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Coffee is for closers. So is Sunburn, your morning rundown of Florida politics.

A Floridian who cast a mail-in ballot in November's election was more likely to have it counted than in the past.

Introduction Some voting laws working their way through the Georgia legislature could make it harder for local officials to cut down on long lines at the polls, according to an analysis from the Center For Public Integrity and Georgia Public Broadcasting News. GPB’s Stephen Fowler reports. (Courtesy Georgia Public Broadcasting) Stephanie Lopez-Burgos stood in line about 35 minutes when she went to vote early in Georgia’s Senate runoff election and felt lucky it wasn’t longer. She saw soci...

and last updated 2021-03-02 19:20:43-05 The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving two Arizona voting laws. The ultimate decision may impact how courts decide election law disputes in other states. The court will decide if disqualifying a ballot of someone who votes in the wrong precinct or making it illegal to ballot harvest is unconstitutional. Ballot harvesting is when a person collects ballots that are not from family members or roommates and either mails them o...

The bills represent latest front in the partisan battles in states as Republican lawmakers race to pass new laws restricting voting access.

Wisconsin Republicans have proposed a host of changes to absentee voting following last year's election, but they'll face a veto threat from the governor

PHOENIX —  The national battle over voting restrictions was, for one sluggish February afternoon, waged in a cramped hearing room of Arizona’s House of Representatives. Separated by plexiglass barriers, Republican lawmakers steadily plowed ahead on bills that, put together, could make it harder for Arizonans to vote. Members of a House committee advanced a proposal to forbid the use of private money to help conduct elections, such as by buying equipment or funding voter education. They ap...

After ex-President Trump's baseless claims of voting fraud, Republican lawmakers across the U.S. push to change election rules. Arizona leads the way.

After ex-President Trump's baseless claims of voting fraud, Republican lawmakers across the U.S. push to change election rules. Arizona leads the way.

This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. The article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. After a relatively slow start, it’s open season for voting law changes in the Georgia state legislature. Lawmakers have been holding near-daily hearings on voting proposals over the past week, as Republicans follow up on months of promises to change election law based on s...