But there are still a lot of outstanding races. Zach Montellaro03/06/2024, 12:55am ET We’ve got some notable down-ballot results to hold you over. Let’s start with Alabama's 2nd District — the court-created district to give Black Alabamans more voting power in the state — where...
there is a new and widening partisan gap in approval of mail-in andabsentee voting, largely driven by misinformation related to the perceived prevalence of voterfraudin theU.S. presidential election of 2020. Some political candidates asserted that elections could not be trusted because of the numb...
Early voting is the newest voting option in Michigan. In 2022, voters approved a constitutional amendment that gives Michigan residents the right to vote in person at early voting sites. Here's what you need to know about early voting: When does early voting start and end in Michigan? Early...
Trump has said false claims about immigrants voting in 2014, in 2016 as a presidential candidate, and again in 2020 after his reelection loss. Sign up for PolitiFact texts There is nothing new about this claim in 2024. Our search for evidence turned up sporadic cases of nonci...
However, there are limitations on First Amendment rights. For example, the First Amendment does not protect journalists if they deliberately publish false information with the intent to damage someone’s career or reputation. If the government reduces the freedom of the news media to report or if...
America PAC said that as of Tuesday it had awarded four prizes of $1 million each to people who signed a petition supporting First Amendment and Second Amendment rights. So far, three winners have been Pennsylvania residents and one from North Carolina. The giveawa...
In 1870,Republicanspushed through the15th Amendmentto letformer slaves vote. In 1920, the 19th Amendment letwomenvote. President Nixonstated March 24, 1970: "In other areas, too, there were long struggles to eliminate discrimination ...Property and even religious qualificat...
which functions as the supreme law of the U.S. It forbids the prevention of citizens from voting due to the non-payment of poll tax. The 24th Amendment is particularly tied to the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, collectively known as theReconstructionAmendments, since its origin can be attri...
only to find out you have to vote in person in 2024 because your state got rid of no-excuse absentee voting. You then learn the local polling place has closed, and your new polling station is farther away. Then, when you get there, after waiting in line for an hour, you ...
There’s an added obstacle to passing protections in reliably Republican Florida: Supporters of the amendment must get at least 60% of the vote. Passing it there and rolling back a 6-week ban that took effect in May would be a blow toGov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican with a national prof...