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News Articles: Elections

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  • Technology

As social network Threads grows, voting rights groups worry about misinformation

Meta's new social network Threads now has millions of users, but it's yet to outline policies around election misinformation. This has voting rights groups worried.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Dara Kerr
Autoworker Kevin Winston, left, talks with United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain outside the General Motors Factory Zero plant in Hamtramck, Mich., on July 12.

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  • Elections

Autoworker union not giving Biden an easy ride in 2024 as contract talks pick up speed

The new UAW president says his members are being left out as the industry transitions to electric vehicles so he's applying pressure on the auto companies and the White House to do more for workers.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Don Gonyea
Melinda French Gates is funding efforts to elect more women to public office through her company, <a href="https://www.pivotalventures.org/">Pivotal Ventures</a>.

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  • Elections

Melinda French Gates calls for women's parity in political leadership

Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is funding efforts to elect more women to public office through her company, Pivotal Ventures.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
People with the group No Labels hold signs during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2011.

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  • Politics

No Labels in 2024 wants to boldly try what Americans Elect tried in 2012

The idea behind Americans Elect was to create an alternative system for finding the candidates, independent of the two major parties and based in the limitless possibilities of the internet.

July 22, 2023
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By:
  • Ron Elving
An Alabama Senate committee discusses a proposal to draw new congressional district lines on Thursday in Montgomery, Ala.

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  • Elections

Alabama lawmakers refuse to create a 2nd majority-Black congressional district

Alabama lawmakers refused to create a second majority-Black congressional district, a move that could defy an order from the U.S. Supreme Court to give minority voters a greater voice in elections.

July 21, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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  • Elections

Alabama redraws congressional map after Supreme Court rejects its current map

Alabama has to come up with a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that its current districts likely diluted the voting power of Black residents.

July 21, 2023
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By:
  • Kyle Gassiott
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Europe

The rise of the far right in Spain is putting extra pressure on the upcoming election

Spain heads to the polls this weekend in what could be one of the most important elections in years. Spain is now run by a center-left government – but the rise of the far right has many worried.

July 21, 2023
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By:
  • Miguel Macias
Florida Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference in West Columbia, S.C., on July 18.

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  • Politics

Republicans can't stop using the word 'woke'. But what does it really mean?

There's a "war on woke" on the 2024 GOP campaign trail but the term itself is full of history and meaning far beyond the culture wars.

July 21, 2023
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, center, and newly elected Conservative MP Steve Tuckwell, center right, speak at the Rumbling Tum cafe in Uxbridge, after Tuckwell won the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, west London, Friday July 21, 2023.

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  • Europe

British PM Rishi Sunak suffers 2 big defeats in U.K. special elections

The results of the British special elections, if replicated at a likely general election next year, would certainly see Labour emerge as the biggest single party.

July 21, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump dances on stage at the Turning Point Action conference on July 15.

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  • Elections

Young conservatives board the 'Trump Train' to 2024

Former President Donald Trump enjoyed massive support during a recent gathering of conservative youth and young activists ahead of the 2024 election.

July 21, 2023
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By:
  • Elena Moore
The U.S. Supreme Court has used a vague legal idea known as the "Purcell principle" to justify delaying the redrawing of voting maps, which has forced some elections to use voting districts that lower courts found to be illegally drawn.

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  • Elections

Illegal voting maps were used in some states in 2022. This legal idea allowed them

The U.S. Supreme Court has used an obscure legal idea to justify delaying the redrawing of voting maps, forcing some elections to use voting districts that lower courts found to be illegally drawn.

July 20, 2023
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a Farmers for Trump campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa on July 7.

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  • Law

Here's where the criminal and civil cases facing Trump stand

Former President Donald Trump faces a number of criminal charges in two cases — but that may not be all, as he faces scrutiny in other probes. This all comes as Trump is running for president.

July 20, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A supporter of former President Donald Trump speaks into a megaphone as supporters gather in Tropical Park in Miami, to convoy to his Mar-A-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla., June 11.

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  • Elections

Three Florida men are on the ballot in 2024. Voters there still want Trump

In a statewide poll released this month, former President Trump led a crowded field of contenders for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was among those trailing Trump.

July 20, 2023
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel walks to her seat before the State of the State address on Jan. 25 at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich.

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  • Elections

Michigan's attorney general charges 16 people in fake elector scheme

The so-called fake electors signed documents falsely attesting that Donald Trump won the state in the 2020 election.

July 18, 2023
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By:
  • NPR's Washington Desk
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asks a question during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 9.

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  • Elections

Democrats eye Sen. Ted Cruz's seat in Republican-dominated Texas as a possible flip

Democrats are facing a tough U.S. Senate map in 2024 so they are eyeing some tough-to-win states for possible pickups, starting with Texas.

July 18, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
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