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Showing posts with label ballot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ballot. Show all posts
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots
A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots…
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Michigan's November 2026 ballot is official, and includes two questions for all voters
Proposal 1 is a question on whether to convene a new state constitutional convention. .
Proposal 2 asks whether to limit political donations from some utilities and large government contractors. The measure survived a last-ditch challenge to keep it off the ballot at the Michigan Supreme Court this week...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
DTE-funded group sues Ann Arbor after it approves November ballot question for city-owned utility
A citizens group called Ann Arbor for Public Power (A2P2) wants voters in November to say yes to a charter amendment that would establish a Municipal Electric Utility Board, in order to eventually separate the city from its electric power supplier, DTE Energy, and create a city-owned electric utility.
The lawsuit claims there were not enough valid signatures on the petitions submitted by A2P2, and that Beaudry wrongly allowed the group to submit supplemental petition sheets after her initial canvas...
Saturday, May 9, 2026
Friday, November 1, 2024
The Catholic Church Is Spending Big to Defeat Abortion Rights Ballot Measures – Mother Jones
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, every state-level campaign to limit abortion has failed. But that hasn't stopped Catholic organizations from stepping into the fight again this election year.
Catholic organizations are bankrolling campaigns against abortion-rights measures, spending more than $1.9 million so far in five of the 10 states where such measures are on the ballot, according to a joint investigation by National Catholic Reporter and Mother Jones...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy asks Supreme Court for New York ballot reinstatement
So he's fighting to be ON the ballot in New York, and OFF the ballot in Michigan…?
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Montana becomes eighth state to put measure protecting abortion on ballot
Voters will be asked whether to protect abortion in state constitution after Republicans fail to block initiative…
Monday, August 19, 2024
Ohio Republicans approve misleading ballot language to favor gerrymandering
At issue is how to describe a proposal that would create a 15-person citizen commission to draw congressional and state legislative districts in Ohio. The commission – five Democrats, five Republicans and five independents – would be prohibited from drawing districts that "that favor one political party and disfavor others".
But the language approved on Friday by the Republican-controlled Ohio ballot board misrepresents the proposal – instead leading voters to think they have less power in the process. It says the commissioners would be "required to gerrymander the boundaries of state legislative and congressional districts to favor the two largest political parties in the state of Ohio"...
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Exclusive: CNN survey finds 48 states say Harris can get on ballot instead of Biden, rejecting claim switch breaks state laws | CNN Politics
In general, they explained that they receive the names of a major party's presidential nominee after the nominee is officially chosen by the party; that the Democratic convention has not been held yet (it's scheduled for in-person events on August 19-22, with an official nomination vote to be held virtually earlier in the month); and that their state's deadline for receiving the party nominees' names has not arrived yet…
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Republicans say they’ll sue to keep Biden on the ballot - Vox
Speaker Mike Johnson's threat to challenge Vice President Harris's nomination in court should be frivolous. But who knows with this Supreme Court?…
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Arkansas election officials reject petitions submitted to put abortion rights on 2024 ballot | PBS News
The secretary of state's office rejected the petitions submitted on Friday by supporters of the proposal, saying the group didn't submit statements required regarding paid signature gatherers…
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Michigan Bureau of Elections throw candidates off ballot for fraudulent petitions
The Michigan Bureau of Elections has made a significant move, removing eight United States House candidates and one United States Senate candidate from the ballot, which could potentially reshape the political landscape.
Friday, May 24, 2024
To Ensure Biden Is on Ohio Ballot, Governor Calls Special Legislative Session - The New York Times
The General Assembly had adjourned earlier this week without a solution for a procedural issue that threatened to keep President Biden off the fall ballot…
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Supreme Court sends alarming message beneath the surface of unanimous Trump ballot ruling
Sherrilyn Ifill, endowed chair in civil rights at Howard University, talks with Alex Wagner about the message being sent by the four women on the Supreme Court in the Donald Trump 14th Amendment ballot disqualification ruling, and why the ruling was a thinly veiled power grab.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Takeaways from Supreme Court’s Trump ballot ruling - The Washington Post
States' efforts to disqualify former president Donald Trump from their primary ballots for "engaging in insurrection" have come to an end, with the Supreme Court ruling that states cannot enforce the 14th Amendment for federal candidates...
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Justice Alito's 'mob-like threat' during Trump hearing singled out by legal experts - Raw Story
"It's a threat that if a majority of the court allows Colorado to remove Trump from the ballot, justices like Alito are going to come out swinging for the frivolous, ridiculous cases that follow—which really should not be compared to this one, since it's very much rooted in the Constitution," he explained. "It's a threat that red states will try to retaliate, that Ron DeSantis will remove Joe Biden from the ballot because he's a traitor or a Chinese spy or whatever other reason, just fill in the blank. And Sam Alito will be ready to let it happen."…
Friday, February 9, 2024
4 key takeaways from Supreme Court arguments in Trump’s ballot case - The Washington Post
A skeptical U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday in a momentous case that is expected to determine whether Donald Trump can continue his run for president...
The Supreme Court sure sounds eager to put Trump back on the ballot, in Trump v. Anderson - Vox
Trump's Supreme Court lawyer was a disaster, and it won't matter one bit...
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