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Democrats and Republicans are battling over voting rights in Congress and at statehouses. Which side will win? Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY House votes to pass Equality Act Replay Video UP NEXT WASHINGTON – As Republican state lawmakers across the country propose measures that would limit access to voting, Congressional Democrats are pushing sweeping legislation to expand voter access, setting up a national battle over voting rights ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. ...

PolitiFacts ruling: Mostly False Heres why: Former President Donald Trump said that Democrats are racing to pass a bill that would destroy the integrity of elections and automatically register poor people to vote. In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Trump reeled off multiple objections to H.R. 1, including that it "automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote." Trump’s statement is misleading. The Democrats’ bill to expand voting rights wou...

Legislators Battle Whether to Restrict or Expand Voting In the aftermath of the 2020 election, voting rights are on the minds of legislators who have introduced hundreds of bills that either restrict or expand how voters can cast their ballots. Carl Smith, Senior Staff Writer   |   March 3, 2021   |  Analysis The mechanics of election administration became a national obsession in 2020. Whether from pre- and post-election disinformation abou...

Donald Trump may be spending his post-presidency golfing at Mar-a -Lago but he remains front and center in the hearts and minds of millions of Republican voters, as evidenced by the 46% who said in a new Suffolk University/ USA Today poll released over the weekend that they would join a Trump Party if he decided to split off from the GOP. A whopping 80% of Republican respondents said they support punishing any Republicans in Congress who voted for Trump’s impeachment. He is still their Dear ...

Is Iowa’s 2021 Voter Suppression Bill The Worst Yet? DES MOINES, IA - NOVEMBER 06: The State Capital of Iowa reflects the sunset on November 6, 2018 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo by David Greedy/Getty Images) February 19, 2021 12:12 p.m. The 2020 election cycle saw historic voter turnout, netting President Joe Biden the most votes ever won by a U.S. presidential candidate. Now, Republican-run state legislatures are doing what they d...

Pennsylvania G.O.P.’s Push for More Power Over Judiciary Raises Alarms After fighting the election results, state Republicans are trying to increase their control of the courts. Outraged Democrats and good government groups see it as a new kind of gerrymandering. The Pennsylvania Capitol building, which houses chambers for the State Supreme Court. Under a Republican proposal, the legislative branch would have more control over the courts. Credit...Hilary Swift for The New York Times Feb. 15,...

The panel tasked with redrawing the political boundaries for Californias legislative Assembly and Senate districts, as well as the states 53 congressional House seats, based on the 2020 census is revving up its work as it strives to send the final maps to the secretary of state in time for next years elections. It is expected the Golden State will lose at least one congressional district when the census bureau releases the results from the decennial tally of the countrys population this summer....

bkibler@altoonamirror.com If election officials in Pennsylvania counties had enough time to precanvass ballots before Election Day, it would have precluded the agonizing shift in the presidential results over the next several days. Those shifts contributed to the controversy that culminated in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, according to information presented by an official in a conservative county who testified Thursday in a House committee hearing that included state Rep. Lou Schmitt, R-Altoona. ...

Major parties banked a record amount of taxpayer funding in 2019-20 including $2.4m in grants from the finance department and at least $300,000 in jobkeeper payments and the cashflow boost tax concession, according to their financial disclosures. 

1:40 This year, Wisconsin along with all the other states will re-draw voting district lines to redistribute political power. With Wisconsin’s current mapping system, whichever party controls the legislatures draws the maps, usually to favor their own party. This is what’s referred to as gerrymandering. Governor Evers created the People’s Map Commission to help draw district lines that don’t favor one political party over the other. To figure out the best, most fair way to redraw lines,...