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As this column is being written, the U.S. House is again expected to pass, along party lines, a $1.9 trillion Corona Virus Stimulus and Aid package, which will hopefully mean

Last month, state lawmakers on the Florida Senate Ethics and Elections Committee voted in favor of a Republican bill that would erode the states practices for vote-by-mail. Currently, Florida voters who request mail-in ballots continue to receive them for two general election cycles — meaning anyone who requested one in 2020 would continue to be mailed a ballot until 2022. But under the proposed Senate Bill 90, which has not yet been passed by the full senate, requests for mail-in ballots w...

Alabama House debates bill to allow no-excuse absentee voting An Alabama House committee debated a bill that would allow you to vote absentee without having to provide an excuse. (Source: WSFA 12 News) By Lydia Nusbaum and WSFA Staff | February 24, 2021 at 9:36 PM CST - Updated February 25 at 2:51 PM MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - On Wednesday, an Alabama House committee debated a bill that would allow you to vote absentee without having to provide an excuse. Right now, to vote absentee bef...

Alabama House debates bill to allow no-excuse absentee voting House debates bill to allow no-excuse absentee voting By Lydia Nusbaum and WSFA Staff | February 24, 2021 at 9:36 PM CST - Updated February 25 at 2:51 PM MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - On Wednesday, an Alabama House committee debated a bill that would allow you to vote absentee without having to provide an excuse. Right now, to vote absentee before Election Day, Alabamians must have an excuse to do so. For example, being out of tow...

BOISE — A proposed law making it a felony in Idaho for a third party to collect and return multiple ballots to election officials headed to the full House on

There is of course a tendency, for an individual or political party in a position of power to want to try and hang on to that power. What may be more important to remember, as we live in a democratic republic, is that the real power is in the hands of voters and our citizenry ... if they actually make USE of that power. After losing Congress to the GOP during the mid-term election of 1994, Democratic President Bill Clinton reached out to new Speaker Newt Gringrich (R-GA), to craft several piece...

On my first trips to Latin America nearing 15 years ago, I always made a point of visiting capital cities and whenever possible, their seat of government and occasionally the residence of their president or prime minister. I was often saddened on these tours to see many of those government buildings, and almost always the president’s residence surrounded by high walls, tall iron fencing, and typically concertina razor wire on top. It saddened me that these republics were faced with such in...

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a Democratic bid to force universal vote-by-mail in Texas, leaving intact a state law that lets people cast no-excuse absentee ballots only if they are 65 or older. The Texas Democratic Party and its allies argued unsuccessfully that the law violates the Constitution’s 26th Amendment, which says the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of age.” Voting by mail became a sharply partisan issue amid Pres...

Hard to believe that by the afternoon after the historic win of not one, but two U.S. Senate seats, shifting the Senate majority from Republican to a tie with the

The entire construct of Election Day needs to change on our side of the aisle from GOTV (get out the vote) to home delivery.