The pandemic power struggle that’s raged for a year between Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor and its Republican-led Legislature will land on voters’.
Group wants changes to North Dakota s initiative process
JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) A group submitted a proposed ballot measure Tuesday that aims to raise the approval threshold for changing the North Dakota Constitution through the state’s citizen-initiative process.
The citizen-led Protect North Dakota’s Constitution wants to change voter approval of constitutional amendments from a simple majority to 60%. The petition, submitted to Secretary of State Al Jaeger following a press conference at the state Capitol, also seeks to limit ballot measures to a single issue.
Retired Maj. Gen. Michael Haugen, a previous adjutant general of the North Dakota National Guard and former member of the state Board of Higher Education, is co-chairman of the group.
How a Very Weird Quirk Might Let Michigan Republicans Limit Voting Rights
State Republicans are pushing a voting law that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has said she will veto. But a rarely used option for a voter-driven petition could allow the G.O.P. to circumvent her veto.
Proposed voting changes in Michigan would particularly target Detroit, the state’s largest city, which has a majority-Black population.Credit.Brittany Greeson for The New York Times
April 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
At first glance, the partisan battle over voting rights in Michigan appears similar to that of many other states: The Republican-led Legislature, spurred by former President Donald J. Trump’s lies about election fraud, has introduced a rash of proposals to restrict voting access, angering Democrats, who are fighting back.
By Mark Scolforo | Associated Press
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A pandemic power struggle that has raged for a year between Pennsylvania s Democratic governor and its Republican-led Legislature will land on voters laps next month in the form of two proposed constitutional amendments that could limit the length of disaster emergencies.
There are four statewide ballot questions being decided during the May 18 primary. The others would put anti-discrimination language into the state constitution and give paid fire and rescue departments the same borrowing power that volunteer departments have had for decades.
Republicans wasted little time getting the disaster emergency questions onto the ballot after losing a court ruling in July over a similar resolution that would have ended Gov. Tom Wolf s disaster declaration. Constitutional amendments must pass both chambers in two consecutive, two-year sessions but do not require the governor s backing