We have some important election-reform news that just broke from our own Burgess Everett. Burgess tracked down Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL in the Senate today and asked him about reforming the Electoral Count Act.https://ift.tt/3nhCakQ Source: POLITICO Playbook PM: McConnell makes his first move in election-reform debate...
On January 10, a group of North Carolina voters asked the State Board of Elections to rule that Congressman Madison Cawthorn is ineligible to hold congressional office.https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Source: Some North Carolina Voters Ask Board of Elections to Bar Congressman Madison Cawthorn from Ballot for January 6 Actions...
We’ve combed through the lawsuits and countersuits to identify the key provisions that are under dispute in four states — and why.https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Source: The Senate battle over whether election laws signify a new ‘Jim Crow’...
In 2022, it’s out with the old maps, and in with the new. Redistricting, the once-in-a-decade redrawing of congressional and state legislative maps based on the U.S. Census, is underway, but things are pretty different this time.https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Source: Our guide to redistricting: Ten years of twists and turns and a wild, rushed finish...
Progressives have been clamoring for such a move since the start of the Biden presidency. But its chances are close to nonexistent so long as Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) hold to their stated positions opposing such a change. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Source: The Memo: Biden rolls the dice on voting rights...
The trip to Georgia is meant to assure activists that he’s ready for the fight. Days after going after Donald Trump for threatening America’s democracy, President Joe Biden will turn his sights on Republicans for pushing laws based on the former president’s lies of election fraud.https://ift.tt/3FjLE54 Source: Biden to turn the heat up on Republicans over voting rights...
