Counting was underway on Thursday in the Solomon Islands after a national election a day earlier, although electoral officials said they were searching for a larger venue in the Pacific Island capital Honiara to count votes. The parliamentary election is the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare struck a security pact with China in 2022 and drew the Pacific Islands …
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America is split in political party affiliation heading into the 2024 presidential election, seeing one of the most evenly split electorates in the past two decades, resurfaced research reveals. A Pew Research Center analysis examined voter identification across different ages, races, religions and education levels, comparing how voters identified in 1996 to new data from 2023. Fifty-one percent of Americans …
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We’ve seen impeachment trials a lot on Capitol Hill in recent years. The Senate conducted two impeachment trials of former President Trump in early 2020 and early 2021. But no living American has ever witnessed the impeachment trial which is about to begin in the United States Senate. Blink and you might miss it. The House impeached Homeland Security Secretary …
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New Jersey county clerks have withdrawn their appeals to a federal court ruling requiring them to redraw primary election ballots that some argued favored candidates backed by the state’s Democratic Party. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals based in Philadelphia dismissed the appeals on Friday in response to the clerks’ action. U.S. Judge Zahid Quraishi had ordered Democrats to scrap …
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disavows an email that spoke sympathetically of Jan. 6 protesters. The fundraising message — sent on Thursday and titled “We Must Free Assange!” — made a passing comment in support of those sentenced for participation in the riot at the Capitol. “This is the reality that every American Citizen faces — from Ed …
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A coalition of activist groups in Alabama are suing to overturn a new law that places restrictions on who can receive payment for handling ballots. The groups are challenging SB1’s ban on paying or receiving payment to distribute or collect ballot applications. The activists allege that the ban on payment compromises the voting capacity of disabled and elderly individuals who …
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An attempt to make Nebraska’s elections into a “winner-take-all” system failed this week. State Sen. Julie Slama attached the proposed election overhaul to the unrelated bill LB1300 on Wednesday in an attempt to make the change before the end of the legislative session on April 18. It fell short of the 23 necessary votes, failing with a final 8-36 count. …
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The media are filled with chatter, prognostication and speculation about what another Trump term would look like. This is in part because he has a good shot at winning–something the press didn’t believe a few short months ago–and because we basically know what a second Biden term would look like. That’s the lot of an incumbent president – Biden can …
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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers urged the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that banned absentee ballot drop boxes beyond the confines of election clerks’ offices in the presidential battleground state. In a filing the day of Wisconsin’s presidential primary, Evers asked the court to overturn a 2022 ruling that limited drop box locations. Former President Donald Trump …
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There was the deepfake audio robocall of President Biden telling you to hold your vote. And just last week, a phony video of Donald Trump with Black voters made the rounds. AI deepfakes are a massive problem this election season, and it’s easy to get taken — especially when your news and social feeds are full of this junk. By …
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