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Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote, and would allow some 17-year-olds to vote in primaries, provided they turn 18 by the next general election. [22] Nov 5 >50% 1,150,332 77.13%: 341,034 22.87% Kentucky: Legislature: Passed Amendment 1 Prohibits state and local governments from allowing non-citizens to vote ...
John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New Jersey (NJVRA) of 2024: Based on the CTVRA, this proposed law was introduced in January 2024 to enhance voting protections for minority groups in New Jersey. [30] Maryland Voting Rights Act of 2024: Although it gained significant attention after its introduction in January 2024, this proposed bill did not ...
Voters across the country are set to decide on nearly 150 ballot measures next week that will shape the future of a wide variety of policy issues in their states.
A new law in New Hampshire requires anyone registering to vote for the first time to provide documentation they are U.S. citizens. Concerns about noncitizen voting drive sweeping new restrictions ...
Imagine you voted by mail in 2020, only to find out you have to vote in person in 2024 because your state got rid of no-excuse absentee voting. You then learn the local polling place has closed ...
One district contains the Omaha metro area, which can tend to lean Democrat (Obama won the district in 2008, as did Biden in 2020), while the other two are more rural and vote solid Republican. During 2024, some Nebraska Republicans sought to change the state's 1991 law that created its electoral college allocation system to winner-take-all and ...
A key provision of the act required that states with a history of disenfranchising black voters, namely those in the Jim Crow South, submit to the Department of Justice for "pre-clearance" any proposed changes to state voting laws. This provision was overturned by the Supreme Court in the case of Shelby County v. Holder (2013). [67]
On a special episode (first released on August 14, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: In response to former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen election in 2020, many state legislatures ...