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La Casa Bianca ha declassificato centinaia di documenti segreti per denunciare le vulnerabilità del voto e accusare la Cina. Tuttavia, le analisi ufficiali dei servizi segreti USA dicono che a fare propaganda per favorire Trump e danneggiare Biden è stata la Russia, mentre su Pechino non c'è alcuna prova di interferenza diretta.

Las Vegas is known for its glamorous array of entertainment, extravagant venues and big-name performers. However, when it comes to the music scene, there is much more to the city than trendy concert halls and household names.

The first three prosecutors of the International Criminal Court have failed to be of high moral character. On July 24, the ICC Assembly of State Parties is meant to decide on the fate of Karim Khan. And it raises more questions than answers. L’article What’s wrong with ICC prosecutors? est apparu en premier sur JusticeInfo.net.

The controversial former leader of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol will headline a mass deportation rally in Fishers on Aug. 1,  with a counter protest planned for the same day. Greg Bovino, once the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign, will speak at the invitation-only rally and a private dinner in Carmel organized […]

Zander Zephier was killed in 2024 after law enforcement used pepper spray and entered the basement of his family's home on the Yankton Sioux Reservation.

With classes starting next month, Louisiana school districts still don’t know how many of them, if any, will be exempt from having to pay $2,000 teacher stipends out of their existing state funds.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here.You did everything right: You voted early, putting that absentee ballot in the mail or dropping it in a local drop box to ensure your vote was counted.Then your candidate dropped out. What on earth are you supposed to do now?Many Michigan voters may be asking that question this month after Democratic Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox both suspended their campaigns. Mail ballots for the Aug. 4 primary have been available since late June, so there are almost certainly McMorrow and Cox supporters who have already voted. If you’re one of those people, all is not lost. Michigan law gives you the right to cancel (or, in legal parlance, spoil) your ballot and cast a new one. You don’t even need to give a reason why — so it doesn’t matter if it’s because your candidate dropped out or because you realized too late there was some other problem with your ballot.How to spoil your ballot depends on whether you’ve already submitted it.If so, you’ll need to sign and submit a written request to your township or city clerk (not your county clerk!) by the end of the day on Friday, July 24. That’s the day your request needs to be received by the clerk — not the day it needs to be postmarked.That date may seem kind of early, but it makes sense when you consider other parts of Michigan election law. Statewide early voting begins Saturday, July 25. And communities with more than 5,000 people are allowed to start preprocessing absentee ballots eight days before the election, which for the primary is Monday, July 27. Preprocessing allows for everything but the actual counting of the votes — taking in the ballots, verifying signatures, opening the envelopes, and even putting ballots in the tabulator, which will eventually scan and count them.As soon as your absentee ballot is removed from its envelope, it is no longer tied to you, so it can’t be taken back or changed. Clerks largely appreciate the option to process ballots before Election Day, because it means faster results, but it does limit your window to request a new ballot.If you’ve already filled out your ballot but not yet turned it in, you have a few more options. You can go in person to an early voting location or to your polling place on Election Day and surrender your absentee ballot, at which point election workers will spoil it and give you a new one to vote there and then. Alternatively, you can go to your local clerk’s office and fill out the same written, signed request to spoil your unsubmitted absentee ballot and get a new one. Hayley Harding is a reporter for Votebeat based in Michigan. Contact Hayley at hharding@votebeat.org.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here.Wisconsin election officials may reignite a legal battle over absentee voting with a July guidance stating that voters cannot void a returned absentee ballot and cast a new one, even if Election Day is weeks away or the candidate they supported has dropped out. It’s the latest development in a legal dispute that began in 2022 and was reopened by an appeals court decision earlier this year. The new guideline for clerks, adopted by the Wisconsin Elections Commission earlier this month, reverses the commission’s previous position and Attorney General Josh Kaul’s legal arguments on the agency’s behalf that voters should be allowed to replace absentee ballots they have already returned as long as they comply with statutory deadlines.The WEC spent years arguing in court in favor of that broader definition of ballot spoiling, but its latest guidance effectively restores the rule imposed by a 2022 court ruling that banned the practice.The commission adopted the guidance on July 9, after clerks had already mailed ballots for the August 11 primary and, notably, after multiple candidates in the crowded Democratic gubernatorial race dropped their bids. “It is hard to imagine given the circumstances — the timing and what’s happening in the primary election — that we’ve heard the last of this,” said Jeff Mandell, founder of the liberal law firm Law Forward. “It seems to me exceedingly likely that this is something that people are going to keep fighting about.”He added that the timing of the guidance was unusual: Typically courts are skeptical of efforts to change rules close to an election. Some absentee voters in this election cycle probably cast their ballots under the assumption that they could spoil their ballot and cast a new one if their preferred candidate dropped out or they just wanted to change their vote, Mandell said.Even if the commission’s guidance is in line with Wisconsin law, it creates a clear discrepancy between in-person Election Day and absentee voters, said Sam Liebert, the Wisconsin state director of All Voting is Local and a former municipal clerk. Election Day voters can receive up to three ballots at the polls if they make a mistake, he pointed out. On the other hand, he said, absentee voters now get no second chance once they return their ballots, even if Election Day hasn’t arrived yet.“The inconsistency is hard to ignore,” he said, and it presents a policy question for the Legislature — or maybe the courts.Spoiling controversy blew up amid similar political dynamics in the 2022 primaryThe WEC’s more permissive August 2022 guidance on ballot spoiling was prompted by similar dynamics as that of the present: highly contested primaries with candidates dropping out throughout the race and at the last minute. In September 2022, GOP voter Nancy Kormanik sued over that guidance allowing absentee ballot spoiling, arguing that clerks can only reissue an absentee ballot if a voter returns their absentee ballot in a “spoiled or damaged” condition. Voiding a ballot that’s already been submitted and getting a new one over a voter’s own mistake or a candidate dropping out didn’t fall under that category, she argued.Kaul, the state’s Democratic attorney general, saw the issue differently. A few different laws allow ballot spoiling, he said in a court filing, and “none requires the elector to explain how or why the ballot is ‘spoiled.’”Siding with Kormanik, a lower court banned the practice of spoiling absentee ballots in October.The ban stood until February of this year, when an appeals court vacated the lower court ruling. But the new ruling wasn’t on the merits of the case. Rather, it came because the court said Kormanik didn’t properly serve documents to a legislative committee at the start of the suit.After the February ruling, clerks sought the commission’s updated guidance about how to deal with spoiling. They didn’t receive it in time for the Wisconsin Supreme Court election in April, and some municipalities offered instructions on how to spoil ballots. But with midterm primaries coming up — and particularly as rumors of gubernatorial candidates dropping out swirled — clerks were especially eager to know if the commission planned to stand by its earlier interpretation of the law and allow absentee ballot spoiling again.On July 9, the commission provided an answer: It voted 4-2 that absentee ballot spoiling is prohibited after a voter returns an absentee ballot. Democratic commissioner Carrie Riepl, a former clerk, voted with the three Republicans in favor of the guidance. Democratic commissioners Mark Thomsen and Ann Jacobs voted against it.The guidance came just one day after Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive, dropped out of the race and endorsed Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez for governor. Just over a week later, Rodriguez dropped out of the race and Crowley reentered.Over 36,000 Wisconsin voters had already returned ballots by the day the commission issued its guidance, commission data shows. Voters had returned nearly 68,000 ballots by the time Rodriguez dropped out.At the July meeting, commission chair Don Millis, a Republican, argued that voters should only be able to void — or spoil — ballots before they return them to the clerk.“Once you’ve turned your ballot in, that’s it,” he said.Meanwhile, Thomsen noted that in-person voters on Election Day can mark a ballot and receive a replacement ballot if they make an error, as long as the first ballot isn’t tabulated yet. But under the new guidance, an absentee voter couldn’t spoil a returned ballot even if it’s weeks from being tabulated.“Why are we treating people that use mail differently than me if I show up?” he said.On one hand, voters can argue that the inability to spoil ballots effectively disenfranchises them if they vote for a candidate that has since dropped out, said Bryna Godar, a staff attorney at the University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative. On the other hand, she said, others can cite the Wisconsin law calling absentee voting a privilege, not a right, and argue that voters who exercise that right accept some risk in casting an absentee vote that can’t be taken back.“The issue of whether ballot spoiling is or is not allowed under Wisconsin statutes hasn’t been definitively resolved,” she said.Alexander Shur is a reporter for Votebeat based in Wisconsin. Contact Alexander at ashur@votebeat.org.

Two former residents say they were abused by staff, while a third was assaulted under the facility’s care by a nursing home resident, according to the lawsuit.

Two Republican state representatives will face each other in a runoff election to determine the party’s candidate for Oklahoma’s next labor commissioner.

After one of CT's most expensive airplane vs. bird strikes, Danbury Municipal Airport’s team is working to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Inside a New York City immigration courtroom at 26 Federal Plaza on Friday morning, 90 people had cases before a single immigration judge. People described hastily making plans to get to court, some from hundreds of miles away, having learned about their new hearing date only days in advance. By the end of the morning, […] The post Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump ‘Mega Master’ Hearings Accelerate appeared first on The City Reporter.

The commission has met only once during Hogsett’s decade in power. One member didn’t even know he was on it. The post The city has an ethics watchdog. It hasn’t met in years under Hogsett. appeared first on Mirror Indy.

Families can pick up free clothes, shoes and backpacks at this event on East 38th Street. The post Indy church to give away school supplies at eastside block party appeared first on Mirror Indy.

The center is also seeking hygiene product donations as school gets started. The post Southeast side community center to giveaway school supplies appeared first on Mirror Indy.

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As the New Hampshire Legislature wrapped up its session this year, Republican representatives and the governor lauded the passage of a bill that is intended to stimulate the development of small modular nuclear reactors and allow our utilities to own them.  Meanwhile some bills that would further enable renewable energy managed to get through, but […]

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