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The White House WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve in national security positions. Frank Kendall, Nominee for Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Thomas A. Monheim, Nominee for Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Gina Ortiz Jones, Nominee for Under Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Meredith Berger, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environ...

For a long time, I believed voter disenfranchisement was something that happened to other people. People who couldnt leave work to stand in long lines. People who didnt have a car to get to the polls. People who did not have a state-issued ID. People who were too young or too old to navigate registration requirements. I dont fall into any of those categories. I have voted in every presidential election since I was 18 years old. I was even lucky enough to come of voting age during an election ye...

By Jordan Williams - 04/25/21 11:00 AM EDT   Democratic states are moving to expand the voting rights of felons as the GOP seeks to tighten voting rules following a spate of losses in the 2020 election. New York, Washington and Virginia have all recently taken legislative or executive action ensuring previously incarcerated men and women will have easier access to the ballot box. Advocates have argued that most people who are affected by felony disenfranchisement come from communities of ...

Carter-Baker Panel Discussions Focus on Bipartisan Solutions to Election Reform April 19, 2021 President Carter and Secretary Baker speak at events associated with the 2005 Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform. (Photo: Courtesy of American University by Jeff Watts) The Carter-Baker Commission: 16 Years Later April 7: “Electoral Reform and Ballot Access” A look at ways to make elections secure while also making them easily accessible to as many eligible voters as possible. Watc...

Issue One’s National Council on Election Integrity convenes bipartisan panel to discuss state proposals that would impact how Americans vote This week, Issue One and its National Council on Election Integrity [2] convened experts from across the political spectrum for an important discussion about how state voting proposals could impact how millions of Americans vote. Moderated by Issue One’s CEO and Founder Nick Penniman, panelists included Trey Grayson, a former Republican Secretary of ...

Eliza Sweren-Becker, who serves as counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, returns to “Closer Look” to discuss how Georgia lawmakers’ proposed voting restrictions could disproportionately hurt Black voters. Plus, Georgia Department of Labor Commissioner Mark Butler discusses his agency’s response during the pandemic, complaints about unemployment claims and Georgia lawmakers’ latest push to create a chief labor officer. Share

Election office aided push to oust judge over voting ruling JONATHAN MATTISE and KIMBERLEE KRUESI , Associated Press March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE — In this July 23, 2018, file photo, Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle presides over a court case in Nashville, Tenn. Almost every Tennessee House Republican says hearings should be held for the removal of Ellen Hobbs Lyle, who expanded absentee voting in the 2020 election due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sparki...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an X. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, Johnea Barlow casts her ballot at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, on Election Day in Louisville, Ky AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File Republican lawmakers in multiple key states are taking action to restrict voting.  But not all efforts, especially around voting by...

17/03/2021 a las 11:04am Democratic states and legislators are quietly working to bolster electoral access amid historic push to restrict voting Democratic states and legislators are quietly working to bolster electoral access amid historic push to restrict voting In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, Johnea Barlow casts her ballot at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, on Election Day in Louisville, Ky AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File Republican lawmakers in multiple key sta...

Fox News is repeatedly lying about H.R. 1 and S. 1, the For the People Act, which recently passed in the House of Representatives and now is before the Senate. Most of the falsehoods pushed by Fox are recycled from past right-wing voter suppression efforts, but challenges to the constitutionality of the bill are a new twist. However, the false claims that the For the People Act is unconstitutional because it asserts federal control over the states are an ahistorical “caricature of an argumen...