New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim opposes voter ID bill, calls citizenship a barrier to voting
TRENTON, N.J. — U.S. Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey publicly voiced his opposition this week to the Secure America’s Vote and Elections (SAVE) Act, which would require individuals to provide documented…
Special Report-Trump allies breach U.S. voting systems in search of 2020 fraud ‘evidence’
By Alexandra Ulmer and Nathan Layne KIOWA, Colorado – Eighteen months after Donald Trump lost the White House, loyal supporters continue to falsely assert that compromised balloting machines across America robbed him…
Biden’s Popularity Is Plummeting In A Key Voting Bloc Dems Can’t Afford To Lose
Biden’s Popularity Is Plummeting In A Key Voting Bloc Dems Can’t Afford To Lose Laurel Duggan on April 25, 2022 President Joe Biden’s approval rating within a key Democratic voting bloc plummeted…
Exclusive-Local election chief threatened by Republican leader seeking illegal access to voting equipment
By Nathan Layne (Reuters) – A local Republican Party leader in North Carolina threatened to get a county elections director fired or have her pay cut unless she helped him gain illegal…
Voting rights groups sue over new Florida congressional maps
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Several voting rights groups filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging Florida’s new congressional map, saying it unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents to benefit Republicans.…
Biden’s Hemorrhaging Support In Key Voting Bloc A Huge Threat To Dems
Biden’s Hemorrhaging Support In Key Voting Bloc A Huge Threat To Dems Sebastian Hughes on April 11, 2022 Democrats are scrambling to recapture the youth vote as President Joe Biden’s approval rating…
U.S. House Democrats introduce bill requiring time off for voting
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON – A group of U.S. House of Representatives Democrats on Monday proposed legislation requiring employers give their workers paid time off to vote, following failed attempts by Congress…
Early voting in Ohio begins despite ongoing fight over U.S. congressional map
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Early voting began in Ohio on Tuesday for the May 3 primary elections, all but ensuring that voters will pick their candidates for the U.S. Congress using…
Surprise Man Sentenced for Illegal Voting
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Joseph John Marak, 62, of Surprise, Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 30 months of supervised probation and fined $2,400. Marak previously pleaded…
U.S. sues Texas county, calls voting map discriminatory
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing a Texas county of adopting an electoral map that discriminates against Black and Hispanic voters. The lawsuit,…
Colorado Republican county clerk indicted in voting security breach
By Keith Coffman DENVER -A Colorado grand jury has indicted a Republican county clerk and her deputy on multiple felony charges following an election security breach in her office after voting equipment…
Brazil Senate president indicates voting on proposals to lower fuel prices as oil climbs
BRASILIA – Brazilian Senate president Rodrigo Pacheco said on Wednesday that bills to curb rising fuel prices would be on the table next week amid renewed pressure on prices after Russia’s invasion…
U.S. Democrats stockpile lawyers, money to fight Republican voting laws
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON – Democrats are gearing up to spend record sums on lawyers, advertising and other protect-the-vote efforts before the 2022 midterm elections, hoping to stave off Republican efforts they…
U.S. judge rules for Saba Capital in closed-end fund voting litigation
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON -A U.S. federal judge ruled that Nuveen and trustees of its closed-end funds violated the Investment Company Act by stripping hedge fund Saba Capital of its full voting…
Governors’ races in ‘blue wall’ states carry high stakes for voting rights
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON – Democrats are in jeopardy of losing their long-time firewall against new voting restrictions in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin should Republicans who support such curbs win competitive governors’…
Colorado elections clerk is sued after passing on voting data
By Tim Reid and Alexandra Ulmer -A Colorado elections clerk was sued on Thursday after he copied data from voting machines with the help of two men with ties to groups supporting…
Explainer-New state laws are fueling a U.S. debate over voting access; here’s how
By Julia Harte – From voter ID requirements to laws giving partisan entities such as state legislatures more control over election management, U.S. states enacted more than 30 new voting restrictions in…
Republicans plan to boycott Senate panel voting session on Fed nominees, source says
– Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee plan to boycott a meeting scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to vote on President Joe Biden’s slate of nominees to the Federal Reserve, a person familiar…
Analysis-U.S. Supreme Court’s Alabama ruling signals new threat to voting rights law
By Andrew Chung and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON – When three federal judges last month blocked Alabama’s new Republican-backed map of U.S. congressional districts as likely discriminatory against Black voters, they said they…
Georgia Republicans’ move to redraw local voting maps raises cries of power grabs
By Nathan Layne -Republican state lawmakers in Georgia are pushing legislation to redraw electoral maps in three counties in a move that would effectively override local officials who have traditionally wielded that…
Trump directly involved in plans to seize voting machines -reports
WASHINGTON – Then-President Donald Trump was directly involved in efforts to use national security agencies to seize voting machines after his 2020 election loss, pressing his lawyer to make queries as advisers…
New Jersey Democrat urges Booker, Menendez on voting rights
Trenton – In an effort to protect and defend the rights of voters, Senator Troy Singleton introduced SR-28, which would urge the United States Congress to adopt comprehensive voting rights legislation.“For far too…
Supreme Court Denies McCarthy’s Bid To Eliminate Proxy Voting
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy seeking to scrap proxy voting in the chamber. House Democrats adopted the rules nearly two years…
Joe Biden concedes defeat in voting rights bill: We missed this time
Unable to rally a majority vote in the U.S. Senate, President Joe Biden said that he will try again in the future to pass a voting rights reform bill. The statement came…
Analysis: Democrats In DC Brace For Two Winter Storms As Voting Bills Near Certain Failure
As Washington, D.C., prepares for its second winter storm in as many weeks, Democrats in Congress are all-in on their bid to pass their voting legislation and, if it fails, to abolish…
House Passes Two Democratic Voting Bills – With A Quirk That Allows Them To Skirt One Filibuster Vote
The House on Thursday passed on party lines a combined voting bill tied to a NASA funding bill as part of a plan to force a Senate debate on the measure and…
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