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Election Legislation Weekly Digest: July 1, 2022

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

Ballotpedia

Types of Political Power Slippery Slopes

[Last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, and I'm finishing it up at the start of this month.] Decision A may change the political balance in several different ways. [1.] Decisions to change the voting rules (such as rules related…

Reason

Disinformation, mudslinging induce voter apathy in Kenyan youth

Kenya’s digitally-savvy youth are being exposed to outright disinformation and inflammatory rhetoric on social media.

Al Jazeera

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Editorial: Scott Perry, Jeffrey Clark, and the lingering threat of Jan. 6 enablers

The six House Select Committee hearings on the attack on the Capitol have exposed the seditious lengths Donald Trump and his associates went to try to overturn the 2020 election, from promoting election fraud lies, pressuring state election officials to throw out votes, leaning on Vice President Mike Pence to…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Ranked-choice voting campaign submits signatures for Nevada ballot

On June 29, the Nevada Voters First campaign submitted signatures to qualify for the Nevada ballot this November. This came on the day after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the initiative may proceed to the ballot.

Ballotpedia

How many Americans voted in 2020?

Voter turnout surged in 2020 with increases in mail-in and early voting.

USAFacts

Downfall of Bolsonaro ally spotlights Brazilian leader's female voter issue

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain with a history of misogynistic comments, has a female voter problem that could cost him in October elections. And it just got worse.

Reuters

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Josh Hawley became a symbol of the Jan. 6 insurrection. He hasn’t come up in the hearings

WASHINGTON — The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol has presented a lot of evidence about the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Dems: Stand up for your actual voters

Democrats have lost the plot. I'm furious at them, and terrified at the consequences. They need a better story

Salon

Nicola Sturgeon cannot simply decide the next general election is about Scottish independence

Voters can't be dictated what subjects they should be considering when they cast their ballots at an election, writes Chris McCall

Daily Record

115 nominations filed for presidential poll, 28 rejected ahead of scrutiny

Sources said 28 of the total 115 nominations were rejected due to non furnishing of voter list with the names of candidates

The Hindu

Missouri enacts photo voter ID law before November elections

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed a law enacting a photo identification requirement for voters in advance of the November election

The Independent UK

Missouri Gov. Parson signs sweeping new law requiring voters to show photo ID at polls

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Despite pushback from voting rights advocates, Missouri voters will be required to show a photo ID at the ballot box under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

SCOTUS upholds discriminatory La. map

Ruling backs map that boosts "political power for white citizens" by packing Black voters into a single district

Salon

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The Guardian - UK

Europeans are overwhelmingly pro-choice, but that doesn’t mean women’s rights are safe

Roe v Wade was overturned in the US by a court, not by voters. The same happened in Poland, says professor of political science Anna Grzymala-Busse

Tribune News Service

Editorial: High voter turnout is a symptom of polarization, not a cure

Conventional wisdom holds that America’s democratic norms are withering. It also asserts that high voter turnout signifies a healthy democracy. So does a record high voter turnout for this May’s midterm primary election mean American democracy is in better shape than it seems?

The Guardian - UK

Even diehard Tories can’t stand another minute of Johnson’s rollercoaster government

From tree houses to Rwanda and rail strikes – the drama is exhausting Conservative voters, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Tribune News Service

New Yorkers head to the polls to vote in first primary of 2022

Voters from Brooklyn to Buffalo and from Queens to Kingston came out to the polls in short supply Tuesday to decide who’ll run in this November’s general election — a contest that will ultimately determine who is New York State’s governor.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Only 1 in 5 Chicago voters cast ballots in primary, an 8-year low

About 20% of registered Chicago voters had turned out by Tuesday evening, an unofficial total that would mark the lowest rate for the city since 2014.

Ballotpedia

Arizona voters to decide on sales tax to fund fire districts

The Arizona State Legislature voted to place a measure on the general election ballot to create a 0.1% sales tax, which would be levied from Dec. 31, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2042, that would fund fire districts.

Ballotpedia

Arizona voters will decide on an amendment to raise the ballot measure vote requirement this November

An amendment that will change the vote threshold requirement to pass ballot measures in Arizona will appear on the ballot this November.

Ballotpedia

Arizona voters will decide on creating office of lieutenant governor

This November, voters in Arizona will choose whether to create the office of lieutenant governor in the state. A constitutional amendment creating this office will appear on the ballot.

Roll Call

A handful of voters will decide Senate control in 2022 - Roll Call

Only a handful of voters are likely to determine the majority in the Senate in this year's midterm elections.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tokyo June Heatwave Worst Since 1875 as Power Supply Creaks under Strain

Japan baked under scorching temperatures for a fourth successive day on Tuesday, as the capital's heat broke nearly 150-year-old records for June and authorities warned power supply remained tight enough to raise the specter of cuts. The heatwave comes less than two weeks before a national election in which prices,…

Los Angeles Times

California constitutional amendment securing abortion, contraceptive rights goes to voters

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters will decide in November whether the state Constitution should explicitly protect a person’s right to an abortion and birth control.

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