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...Rights Act of 1965, Alaska is one of the states required to gain federal approval before applying any change in its election laws. That's because of past discrimination, especially against Native voters.That requirement - which is under review...
...prefiled several other bills ahead of the upcoming session, is not the only legislator proposing changes to state elections law.Reps. Bob Lynn, R-Anchorage, and Wes Keller, R-Wasilla, are co-sponsors of House Bill 3, legislation...
...vote for president. But the moment passed.Now a legislator in Pennsylvania is proposing a change in that state's election law that would bring the presidential vote there closer to the one-person, one-vote principle that is at the heart...
...square. He was once again facing a splintered opposition, dividing its ballots between two candidates, and Nicaraguan election law permits a candidate to be elected with as little as 35 percent of the vote.But that wouldn't have given him the...
...deliberate next week as they try to decide whether an air service owned by an opponent of a proposed mining project broke election laws by flying candidates into remote Southwest Alaska villages to campaign.The Alaska Public Offices Commission was unable...
...elections and everything to do with concentrating political power in fewer and fewer hands.As a former prosecutor of election-law violations in Chicago, I know a little something about election fraud. But what I found in years of pursuing cases...
...conducted on the Internet. It's also working to get on all ballots nationwide - which may be a tall order given election laws that protect the duopoly in Pennsylvania and many other states. The goal is to seize the middle ground - what Colin...
...boxes were not adequately secured and votes may have been changed or otherwise tampered with.Changes made to state elections law by the Alaska Legislature during the last session leave the state still susceptible to election fraud, he said...
...hearing on Monday to consider a request for expedited consideration of the complaint, which says Ramras violated state election law. The primary is Tuesday. Ramras is in a close race with Mead Treadwell for the Republican nomination for lieutenant...
...contested primary races, Ruedrich said. The Alaskan Independence Party has six candidates for governor. Under a new election law, voters can no longer switch their party affiliation at the polls. Instead, voters must make the switch 30 days before...