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The City of Boston Election Department today announced steps to increase accessibility of voting ahead of the November 2 general election.

Look at it and say isnt this better? an example of that is that it increases by one hour overall early voting hours during the week. so what they do is say, were actually trying to increase over all early voting hours but what theyre doing is, its a point shaving system. theyre taking away the mechanism for local communities to try to increase participation and doing things like saying to county registrars across the state, you cannot proactively send out mail-in ballots for people to fill out a...

Voting bill. democrats walking out of the state house, preventing passage of legislation that they say would restrict voting rights. kelly odonnell has the very latest. >> reporter: just minutes before a midnight deadline texas democrats headed for the exits. their walkout from the house floor derailed at least temporarily a controversial new voting law that would affect millions. >> we came together. we said enough is enough, the people of texas deserve better >> reporter: but now texas governo...

And enhanced criminal and civil penalties to the whole voting pro process. for example, it makes it a crime for a public official to send an unsolicited mail-in ballot application. it also prohibits overnight and sunday morning voting, which democrats pointed out could make it hard to do something like souls to the polls. it expands access for partisan poll watchers, stops drive-through voting and makes it easier to overturn election results by lessening the burden of proof for evidence of fraud...

>> reporter: yeah, and, you know, ive covered this across the country kind of going state by state as these bills have been introduced in more than a dozen states, passed into law. in texas we see some of those same elements. texas already has the most restrictive voting laws in the country and this would have just made it more restrictive by adding new requirements and adding criminal and civil penalties to the voting process here. like, for example, making it a crime for a public official to s...

Will sign it into law. but democrats tell me they still may have a few tricks up their sleeves so dont count them out just yet. the state of texas has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. this adds new restrictions and requirements, adds civil and criminal penalties to the voting process. it makes it a crime to send an unsolicited mail-in ballot application. it prohibits overnight and sunday morning voting, which some argue will make it difficult for projects like souls to th...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. House Republicans call for updates to voting process Rep. Jon Burns Friends, On Dec. 4, I joined more than 100 current and newly-elected members of the Georgia House of Representatives in submitting a letter to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (SOS) and the State Election Board (SEB). This letter sugges...

The mischaracterization or the mismatching of ones ballot application to the actual voter maintenance rolls was that he felt that stacey abrams, who was in charge of trying to galvanize voters before she was a candidate and trying to get people to vote, that it was her fault that there were mismatches in the long run. shes to blame why you had to have this purging at the last minute. its predictable, its incoherent not to actually have any proof at this point in time. and really, its just a tact...

According to the board. so thats not going to count. that makes it 0-3. how about the president himself? officials say donald trump filled out his ballot correctly, but if you look at his absentee ballot application, donald trump wrote his own birthday as july 4t 14th, which is weird because trumps birth certificate says he was born on june 14th, which means he was a month off on his ballot application about his own date of birth. its unclear if trumps incorrect ballot application will affect hi...

Ballot application, donald trump wrote his own birthday as july 14th, which is weird because trumps birth certificate says he was born on june 14th, which means he was a month off on his ballot application about his own date of birth. its unclear if trumps incorrect ballot application will affect his growth. >> this issue is very important to me because throughout the campaign and even after, people would come up to me and express their concerns about voter inconsistencies and irregularities whi...