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Texas bills to expand voting access could gain support - Votebeat
1 day ago · Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas’ free newsletter here. Republican lawmakers in Texas are signaling this year that they will continue pushing for restrictions on voting in the name of combating voter fraud, including ending countywide voting and requiring proof of citizenship to register.
As Arizona legislature convenes, House creates new elections …
20 hours ago · Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Arizona’s free newsletter here. Republicans in the Arizona House have created a new committee that will take a comprehensive look at how the state’s elections are run, another sign that the state’s …
The most important election issues for 2025, according to experts ...
4 days ago · Voters wait in line to vote in the 2024 election at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Maricopa County on Nov. 5, 2024. For election experts looking ahead at 2025, the debate over noncitizen voting safeguards is top of mind.
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Vote-swapping campaign for 2024 fell short of its aims - Votebeat
Dec 30, 2024 · Vote-swapping sites protected by First Amendment — for now. In 2000, websites like vote-swap2000.com, votexchange2000.com, and NaderTrader.com launched in response to an article by constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin (now a U.S. congressman from Maryland), proposing vote swapping as a way to prevent protest votes from costing Gore the election.
The Votebeat stories that made a mark on us in 2024
Dec 23, 2024 · Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. This news analysis was originally distributed in Votebeat’s free weekly newsletter. Sign up to get future editions, including the latest reporting from Votebeat bureaus and curated news ...
Early voting showed resilience of U.S. election system so far.
Nov 4, 2024 · Voters at a school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Nov. 3, 2024, the last day of early voting. The first big test for the election system included Michigan's new offering of early in-person voting.
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How Votebeat’s reporting impacted elections in our first year
May 26, 2023 · Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free newsletters here. After experimenting with a new kind of niche election coverage as a “pop-up” newsroom in 2020 — focused on the voting process and the system itself rather than candidates or campaigns — Votebeat officially launched one year ago as a ...