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Americans who face barriers to voting due to their racial background, age or socio-economic status are also less likely to have health insurance
ILLUSTRATIONS BY NIL ULTRA Early in the morning of April 1, Texas state Senator Bryan Hughes, a Republican who represents a rural district in the northeast part of the state, posted a video to Twitter from the Capitol in Austin. His hair was unkempt. There were dark circles under his eyes. But he spoke with a confidence attributable as much to the fact that few were watching as to the significance of the announcement he was about to make. “It’s a little after 2:30 in the morning and the Texas Senate has just recessed,” he said. “The Senate passed Senate Bill 7, which is an omnibus ele...
The November 2020 election saw a record number of people vote in Tennessee. More than 3 million people voted in the state, a turnout of 68.6% of registered voters. Many of those voters took advantage of the stateâs early voting period or absentee voting. The state allowed individuals at risk of complications from COVID-19 to apply for an absentee ballot for the November election. And, special voting sites were set up for individuals who had COVID-19 on election day and had not voted early or absentee. But other states still saw more participation in this latest round of our democratic re...
“Our democracy is strongest when everyone is able to participate," Delegate Price said. Author: Adriana De Alba Updated: 4:36 PM EST January 15, 2021 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — It’s the first of its kind in the Commonwealth: the Voting Rights Act of Virginia. State Delegate Marcia Price (D-95), who represents parts of Newport News and Hampton introduced the legislation Tuesday. It’s a push to expand the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, with updates to protect people’s right to vote across Virginia. In an interview with 13News Now Friday, Price said the leg...
Investing money in the mummy with tom cruise than giving money to ossoff because they came up with nothing. in the midterm elections, democrats will be fighting in districts just as tough if not similar to this district where you have incumbent republican who's won in 2016, a presidential election by sometimes double digits and they're going to have to try to pick them off. i don't think that's going to happen. >> ron, quickly. >> john, your point about incumbents is right. there's an incumbent advantage. if you look at charlie cook, my colleague there, their voting index, there are 75 republi...