Tag: Ballot
Abolishing the “Ballot Line” Will Reshape Progressive Politics
With the eradication of the unconstitutional ballot design, New Jersey ushers in a new era of electoral politics.
In late February, Andy Kim, a Democratic congressman representing a suburban New Jersey district, made national headlines when he sued 19 of New Jersey’s county clerks. Kim is currently running in the Democratic
Will a Florida Ballot Measure to Protect Abortion Shake Up the State’s Politics This November?
The Colorado Court’s Ruling Banning Trump From the Ballot Is Sharp as Hell
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December 20, 2023
While the ruling will be overturned by the Supreme Court, the conservative justices will have to tie themselves into a knot to do it.
A protester stands outside Trump Tower in Manhattan demanding that state governments disqualify former president Trump from appearing on ballots in 2024 under the 14th Amendment.
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On Tuesday, the Colorado State Supreme Court ruled, by a vote of 4-3, that Donald Trump
Ohio Voters Reject Ballot Measure to Raise Threshold Needed to Amend Constitution
Special-interest groups committed millions of dollars to defeat the measure, to ensure that it would remain easier to push their agenda via ballot amendment.
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The Abortion Backlash Reaches Ohio
Officially, abortion had nothing to do with the constitutional amendment that Ohio voters rejected today. The word appeared nowhere on the ballot, and no abortion laws will change as a result of the outcome.
Practically and politically, however, the defeat of the ballot initiative known as Issue 1 was all about abortion, giving reproductive-rights advocates the latest in a series of victories in the year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Fearing the passage of an abortion-rights
Ohio ballot initiative to make it more difficult to amend state constitution fails
An Ohio ballot initiative to make it harder to amend the state constitution, a change conservatives said was needed to protect the state from a radical liberal agenda, has failed to pass in a lopsided vote.
Voters overwhelmingly rejected State Issue 1 by a large margin on Tuesday, meaning the threshold for future ballot measures to pass will remain at 50% rather than the 60% the initiative would have required had it passed.
The race was called by the Associated
In These 6 States, Abortion Rights Are Literally on the Ballot
Meet the New Members of This Year’s Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot
The Baseball Hall of Fame unveiled the new writers’ ballot on Monday, and complicated only begins to describe it. This is the final appearance for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling, and the first for David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez. Each has a long history of boldface headlines, for reasons on and off the field.
Eleven others are making their debut on the ballot, and it’s a decorated group: three Most Valuable Player Award winners (Ryan Howard, Justin Morneau,
Mail In Ballot: Kalifornien macht Universal Mail-Abstimmung dauerhaft, nachdem es als Pandemie-Reaktion angenommen wurde
Ein Mann überprüft Stimmzettel auf Unterschriften, bevor sie am 14. (Fred Greaves/Reuters)
Der kalifornische Gouverneur Gavin Newsom hat am Montag ein Gesetz unterzeichnet, das eine Pandemiemaßnahme dauerhaft macht, die es dem Staat ermöglicht, jedem registrierten, aktiven Wähler einen Stimmzettel zuzusenden.
„Letztes Jahr haben wir beispiellose Schritte unternommen, um sicherzustellen, dass alle Wähler während der Pandemie die Möglichkeit hatten, ihre Stimme abzugeben, und heute machen wir diese Maßnahmen nach der rekordverdächtigen Teilnahme an den Präsidentschaftswahlen 2020 dauerhaft“, sagte Newsom in einer