Election reform

Wisconsin voters ban private money, nonprofits from the election process after 2020 ‘Zuckerbucks’ controversy; spotlight now on 22 states that still allow it.

Despite GOP-led efforts to address voter fraud concerns that marred the 2020 election, an analysis of five key swing states finds little fundamental change.

Maine’s Democrat-dominated state government is in a last-ditch legal battle to stop people, for privacy’s sake, from noting errors on state voter rolls.

Maine Democrats, led by Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, are continuing their long fight to make it harder for people to access and analyze the state’s voter registration rolls.

President Joe Biden is seeking to build support for the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. He met with business and union leaders. But why do some progressive House Democrats oppose the bill? The Attorney General for Mississippi asks the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade when the court hears an abortion case later this year. The state’s earlier position was that their law wasn’t in conflict with Roe. A Texas Democrat who walked out to prevent an election bill has returned to the state to negotiate. This, while Pennsylvania Republicans give election reform another try after the governor’s veto.

Republicans block Democrats’ election reform bill via the filibuster. Why are Republicans against the bill? And what does an election reform expert have to say about it? In Texas, more illegal immigrants are choosing to take a dangerous ride, stowed away on freight trains heading north. Border patrol agents are finding more of them locked up inside baking hot cargo containers. A Senate committee is re-examining sentencing laws for cocaine. This comes as the Biden Administration pushes to eliminate disparities between crack and powder cocaine.