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The Telecoms Industry Spends $US230K a Day To Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks Share Photo: Justin Sullivan / Staff, Getty Images If broadband in the United States sucks, you can thank the telecoms industry, which is apparently so obsessed with maintaining our current crappy internet infrastructure that it spent a combined total of $US234 ($319) million lobbying against faster, cheaper competitors during the 116th Congress. According to a new study conducted jointly by Common Cause and the Commun...

Process because they hold majorities in more states with partisan redistricting prophecies are grappling with how to approach once reliably conservative suburbs that have more recently swung toward democrats. to balance out that suburban growth republicans will look to create districts where their candidates are heavy favorites even if it means drawing some safe democratic seats in the process. joining us now senior counsel at democracy program where he specializing in redistricting and voting l...

  New York, New York, June 30, 2021 — Carnegie Corporation of New York released its annual list of Great Immigrants today, honoring 34 individuals who have enriched and strengthened our society and our democracy through their contributions and actions. The philanthropic foundation invites Americans to celebrate these distinguished individuals by participating in its online public awareness campaign Great Immigrants, Great Americans, #GreatImmigrants. The Class of 2021 represents more than ...

As hope for federal voting rights rescue dims, state Democrats, advocates turn up the heat Jane C. Timm © Provided by NBC News The Texas Democrats who blocked a Republican-backed voting restrictions bill from becoming state law at the eleventh hour last month will head to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to lobby senators as part of a broader, last-ditch effort to rally support for a major voter rights bill. Nearly two dozen state Democrats plan to lobby senators in behalf of the F...

The attorney general’s commitment served notice to Republican-led states imposing new voting restrictions, and included a vow to protect the voting rights of people of color.

Hart InterCivic and Microsoft have formed a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft in Hart’s Verity voting...

President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris with the two biggest fights in his administration, immigration and now voting rights.

With majorities in many state legislatures, Republicans are drawing electoral maps to give them a boost in the 2022 midterms and beyond. Can Democrats in Washington stop them?

Date Time Hart and Microsoft announce partnership to make elections more secure, verifiable On Thursday, Hart InterCivic and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft into Hart’s Verity® voting systems. The partnership makes Hart the first major voting machine manufacturer in the United States to provide end-to-end verifiability to voters, giving individual voters the ability to confirm their ballots were counted in an election and n...

Microsoft wants to play a part in ensuring U.S. elections go smoothly. Its latest strategic partnership is a step forward for its democracy-minded initiative.