Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) seems to think the DISCLOSE Act is a political cure-all. His latest sales pitch is that, if adopted, it would help “the American people … find out who funded the Jan. 6 insurrection.”Source: Sheldon Whitehouse's DISCLOSE Act would not have prevented Jan. 6....
With political power on the line, state redistricting commissions have been held up by voter advocates as a way to get congressional districts that are more reflective of the communities that live in them.Source: A fair maps success story or 'multi-layered stages of Dante's Hell'? Where redistricting commissions worked -- and didn't work -- this cycle....
A group of state lawmakers is raising red flags about the number of ballots rejected in the special U.S. House primary. Ballots are still being tallied but, so far, about 4% of the roughly 155,000 ballots received statewide have been rejected.Source: About 1 in 8 rural Alaska ballots have been rejected in special primary, raising red flags with lawmakers....
What is the Biden administration hiding? With the 2022 midterm elections approaching fast, the White House has ordered every federal agency to register and mobilize voters — and it’s refusing to tell people whom it’s targeting or what it’s saying.Source: The White House must come clean on its election agenda....
In 2014, New York voters approved changes to the state Constitution designed to reform the congressional and state legislative redistricting process and end partisan gamesmanship. Or so they thought. Sadly, this reform was doomed to fail.Source: New York's redistricting fiasco: Where do we go from here? ....
Democratic groups are buying ads touting some of the most extreme pro-Trump candidates in Republican primaries around the country — meddling in GOP contests to set up more favorable matchups in November.Source: Democrats play with fire in GOP primaries....
The Department of Homeland Security’s ill-fated disinformation board would have been part of an effort to work with private social-media platforms to police their content, two senators revealed Wednesday, citing new documents provided to them by a whistleblower.Source: Ill-fated DHS disinformation board pursued partnership with social-media platforms to censor content....
BOSTON (AP) — Mail-in ballots and early voting — popular options used to cast ballots in Massachusetts during the 2020 pandemic-era election — would become permanent features of the state’s political landscape under a compromise version of a voting overhaul bill unveiled Wednesday at the StaSource: Massachusetts lawmakers unveil compromise voting rights bill....
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate TROY — A Troy councilwoman on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a felony criminal charge in U.S.Source: Troy councilwoman pleads to federal criminal charge in ballot-fraud case....
WASHINGTON — As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 plot prepares to kick off its first public hearing, a bipartisan group of senators huddled Wednesday in the Capitol to negotiate new laws aimed at preventing future candidates from stealing elections.Source: Senate bipartisan group eyes deal 'this week' on bill to prevent future coups....
