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Missouri Gov. Parson signs sweeping new law requiring voters to show photo ID at polls

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Despite pushback from voting rights advocates, Missouri voters will be required to show a photo ID at the ballot box under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

SCOTUS upholds discriminatory La. map

Ruling backs map that boosts "political power for white citizens" by packing Black voters into a single district

Salon

Europeans are overwhelmingly pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean women’s rights are safe

Roe v Wade was overturned in the US by a court, not by voters. The same happened in Poland, says professor of political science Anna Grzymala-Busse

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Editorial: High voter turnout is a symptom of polarization, not a cure

Conventional wisdom holds that America’s democratic norms are withering. It also asserts that high voter turnout signifies a healthy democracy. So does a record high voter turnout for this May’s midterm primary election mean American democracy is in better shape than it seems?

Tribune News Service

Even diehard Tories can’t stand another minute of Johnson’s rollercoaster government

From tree houses to Rwanda and rail strikes – the drama is exhausting Conservative voters, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

New Yorkers head to the polls to vote in first primary of 2022

Voters from Brooklyn to Buffalo and from Queens to Kingston came out to the polls in short supply Tuesday to decide who’ll run in this November’s general election — a contest that will ultimately determine who is New York State’s governor.

Tribune News Service

Only 1 in 5 Chicago voters cast ballots in primary, an 8-year low

About 20% of registered Chicago voters had turned out by Tuesday evening, an unofficial total that would mark the lowest rate for the city since 2014.

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Arizona voters to decide on sales tax to fund fire districts

The Arizona State Legislature voted to place a measure on the general election ballot to create a 0.1% sales tax, which would be levied from Dec. 31, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2042, that would fund fire districts.

Ballotpedia

Arizona voters will decide on an amendment to raise the ballot measure vote requirement this November

An amendment that will change the vote threshold requirement to pass ballot measures in Arizona will appear on the ballot this November.

Ballotpedia

Arizona voters will decide on creating office of lieutenant governor

This November, voters in Arizona will choose whether to create the office of lieutenant governor in the state. A constitutional amendment creating this office will appear on the ballot.

Ballotpedia

A handful of voters will decide Senate control in 2022 - Roll Call

Only a handful of voters are likely to determine the majority in the Senate in this year's midterm elections.

Roll Call

Tokyo June Heatwave Worst Since 1875 as Power Supply Creaks under Strain

Japan baked under scorching temperatures for a fourth successive day on Tuesday, as the capital's heat broke nearly 150-year-old records for June and authorities warned power supply remained tight enough to raise the specter of cuts. The heatwave comes less than two weeks before a national election in which prices,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

California constitutional amendment securing abortion, contraceptive rights goes to voters

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters will decide in November whether the state Constitution should explicitly protect a person’s right to an abortion and birth control.

Los Angeles Times

Youths inspire peers to vote in national elections

Campaigning for the July 10 House of Councillors election has officially kicked off. Whenever an election is held, the familiar problem of low turnout among younger voters arises.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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The Independent UK

More than 1 million voters switch to GOP in warning for Dems

Tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains of recent years are suddenly becoming Republicans

The Independent UK

New poll suggests midterm voter backlash against Republicans over Roe v Wade ruling

Democrats energised heading into crucial midterm battle

Los Angeles Times

California primary's lesson for pundits: Don't speak too soon in the age of mail-in voting

LOS ANGELES — In the hours after polls closed in the closely watched California midterms on June 7, reviews from pundits were quick to come in.

The Times of India

Sangrur bypoll: All assembly seats' turnout under 50%

BARNALA: Such was the lack of enthusiasm among electors in Sangrur parliamentary constituency on Friday that not one of its nine assembly segments could reach a voter turnout of 50%.

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The Times of India

Punjab: Of 4 Lok Sabha bypolls in 15 years, turnout lowest this time

BARNALA: Punjab has witnessed three parliamentary byelections in the last 15 years, and the voter turnout had been much higher than Sangrur. The first byelection was conducted for Amritsar parliamentary constituency in February 2007 after then MP Navjot Singh Sidhu had resigned from Parliament in December 2006 after being convicted…

The Guardian - US

Democrats hope to tap anger over Roe in November midterms – will it work?

Analysts say more voters should turn out in the wake of the supreme court ruling – but that could help Republicans too

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court abortion ruling raises stakes for Kansas voters ahead of August vote

The U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade won’t immediately affect Kansas law. But it could soon have a major impact after Kansans vote in August on a high-stakes ballot question.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer has some in Labour worried he’s too boring

Boris Johnson won the biggest Tory majority in a generation three years ago not just because of Brexit, but because of his boisterous - and at times anarchic- approach to British politics and the establishment. And, despite his colossal defeat, even Jeremy Corbyn brought thousands out onto the streets. Both…

Evening Standard

The Standard View: Boris Johnson must act now to regain voters’ trust

The Conservative Party has just experienced three shocking losses. The first came in the hitherto safe seat of Tiverton and Honiton in Devon, where the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 majority.

Salon

GOP test-drives plot to steal 2024

Trump allies' plot to seize local election offices just got a test drive in New Mexico

WEKU

A federal law requires translated voting ballots, but not in Arabic or Haitian Creole

The Voting Rights Act requires some states and local areas to offer election materials in more than just English. But the support for voters is limited to Spanish, Asian and Native American languages.

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