Utah State Senator Curtis Bramble (R-Provo) and Representative Patrice Arent (D-Salt Lake City) have introduced HB 259, which would repeal the straight-ticket device. Senator Bramble has been in the Utah Senate since 2000. Thanks to Steve Goodale for this news.Source: Utah Bill to Eliminate Straight-Ticket Device...
RALEIGH, N.C. — At about 4 a.m. on Aug. 23, federal agents rousted Jose Solano-Rodriguez from his bed in the suburbs of Raleigh. A couple of hours later, three agents knocked on Hyo Suk George's door as she fed her rabbits and chickens in rural Columbus County.Source: Federal prosecutor's voter-fraud probe in North Carolina focused on immigrants...
As California prepared to launch its new Motor Voter program last year, top elections officials say they asked Secretary of State Alex Padilla to hold off on the roll-out.Source: Election officials said DMV wasn’t ready to launch Motor Voter. California went ahead anyway...
McConnell mocked H.R. 1, known as the For The People Act, by dubbing it the “Democrat Politician Protection Act” and said it doesn’t “pass the laugh test.”Source: Mitch McConnell: Democrats' Voting Rights Bill Just A 'Political Power Grab'...
PDF of Legislative Brief available here Analysis of H.R.Source: Analysis of H.R. 1 (Part One)...
This article appears in the Winter 2019 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. As a result of the 2018 midterm elections, Democrats now have unified control of 14 state governments and the opportunity to carry out reforms of the electoral process.Source: How Democrats Should Reform Elections in the States...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The future of a much-criticized database that checks if voters are illegally registered in multiple states is up in the air after its patron, Kris Kobach, lost the Kansas race for governor and is out of elected office.Source: Kobach's defeat puts future of voter database in doubt...
When Democrats reclaimed majority control of the House of Representatives under Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California this month, they had many choices on what to make their top legislative priority. It says a lot that the new majority made a bill to upend federal election law House Resolution 1.Source: Pelosi's election ‘reform’ encourages voter fraud to benefit Dems...
Much attention has focused on H.R. 1, the comprehensive package of democracy reforms introduced on Thursday by Representative John Sarbanes (D-Md.) on behalf of the new Democratic House majority. The unprecedented legislation is perhaps the most important domestic initiative of the new Congress.Source: How to Fix America’s Broken Political System...
