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Missouri primary mail ballot request deadline is one month away

Missouri’s statewide primary election is scheduled for Aug. 2, 2022. Here is what you need to know about absentee/mail-in voting in the primary:

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California survey finds hot-button issues may spark voter turnout in November

SAN DIEGO — Despite low turnout in California's June primary elections, key world events such as abortion rights and the potential for war with Russia could spur greater voter participation in November, according to a voter survey by UC San Diego.

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Virginia GOP voters to settle crowded congressional runoffs

Republican Virginia voters are set to winnow a crowded field of candidates to two nominees to compete in what are expected to be a pair of the country’s most competitive U.S. House races

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In honor of Juneteenth, New York enacts John Lewis Voting Rights Act to combat suppression and discrimination

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York celebrated Juneteenth and paid tribute to the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis on Monday by enacting sweeping new voter protections.

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This is the latest Illinois has had a primary election since at least the Great Depression. What is voter turnout looking like?

CHICAGO — Chicago Election Board Chair Marisel Hernandez recently included an unusual warm weather addendum to her regular pre-election pitch encouraging voters to cast ballots in the upcoming Illinois primary: Do so before you leave town.

Chicago Tribune

Tiverton and Honiton byelection: rural communities are itching for the chance to cast a protest vote

Tiverton and Honiton in Devon has long been a Conservative stronghold. But the Liberal Democrats believe they have a good chance of taking the seat in an impending byelection. The vote follows the resignation of former MP Neil Parish, who admitted to watching porn in the House of Commons chamber.

The Conversation

Haryana: Kalka municipal council polls record 68.2% voter turnout

PANCHKULA: Kalka municipal council elections held on Sunday for 31 wards and one post of president recorded 68.2% voter turnout. As per the state election commission, 59,741 votes were polled out of the total 87,617 amid tight security, with 760 police personnel on duty. The elections, held after 2010, remained…

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‘He comes over as weak’: Keir Starmer fails to convince Wakefield voters

The Labour leader has not capitalised on Boris Johnson’s sinking ratings ahead of a crunch byelection

The Guardian - UK

Martin Bell: ‘The sleaze now is worse than when I ran for MP’

Independent candidate who toppled disgraced Conservative in 1997 urges non-Tory voters to think tactically in byelections

The Guardian - UK

French legislative elections: Voter turnout at 38.11% at 5pm, slightly down from first round

Voter turnout in the second round of France's parliamentary elections stood at 38.11% at 5pm, slightly down from voting at the same time in the first round. French President Emmanuel Macron is in danger of falling short of a parliamentary majority after the first round of voting saw his centrist…

France 24

Republicans bet their conservative policies will win over voters, roll over Democrats

HOUSTON — Even with the specter of a Nov. 8 general election with more moderate voters, Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan is strident in his support of the rash of conservative legislation approved by lawmakers last year and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott.

Tribune News Service

New form introduced for voters to share Aadhaar number with poll authorities

The Registration of Electors (Amendment) Rules, 2022 will come into force on August 1.

The Hindu

What voters need to know before New York’s June 28 primary with early voting now underway

NEW YORK — The first of two primaries is just days away and New York voters are facing multiple elections this year thanks to a confusing and drawn-out redistricting process that flipped the Empire State’s election calendar on its head.

Tribune News Service

Poor People's Campaign rallies in Washington to mobilize low-income voters

A few thousand activists, advocacy groups, and religious leaders protested in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. They are calling for what they say is a Third Reconstruction.

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Ballotpedia

Learn how to vote in the Missouri primary

Missouri’s statewide primary election is scheduled for Aug. 2, 2022. Here is what you need to know about voting in the primary:

France 24

French legislative elections: The second round, by the numbers

Voters in France are heading back to the polls for a fourth time in two months as legislative elections conclude on Sunday, hot on the heels of April's presidential vote. Some 48.5 million voters are registered to cast a ballot in 572 run-off races across the country, with results due…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Election subversion remains a threat, but some voting restrictions go too far

As the first public hearings about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection underscored, the biggest current threat to the integrity of American elections is election subversion — i.e., efforts to interfere with or overturn the counting of votes or certification of elections. No genuine democracy retroactively changes election law after a…

Daily Mirror

Elderly Tory voter forced to sell his assets as heating home now costs £3,000 a year

John Rowland says heating for his property now costs £3,000 a year even when it is turned down to the lowest setting. The man now needs to take out £500-a-month to meet basic shopping and fuel bills

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Salon

Trump on hearing: I demand equal time!

"I am hereby demanding EQUAL TIME to spell out the massive Voter Fraud & Dem Security Breach!" he said

Manchester Evening News

New interim chief executive for Tameside council after last one resigned over 'Tory compassion' tweet

A Conservative councillor said the post was an 'insult' to the 36pc of people who voted Tory in Tameside at the local elections

Reason

Hidden Slippery Slope Risk and the Ad Hominem Heuristic

[This month, I'm serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope.] The discussion above has assumed that we know up front the preferences people have among positions 0, A, and B. But sometimes B might not even be considered at first, and the apparent choice…

Chicago Sun-Times

Republican attorney general candidates decry ‘tyrannical’ Pritzker, his ‘wingman’ Raoul and Illinois’ ‘world-famous’ corruption

Downstate attorney Tom DeVore is up against suburban lawyers Steve Kim and David Shestokas for the GOP nomination to take on Democratic Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

Chicago Sun-Times

From turkeys and trash cans to gas cards and guaranteed income? Freebie frenzy dominates election season

Decades ago, Chicago politicians curried favor with voters by distributing Thanksgiving turkeys and Christmas hams. Garbage cans with an office-holder’s name on it were also a frequent freebie. But, the avalanche of federal stimulus funds has allowed Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Cook County Board President…

France 24

Voter turnout issue looms over French legislative elections after record first-round abstention

With 52.49 percent of voters choosing to stay away on Sunday, France recorded its highest-ever abstention rate in the first round of the legislative elections, surpassing the 2017 record by a full point. Voter turnout will remain a major issue for next Sunday's run-off, as candidates cajole voters head to…

Tribune News Service

With rise in crime in Baltimore and US, issue moves to the forefront for Maryland voters and gubernatorial candidates

BALTIMORE — When Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rushern Baker III launched his first television ad of Maryland’s 2022 campaign, he chose to focus on murders in Baltimore, telling viewers “nobody in power gives a damn” about the carnage because the victims are Black and vowing to “stop the slaughter of young…

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