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The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration, July 7, 2023

Welcome to The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration. Every Friday, we deliver the latest updates on election policy around the country, including legislative activity, nationwide trends, and recent news. In each issue, you’ll find updates on legislative activity and recent news.

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‘It’s game over’: Tory gloom spreads as Sunak fights for his five pledges

Frontbenchers fear they have become ‘zombie government’ with polls indicating PM’s priorities remain unclear to public

The Guardian - UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

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Ohio could join 23 states that legalized recreational marijuana in Nov. 2023 as signatures are submitted for ballot initiative

On July 5, 2023, signatures were submitted for a marijuana legalization initiative that may appear on the ballot for Ohio voters in November. If the measure appears on the ballot and voters approve it, Ohio will join 23 states that have already legalized marijuana—including 14 of those states and D.C.…

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Asian Americans feel particularly targeted by new laws criminalizing those who assist voters

Several new voting laws in mostly Republican-led states impose criminal penalties or fines for helping people register to vote

The Independent UK

Don’t look at BJP and BRS as separate entities: Revanth tells the booth level managers

Congress cadre urged to ensure that the voters list is not tampered with

The Hindu

Oregon voters to decide measures related to ranked-choice voting, impeachment

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Judge rips Florida's "assault" on voting

"Florida is simply not free to exceed the bounds of the United States Constitution," the judge wrote

Salon

Federal judge partially blocks Florida’s ‘latest assault on the right to vote’

DeSantis has ‘struggled’ to govern within the bounds of the Constitution, judge says

The Independent UK

Voters have decided on 959 parcel tax measures in California since 2008, with the next one scheduled for July 11 in Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District

Californians have decided on 950 local parcel tax ballot measures from 2008 to 2022. Voters in Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District, a 1.875-square-mile special district in the Sierra Nevada, will decide the next parcel tax measure on July 11, 2023. Between 2008 and 2022, 569 (59.89%) parcel tax ballot measures…

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‘You’re able to vote now’: Minnesota Democrats pass raft of progressive reforms

The state was one of a few to secure a Democratic trifecta in 2022, and since then has passed abortion rights along with voting rights and democracy reform legislation

The Guardian - US

North Carolina voting rights ‘still in five-alarm fire’ despite supreme court ruling

Republicans failed to defend a fringe legal theory, but they are already pushing through new state election legislation

The Guardian - US

VP Kamala Harris says the Supreme Court took rights from the people of America

Vice President Harris tells voters at Essence Fest to elect people to Congress who can address policy that cannot be done through executive action.

WEKU

Gov. Josh Shapiro charts Pennsylvania playbook for Democrats

There's still a critical mass of Trump-supporting swing voters that will back a certain type of Democrat.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Fact check: The inaccuracies in Trump, DeSantis and Haley’s speeches at the Moms for Liberty convention

PHILADELPHIA — Top GOP presidential candidates spoke at the Moms for Liberty convention in Philadelphia this weekend, making their 2024 pitch while also focusing on the culture war issues the controversial political group has railed against.

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The Ballot Bulletin: Ballotpedia’s Weekly Digest on Election Administration, June 30, 2023

States have enacted more election-related bills this year than at this point last year. In case you missed it, yesterday we released our exclusive report looking back at election administration legislation data from January-May.

The Conversation

Sierra Leone election: voter trust has been shaken, and will need to be regained

Julius Maada Bio, a 59-year-old former soldier, was sworn in for his second and final five-year term as president of Sierra Leone on 27 June. With 56% of votes cast in the election on 24 June, Bio was declared winner ahead of his main rival, Samura Kamara, who polled 41%.

Zenger

States Enact 239 Election-Related Bills In 2023 Amid Partisan Divide

Democrats sponsored 19.7% of bills, while Republicans sponsored 59.8%. Governors vetoed 30 bills this year.

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Daily Mirror

Mirror readers brand Brexit a FAILURE on referendum anniversary - poll results

We polled readers about their opinions of Brexit seven years after the referendum gripped the UK, and a majority of voters say the move has been a failure - but do YOU agree?

The Hindu

Chandrababu Naidu calls for a close watch on the process of revision of electoral rolls

TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday told the party cadres to fight against the entry of bogus voters and removal of names of the TDP voters from the electoral rolls allegedly by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP).

The Guardian - UK

Voter ID is just one item in a long list of assaults on our democracy

Letters: Breaches of standards in public office, clampdowns on protest and attacks on the judiciary have all featured in the last few years of Tory rule, writes Prof Toby S James. Plus letters from Mark Ellis, William Wallace and Michael Bulley

Al Jazeera

Nigeria’s 2023 election eroded voters’ trust: EU observers

The February presidential vote was marked by the lowest voter turnout since the end of military rule in Nigeria in 1999.

Ballotpedia

Election legislation roundup: Florida State Legislature

As of June 25, members of the Florida State Legislature, which includes the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida State Senate, have passed seven bills related to election administration since the beginning of the year. Of those seven bills, five have been enacted. This is two more than this…

Zenger

Oregon To Vote On Ranked-Choice Voting Measure For Federal And Statewide Offices

Oregon House and Senate passed House Bill 2004, sending the proposed change to the ballot for voters to decide on Nov. 5, 2024.

Reason

Oregon Voters Will Decide Whether To Embrace Ranked-Choice Voting

Will the Beaver State join Maine and Alaska?

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