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If we have to do a small carveout on filibuster for voting rights, thats the only area i would allow that kind of reform. >> joining us now is sean morales doyle at the brennan center. welcome. >> thanks for having me. good to be here. >> what do you see in the run up in the bills that stand out to you? motivated by allegations by voter fraud described as false and often racist? >> yeah, i mean, we track these laws every year. we have been tracking them for over a decade and this, as you said, i...

Fraud and its interesting to look at the baseline in the mid-60s when the voting rights act was passed and what was the voting environment then that it was intending to preserve the fairness and he said back then, very few people voted by mail. so the extent that states opened up their mail voting at all and impose some restrictions on it doesnt necessarily mean its restrictive. the dissenters were bitter. justice kagan said this was a huge blow to the voting rights act and a real step back in w...

A Republican senator from Lancaster County said he hopes his proposal to suspend Pennsylvania’s no-excuse mail voting law is not enacted by the Legislature.

Twenty-seven hundred Lancaster County voters who requested mail-in ballots for the May 18 primary election received a ballot packet that incorrectly informed them that they did not need to add postage to the return envelope.  The Lancaster County Board of Elections became aware of the error on Saturday, said Christa Miller, the board’s chief registrar. Unlike in the November 2020 election, Lancaster County voters are required to pay the postage to return their ballots in the mail.  V...

Twenty-seven hundred Lancaster County voters who requested mail-in ballots for the May 18 primary election received a ballot packet that incorrectly informed them that they did not need to add postage to the return envelope.  The Lancaster County Board of Elections became aware of the error on Saturday, said Christa Miller, the board’s chief registrar. Unlike in the November 2020 election, Lancaster County voters are required to pay the postage to return their ballots in the mail.  V...

70% of states offer mail and early voting, new report says By Adam Brewster What Georgias new voting law really does A new report examining voting access across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., finds that more than 70% of states offer all voters access to a mail ballot and early voting, while 15 others lag in the methods available to cast a ballot. The data from the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), provided first to CBS News, shows that 35 states,...

February 8, 2021 Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s the latest edition of the Working People Weekly List. Amazon Has ‘Disregard for Health and Safety of Its Own Employees:’ RWDSU President: "Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous and Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union president Stuart Appelbaum discuss Amazon’s upcoming vote to unionize workers in Alabama. First of all, Id say that a m...

State wide race is being affected for it to rise to the level that it currently has and get the scrutiny that it deserves. at the samees time, this is playing out in the democratic stronghold. you know have a controversy in north i florida, in bay county,a republican stronghold where the election supervisor there decided to allow email voting because youin had victims of hurricane michael, wanted to make it as easy as they possibly could for people to vote. the problem is that was not included i...

Just north of palm beach. so i get a flavor for whats going on down there in palm beach. im only 10 miles from the border. steve: right. >> our county was fine. always broward and palm beach where the democrats run the show. they better get their ability together. steve: thursday at 3:00. palm beach county, just south of you, has already said were not going to make it we have old equipment. as people look in, should they feel confident that the votes are being counted accurately? >> no. absolute...

Together 2,000 state republican legislators and said our goal is to reduce the progress i have vote be 10% in 20112. so they go after early voting, they go after mail voting, they go after student voting, after seniors, making it difficult for all progressive people to be able to vote. when they say this is about voter fraud, you say point out to us one example of voter fraud. they could. its all about suppressing the progressive vote. so it is a concerted activity. now theyre being more overt a...