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The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act again! This blow means coming for Black and Brown political power. We know the playbook: silence, suppress, dilute. Our answer must be louder than ever…organize, mobilize, and vote in record numbers
The attorneys general, including Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, said the directive “usurps the States’ constitutional power.
By The Associated Press and AZFamily Digital News Staff
Published: Jun. 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM MST|Updated: 38 minutes ago
ATLANTA (AP/AZFAMILY) — A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional.
The Republican president’s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only mailed ballots received by Election Day and condition federal election grant funding on states adhering to the new ballot deadline.
The attorneys general, including Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, said the directive “usurps the States’ constitutional power and seeks to amend election law by fiat.” The White House defended the order as “standing up for free, fair and honest elections” and called proof of citizenship a “commonsense” requirement.
Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts said in Friday’s order that the states had a likelihood of success as to their legal challenges.
Attention US Voters!
Please do not share photos of your ballot, or of other peoples' ballots. Don't invalidate your vote.
Just share your "I voted" sticker. They're also different for each state, and some have really cool designs!
Musk announced Saturday that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a randomly selected voter who signs a petition circul
This is probably a stupid question and possibly a bit out of your wheelhouse (or not!), but...if an elected official announced that they're not running for re-election (for example Tim Walz) and then crap hits the fan in their state and they decide to run after all, that can be done, right? An announcement like that wouldn't be binding, correct? We know the opposing party would whine and complain and make it everyone's problem, though. Thanks in advance for your knowledge!
Election laws differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but as far as I'm aware, just announcing that you're not running again doesn't disqualify you from changing your mind later. As long as the candidate is eligible to hold the office and makes sure to file all the required paperwork before the necessary deadlines, they could change their mind and a simple announcement that they weren't running again wouldn't be binding.
Two years ago, the biggest battles in state legislatures were over voting rights. Democrats loudly — and sometimes literally — protested as
"Two years ago, the biggest battles in state legislatures were over voting rights. Democrats loudly — and sometimes literally — protested as Republicans passed new voting restrictions in states like Georgia, Florida and Texas. This year, attention has shifted to other hot-button issues, but the fight over the franchise has continued. Republicans have enacted dozens of laws this year that will make it harder for some people to vote in future elections.
But this year, voting-rights advocates got some significant wins too: States — controlled by Democrats and Republicans — have enacted more than twice as many laws expanding voting rights as restricting them, although the most comprehensive voter-protection laws passed in blue states. In all, 39 states and Washington, D.C., have changed their election laws in some way this year...
Where voting rights were expanded in 2023 (so far)
Unlike two years ago, though, we’d argue that the bigger story of this year’s legislative sessions was all the ways states made it easier to vote. As of July 21, according to the Voting Rights Lab, [which runs an excellent and completely comprehensive tracker of election-related bills], 834 bills had been introduced so far this year expanding voting rights, and 64 had been enacted. What’s more, these laws are passing in states of all hues.
Democratic-controlled jurisdictions (Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island and Washington) enacted 33 of these new laws containing voting-rights expansions, but Republican-controlled states (Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming) were responsible for 23 of them. The remaining eight became law in states where the two parties share power (Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia).
That said, not all election laws are created equal, and the most comprehensive expansive laws passed in blue states. For example:
New Mexico adopted a major voting-rights package that will automatically register New Mexicans to vote when they interact with the state’s Motor Vehicle Division, allow voters to request absentee ballots for all future elections without the need to reapply each time and restore the right to vote to felons who are on probation or parole. The law also allows Native Americans to register to vote and receive ballots at official tribal buildings and makes it easier for Native American officials to get polling places set up in pueblos and on tribal land.
Minnesota followed suit with a law also establishing automatic voter registration and a permanent absentee-voting list. The act allows 16- and 17-year-olds to preregister to vote too. Meanwhile, a separate new law also reenfranchises felons on probation or parole.
Michigan enacted eight laws implementing a constitutional amendment expanding voting rights that voters approved last year. Most notably, the laws guarantee at least nine days of in-person early voting and allow counties to offer as many as 29. The bills also allow voters to fix mistakes on their absentee-ballot envelopes so that their ballot can still count, track the status of their ballot online, and use student, military and tribal IDs as proof of identification.
Connecticut became the sixth state to enact a state-level voting-rights act, which bars municipalities from discriminating against minority groups in voting, requires them to provide language assistance to certain language minority groups and requires municipalities with a record of voter discrimination to get preclearance before changing their election laws. The Nutmeg State also approved 14 days of early voting and put a constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot that would legalize no-excuse absentee voting.
No matter its specific provisions, each of these election-law changes could impact how voters cast their ballots in future elections, including next year’s closely watched presidential race. There’s a good chance your state amended its election laws in some way this year, so make sure you double-check the latest rules in your state before the next time you vote."
-via FiveThirtyEight (via FutureCrunch), July 24, 2023
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