May 14—Maine voters started casting ballots in the June primaries this week. Absentee voting is underway for the June 11 election, the first state primaries held under the new semi-open primary law that allows unenrolled voters to cast ballots in any party’s primary without being enrolled in that party. “We want voters to be aware […]
Welcome to the post-primary mailbag! As a quick reminder, you can send me questions about absolutely anything and I’ll answer as many as I can (hopefully) without turning this into an unreadable, 2,000-word mess. You can email me at james.briggs@indystar.com or use the Google form at the bottom of the online article page. Here we […]
CHEBOYGAN — Michigan’s expanded voting rights were the subject of an informational forum held by the League of Women Voters Northern Lower Michigan on Thursday, May 9, at the Cheboygan Area Public Library. In 2022, Michigan voters passed ballot Proposal 2, known as the “Promote the Vote” petition, to increase voting accessibility in state and […]
In late April, staffers at Joe Biden’s headquarters fixated on votes for Nikki Haley rolling in during the Pennsylvania primary, pulling 20 to 25 percent support in the largely upscale, suburban collar counties around Philadelphia. Most remarkable: Haley had dropped out more than six weeks earlier. Within a day, the Biden campaign dropped an additional […]
Are you saying that there are currently non-U.S. citizens voting in federal elections? And if that’s what you’re saying, then do you have an estimate of how many? And then a quick follow-up on what Democrats are saying about this bill. They’re basically saying this is a huge part of the former president’s revenge for […]
The trickle of voters who kicked off early in-person voting last week seemed to continue Thursday as the last day to cast a ballot in person before Tuesday’s primary drew to a close. By Thursday afternoon, almost 150,000 Marylanders had cast early in-person votes, compared to the 178,000 who voted early in the 2022 primary, […]
Asa Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas and one of Donald Trump’s sharpest critics on the GOP presidential debate stage, said he won’t be voting for President Joe Biden in November. And while the likely rematch of the 2020 election has left many voters unenthusiastic about the prospect of either winning, Hutchinson said he thought […]
WASHINGTON — Some of the conservative leaders of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election gathered in front of the Capitol on Wednesday and called on Congress to pass an “election integrity” bill to stop noncitizens from voting. Leading the group, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., acknowledged that undocumented immigrants voting in elections is already […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of Tennesseans who say they were intimidated into not voting in a primary election or were threatened with prosecution after they did vote has filed a legal challenge to two state laws meant to prevent crossover voting. A law passed last year requires polling places to post warning signs […]
By David Morgan and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a bill to ban noncitizens from voting in federal elections, which is already illegal and rarely occurs, an effort meant to draw more attention to Donald Trump‘s false claims that U.S. elections are marred by widespread fraud. House Speaker Mike […]
Paul Ryan has no interest in giving Donald Trump another chance come November. The former House speaker told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday that he doesn’t plan to vote for the former president, adding he would be writing in a Republican candidate instead. “Character is too important for me,” Ryan told us at the Milken Institute […]
Millions of Indian voters across 93 constituencies were casting ballots as prime minister Narendra Modi has mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarising rhetoric in incendiary speeches that have targeted the Muslim minority. In recent campaign rallies, Mr Modi has called Muslims “infiltrators” and said they “have too many children”, referring to a […]