The ballot measure would not allow for use of tribal IDs when voting, creating ‘incongruency’ in the law, according to Maine’s secretary of state.
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Maine likely to remain in compact to choose presidents based on national popular vote
The Senate voted 18-16 against having Maine leave the multistate compact it joined last year pledging to give all of its electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationwide, if the compact is enacted.
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Lawmaker and secretary of state clash over constitutional amendment on voting by noncitizens
Rep. Laurel Libby told fellow lawmakers that her proposal would boost the integrity of Maine’s elections, though opponents, including the Maine secretary of state, say it’s unnecessary and could foster anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Supreme Court allows Arizona voter-registration law requiring proof of citizenship
Arizona election officials must reject state registration forms if voters don’t provide documentation of citizenship.
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From Augusta: Honoring Maine’s suffragettes and voting rights
On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, determining the right to vote in elections should not be based on an individual’s sex and effectively giving women the right to vote. Voting rights for women came after decades and generations of protest through civil disobedience, marches, lobbying and so much […]
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Trump’s case casts spotlight on movement to restore voting rights to those convicted of felonies
The movement to let people convicted of felonies vote once they’re done serving their sentence has been growing in recent years and is sometimes the rare issue that generates bipartisan support.
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Kamala Harris leads Bloody Sunday memorial as marchers’ voices ring out for voting rights
She criticized attempts to restrict voting, including limits on absentee voting and early voting, and said the nation is again at a crossroad.
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Federal court deals blow to Voting Rights Act, ruling that private plaintiffs can’t sue
The 2-1 decision found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce the section of the Voting Rights Act that requires political maps to include districts where minority populations’ preferred candidates can win elections.
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Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power
The federal judges said in the order that they are ‘deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires.’
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Deep partisanship will be on display as Congress releases competing voting bills
Even as the country prepares for the next presidential election, the separate measures will underscore how the 2 major parties often are completely at odds over voting procedures.