Pennsylvania Department of State officials reached an agreement with an election-integrity group to remove over 21,000 dead people from voting lists in the state
HELENA, Mont. – One of the priority bills requested by Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen, Senate Bill 170, was signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte this week.
The ruling means the Wisconsin Elections Commission will not force tens of thousands of people off the rolls near a major election, such as the 2022 contest for governor and U.S. Senate.
The state Senate was set Wednesday to pass a host of Republican-authored changes to Wisconsin elections, including a prohibition on accepting private grants to aid election administration.
Under this new legislation, individuals would not have to wait until they have reached the final date of their sentence to register to vote or vote in an election.
On a series of party-line votes, 3 bills that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls were rejected by majority Democrats on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee.
A proposal in the Florida Senate sponsored by Ocala Republican Dennis Baxley calls for making changes to the state’s vote-by-mail process and banning ballot drop boxes. And a day after he filed an amendment that would remove or ease numerous restrictions in the bill, the bill sparked heated debate in a committee.
Delays in census data could cause Iowa to miss a constitutional deadline for redistricting. The Iowa Supreme Court would be required to step in if that happens.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that the complaints he had leveled a day earlier at corporations for publicly protesting a new Georgia voting law were not said "very artfully" even as he stood by his criticism of the CEOs who he charged "ought to read the damn bill."
A report from two civil rights groups says a method being used for the first time by the U.S. Census Bureau to protect people's privacy in 2020 census data could make voting rights enforcement more difficult.
As the backlash to Georgia's restrictive voting law intensified last week with big corporations like Delta and Coca-Cola criticizing the law and Major League Baseball announcing it was moving the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, the politics of threats and counter threats became so fierce that it was difficult to determine whether the corporate moves were having their intended effect.
Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill Wednesday that will automatically restore the voting rights of people convicted of a felony once they are released from prison, even if they are still under community supervision.