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Wigan by-election turnout 'potentially lowest on record' after double whammy

Freezing temperatures and postal strikes blamed for shockingly low voter turnout

Manchester Evening News

Voters approved 71% of constitutional amendments on the ballot in 2022

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Ballotpedia

Window for registered Kentucky voters to change party affiliation closes this month

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After Abrams loss and Warnock win, where do Georgia Democrats go from here?

ATLANTA — Georgia Democrats are entering the new year at a crossroads, at once demoralized by the stinging defeats of Stacey Abrams and other statewide candidates but upbeat about the runoff victory of U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Tribune News Service

ANC in crisis: South Africa's governing party is fighting to stay relevant - 5 essential reads

South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), is in a crisis. Having dominated the country’s politics since democracy in 1994, it has been losing voter support in the last three national elections. Since the 2016 local elections, the party has also been losing some of its strongholds.

The Conversation

Meadows may be charged with voter fraud

Meadows was registered to vote in at least three states in the past two years

Salon

GOP voters have soured on Trump as DeSantis rises, poll finds

Mr Trump is currently the only Republican who has declared himself a candidate in the next presidential election

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Commentary: The one lesson for both parties from Georgia’s runoff

Georgia’s candidates and voters are undoubtedly grateful that this year’s Senate campaign, unlike the last one, was over before the holidays. But the state legislature’s decision to hold the 2022 runoff a month earlier than the 2020 runoff wasn’t motivated by a desire to make things more convenient for everyone.…

Tribune News Service

White voters helped propel Lori Lightfoot to the mayor’s office in 2019. Will they stick with her in February?

CHICAGO — When Willie Wilson finished his remarks before the Illinois Polish American Congress in November, the lull in the room lasted long enough for the audience to begin awkwardly fidgeting.

Chicago Tribune

Counting begins in Fiji national election

Polling closed in the Pacific island nation of Fiji's national election on Wednesday evening, where voter turnout of less than 60 per cent was the lowest in a decade, analysts said.

Reuters

Scrutiny ramps up on Meadows at the Capitol and in NC. The latest on two investigations

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s State Bureau of Investigation has finished its inquiry into whether Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s last White House chief of staff, committed voter fraud.

Tribune News Service

N. Carolina AG to weigh charges in Meadows voter fraud case

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation says it has submitted to state prosecutors the findings of its voter fraud probe into Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, who was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two other states earlier this…

The Independent UK

Austin voters elect Kirk Watson, who served as mayor two decades ago, to lead the city again

Watson, a former state senator who was Austin’s mayor from 1997 to 2001, pitched himself as a back-to-basics candidate who could ease the city’s growing affordability crisis.

The Texas Tribune

Six reasons Britain’s impending voter ID law is a bad idea

Under new government rules, voters across Great Britain will be required to show photographic identification before being given their ballot paper at many elections. (Northern Ireland already requires voters to provide photographic ID.)

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Daily Mirror

Downing Street rejects council leaders' plea to delay forcing voters to show ID

It comes as the Liberal Democrats attempt to block plans to introduce photo ID at elections from 2023 using a rare "fatal motion" in the House of Lords on Tuesday

The Texas Tribune

Why Texas is unlikely to let voters decide on abortion access

A Texas Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment stopping future abortion restrictions. Voters would have to approve it — but Republican lawmakers aren’t likely to put it in front of them.

Tribune News Service

Missouri Democrats could take abortion issue to voters. What would it look like?

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bolstered by an August vote that upheld the right to an abortion in Republican-controlled Kansas, abortion rights supporters are considering whether to seek a ballot initiative to restore abortion rights in Missouri.

The Independent UK

Young voters' enthusiasm for Democrats waned during midterms

Young voters who have been critical to Democratic successes in recent elections showed signs in November's midterms that their enthusiasm may be waning

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The Guardian - UK

‘This lot? No way’: what ‘red wall’ voters think now of Johnson, the Tories and Labour

We visit Blyth, Bury and Penistone to find out what has changed in the three years since they turned blue

The Guardian - UK

Council leaders urge ministers to delay plans for photo ID at May elections

Voters risk being turned away and organisers need more time to prepare, argue critics of the new measures

The Independent UK

Rural voters 'in the trenches' on climate, leery of Biden

The impacts of climate change hit communities across the country, yet voters in rural areas are the least likely to feel Washington is in their corner on the issue

Salon

Six very real threats to democracy

Despite midterm failures, the path to extremism remains open

The Conversation

Near record-high numbers of young people voted during the midterms, signaling a possible shift – or exception – in voting trends

The November 2022 midterms have come and gone, but there are still some potential lasting implications that could influence the next election season.

The Conversation

Georgia on the nation's mind: 5 essential reads

Shortly after his reelection on Dec. 6, 2022, Rev. Raphael Warnock talked about his political journey in a state better known for its racist history of suppressing the Black vote.

Salon

Expert: GOP voters sunk Herschel Walker

Many of his weaknesses and his lack of experience were known going into the primaries. Trump pushed him anyway

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