Oregon Set to Expand Voting Rights to People in Prison
From today’s NBC News: Oregon state Democrats have advanced a bill that would allow people who are incarcerated in the state to vote. If enacted, the bill would make the state only…
Election Worker Intimidation and Voting Rights Laws Passed in New Mexico
From today’s Albuquerque Journal: Legislation making it a crime to intimidate election workers and expanding automatic voter registration is on its way to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham after winning House…
Ohio Republicans Enact ‘Alarming’ New Voting Restrictions
From today’s The Guardian: Ohio Republicans quietly enacted a measure earlier this month that imposes sweeping new restrictions on voting access in the state, including more stringent voter ID requirements, cutting the…
Texas GOP Proposes Election Police Force in Voting Law Changes
From today’s NBC News: Texas Republicans are laying the groundwork to move quickly on a number of new changes to the state’s voting laws, including a proposal to create an…
Ruling in SCOTUS Case Heard Wednesday May Upend Electoral Politics
From today’s CNN News: The Supreme Court is taking on the future of federal elections Wednesday, discussing a case that could upend electoral politics and embolden state legislatures to act without judicial…
I’m the Governor of North Carolina. This Fringe Claim Before the Supreme Court Would Upend Democracy.
From today’s New York Times: Over the past six months, the United States Supreme Court has handed down one misguided ruling after another, stripping Americans of the constitutional right to…
Georgia’s Runoff Elections Have Segregationist Roots
From today’s PBS News: Georgia’s Dec. 6 runoff election pitting Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock against Republican Herschel Walker is historic for having two Black candidates representing major parties on that…
Arizona Secretary of State Certifies 2022 Election in Ceremony at Capitol
From today’s Arizona Republic: Secretary of State and Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs officially certified the Nov. 8 election results in a ceremony at the Capitol on Monday morning, a routine step…
Georgia Voters Defy Efforts to Suppress Them
From today’s New York Times: Tuesday afternoon, I waited over an hour and a half to vote in Atlanta in the Georgia Senate runoff between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican…
Teens Win the Right to Vote, But Alameda County Disenfranchised Them
From today’s Washington Post: If all had gone as planned, thousands of high-schoolers in Oakland would have cast their ballots for the first time on Election Day. Many of them…