Tag: Universal Suffrage

By walk­ing out, Demo­c­ra­t­ic state rep­re­sen­ta­tives are leav­ing the Texas State House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives with­out a con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly required quo­rum, which means that the House can­not con­duct any floor business.

By a vote of fifty to fifty, the Sen­ate failed to invoke clo­ture on S. 1. Demo­c­ra­t­ic sen­a­tors vowed to keep on fight­ing, while Mitch McConnell, speak­ing on behalf of him­self and his cau­cus, promised not to give an inch. 

Like pri­ma­ry sources? This roundup of anti-vot­er bills from Iowa, Geor­gia, Flori­da, and Texas con­tains the com­plete bill text of each bill Repub­li­cans have brought forth to dis­en­fran­chise mil­lions of their constituents. 

For­mer guber­na­to­r­i­al can­di­date Andrew Gillum has a new mis­sion: deny Don­ald Trump a sec­ond term by mak­ing sure Flori­da does­n’t vote for him again. 

Wash­ing­ton is one step clos­er to elim­i­nat­ing anoth­er bar­ri­er to vot­ing tonight thanks to the state Sen­ate’s approval of a bill that allows in-per­son vot­er reg­is­tra­tion until 8 PM on Elec­tion Night as well as mov­ing the dead­line for reg­is­ter­ing online or by mail much clos­er to the dead­line for return­ing ballots.

Repub­li­can Sec­re­tary of State Kim Wyman has sig­naled that her office will be sup­port­ive of efforts to elim­i­nate or low­er bar­ri­ers to vot­ing this ses­sion in Wash­ing­ton State this year, which will hope­ful­ly result in some bipar­ti­san coop­er­a­tion on the elec­tion reform front. 

Incum­bent Repub­li­can Sec­re­tary of State Kim Wyman made it known this morn­ing that, if reelect­ed, she will be ask­ing the Leg­is­la­ture to enact leg­is­la­tion to at least par­tial­ly imple­ment the pri­­va­­cy-infring­ing fed­er­al “REAL ID” Act in order to “check for cit­i­zen­ship of peo­ple who want to reg­is­ter and vote in Wash­ing­ton”. “Our pack­age is reasonable; […]

Edi­tor’s Note: Tina Pod­lodows­ki is one of two final­ists for the posi­tion of Sec­re­tary of State. Today, her cam­paign pub­lished this open let­ter to Sno­homish Coun­ty elect­ed lead­ers, call­ing on them to take imme­di­ate action to pro­tect the right to vote. Request­ed actions include the place­ment of more drop box­es through­out the coun­ty. NPI strongly […]