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The Justice Department is investigating after the Yuba County Elections Office north of Sacramento received an envelope with white powder testing positive for fentanyl. Pro-democracy groups are calling out the latest attack on our election system and looking for ways to defuse the situation. Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director of California Common Cause, said while no one was hurt, the attempt to poison or kill an election worker is despicable. ...

Lawmakers in Massachusetts are considering a resolution to convene a Convention of States, a process voting rights groups said could put civil liberties at risk. Congress is required to hold a convention under Article V of the Constitution if two-thirds of state legislatures call for one. Geoff Foster, executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, said there are no rules in the Constitution for how to govern a convention and no guarantee, even the First Amendment, would be safe. ...

Biden’s Justice Department is too “worried about political blowback” to protect election workers, says Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes.

Biden’s Justice Department is too “worried about political blowback” to protect election workers, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes tells Rolling Stone

Instagram and Facebook unveiled further limits on what teens can see on the apps, a move their parent company Meta says will reduce the amount of potentially harmful content young people encounter.

Instagram and Facebook unveiled further limits on what teens can see on the apps, a move their parent company Meta says will reduce the amount of potentially harmful content young people encounter.

Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after facing blowback from angry election deniers

Not MAGA enough: 2020 election skeptic quit his job after facing blowback from angry election deniers

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Idahoans are collecting signatures for an initiative that would open up primary elections, and the measure has support from some of the states military Veterans. The group Veterans for Idaho Voters is backing the effort to do away with closed party primaries - so that candidates of every affiliation would be on a single primary ballot, and voters wouldnt have to declare a party affiliation to participate. Co-founder of the Veterans group, Todd Achilles, said the current system stops many vet...