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GOP-led Minnesota Senate approves voter ID bill, but it's unlikely to become law Jeremiah Jacobsen © Provided by KARE-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul The Republican-led Minnesota Senate narrowly approved a voter identification bill on Monday, even though the proposal has little chance of gaining the support of the DFL majority in the Minnesota House of Representatives or Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. The measure passed on a vote of 34-32, with Independent Sen. David Tomassoni joining Senate Democrats in opposition to the bill. The proposed bill (SF173) would require Minnesota voters to ...

Nathan Howard/Getty Images Pallets filled with mail-in ballots for Washington and Oregon sit in a Portland, Ore., Postal Service processing and distribution center on Oct. 14, 2020. Numbers tell the story: Last year's election rules should be the new normal McDonald is an associate professor of political science at the University of Florida and runs the U.S. Elections Project, which maintained a comprehensive database on 2020 voting methods and turnout in every state. As the coronavirus pandemic raged across the country last year, several states worked diligently to make it e...

Election Integrity and the Threat of HR1, Natelson Weighs In I've been getting your emails and your phone calls into our statewide radio show, and the message is clear: Montanans want to focus on election security and election integrity, especially after the shenanigans we saw in the 2020 elections in parts of the country. Montanans are also very concerned about HR1, the proposed federal takeover of our elections in the wake of COVID-19. This bill is seen as an attempt to make permanent some of the shenanigans that occurred in the 2020 elections. What's the threat of HR 1 and what actions n...

New "America Goes to the Polls" Report Examines the Policy Trends that Made a Difference in Historic 2020 Election Turnout News provided by Share this article Share this article CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The new "America Goes to the Polls" report -- a joint effort between Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project -- pulls back the curtain on the record-breaking voter turnout of the 2020 Presidential election to examine the bigger story: the crucial differences in voting policies across states and their impact on each state's voter turnout. "There's no doubt that al...

The American people are demanding a commonsense framework for election reform that strengthens security without compromising integrity. H.R. 1 is focused on protecting House Democrats, not our sacred democratic principles.