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Houstonians worry new laws will deter voters who don't recall the hard-won fight for voting rights

Texas Republicans passed measures this year to eliminate Harris County’s top election job and give the Republican secretary of state power to take oversight of elections in Houston

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After all this, who still likes Trump?

Trump dominates DeSantis among all Republicans — especially younger, more rural and more conservative GOP voters

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Deputy Election Commissioner stresses special care for differently abled voters

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Zimbabwe election: Your guide to how the electoral system works

The August 23 general election, Zimbabwe’s 9th since independence in 1980. Here’s a simple guide to the entire process.

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ECI makes strategic shift towards personnel training to amplify voter participation

The Hindu

Ohio Could Become 24th State To Legalize Marijuana If Voters Approve Initiative

On November 7, Ohio voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana for adult use.

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Rural voters shaping the GOP presidential primary turn against U.S. aid to Ukraine

Populist politicians and right-wing media have convinced many voters that U.S. aid for Ukraine is a waste of money. Domestic problems should take precedent, they say.

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Ohio could become 24th state to legalize marijuana if voters approve initiative in November

Ohio voters will decide on an initiative to legalize marijuana for adult use on Nov. 7.

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Ohio voters kept it easy to pass a constitutional amendment protecting abortion − but also for the majority to someday limit other rights

Issue 1 on the Ohio ballot, which aimed to raise the threshold to change the state constitution from a simple majority – 50% of voters plus one – to 60%, got enormous national attention for a state ballot measure in an off-year special election.

The Conversation

Kurnool mayor’s vote deleted from electoral list

To his shock, B.Y. Ramaiah, the Mayor of Kurnool Municipal Corporation, has found that his vote was removed from the revised voter’s list of 138 Panyam Assembly Constituency. In a representation submitted to the District Collector and Magistrate on Wednesday, he says that the deletion of the name of the…

The Hindu

GOP-dominated Utah embraces mail voting despite party rhetoric

House Republicans want to block Washington, D.C., from sending every voter a ballot, something GOP-dominated Utah has done for years.

Roll Call

Who are the 30 ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ in Georgia’s massive criminal case against Trump?

A massive case alleging a vast criminal enterprise to subvert election results includes more than 50 people. Alex Woodward explains what we know about the 30 individuals who were not named in the indictment

The Independent UK

Cyber-attacks against the UK Electoral Commission reveal an ongoing threat to democracy

The revelations this month that data on 40 million UK voters had been exposed to hackers came as no surprise to many cybersecurity experts, who have long pointed out the vulnerability of democracies to malicious online interference.

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South Sudan is gearing up for its first election – 3 things it must get right

The people of South Sudan have not exercised the right to choose their leaders since the referendum that secured independence from Sudan in 2011. Instead, they have suffered through cycles of violent conflict that have prevented the democratic transfer of power.

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Trump and 18 Others Charged With Election-Related Crimes in Georgia

Plus: The beauty of microschools, the futility of link taxes, and more...

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1.5% of all absentee/mail-in ballots were rejected in 2022

Voters cast 36,683,450 absentee/mail-in ballots in the 2022 general election. Of that total 549,824—or 1.5%—were rejected, roughly equal to the 1.4% rejection rate in 2018, the most recent midterm election, and up from the 1.0% and 0.8% rejection rates in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election cycles, respectively.

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1.5% of all absentee/mail-in ballots were rejected in 2022, roughly equal to 2018

Welcome to the Monday, August 14, 2023, Brew.

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Dueling GOP presidential nominating contests in Nevada raise concerns about voter confusion

Republicans in Nevada could have two chances next year to vote for who they want to be their party’s presidential nominee, but only one will count

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The Independent UK

Starmer ‘ditches commitment to Ulez-style clean air zones across country’

Move follows Labour’s defeat at the Uxbridge by-election due to voter backlash

The Independent UK

‘Swearing should be kept down the mine’: How Lee Anderson’s migrant outburst turned off voters

The Tory deputy chair divided opinion with his ‘f*** off back to France’ remarks – but there was a rather more uniform feeling in his Nottinghamshire constituency, as Colin Drury reports

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Youthquake rumbles to a stop? Support for the left falls among New Zealand’s young voters

Bucking global trends, polls find young voter support higher for National and right coalition than Labour as election nears

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The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration, August 11, 2023

States have enacted 304 bills so far this year, 93 more than at this point in 2022.

The Conversation

Who likes Donald Trump? Lots of Republicans, but especially Hispanic voters, plus very rural and very conservative people

Despite multiple state and federal indictments, recent polling indicates that former President Donald Trump retains a commanding lead in the race for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination.

The Hindu

Indian Youth Congress launches nationwide Pehla Vote campaign to woo first-time voters

The Yuva Matha (young voter) campaign is believed to have helped the Congress get the backing of 42% of first-time voters as compared to 40% for the BJP in the Karnataka Assembly elections in May 2023. This was the first time that Congress managed to get more votes than BJP…

The Independent UK

FEC moves toward potentially regulating AI deepfakes in campaign ads

The Federal Election Commission has begun a process to potentially regulate AI-generated deepfakes in political ads ahead of the 2024 election, a move advocates say would safeguard voters against a particularly insidious form of election disinformation

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