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California Sen. Alex Padilla is campaigning hard — just not for himself

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — On an unusually cool morning in the Central Valley, Sen. Alex Padilla rallied campaign volunteers, urging them to knock on doors and phone voters to promote a Democratic candidate in one of the most competitive congressional districts in the nation.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: California voters don't like where the state's headed. But they still want Newsom in office

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Most California voters think the state is headed in the wrong direction, yet they intend to reelect the governor who's leading us there. That seems wrongheaded.

Los Angeles Times

LZ Granderson: The 'election police' don't need to be right to be effective

Last December, Richard Molina was ousted as mayor of Edinburg, Texas.

Los Angeles Times

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Commentary: Voting is good for you; it might even save your life

The midterm election is just days away. One of the most important issues on the ballot is health equity.

Tribune News Service

California union alleges that fast-food effort to block new labor law is 'willfully misleading voters'

California's largest union on Thursday lodged a complaint with state officials alleging that a fast-food industry coalition violated state election rules in its campaign to block a landmark labor law from going into effect.

Los Angeles Times

Georgia voter sues over false election fraud accusation in ‘2000 Mules’

ATLANTA — An auditor from Gwinnett County who was falsely accused of election fraud in the film “2000 Mules” is suing the movie’s makers, Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, alleging they lied to advance a phony narrative at his expense.

Tribune News Service

Issues more than candidates drive voters to polls in Maryland as early in-person voting gets underway

BALTIMORE — Voters began to trickle into polling places across Maryland Thursday as the first of eight days of early voting got underway ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

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North Dakota poll workers can’t demand citizenship proof from voters, attorney general says

The North Dakota attorney general says some poll workers who created confusion and frustration in the spring primary by allegedly demanding proof of United States citizenship particularly from immigrants and people of color had no power to do that

The Independent UK

US braces for midterm elections turmoil amid legal challenges

String of legal challenges already filed around November 8 vote preview a potentially contentious, post-midterms period.

Al Jazeera

Poll watchers are showing up at voting sites with handguns and wearing tactical military gear

Two people armed with handguns and wearing tactical military gear, balaclavas masking their face and the license plates on their cars covered, stood watch over a ballot drop box during early voting last week in Mesa, Arizona.

Tribune News Service

Abortion bans motivating midterm voters

Enthusiasm to vote is growing especially among Democrats and those living in states with abortion bans

Salon

Ten statewide measures are on the ballot in Arizona

On November 8, Arizona voters will decide on 10 statewide ballot measures. This is the highest number of measures on the Arizona ballot since 2010, when there were 11 measures on the ballot. In 2020, the previous even-year election, there were two measures on the ballot, both of which were…

Ballotpedia

Break-in at Arizona Democrat Katie Hobbs’ office as state plagued by voter intimidation

‘Let’s be clear: for nearly two years Kari Lake and her allies have been spreading dangerous misinformation and inciting threats against anyone they see fit,’ Democratic candidate says

The Independent UK

Americans who aren't sure about God are a fast-growing force in politics – and they're typically even more politically active than white evangelicals

It’s hard to remember now, given the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but the day after votes were cast, one theme stood out: voter turnout.

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Most voters skipped 'in person on Election Day' when offered a choice of how and when to vote

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, state lawmakers, election administrators and others realized they had to move quickly. A presidential election was coming in just a few months, along with elections for every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third of the U.S. Senate, and all sorts…

The Guardian - US

‘A madness has taken hold’ ahead of US midterms: local election officials fear for safety

In two rural California counties, voters are showing increasing hostility and aggression toward election workers

WEKU

What's on the minds of young voters in Milwaukee? A lot

Polls found that young people were among the least likely to vote this fall. But the end of Roe v. Wade has helped boost voter registration among them. Other issues are also important to young voters.

The Independent UK

Election Day is Nov. 8, but legal challenges already begin

Election Day is 12 days away

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GOP again deploys task force to challenge ballots in Central Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. — As mail-in ballots start to come in and early voting begins, Republicans in Central Florida are taking advantage of the new election law to challenge mail-in ballots as the number of partisan poll watchers also has increased, according to Central Florida election officials.

Tribune News Service

Texas tumbles further in voting access, report finds

DALLAS — Voters in Texas face among the most obstacles in the U.S. to cast a ballot, a new academic study says.

The Conversation

State courts are fielding sky-high numbers of lawsuits ahead of the midterms – including challenges to voting restrictions and to how elections are run

The run-up to Election Day is often a contentious time.

Ballotpedia

All candidates for Nevada State Assembly District 9 complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Nevada State Assembly District 9 — incumbent Steve Yeager (D) and Ryan Fleming (R) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for…

Salon

Wynn wants to make it harder to vote

Law Group that includes Karl Rove, Bill Barr stirs unfounded doubts about integrity of election system, say critics

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Key takeaways from the Pa. Senate debate between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz

PHILADELPHIA — Democrat John Fetterman verbally stumbled at times Tuesday night in what was some voters’ first and only chance to see him taking live questions ahead of Pennsylvania’s crucial U.S. Senate election Nov. 8. Recovering from a stroke, he argued he understands the struggles of everyday voters.

ABC News

Stacey Abrams could make history in the upcoming US midterms. Republicans are determined to stop her

Democrat Stacey Abrams rose to fame in 2018 after nearly becoming the first black woman elected governor in the United States. Four years later, she's giving it another shot. But Georgia Republicans have changed the rules.

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