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Louisianans may finally get new legislative and congressional maps this summer under two court orders that lay out a timeline for when compliant maps must be in place.
It’s now easier for any Georgia resident to challenge another resident’s eligibility due to a new law signed today by Gov. Brian Kemp (R).
Currently, in Pennsylvania, the election officials can’t start counting absentee and mail-in ballots until 7 a.m. on Election Day.
Voters in Louisiana will have a new Supreme Court map for the first time in over two decades after Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a new map into law last night that creates two majority-Black districts.
Trial begins Monday in a federal case that will determine whether North Carolina’s law requiring voters to show photo IDs violates the Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.
Voters in Louisiana could soon have a new Supreme Court map for the first time in over two decades if Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signs a bill passed by the Legislature that would create two majority-Black districts.
A Nebraska bill that restores voting rights to people with felony convictions after they’ve completed their sentence has become law in the state, but without the governor’s signature.
In a joint press conference at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced that Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are introducing new voter suppression legislation that would require all people who wish to vote submit proof of their citizenship.
Justices and judges in Arizona are currently subject to term limits, but a new amendment resolution proposed by state Republicans could allow for all members of the judiciary to serve lifetime terms.
Nebraska’s legislators voted down a bill on Wednesday that would have changed how the state allocates its Electoral College votes — a move that, if it had passed, could have thrown the 2024 presidential election into chaos.