from imposing limits on the authority of state legislatures over congressional redistricting. But the North...
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Filing: SCOTUS Should Rule in Major Voting Rights Case, Moore v. Harper
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Common Cause Testimony for House Hearing on Political Speech
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CBS: Rep. George Santos pleads not guilty to 13 federal charges including using campaign donations for personal expenses, including designer clothes and cash
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Politico: Top New York City Hall aide worked quietly with state super PAC
“This is just an end run around the limits,” Lerner said. “And it’s wrong.”
With City Council elections coming up this year and state races again on the horizon in 2024, Lerner, the good government watchdog, argued...
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New York Times: Texas Republicans Push New Voting Restrictions Aimed at Houston
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Charlotte Observer: NC abortion bill didn’t need to move at ‘light speed,’ transparency advocates say
“We didn’t even have 12 hours with this bill — and it was a 40-page-long bill,” Jane Pinsky, a program director with Common Cause, said. “It’s impossible to expect a legislator to do their job if they have 10 minutes to read a 40-page bill.”
Pinsky said that people,...