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Not Counting Undated Absentee Ballots May Have Determined Outcome in PA House Race

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

We’re zooming in on Bucks County, Pennsylvania today, where the initial margin in a race for Pennsylvania’s 142nd state house district was just 53 votes. But this wasn’t just any race; this was a race which would determine control of the Pennsylvania legislature.

Citizen Initiative Protecting Voting Rights Passes in Michigan

November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

Legislatures in several states worked diligently since the 2020 election to make it harder to vote. Citizens in some of those states, like Michigan, have had enough and passed a citizens’ initiative to guarantee the freedom to vote.

A New Tactic to Sow Doubt in Elections: Question the Partisan Affiliations of Poll Workers

October 10, 2022January 18, 2023

The effort to sow doubt in American elections has a new front: Questioning the partisan affiliation of poll workers. Republican National Committee lawsuits just filed in Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada – all battleground states – claim that Republicans are underrepresented as poll workers. Chief election officials are calling it disinformation.

ADM for Sept. 2, 2022: Who Dunnit? Arizona Voting Rights Initiative Dies a Suspicious Death

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022

Who-done-it fans, today we have the case of the invalidated signatures. A voting rights reform initiative in Arizona has come to a tragic end, with the victim apparently being killed by a judge, with a calculator, in the courtroom.

ADM for Sept. 1, 2022: Redistricting Stalemate in Ohio Continues; Questions Raised About State Supreme Court Justice

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022

We have two stories today from Ohio. We’re updating our series of stories about Ohio’s ongoing redistricting fiasco, and in a related story, the refusal of a justice on Ohio’s Supreme Court to recuse himself.