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The bill comes as Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country seek to tighten voting laws.

This article is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. This article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. Pennsylvania Republicans unveiled their first proposal for overhauling the state’s election system Thursday, with lawmakers in the state House

Alleging, counter to actual data that your secretary of state has? >> thats right. you nailed it. the secretary of state said our election was safe, smooth and successful. no evidence of voter fraud. so republicans, i just ask them the same question that they claim to be concerned about in the house, government should only act when -- act narrowly when it sees a problem. especially when youre dealing with a fundamental right like the right to vote, every solution should be narrowly tailored so p...

Texas voting bill had potential, but GOP cheated Legislature out of a fair process Republicans’ Senate Bill 7 poisoned worthy reforms with problematic proposals. State Rep. Briscoe Cain, R - Deer Park, middle, and state Rep. Craig Goldman, R - Fort Worth, right, wait on the House floor for the start of the debate of Senate Bill 7, known as the Election Integrity Protection Act, at the Capitol on Sunday May 30, 2021, in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)(Jay Janner) 2...

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More than 20 Pennsylvania counties turned to private philanthropy when it became apparent the Republican-led General Assembly wasn’t going to help them cover COVID-related expenses.

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — As coronavirus cases rose and Pennsylvania counties were flooded with millions of mail ballot applications last fall, election directors

Ed lavandera, thank you for staying on top of it. the next guest, a texas state senator fighting against this bill. listen. >> we had next to no fraud, and thats been documented at the federal level and the state level. if anything, we should be building on that innovation, that made the 2020 election cycle so incredibly successful, but instead youre rewriting the election code. >> that is texas state democratic senator sarah eckhart who joins us now, your partys walkout killed the bill now, b...

Sweeping Texas elections bill passed along party lines after more than 7 hours of debate Lauren McGaughy, The Dallas Morning News © Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, sits at his desk on the second day of the 86th Texas legislature on Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at the Texas state Capitol, in Austin, Texas. Hughes is the author of a sweeping elections bill filed during the 2021 session. AUSTIN — The Texas Senate advanced a massive elections bill S...