Election-related lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign in Georgia and Michigan were dismissed Thursday, while a third in Pennsylvania was successful. The lawsuits in Georgia and Michigan alleged that election officials had allowed ballot fraud, but provided no evidence to support the accusations. In Georgia, the campaign attempted to have 53 ballots from Chatham County dismissed [...]
Italy’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Wednesday that extends anti-discrimination protection to women, disabled people and members of the LGBTQ+ community, making violence against these groups a hate crime. Existing hate crime legislation only protects people from racial, religious and ethnic discrimination. Under this law, people convicted of hate crimes against these newly [...]
Mississippi voters Tuesday adopted Ballot Measure 2, which would remove the electoral vote requirement for elections to statewide offices, including the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor and secretary of state. Prior to the amendment, the state constitution of 1890 required statewide office candidates to secure both popular and electoral majorites under Sections 140 and [...]
Puerto Rico went to the polls and voted for statehood Tuesday. Puerto Ricans were asked, “Should Puerto Rico be immediately admitted into the union as a state?”. With over 97 percent of the results in, over 52.27 percent of voters voted affirmatively. This is the sixth time that Puerto Rico has voted on the question [...]
Colorado voters Tuesday passed Proposition 114, the Gray Wolf Reintroduction Initiative, paving the way for gray wolves’ return to the Western Slope. Proposition 114 authorizes the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to create and implement a plan to reintroduce and manage gray wolves on designated lands west of the continental divide, with “paws on the [...]
Virginia voters approved a state constitutional amendment on Tuesday that establishes a bipartisan redistricting commission responsible for drawing congressional and state legislative districts. The redistricting commission will include eight members of the General Assembly and eight citizens of the Commonwealth. The eight legislative commissioners will be appointed by leadership in the state Senate and the [...]
The Supreme Court of New Zealand ruled Wednesday that the US may extradite German-Finnish internet entrepreneur and political activist Kim Dotcom to face criminal copyright-related charges. In 2005, Dotcom founded a business comprised of various companies providing cloud storage and file-sharing capability for internet users. The US alleges that one of those companies, Megaupload, “encouraged third parties [...]
Voters in six US states weighed in on voting-related ballot measures Tuesday, including the right of parolees to vote, decisions on ranked-choice voting and citizenship-related voting questions. In Massachusets, the voters rejected a proposal for ranked-choice voting. The Associated Press called the race with 54.7 percent voting against the measure, which, if approved, would have [...]
California voters approved Proposition 17 on Tuesday, which allows individuals on parole for felony convictions the right to vote prior to completing their sentences. The California State Constitution prevents individuals currently serving a state or federal prison sentence from voting. This ballot measure will amend the constitution, restoring the right to vote to 50,000 parolees. [...]
Unofficial results show that Kentucky voters approved Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1 to add rights for crime victims on Tuesday. The amendment, also known as Marsy’s Law, provides crime victims with specific constitutional rights, including the right to be treated with fairness and due consideration in court proceedings and the right to reasonable protection from the [...]
