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Georgia elections board evaluates Coffee County breach and precautions

ATLANTA — Georgia officials and the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems tried to reassure voters Wednesday that this year’s elections are secure amid a criminal investigation into election skeptics who copied data from voting equipment in Coffee County.

Tribune News Service · Sep 28, 2022

Labor has a ‘sequential’ plan to reach voters undecided on Indigenous voice, Linda Burney says

Minister says it’s important to modernise the ‘mechanics’ of how to hold a referendum before Australians are asked to vote in late 2023

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28, 2022

Lynn Schmidt: Disenfranchising real people with Missouri's new voter ID law

My adult daughter with a disability understands that most tasks are going to be harder for her to accomplish. Now she can add one more thing to her list: her fundamental right to vote.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Sep 28, 2022

As inflation skyrockets, local Texas governments ponder tax rate increases as they balance budgets

Local governments in Texas have spent the summer preparing their budgets for next year, wrestling with inflation and a law that prohibits them from raising property tax revenues beyond 3.5% without voter approval.

The Texas Tribune · Sep 27, 2022

Voters will decide 129 statewide ballot measures this November

Welcome to the Tuesday, September 27, Brew. 

Ballotpedia · Sep 27, 2022

Collective bargaining amendment brings national labor fight to Illinois ballot

Atop ballots throughout Illinois this fall, voters will be asked whether Illinois should enshrine into the state constitution the right of workers to unionize and collectively bargain, a proposal backed by organized labor to preempt future right-to-work laws but opposed by anti-union groups that contend it will raise taxes and…

Chicago Tribune · Sep 27, 2022

Meloni's Italy: How far to the right will Rome go?

How far to the right will Italy go? The new face of European politics is called Georgia Meloni. Her fascist-rooted Brothers of Italy party has swept to power, overshadowing her hard-right coalition partners Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi and routing the centre-left, which finished under 20 percent. Why did voters…

France 24 · Sep 26, 2022

Commentary: Young voters are the superheroes of democracy

The 2022 midterms are less than two months away and democracy itself is on the line. It may be our last chance to save democracy from the rise of right-wing authoritarianism.

Tribune News Service · Sep 26, 2022

The Tories’ huge gamble offers a fabulous opportunity Keir Starmer’s party must seize

Labour has a better plan for growth than Kwasi Kwarteng’s sugar-rush of tax cuts. Now it needs to pitch it to voters

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2022

JD Vance playing defense in unexpectedly close Ohio Senate race

If Republicans cannot drag Vance across the finish line, it could spell doom for the party’s hopes of flipping the Senate

The Guardian - US · Sep 25, 2022