Voting is a right; This shouldn’t be a controversial statement but it is. The struggle to ensure that every adult United States citizen has the right to vote has been going on since the founding of our country. Right now, our right to vote is threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic and by apathy in some […]
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The mass surge of by-mail ballot requests in North Carolina is triggering a cascade of legal, political and procedural changes that is reshaping the November election. So far, almost 70,000 North Carolina voters have requested absentee ballots for the November election, a four-times increase over this point in 2016, according to Catawba College politics and history professor Michael […]
An out-of-court settlement, coming the eve of a start of trial on a vote-by-mail lawsuit, had participants on both sides declaring victory Monday. A group of voting rights organizations — including the New Florida Majority, Priorities USA, Dream Defenders and others — had filed suit to order changes to the deadline for mail-in ballots and other procedures, […]
This year was supposed to be a comeback year for Kyle Schulz and the College Republicans at Cal Poly Pomona, in eastern Los Angeles County. In 2018, the House district in which the campus resides was caught up in the Blue Wave — sending freshman Democrat Gil Cisneros to Congress. “We got our butts kicked, […]
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul and former Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen will lead a new bipartisan group promoting absentee voting and safe in-person voting this fall. Kaul and Van Hollen announced Tuesday that they will serve as co-chairmen of a new Wisconsin chapter of VoteSafe. Members include former Republican Gov. Scott McCallum; Milwaukee […]
PHILADELPHIA PA – Civil rights groups are calling a Trump campaign lawsuit over mail-in ballots an attempt to suppress voting, and they’re challenging that effort in court. The lawsuit seeks to make it more difficult for Pennsylvanians to vote by mail, and to have those votes counted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of civil […]
Facebook added an information label to a post from President Donald Trump on Tuesday in which he claimed mail-in voting would lead to “the most CORRUPT ELECTION in our Nation’s History,” directing users to a nonpartisan government website with facts about absentee and early voting. The social media giant announced last week it would be labeling but […]
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I shouldn’t have to risk my life to vote
Tasha Nelson is a disability rights activist. | Voting is so important to me and my family. It is life-and-death. The people who represent us vote on laws that directly affect our life span, access to care, access to education and access to community. Because of the combination of our voting system and the coronavirus […]
When Gov. Phil Murphy announced that the primary elections throughout the state would be pushed back and handled mostly by mail, the folks at the Bergen County Board of Elections knew they had their work cut out for them. They had just handled the spring municipal and school board elections in May for eight towns. […]
The next time you hear a Republican scare-mongering Americans about voter fraud, remember the name Steve Watkins. Watkins, a GOP congressman from Kansas, was charged this week with three counts of voter fraud, becoming the latest in a long line of Republicans proving that their party is the real threat to the integrity of American […]