State News
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Representative Abe Hamadeh Proposes Bill to Halt Funding to States that Print Federal Ballots in Other Languages
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Representative Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ-08) recently introduced The VOTE Act — Voting Only Through English — in Congress, which would halt funding to states for federal elections that print ballots in additional languages besides English. Voters who don’t understand English can call official election hotlines for language assistance, so the multilingual ballots are not necessary. Hamadeh…
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Pennsylvania Can’t Reject Misdated or Undated Ballot Envelopes, Court Rules
A federal judge has ruled that Pennsylvania’s requirement for voters to date the outer envelope of their mail-in ballots is unconstitutional. In a March 31 decision, Judge Susan Paradise Baxter of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania sided with a group of Democratic organizations and an Erie County voter who challenged…
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Arizona Left-Leaning Officials Who Supported H.R. 1 Denounce Trump’s Executive Order on Election Integrity as Attempt to ‘Federalize Elections’
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President Donald Trump issued an executive order this week stating that his administration will take steps to ensure election integrity, sparking objections from Democrats, including some Arizona officials. Secretary of State Adrian Fontes objected to the order, claiming it would “federalize elections,” with others making similar claims. However, Democrats supported H.R. 1, a radical bill…
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Public Records Reveal Extent of Previous Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s Collusion with County Supervisors on Elections Power Grab
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Two grassroots organizations in Arizona that investigate election corruption examined recent public records from the Maricopa County Recorder and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors (MCBOS) in an attempt to get to the bottom of a Shared Services Agreement (SSA) the previous recorder, Stephen Richer made with the MCBOS in October turning over control of…
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Supreme Court Grapples With Louisiana Voting Rights Act Case
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The Supreme Court on March 24 grappled with a much-litigated racial gerrymandering case from Louisiana involving two consolidated cases: Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais. Gerrymandering refers to the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to benefit a particular party or constituency. The case came after the Supreme Court in June 2023 struck down on…
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Judge Rules Shasta County Voter ID Initiative Must Move Forward
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Shasta County Supervisors held a special closed session meeting Friday morning to discuss a new plan after a judge denied their request for a preliminary injunction against a group of citizens to introduce a voter ID initiative on the 2026 ballot. A group of citizens in the county drafted a ballot initiative intending to amend…
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NYC’s Noncitizen Voting Law Nullified by State’s High Court
Noncitizen voting is unconstitutional in New York, the state’s high court ruled on March 20, striking down a New York City law that permitted noncitizens to vote in municipal elections. The New York Court of Appeals held in its 6–1 decision that the text of the New York Constitution “is facially clear that only citizens…
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California Elected Officials Support Voter ID Initiative
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A group of Californians is organizing to collect 1 million signatures in the 2026 election to qualify for a statewide constitutional amendment to pass an initiative to require voters to present identification documents in elections in the state. The coalition includes elected officials at the local, state, and federal levels, as well as campaign committees.…
