Republican officials in Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit on Monday against Democrat Lindsey Williams running for the 38th Senate District.
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Reports Of Voter Intimidation At Polling Places In Texas
Reports of voter intimidation at polling places in Texas says the county’s nonpartisan election administrator claiming it is the worst in decades.
US Supreme Court Turns Away Pennsylvania Electoral Map Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a bid by Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to reinstate a congressional district map.
Millions of Ex-Convicts Struggle to Regain Their Right to Vote
Research group found that 1 in 40 adult Americans accounting for 2.5 percent of the voting age population are impacted by felon disenfranchisement.
Steps Americans Can Take To Make Sure Your Votes Count
Center for American Progress examines ways which conservative lawmakers suppresses the votes of people of color, young people, and people with disabilities.
Disability, Democracy and Mixed-Member Proportional Representation
New Zealand’s Mixed-Member Proportional election system would be good for disabled people in the United States because disability concerns could be heard in Congress more easily.
Multiple States Holding Pro-Democracy Ballot Initiatives November 6
New report on more than two dozen ballot initiatives and state constitutional amendments to strengthen, and in some cases undercut, democracy.
Oregon Voters to be Automatically Registered at DMVs
First-in-the-nation bill automatically registers all eligible Oregonians to vote when they obtain or renew a driver’s license or state identification card.
Could Adequate Funding For Voting Machines Make Them Secure?
A prominent security threat facing the midterm elections seems to be more linked to voting machines than international meddling as originally predicted.
Polling Mischief in Maine Shows Why We Need Ranked Choice Voting
Let’s make sure whoever wins this election actually has the support of a majority of Mainers. Let’s bring legitimacy back to our elections, and not shenanigans. Everyone needs to get behind ranked choice voting!