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Republicans are turning Biden’s voter registration order into a partisan flash point

5:00am June 30, 2024

by Hansi Lo Wang

Three years after President Biden issued an executive order for boosting voter registration, GOP officials are ramping up efforts to turn it into a partisan flash point before this fall’s election.

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A data tool being used to challenge voter registrations is raising many concerns

12:14pm June 20, 2024

by Grant Blankenship

There are concerns that a new election data system that's being pushed by conservative activists and is fueling many mass challenges of registrations could kick legitimate voters off the rolls.

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1 in 10 eligible U.S. voters say they can’t easily show proof of their citizenship

9:20pm June 11, 2024

by Hansi Lo Wang

An estimated 21.3 million adult U.S. citizens don't have or can't easily access documents proving their citizenship. The findings raise concerns about requiring proof when registering eligible voters.

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4 people are charged in a Connecticut city election misconduct case

5:03pm June 11, 2024

by NPR Washington Desk

Four people involved with a 2019 mayoral primary in Connecticut's largest city were charged for allegedly misusing absentee ballots. Similar accusations roiled the 2023 mayoral election as well.

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Republicans are targeting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day

12:07pm June 06, 2024

by Ashley Lopez

Many states, like crucial Nevada, allow mail ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted — even if they arrive after Election Day. Republicans say this violates federal law.

Missouri joins other red states in trying to stamp out ranked choice voting

10:00am June 05, 2024

by Jason Rosenbaum

Five states have banned ranked choice voting in the last two months, bringing the total number of Republican-leaning states now prohibiting the voting method to 10. Missouri could soon join them.

Poder Latinx canvasser Humberto Orjuela helps Andres Navarro register to vote in a Presidente Supermarket parking lot in Orlando on April 20. New restrictions in Florida have made voter registration work more difficult for Poder Latinx and other third-party groups.

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Groups that register voters are feeling besieged by new state laws

2:07pm May 16, 2024

New Republican-backed laws in several states add large fines or criminal penalties for minor mistakes in voter registration work. As groups pull back, they're reaching fewer voters.

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A "Vote Here Tuesday" sign is seen in Burlington, Vt., in 2020. In 2023, the city voted to allow non-U.S. citizens who are in the country legally to vote in local elections. But their turnout remains low.

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Some cities allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Their turnout is quite low

5:54pm May 04, 2024

by Mikaela Lefrak

Some cities, like three in Vermont, allow non-U.S. citizens to vote in local elections. In these places, noncitizen turnout has remained low, as noncitizen voting is a contentious national issue.

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Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee speaks about the Senate version of the Equal Representation Act during a January press conference in Washington, D.C. The bill is one of at least a dozen GOP proposals to exclude some or all non-U.S. citizens from a special census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."

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Republicans in Congress are trying to reshape election maps by excluding noncitizens

5:00am May 01, 2024

by Hansi Lo Wang

There's growing support from Republicans in Congress for excluding non-U.S. citizens from a special census count that the 14th Amendment says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."

A voter enters the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter Elementary School in New Orleans to cast a ballot in the 2022 elections.

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Judges block Louisiana's congressional map. A Supreme Court appeal is likely

7:03pm April 30, 2024

by Hansi Lo Wang

A federal court has blocked Louisiana's new congressional map in a case that could determine the balance of power in the next Congress and set up another Supreme Court test of the Voting Rights Act.