In quest to change voting rules, Republicans push ballot measures in key battleground states

And in Arizona, a so-called ballot referral moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature would upend the state’s widely used, no-excuse vote-by-mail system ... rid of red-light cameras ... Read More

Arizona judge smacks down right-wing group's bid to ban ballot drop boxes: report

A state judge in Arizona has rejected a lawsuit by a right-wing group seeking to remove the procedure for counties to install unstaffed ballot drop boxes, Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias ... Read More

Joe Biden faces legal hurdles to make the Ohio ballot. Here’s what state legislators said they’re doing about it.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Senate President Matt Huffman indicated Wednesday that Republican state lawmakers are unlikely to act to help President Joe Biden qualify for the ballot in Ohio, after ... Read More

DiZoglio clashes with legislators as push for audit-focused ballot initiative continues

The hearing put the committee created to vet all of the proposed 2024 ballot questions ... have long criticized the Legislature. Both branches are exempt from the state's public records law ... Read More

Mail-in ballot envelopes must have dates, Pennsylvania appeals court rules

But in Wednesday’s federal appeals court’s opinion, Judge Thomas Ambro wrote that under a state legislature passed ... before returning their ballot. Proponents of mail-in ballots argue ... Read More

Border state GOP pushes to defy White House, adopt TX-style immigration law

Conservatives in the Arizona legislature want to put a Texas-style anti-illegal immigration law on the ballot in November, after the state ... push by Arizona represents the latest push by red ... Read More

Another red state moves a step closer to enacting Texas-style anti-illegal immigration bill

Local police in Louisiana could soon be empowered to arrest persons suspected of being illegal immigrants under a bill moving through the state legislature ... been making moves to copy Texas ... Read More

Washington state takes a surprising turn to the right

Under state law, the measures will appear on the fall ballot unless the Legislature passes them. In a sign that the ballot questions are wildly popular, the Democratic-controlled Legislature ... Read More

Colorado Republicans push for multiple ballot initiatives targeting transgender people

"Although one party may be in a supermajority in the legislature you have another way to make laws which is to go ahead and file a ballot initiative with the Secretary of the State's office ... Read More

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By Lara Jakes Horses Run Loose Through Central London in Surreal Spectacle Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter how people think of Luton, a place long dogged by a ... Read More

‘Old-fashioned power grab’: Hearing over DiZoglio ballot to audit legislature gets heated

A battle over an initiative to expand the powers of the state ... back on criticism leveled against a proposed ballot question that would grant her office the authority to crack open the ... Read More

Alabama Legislature changed deadlines to get GOP candidates on ballot in 2020

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen ... on the ballot for the general election in November. Allen’s letter did not mention that in 2020, the Alabama Legislature passed a bill to accommodate ... Read More