Alabama Gov. Signs Law To Prohibit Ballot Application Trafficking | #elections | #alabama
Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation on Wednesday to prohibit the trafficking of absentee ballot applications in Alabama elections. “Here in Alabama, we are committed to ensuring our elections are free and fair,” Ivey said in a statement. “Under my watch, there will be no funny business in Alabama elections.” As my colleague Brianna Lyman […]
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Arkansas Gears Up for Difficult Abortion Amendment Campaign
Wednesday marked the beginning of a campaign for what promises to be one of the country’s most hard-fought abortion rights battles. Arkansas’s Republican attorney general, Tim Griffin, has certified a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment on abortion that could appear on the November ballot. His decision gives the organizers, Arkansans for Limited Government, the go-ahead to begin […]
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Democrats, Republicans work to rig 2024 US congressional election through gerrymandering | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Across the United States the Republican and Democratic parties are attempting to shape the outcome of the 2024 election by disenfranchising voters who might support the other party. They are working through state legislatures and the courts to draw congressional districts that will guarantee the most seats for their parties. Since congressional districts are required […]
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State Election Officials Have Their January 6th Moment | #elections | #alabama
Few voters used to pay much attention to the fragile architecture behind planning and running elections. Complex details like counting ballots happens out of view except for during political shocks like the election of 2000, when mispunched ballots landed the impossibly close presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore before the Supreme Court. […]
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Texas Republicans to Cities: Drop Dead. | #elections | #alabama
As the dividing lines in the Civil War of 1861 separated North from South, so the dividing lines in our current civil war—the ones where the conflicts are fiercest—separate red states from their blue cities. You have Tennessee against Nashville; Alabama against Birmingham; Kentucky against Louisville; Florida against Tampa; Indiana against Indianapolis; Texas against Austin, […]
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Here are the 50 legislatures ranked from most to least conservative | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A new report from the Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA) has ranked all 50 states from most to least conservative, with Alabama leading as the top conservative state in the U.S. and Massachusetts as the least conservative. The rankings from CLA, a project of the Conservative Political Action Committee and the American Conservative Union, are […]
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The Supreme Court Is Vulnerable on Abortion | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to Supreme Court reform, such as adding new justices, stripping its jurisdiction from certain laws, or abolishing judicial review entirely (as I argued here), is its relative legitimacy. Most Americans are taught in school that the Court is a key part of the American political system, and it has hitherto escaped […]
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Election Laws in Red and Blue States are Changing. Here’s How | #elections | #alabama
For the past few years, Republican-led states have been ramping up their efforts to make it harder to vote and make it easier for political partisans to interfere with election results. The movement has been fueled by false claims about voter fraud that have been stoked by former President Donald Trump and his supporters. But […]
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