Tag: voters rights
MAGA-allied Georgia Election Board votes to hand-count ballots: Move could throw...
Voting rights advocates say hand-counting ballots is more time-consuming and could also introduce errors compared to the use of standard voting machines.
Vote by mail: Head of Postal Union says mailed ballots are...
“We’re talking now about basic access to the ballot box. The Post Office is the most trusted federal agency.”
‘We teach, we vote!:’ 10,000 teachers rise up against Republican legislature...
Led by the grassroots group SC for Ed, teachers from across the traditionally deep red state took personal days to stage the walkout.
Voter registration is inherently racist
And several other reasons that the midterm elections are testing how far some states can go in disenfranchising certain voters.
Are you on the list?
Even if a person is eligible, their names could be on the voter purge list after research from the Brennan Center for Justice in New York confirmed an upward trend of voter roll purges as the midterm elections are fast approaching.
New poll indicates Democratic women are most motivated voting group ahead...
Experts are hoping that the group "most motivated" to vote above all others will "form the battle lines for this fall’s midterm elections."
Meet Crystal Mason, the black Texas mother facing 5+ years in...
Crystal Mason cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election despite having a past felony conviction for tax fraud that prevented her from voting.
West Virginia teachers help vote out longtime foe of state’s unions
The teachers handed Republican state Sen. Robert Karnes his defeat as many participated in the GOP primary.
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Mississippi pension fund sues Apollo Global Management over downplayed Epstein ties
The fund manages retirement savings for hundreds of thousands of Mississippi teachers, police officers and other public workers, and a shareholder case like it can force a company to hand over internal records.
Watchdog reporting examines a pension officer’s fossil fuel trades and a fire truck monopoly
The Lever's latest investigations trace a California retirement chief's oil and gas stock trading and a spreading set of antitrust suits over who builds America's fire engines.
ProPublica journalists strike over AI policy, exposing labor fault lines inside investigative media
The NewsGuild says two years of bargaining stalled over job security and artificial intelligence, and the union has taken its case to federal labor regulators.
U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant
We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
The Movement Against Big Tech’s Flock Cameras Transcends Partisanship—and It’s Winning
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.