This election will be highly unusual. Here’s what you need to know before voting.
By now, you’re already aware that this is the election of a lifetime and that voting is incredibly important. But knowing this doesn’t prevent feelings of fear, anxiety, and frankly exhaustion from overwhelming all your senses. So the real question becomes: How do we turn those feelings into action? Ahead, we’ve laid out a plan for you to do just that; to vote, to learn about the issues, and even to de-stress yourself.
Texas has vacillated between occasionally prying open a smidgen of expanded access to the ballot box and then constraining it. It’s a state with a long history of voter intimidation and suppression — recorded since at least 1902, when it enacted an annual poll tax, designed to discourage Mexican-Americans, African Americans and poor whites from […]
Conservative activist Steve Hotze and a number of Republican candidates and officials are asking the Texas Supreme Court to shorten the early voting period and limit drop-off locations for absentee ballots in the state’s largest Democratic county.
Texas ‘presents constitutional questions of immense national consequences,’ namely that the 2020 election suffered from serious constitutional errors.
President Joe Biden is declaring that preserving voting rights is “a test of our time” as he urges passage of federal legislation to combat efforts by Republican-led state legislatures to restrict access to ballots. Biden laid out what the White House called “the moral case” for voting rights in a speech in Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Democratic Texas state legislators took dramatic action to stymie their state’s latest effort in a nationwide Republican push to tighten ballot restrictions. They took flight to Washington to keep the Texas Legislature from a quorum that would allow legislative action.
Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke has gotten more voters under 30 who never voted before to already vote in Texas.
State officials have confirmed at least three reports of voting machines in two counties changing voters’ picks in Mississippi’s GOP gubernatorial primary runoff. Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves are currently in a runoff for the Republican nomination in the governor’s race to see who will take on…
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Two years of anticipation are coming to a head as Americans cast their votes in this year's consequential midterm elections. PEOPLE recaps everything you should know going into Tuesday
It’s a safe bet that few people who voted for Trump or Biden in 2020 will change their minds. What’s far more likely to decide the election is who turns out and who stays home.
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What the hell is going on in Texas?
In a brief order, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Houston on Friday agreed to hear arguments by a Republican state legislator and others that votes...
Here is a list of candidates on the 2020 Massachusetts primary ballot, with links to their websites, so you can easily learn more about them.
A U.S. judge is blocking the state of Texas from eliminating straight-ticket voting through the polls in November.
The Supreme Court frequently reiterates itself declaring the right to vote as a pure and clear statutory right but still many people believe that the right to vote is a constitutional right. It is necessary to note that although the right to vote is a statutory right, its value in maintaining democracy, which is a chief principle of our Basic structure, is magnificent thus this right needs to be well-protected.
In Harris County, the elected county clerk and tax assessor had always supervised of elections, and, under both Democrats and Republicans, there was a long history of delayed election results. But, i...
