09 Jul

While some progressives are bullish about the outlook for the November election, Tatenda Musapatike surveys the political landscape and sees masses of unregistered voters who were supposed to be on the rolls by now, but for the pandemic. It is making her increasingly anxious, and she is not alone.Source: As voting rolls plunge amid pandemic, progressives try to reinvent the...

00:27 / vblog / Voter Registration
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07 Jul

On July 2, two Democrats running in the New Jersey July 7 primary for U.S. House filed a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit attacks the state law that restricts political slogans that candidates can place next to their names on primary ballots. Mazo v Way, 2:20cv-8174. Here is the Complaint.Source: Federal Lawsuit Filed Over New Jersey Limits to Political Slogans on...

19:27 / BYU / Free Speech / vblog / yclass
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07 Jul

On Monday, in a fractured set of opinions, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an association of political consultants challenging the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. That statute bans robocalls to cellphones.Source: Opinion analysis : Fractured court rules in favor of political consultants in First Amendment challenge to federal robocall law but keeps robocall ban in place...

19:27 / Free Speech / vblog
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07 Jul

The party is starting to think bigger than just beating Trump. Donald Trump’s collapsing poll numbers have Democrats thinking bigger than just winning the White House and seizing the Senate — they’re imagining a rout that extends all the way down the ballot.Source: Democrats smell a rout — and the chance to control redistricting in 2021...

04:27 / Redistricting / vblog
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06 Jul

The California legislature has placed a proposed constitutional amendment on the November 2020 ballot. Proposition 18 will ask voters if the voting age should be reduced to 17, if the voter would be age 18 by the general election for the same offices.Source: Californians Will Vote on Whether To Let 17-Year-Olds Vote in Primaries If Such Voters Will be 18...

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05 Jul

Joshua A. Douglas is a professor at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law who specializes in election law, voting rights, and constitutional law. He is the author of "Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting." Follow him @JoshuaADouglas.Source: We don't have to have chaos when America votes this...

05:27 / Election Law / vblog
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