ANCHORAGE — On Wednesday, April 27, 2022, about 560,000 ballots* for the Special Primary Election to fill the US House seat. Since then 83,849 ballots have been returned to the State of Alaska Division of Elections. On Friday, May 27, 2022, Absentee in Person voting locations will open statewide. At these locations, voters can request […]
The Republican governors of Florida and Tennessee have both recently signed bills outlawing the system. Buried in a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida this week is a provision that will eliminate Floridians’ ability to use ranked-choice voting to decide their elections—as people in at least two cities there have voted […]
“This was part of the records that Trump was fighting to keep from the January 6th committee,” one government watchdog noted. One of the pieces of evidence that Donald Trump unsuccessfully fought to keep out of the hands of the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol shows that the former […]
The floor debate moves the upper chamber closer to a showdown over the 60-vote filibuster rule. The U.S. Senate on Tuesday kicked off debate on voting rights legislation and moved closer to a potential floor battle over the filibuster rule, which Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have vowed to uphold despite the dire implications for U.S. democracy. […]