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What the NAACP's new voter protection hub could mean for Black voter turnout

The hub allowed advocates to create a heat map of verified problems, shrinking the time it took to investigate complaints from Black voters.

Fortune

Texas Democrats admit to faltering on messaging and voter turnout, contributing to resounding midterm losses

Beto O’Rourke lost by double-digits on Tuesday night and so did every other statewide Democrat. That has left Democrats in a familiar position: wounded after a disappointing election night while contemplating their strategy and their future.

The Texas Tribune

Voter behavior and election rules contribute to slower counting in Arizona

One big reason: Arizona voters dropped off hundreds of thousands of mail ballots on Election Day. Now comes the arduous task of processing and tallying those ballots.

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Young voters hailed as key to Democratic successes in midterms

The youth vote was the second highest in almost three decades, defying conventional wisdom about 18-29 demographic

The Guardian - US

Africa’s largest democracy goes to the polls amid rising insecurity

Africa’s biggest election will be held in February 2023 in Nigeria. It’s the seventh successive general election in the country’s 23 years of unbroken democratic government.

The Conversation

Texas avoided election violence. Advocates say voters still need more protection.

Citing thousands of complaints received throughout the midterm cycle, voter advocacy groups want the Texas Legislature to bolster voter protection and education measures, and revisit recently passed laws that empowered partisan poll watchers.

The Texas Tribune

Commentary: Why book bans and voter suppression go hand in hand

In the lead-up to the midterm elections, mainstream media attention focused some — though not enough — on voter suppression efforts, but too little attention was paid to the book bans that are metastasizing in states across the country. The same factions that have tried to gerrymander their way into…

Los Angeles Times

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Climate maps let UK voters see impact of crisis in their area

UCL interactive maps show rise in temperatures over last century, predicted rise by 2080, and future flooding risks

The Guardian - UK

South Dakota voters approved Medicaid expansion, but implementation may not be easy

RAPID CITY, S.D. — South Dakotans voted Tuesday to expand the state’s Medicaid program to cover thousands of additional low-income residents, becoming the seventh state to approve expansion via the ballot box.

Tribune News Service

Why it could take weeks to get final LA election results. ‘We aren’t sitting on ballots’

LOS ANGELES — An adage known as the election administrator’s prayer goes something like this: “Dear Lord, let this election not be close.”

Los Angeles Times

Delay UK voter ID checks or face election result challenges, officials warn

Exclusive: Lack of time to implement photo ID rules ‘may prevent voting’ in English local elections in May

The Guardian - UK

Voters largely reject election deniers as secretaries of state – but the partisan battle for election administration will continue

Midterm voters in six states – Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont – appear to have rejected extremist secretary of state candidates who denied the validity of the 2020 presidential election.

The Conversation

Are Trump's plans to steal 2024 screwed?

Pundits told Biden that voters don't care about the fate of democracy. Thankfully, the president didn't listen

Salon

Thousands of votes still need to be counted in Clark County and across Nevada

LAS VEGAS — Clark County officials still need to count nearly 15,000 mail-in ballots that were received Monday and Tuesday, county Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said Wednesday.

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Glitch, website attack in two states fuel election misinformation

A technical glitch in vote tabulation machines in Arizona and an attempted takedown of voter-facing websites in Mississippi led to a surge of misinformation about broken systems, but the setbacks largely didn’t affect voting or counting on Election Day.

The Independent UK

Post-election misinformation targets Arizona, Pennsylvania

A day after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results is zeroing in on the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania

WEKU

Universal free lunch ballot measure passes easily in Colorado

Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to provide free meals for all public school students.

The Independent UK

‘Thank you Gen Z!’ How young voters saved the Democrats

Exit polls show youth vote remains one of Democrats’ key constituencies, John Bowden writes

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Kansas voters reelect Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly over GOP challenger Derek Schmidt

After an extremely tight election, Democrat Laura Kelly, governor of Kansas, wins four more years in offer over her Republican challenger Kelly held off Republican challenger Derek Schmidt.

The Independent UK

Officials counting all ballots after voting snag in Arizona

Election officials assured voters that every ballot would be counted after a printing malfunction at about one-quarter of the polling places across Arizona’s most populous county slowed down voting

France 24

Republican Kentucky, swing state Michigan vote to uphold legal abortion

Voters in reliably red Kentucky rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion while voters in battleground Michigan enshrined abortion rights in their state's constitution — joining Democratic California and Vermont in taking that step.

The Independent UK

Voters approve recreational marijuana in Maryland, Missouri

Voters have approved recreational marijuana in Maryland and Missouri and rejected it in Arkansas, North Dakota and South Dakota

Tribune News Service

Kentuckians vote no on Constitutional Amendment 2; abortion rights groups claim victory

In a major victory for abortion rights groups, Kentucky voters rejected a proposal to revise the state constitution to make clear there is no protected right to abortion.

The Independent UK

Kentucky voters reject constitutional amendment on abortion

Kentucky voters have rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have removed any protection for abortion rights from the constitution of their deeply red state

The Conversation

US midterms: 42 new voting laws since 2021 risk undermining confidence in American democracy

Soon after the first results had been declared in the 2020 US midterm elections it became clear that the “red wave” of Republican victories many pundits had thought would hand them control of both houses of Congress was not materialising as expected. And what was especially marked was that candidates…

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