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Civil rights lawsuit over pepper spray at NC voting march ends in ‘bittersweet’ deal

A lawsuit alleging that Graham, North Carolina, police and Alamance County sheriff’s deputies engaged in voter suppression by dispersing a 2020 march to the polls with pepper spray appears close to a final settlement.

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EXPLAINER: Can Pa. GOP candidate make voters re-register?

If Republican Doug Mastriano is elected governor of Pennsylvania, the state could become a test case for his idea to wipe its voter rolls clean and make everyone re-register if they want to vote again

The Independent UK

California congressional races to watch in the June primary

LOS ANGELES — California's 2022 congressional races are expected to be some of the most expensive and contentious in the nation as the GOP attempts to retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Elections: a global ranking rates US weakest among liberal democracies

Defending democracy has suddenly become one of the central challenges of our age. The land war in Ukraine is widely considered a front line between autocratic rule and democratic freedom. The United States continues to absorb the meaning of the riot that took place on January 6 2021 in an…

The Conversation

‘Waitrose woman’: Tories’ newest target voters take aim at Johnson

Downing Street hopes supermarket’s ‘small C conservatives’ will keep PM in power – but Colin Drury finds them unconvinced

The Independent UK

Oklahoma Legislature adjourns without referring any measures to 2022 ballot

The Oklahoma State Legislature adjourned its 2022 Regular Session on May 27 without referring any measures to the 2022 ballot for voters to consider.

Ballotpedia

Biden, Democrats need Black voters to show up this fall. Will they?

WASHINGTON — Marking the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, President Joe Biden last week signed an executive order to reform federal policing practices as Floyd's relatives, reform advocates and civil rights leaders looked on.

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Ex-rebel, businessman to vie in Colombia presidential runoff

Colombian voters have opted for a dramatic change in presidential politics, choosing a leftist former rebel and an outsider populist businessman to advance to a runoff election in June

The Independent UK

Labor likely to get a friendly Senate and secures House of Representatives majority

UPDATE: On Monday night, the ABC called Macnamara as a Labor hold, giving Labor 76 of the 151 House of Representatives seats, enough for a majority. In the two remaining undecided seats, Labor has taken a narrow lead in Gilmore, while the Coalition is likely to hold Deakin.

The Conversation

Trump’s ‘big lie’ hits cinemas: the film claiming to investigate voter fraud

2000 Mules has been resoundingly debunked by factcheckers, but the film has earned praise from Trump and other Republicans

The Guardian - US

In Georgia, 2 Black candidates to compete for Senate seat

Georgia still struggles with its history of slavery, segregation and racial injustice, but voters in the Deep South state have for the first time selected two Black candidates to represent the major parties in a U.S. Senate race

The Independent UK

How undated ballots could affect Pennsylvania's GOP Senate race and voters' rights

Mail-in ballots that arrived on time but in envelopes missing dates handwritten by voters have been a flashpoint in recent elections in the key swing state, including a close Republican primary race.

WEKU

Mapped: Expats kick off French legislative elections with online voting

Most voters will head to the polls for France's legislative elections on June 12 and 19. But for French residents abroad – who have had representatives of their own in the lower-house National Assembly since 2012 – the vote kicks off online on Friday. French expatriates, who are the only…

France 24

Oregon ballot fiasco spotlights clerk's troubled 20-year run

Voters in an Oregon county where a ballot-printing error has delayed primary results for nearly two weeks have elected the same county clerk five times in the past 20 years despite missteps that impacted two previous elections and cost taxpayers $100,000

The Independent UK

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Fake documents case: Six more agents arrested

PUNE: After arresting a Buldhana-based property agent on May 14 for making fake voter IDs and PAN cards, the city crime branch officials arrested six more agents in the same case.

Tribune News Service

Board of canvassers deadlocks, blocking 5 candidates for governor from ballot

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's Board of State Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 Thursday, keeping, for now, five GOP candidates for governor who were entangled in an alleged wave of petition forgeries off the August primary ballot.

ABC News

Central Queensland's LNP voters wait and watch new Labor government's policies on coal

Liberal National Party voters in central Queensland coal country are worried about the impacts of a Labor government on their livelihoods.

Tribune News Service

State ballot initiatives on health focus on abortion, drugs

WASHINGTON — It’s still early, but so far at least eight of the estimated 90 state initiatives that voters will decide on this year are related to health, including four amendments — the most ever in one year — related to abortion access.

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Chinese-Australian Voters Ditched The Libs In Droves After All That Anti-China Scaremongering

Some of the Liberal Party’s biggest losses this election were in seats with big Chinese-Australian voter populations so it looks like all the anti-China rhetoric did some damage. What a surprise.The voter swing away from the Liberal Party in some inner Sydney and Melbourne suburbs home to many Chinese-Australian residents…

Chicago Sun-Times

America needs a national conversation on race

The rise in racial hate crimes, white nationalism and voter suppression will pave our way out of democracy if we can’t achieve some consensus on race and racism

Tribune News Service

Check your polling place: Redistricting confused some voters

After sporadic reports of voter confusion in the early months of the primary season, local election officials and voting rights advocates are urging voters to double-check polling place locations and other critical election information before they try to vote this year.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Democrats are trying to wake up disaffected voters by calling Doug Mastriano an existential threat

PHILADELPHIA — Democrats are sounding the alarm. In the days since State Sen. Doug Mastriano decisively clinched the Republican nomination for governor, progressive groups, labor unions, and liberal elected officials have framed the midterm election in existential terms.

Axios

Republicans parade Georgia's record early turnout for renewed "election integrity" push

Democrats say the high turnout does not prove voter suppression has not occurred.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Prepare to say goodbye to Missouri’s presidential primary election

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri voters won’t get a chance to head to the polls in the 2024 presidential primary if Gov. Mike Parson signs off on legislation altering state election laws.

The Independent UK

Fresh party details emerge as Boris Johnson braces himself for explosive Sue Gray report

‘The whole thing is rotten, he’s got to go’ says senior Tory as scandal deepens

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