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City Council To Discuss Whether To Change From At-Large To District Elections | #citycouncil

The Tracy City Council at its meeting Tuesday will discuss whether the city should hold district-based elections rather than with its current at-large method. Tracy right now elects a mayor to a two-year term with a limit of two terms along with four councilmembers who are elected by city voters at large for four-year terms […]

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Alabama

Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024 | #elections | #alabama

FILE – A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled in the summer of 2023 that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the […]

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Alabama

Freedom From Religion Foundation launches campaign to counter Christian nationalism in state politics | #elections | #alabama

By Daniela Altimari Growing up in the heart of the Bible Belt in central Alabama, Chris Nelson attended a Pentacostal church. He explored other denominations in college and later became a Lutheran. But Nelson, 41, has fallen away from religion in recent years. He says he’s grown alarmed by the rise of right-wing politicians whose […]

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