New Mexico Senate Passes Bill Banning Guns Near Polling Places
The New Mexico Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban guns near polling places and drop boxes.
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The New Mexico Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban guns near polling places and drop boxes.
The Kentucky Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to ban university-issued photo IDs as an acceptable form of identification for voting, a move that has drawn scrutiny from the Kentucky secretary of state.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vetoed state legislative maps that were hastily passed and jammed through by Republicans who nefariously altered a proposal by the governor to protect GOP incumbents.
The Georgia Senate recently confirmed a new member to the board that oversees elections in the Peach State. But the appointment of Rick Jeffares, a former Republican state senator, to the State Election Board is courting controversy because of his history of allegedly promoting conspiracy theories related to the 2020 election.
The Arizona Republican Party has elected Gina Swoboda to be the party’s next chairperson following the abrupt resignation of Jeff DeWit, who found himself ensnared in a bribery scandal with election-denier and current U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake last week.
Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation to create new state legislative maps, advancing a hastily passed Senate bill that nefariously amends maps originally proposed by Gov. Tony Evers (D).
In a last-ditch “stunt,” Wisconsin Senate Republicans introduced and passed an amended bill, all within under two hours, that would redraw the state’s legislative maps in order to protect Republican incumbents.
Yesterday evening, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a bill creating a new congressional map for the state featuring two majority-Black districts, ending a nearly two year saga over adequate Black representation in the Pelican State.
The Louisiana Senate, in a 27-11 vote, overwhelmingly advanced a proposed congressional map that would create an additional majority-Black after being ordered to do so by a court order.
A Republican-led effort to drastically shorten Virginia’s early voting period was stopped in its tracks yesterday after a Democrat-controlled Senate committee voted to strike down the restrictive proposal.