#early-voting

#early-voting

By Sarah Belle Lin Posted on June 15, 2023 Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams CUNY campuses will once again serve as early voting polling sites for the upcoming primary election.Ten colleges in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens will open from Saturday, June 17 to Sunday, June 25.

RALEIGH, NC - Southern Coalition for Social Justice condemns North Carolina Republicans' sweeping omnibus elections bill as a coordinated attack on our state's voting system that will make it harder for all North Carolinians to vote, and leave many North Carolinians unable to vote at all.Senate Bill 747 is an attempt to undermine our democracy through technicalities and needless complications, constructing a multitude of unnecessary burdens on the right to vote and mandating that our hardworking elections officials implement these changes in a condensed time frame with zero additional support.

With early vote numbers in, Austin voters have seemingly decided the future of police oversight at the Austin Police Department.Proposition A, which would expand oversight, had an immense lead in early voting results - 80% of voters supported the measure.Proposition B, which would curtail citizen oversight and was backed by the city's police union, was voted down by 81% of early voters.

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 by Elizabeth Pagano
In some of the least-surprising news Tuesday night had to offer, City Council incumbents Natasha Harper-Madison and Paige Ellis both held on to their seats in decisive victories over their opponents.In District 1, Harper-Madison, who has served on Council since 2019 and was mayor pro tem in 2021, ended the night with almost 54 percent of the total vote.

For those candidates who didn't win outright in the Feb. 28 Chicago election by securing more than 50% of the vote, there is one more election in Chicago - the runoff on April 4 - where the top two vote-getters in the race for mayor and more than a dozen aldermanic races will face off one last time.

The Chicago Board of Ethics decided Monday more thorough investigations needed to be done before rendering judgment about whether Mayor Lori Lightfoot's campaign violated local ethics rules when it solicited Chicago public school teachers to encourage students to help her reelection efforts.The board tasked the inspectors general for both City Hall and Chicago Public Schools to conduct investigations into the matter, even though both offices were already aware of or probing the matter.

Vote Texas Here's where you can cast your ballot for the runoff election in Central Texas.Published: 11:33 AM CST December 13, 2022 Updated: 11:33 AM CST December 13, 2022 AUSTIN, Texas  Election Day for the runoff election is here and there are a select number of locations Central Texans can go to cast their vote in the ballot box.

It's been quite a year for Atlanta restaurateurs Nhan Le And Skip Engelbrecht, which included the breakout successful of seafood market and cafe Fishmonger, leading to a second location this fall, and the closure of critically acclaimed restaurant 8ARM on Ponce.But 2022 is ending on an even higher note than Le and Engelbrecht could have imagined, after serving former President Barack Obama Fishmonger's best selling fish filet prior to a rally Thursday for Senator Raphael Warnock (D, incumbent).

Herschel Walker, former NFL star turned Republican nominee for Georgia senator, has not spoken to reporters on the campaign trail in nearly two months, according to reporting from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution .While he has granted interview requests to news agencies that frequently platform right-wing talking points , Walker has refused to speak with media at public events in his campaign to win the runoff election contest against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) - a move that is unusual, as "earned media" is considered a vital part of any political campaign .

It turns out that the Land of Lincoln is not entirely immune to the contagion of election denialism and voter suppression.Nationally, hundreds of election deniers are running for office; some of them refuse to say they'll accept the results of their elections.Election officials across the country are bracing for possible disruption by extremist groups planning "aggressive poll watching."

In Ohio, the secretary of state, Frank LaRose, has set up a team to spot and quash falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the election before they go viral online.His effort is one of several misinformation rapid response teams run by state and local elections officials across the nation, underscoring how problematic online disinformation has become to the security of elections.

In 2018, Atlantans flocked to the ballot box to vote overwhelmingly in favor of the Brunch Bill, allowing restaurants across the city to begin serving alcohol at 11 a.m. on Sunday mornings.And now, package stores, grocery stores, and wine shops throughout Atlanta could soon join them, finally throwing off one of the last vestiges of Georgia's archaic Sunday blue laws.