Willie Nelson led more than a thousand spectators in singing "vote them out" Saturday from the steps of the Texas Capitol during a rally in support of Democratic state legislators who bolted for Washington. Jul 31, 2021 Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Arrested During Voting Rights Protest In...
A Battleground County in a Battleground State: Firsthand Observations– January 8, 2025 Several years ago, in order to be closer to family, voting and elections expert Rhodes Cook and his wife moved several hundred miles northwestward from the Washington, D.C., suburbs to Grand Rapids, Michiga...
with a folded letter holding the results from the 1792 election in York County, Massachusetts, or what is now southern Maine, logging 40 votes for John Hancock as governor and 29 for Samuel Adams as lieutenant governor.
In Texas, mail-in ballots are generally restricted to voters who are 65 or older, disabled or will be outside the county on Election Day. In a press conference Thursday, Hollins said he felt “confident” the judge would rule in his office's favor and that the office always operated unde...
Washington Pennsylvania Texas West Virginia Rhode Island Utah Wisconsin Wyoming Patient Voting In Action Patients voting from their hospital bed at Lenox Hill Hospital via Patient Voting partner organization Northwell Health Voting. Shared with patient permission. ...
The Supreme Court ruling marked a turning point in felony disenfranchisement laws. Despite the “tough on crime” trends of the 1990s, 25 states and Washington, D.C., “expanded eligibility [for voting], streamlined the restoration process [i.e., the process by which to regain the right to...
In 1965, this historic civil rights law prohibited discrimination against Black voters. Though it has since been gutted, calls are mounting to renew it.
Washington: All active, registered voters automatically receive ballot. Wisconsin Wyoming States that offer early voting for all but require an eligible reason for mail-in ballots Here are the states that have early in-person voting but require an eligible reason to vote by mail. ...
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With the caveat that we still know very, very little about Pennsylvania, let's zoom in on one county: Washington County, which is in the pro-Trump western part of the state. Trump wanted to drive more votes out of it; Biden wanted to cut his losses. One smart PA Dem strategist told...