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(The Center Square) – The state and national Republican parties told local officials to scrap defective ballots as the U.S. Senate race recount gets underway on Monday. In a letter to the election boards in Bucks and Montgomery counties, party chairs said “enough is enough” and accused commissioners there of bolstering U.S. Sen. Bob Casey […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida voters Tuesday rejected creating a constitutional right to abortion, a political win for Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that will keep in place the state’s ban on most abortions after the first six weeks of pregnancy. It’s the first ballot measure victory for abortion opponents in any state since the U.S. Supreme […]
Director of the Board of Elections Tyler Burns holds a test ballot during a mail-in ballot processing demonstration at the Board of Elections office on September 30, 2024 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. A fake video purporting to show ballots being destroyed in Bucks County, Pa., showed different envelopes and ballots than the county actually uses. Hannah […]
‘Only choice I got’ – Early voting starts in swing state Georgia A judge in the US state of Georgia has blocked an order for ballots in November’s presidential election to be counted by hand. Judge Robert McBurney ruled poll workers would not have received adequate training to handle millions of ballots, adding that the […]
I almost wish someone would ask us: how does it feel to be a pit stop? To be a refuelling station where sputtering-out political campaigns pull up to receive a laying on of hands; where a Black baritone reverend holds the president’s shoulder and between benedictions issues forth some version of the declaration that “We […]
President Richard Nixon (1913 – 1994) shakes hands with musician James Brown (1933 – 2006) in the White House’s Oval Office, in Washington D.C., on Oct. 10, 1972. | Source: Oliver F Adkins/PhotoQuest / Getty N ewsOne is back with Episode 5 of The Black Ballot, an exclusive new multi-episodic docuseries exploring the history of African Americans voting. […]
The Super Tuesday primaries are the largest voting day of the year in the United States aside from the November general election. Voters in 16 states are choosing presidential nominees. Some states are also deciding who should run for governor, senator or district attorneys. Party primaries, caucuses or presidential preference votes are being held in […]
Former President Donald Trump must be placed on Colorado’s 2024 ballot, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday, striking down a first-of-its-kind holding by the Colorado Supreme Court that the Republican front-runner is disqualified from office under a Civil War-era insurrection clause. “Because the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing […]
By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York 29 February 2024, 01:07 GMT Updated 41 minutes ago Image source, Getty Images A judge in Illinois ruled that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and has barred him from the state’s primary ballot – though she put the ruling on hold pending an appeal. Two other states – […]
Getty Images A judge in Illinois ruled that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and has barred him from the state’s primary ballot – though she put the ruling on hold pending an appeal. Two other states – Colorado and Maine – have removed Mr Trump from their primary ballots for violating a 14th Amendment “insurrection” […]