“Make no mistake, an attack on a ballot box is an attack on our democracy and completely unacceptable,” said Oregon’s secretary of state. Law enforcement officials in the Pacific Northwest are investigating a pair of Monday morning fires at ballot drop boxes that have heightened concerns about illegal efforts to interfere with the November 5 elections. One […]
One group said it has registered over 100,000 new voters since U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race. The group behind a popular get-out-the-vote technology platform said Friday that it’s registered more than 100,000 new U.S. voters since President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, a surge that came amid […]
“There should be no exceptions to a ban on slavery,” said Democratic U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley following passage of Measure 112 in Oregon. Voters in Alabama, Tennessee, Oregon, and Vermont approved ballot measures Tuesday that would bar forced labor as punishment for those convicted of crimes in those states—an effort to close what some characterize as […]
The Alaska Civic Engagement State Table (AKCES), a coalition of non-partisan non-profit organizations dedicated to strengthening democracy, calls on the Division of Elections to speak to the alarmingly high rates of ballot rejections for voters in regions with linguistically diverse populations who participated in the statewide Special Primary election. With at least 7,504 of the […]