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Election Legislation Weekly Digest: August 26, 2022

Here is our weekly round-up on election-related legislation. In it, you’ll find the following information:

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In new poll, Karen Bass jumps out to big lead over Rick Caruso in race for LA mayor

LOS ANGELES — Rep. Karen Bass has built a double-digit lead in the Los Angeles mayor's race with a little over two months to go until election day, firming up her base among the city's Democratic voters and eroding Rick Caruso's margin in the San Fernando Valley, a new poll…

Los Angeles Times

Special camp to be held for voters to link their voter ID with Aadhaar card

“The camp would be held between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at all the polling booths across constituencies including Athoor, Dindigul, Natham, Nilakottai, Oddanchatram, Palani and Vedasandur,” a release said.

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Initiative to change election and voting policies certified for Arizona ballot

Arizonans will decide on a ballot initiative that would change multiple state election and voting policies, including policies related to early voting, automatic and same-day voter registration, campaign contribution limits, and other policy areas. The proposal is the second citizen-initiated measure certified for the ballot in Arizona for November. There…

Ballotpedia

Voting machine tampering points to concern for fall election

An apparent attempt by a voter in Colorado to tamper with a voting machine during the state's primary this summer has heightened concerns among election officials and security experts

The Independent UK

Fears that voter ID laws will prevent thousands of people in Newcastle from voting at next elections

Voters will have to prove their identity by showing documents such as a passport or driving licence at polling stations

Chronicle Live

Draft voters’ list for BBMP polls published

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4 reasons why abortion laws often clash with the majority's preferences in the US, from constitutional design to low voter turnout

Kansas voters opted against overturning a state constitutional right to an abortion on Aug. 2, 2022. A few days later, Indiana lawmakers banned nearly all abortions.

The Conversation

Floridians charged over voting believed they were eligible, documents show

Review of court and election papers raises questions about whether the 19 people charged knowingly committed fraud

The Guardian - US

Editorial: Florida’s felon-voting racket

The state’s arrest last week of 20 Floridians on charges of voter fraud had nothing to do with election integrity and everything to do with intimidating voters. This was a small-potatoes racket that’s threatening to expand when what Florida needs is a better system for ensuring legal voting in the…

Tribune News Service

Keep it simple: On Aadhaar-voter ID linking

Any mandatory linking of Aadhaar to the voter ID is problematic

The Hindu

Proposal to put abortion protections in California Constitution appears headed for victory

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A measure to amend the state Constitution to add protections for abortion rights appears on track for victory this fall as the issue of reproductive rights appears to be strongly motivating the state's voters.

Los Angeles Times

Will Bunch: The barely hidden fascism of Ron DeSantis makes a Pa. pit stop on a race to ’24

The Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, brought his act to Pittsburgh on Friday and left little doubt that he’s running for president in 2024. We need to talk about this, but first, let’s look at the even more revealing event that DeSantis staged right before he boarded the jet…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial: DeSantis’ voter-fraud arrests have a conveniently beneficial side effect for GOP: intimidation

Florida announced with great fanfare last week that 20 people had been charged with voting illegally in the 2020 election. That may sound like an early win for the new elections police force that Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed through the Legislature last spring. But this is actually about voter intimidation…

Tribune News Service

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Colorado to vote on housing programs initiative in November

Colorado voters will decide on an initiative to create a new State Affordable Housing Fund in November. Proponents submitted 230,748 signatures for the measure on August 4, 2022. On August 19, the Colorado secretary of state’s office announced that the initiative qualified for the ballot. Through random sample verification, 149,072…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania updated its voter registration form — and it angered a lot of county elections officials

PHILADELPHIA — It was supposed to just be a small but helpful change: updating the Pennsylvania voter registration form to allow voters to simultaneously sign up for mail ballots. But the blowback from county elections officials was immediate.

The Hindu

Are freebies a way to mask state inaction?

Ultimately, the voter suffers in the form of higher taxes or the opportunity cost of less development

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Groups sue Missouri over new limits on voter registration, absentee ballots

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two voting-rights groups have sued the state of Missouri in an attempt to block parts of a new law that restrict voter registration efforts and absentee voter outreach.

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The Guardian - US

Donald Trump reportedly kept hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago – as it happened

Florida and New York go to the polls as Democrats seek to defend their congressional majority in November

Los Angeles Times

Voters dissatisfied about direction of California but still back Newsom, poll shows

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly a year after crushing a Republican-led recall attempt, Gov. Gavin Newsom leads his GOP challenger by more than 2 to 1 in the 2022 governor's race, even though a majority of voters express dissatisfaction about where California is headed, a new poll shows.

The Independent UK

Angolans prepare for elections amid calls for a poll sit-in

Angola — one of Africa’s largest oil producers — is preparing for a general election Wednesday and voters are debating whether they should vote and sit at the polling stations to monitor the process or cast their ballots and go home

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Women are registering to vote in Pa. in numbers far exceeding men since the Supreme Court abortion decision

PHILADELPHIA — The voter registration envelope had been sitting in Kiera Coyle’s bedroom for months when her cellphone started blowing up that Friday in June.

Radio France Internationale

Anger in Kashmir over inclusion of non-local voters on electoral rolls

An alliance of political parties from Kashmir is holding an all-party meeting to discuss the issue of inclusion of non-local voters in the revised electoral rolls in Jammu and Kashmir. The political parties are concerned that the inclusion of 2.5 million new voters in the Muslim-majority region will permanently disenfranchise…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Florida's crackdown on voter fraud unintentionally adds to evidence that it's all a big lie

The latest evidence that the Trumpian claim of endemic mass voter fraud is, in fact, a big lie comes from, of all places, the Florida governor’s office. Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is wooing supporters of former President Donald Trump in an obvious bid for the presidency, is touting his new…

The Guardian - US

Florida voters head to primary polls as Democrats look to break losing streak

Long considered a swing state, Republicans have a considerable edge heading into this election season

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