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3 天之前 · Ongoing negotiations between tribal leaders and Colorado officials may chart a new path for automatically registering Native voters and growing voter rolls nationwide. But first the state is having to confront a legacy of mistrust. Bolts is a digital magazine that covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up.
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About Us. Bolts covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up. We report on the local elections and obscure institutions that shape public policy but are dangerously overlooked in the U.S., and the grassroots movements that are targeting them. We focus on two areas where local governments play a key role: criminal ...
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2024 General Elections - Bolts
Enter our annual cheat sheet to help you track this busy general election. On this page, we have identified 540 elections (and counting) up and down the ballot, and why they matter. This includes powerful officials, from U.S. senators and state supreme courts to sheriffs and mayors, plus dozens of ballot measures. Our printable worksheet.
Downballot Stakes: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
2024年10月23日 · Our team at Bolts has spent much of the last year reporting on the stakes of the 2024 elections. Then last month, we turned the mic over to you: As part of our series “Ask Bolts,” we invited you to send us your questions about what is brewing in November. I answered six of your questions in the first part of our mailbag two weeks ago, from the role of state auditors to the most pivotal ...
What’s on the Ballot - Bolts
2024年9月5日 · There are thousands of public officials, elected on vastly varying schedules, with decisive roles in policy-making. Our cheat sheets and databases offer readers a collection of resources that clarify who has the power to do what, and how they come to be in power in the first place. Created in 2018 by Daniel Nichanian, What’s on the Ballot ...
Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open …
1 天前 · Alaskans appear to have narrowly rejected Measure 2, a ballot initiative that would have repealed the state’s open primary and ranked-choice voting system. The system, first approved by voters in 2020, quickly drew Republican opposition after a Democrat flipped the state’s single U.S. House seat in 2022, the first time it was used.
Elections for Mississippi Supreme Court Leave the Rights of …
3 天之前 · Mississippi voters have dealt defeat to one conservative state Supreme Court justice and forced a moderate justice into a Nov. 26 runoff, with the final outcome possibly making the court more open to considering the rights of criminal defendants. The nine-member court is largely conservative but justices have recently split in high-profile ...
Voting Rights - Bolts
2024年8月28日 · On Native Land, a New Push to Expand Voting Meets the Long Tail of State Violence. Alex Burness, Alex Burness, Ongoing negotiations between tribal leaders and Colorado officials may chart a new path for automatically registering Native voters and growing voter rolls nationwide. But first the state is having to confront a legacy of mistrust.
Anti-Gerrymandering Groups Warn That Ohio’s Ballot Language Is ...
2024年10月28日 · In response to the criticism that some voters feel tricked by this characterization, a spokesperson for Ohio Works has said that, “If people go in and intend to vote for Issue 1, read the ballot language and vote no, they are not confused.”. But Kwon, the comic book writer, gives this warning to other Ohio voters: “Be careful.
A Revamped Ballot Design Jumpstarts Democracy in New Jersey
2024年5月31日 · As New Jersey Democrats vote in Tuesday’s primaries, they’ll encounter a revamped ballot, stripped of a unique design that critics say has given party leaders the ability to hand-select primary winners. To people living anywhere else in the nation, the new ballot would look very familiar. Offices will appear on the ballot as distinct blocks ...