“Democratic leaders and activists are urgently stepping up pressure on Sen. Joe Manchin to support legislation to fight Republican-led voting restrictions across the country, with party officials increasingly concluding that the battle over voting rights could come down to what the centrist Democrat from West Virginia does,” the Washington Post reports.
Biden Taps Harris to Push for Voting Protections
“President Biden vowed to ramp up efforts to fight voter suppression laws Tuesday as he commemorated the 100th anniversary of the massacre here that ravaged a once-prosperous Black business district and neighborhood,” the Washington Post reports.
“Biden announced he was tapping Vice President Harris to lead the administration’s work to protect voting rights and assailed the Republican-led efforts to restrict voting rights in states across the country.”
Said Biden: “This sacred right is under assault with incredible intensity like I’ve never seen.”
272,000 Georgia Voters Don’t Have Voter ID on File
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Over 272,000 registered voters don’t have a driver’s license or state ID on file with election officials, meaning they’d have to submit additional documents to vote by mail under Georgia’s new voting law, state election records show.”
“The ID requirements disproportionately affect Black voters, who are much less likely than white voters to have ID numbers matched to their voter registrations, according to election data.”
‘Democracy Vouchers’ Boost Political Newcomers
“Andrew Grant Houston isn’t a typical big-money candidate for mayor with decades-old connections and wealthy donors on speed dial. He’s 32, moved to Seattle only five years ago, supports defunding the police and has estimated his net worth as zero,” the Seattle Times reports.
“But Houston has raised about as much money as any other candidate ahead of the Aug. 3 top-two primary election, piling up hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
Said Houston: “I would say that without the democracy voucher program, I would not be able to run my campaign.”
Texas Democrats Block Passage of Voting Bill
“The sweeping overhaul of Texas elections and voter access was poised from the beginning of the session to pass into law. It had the backing of Republican leaders in both chambers of the Legislature. It had support from the governor,” the Texas Tribune reports.
“Democrats who opposed the bill, chiding it as a naked attempt of voter suppression, were simply outnumbered.”
“But on Sunday night, with an hour left for the Legislature to give final approval to the bill, Democrats staged a walkout, preventing a vote on the legislation before a fatal deadline.”
The Austin American Statesman reports Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vowed to bring lawmakers back in a special session.
Texas Republicans Finalize Strictest Voting Bill
“Texas lawmakers on Saturday finished drafting a bill that would impose a raft of new voting restrictions, setting up the likely passage of what would be among the most far-reaching laws in Republicans’ nationwide drive to overhaul elections systems and limit voting,” the New York Times reports.
“The bill would tighten what are already some of the country’s strictest voting laws, and it would specifically target balloting methods that were employed for the first time last year by Harris County, home to Houston.”
How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Impact NYC Mayoral Race
Nate Cohn: “New York City will use a ranking system in the mayor’s race for the first time. A phenomenon known as ‘ballot exhaustion,’ when every candidate ranked by a voter has been eliminated, could prove decisive.”
Schumer Will Force Vote on Election Overhaul
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) said Friday he is planning to force a vote next month on a sweeping bill to overhaul elections, setting the stage for a high-profile clash over the filibuster, The Hill reports.
Axios: “The sprawling voting reform and anti-corruption legislation is viewed as a top priority for Democrats, who are seeking to combat the wave of restrictive voting bills making their way through Republican state legislatures across the country.”
Arizona Secretary of State Stripped of Roles
“Political score-settling is not supposed to be part of the budgeting process, but you will have a hard time convincing Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee of that,” ABC Arizona reports.
“On Tuesday morning, the Appropriations Committee stripped Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) of her ability to defend election lawsuits. It gave the power exclusively to the Attorney General.”
Delaying Special Elections Is New Partisan Tactic
Nathaniel Rakich: “Take a look at the 10 House seats that have sat vacant the longest since 1997. Nine of them have something in common: Not only did the vacancies take place in the past 10 years, but the representatives who vacated the seats did not belong to the same party as the governors of their states.”
“This lopsided difference suggests that governors are increasingly delaying special elections to deprive their political opponents of a voice and vote in the House.”
Experienced Auditor Never Heard Back on Arizona Bid
Associated Press: “In early March, a Boston-based vote-counting firm called Clear Ballot Group sent a bid to Arizona’s state Senate to audit the 2020 presidential election results in Maricopa County. The firm has conducted more than 200 such audits over 13 years in business.”
“He never heard back, he says.”
“Instead, the state Senate hired a small Florida-based cybersecurity firm known as Cyber Ninjas that had not placed a formal bid for the contract and had no experience with election audits.”
Arizona Governor Won’t Say If He Approves of ‘Audit’
Arizona Republic: “Ducey has stayed away from the issue, even as the audit has raised concerns from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Republican county recorder, a bipartisan array of election officials from across the country and plenty of his own constituents.”
“Asked again to weigh in last week, Ducey’s spokesperson said ‘nothing has changed; from March, when Ducey said he wanted to wait until the results of the audit are released to say whether he supports it.'”
Did ‘Smooth’ Election Cost Texas Official Her Job?
“Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughs (R) announced her resignation after Republicans in the Senate declined to confirm her appointment by Gov. Greg Abbott (R),” the Houston Chronicle reports.
“While Republicans have not publicly expressed any lack of faith in Hughs, Democrats point to her office’s assertion that Texas had a ‘smooth and secure’ election in 2020.”
They Tried to Overturn Election, Now Want to Run One
At least four Republican lawmakers who sought to undercut or overturn the 2020 presidential election are launching campaigns to become the top election official in key states that could decide control of Congress in 2022 — and who wins the White House in 2024, Politico reports.
Texas GOP Would Curtail Urban Voting Places
Texas Tribune: “The number of Election Day polling places in largely Democratic parts of major Texas counties would fall dramatically under a Republican proposal to change how Texas polling sites are distributed… Voting options would be curtailed most in areas with higher shares of voters of color.”
How the Push to Restrict Voting Could Impact Elections
Geoffrey Skelley: “In many ways, the most concerning change our elections face may not be any one law, but rather the GOP’s increased willingness to take such anti-democratic actions.”
27 Possible Voter Fraud Cases In 3 Million Ballots
“Wisconsin election officials identified just 27 potential cases of voter fraud out of 3.3 million ballots cast in the November presidential election and forwarded them to local district attorneys for possible prosecution,” the AP reports.
GOP Moves to Restrict Ballot Initiatives
New York Times: “While they have been a tool of both parties in the past, Democrats have been particularly successful in recent years at using ballot initiatives to advance their agenda in conservative states where they have few other avenues.”
“But this year, Republican-led legislatures in Florida, Idaho, South Dakota and other states have passed laws limiting the use of the practice, one piece of a broader G.O.P. attempt to lock in political control for years to come, along with new laws to restrict voting access and the partisan redrawing of congressional districts that will take place in the coming months.”
“So far in 2021, Republicans have introduced 144 bills to restrict the ballot initiative processes in 32 states.”
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