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Apr 18 2024
News
Durham plans to ask voters for $200M for pools, parks, streets and sidewalks
City leaders plan to place a $200 million bond referendum on the November ballot to improve Durham’s parks, streets and sidewalks. The City Council told staff Thursday to begin the paperwork ahead of a May deadline for the 2024 election cycle. If passed, the bond could add 3.45 cents per $100 of assessed value to the city property tax rate starting in 2026 and slowly dropping off over the next
The Herald-SunNov 04 2022
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North Carolina reports possible voter intimidation, threats ahead of midterm elections
North Carolina officials have registered 14 instances of potential intimidation or interference with voters and election workers in the run-up to Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections, according to records provided to Reuters on Friday.
The alleged incidents come as grassroots poll observers, many recruited by prominent Republican Party figures and activists, fan out in the lead-up to
ReutersApr 18 2024
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Focus groups: Swing voters don't know PA Senate candidates
Bob Casey and David McCormick will face off in one of the nation's most expensive and competitive Senate races — and yet few Pennsylvania swing voters know who they are, according to our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups. Why it matters: Political observers were split over the significance of that dynamic, telling Axios that swing voters are sometimes low-information voters who'll tune into
AxiosApr 15 2024
Fact Check
Viral Claim Inflates Number of New Voters in Three States
A claim on social media misrepresents the number of people who have registered to vote in three states in 2024 and suggests the new voters are immigrants in the country illegally. There have been 194,000 newly registered voters in those states — not 2 million — and there’s no evidence they are immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
About 194,000 new voters have registered since the beginning
FactCheck.orgApr 15 2024
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N.J. school district asking voters to save courtesy busing
Voters in a Middlesex County school district will decide Tuesday whether approximately 1,600 students will remain eligible for free busing in September. The K-12 Monroe school district is asking voters via a special ballot question to approve nearly $2.77 million to add to the 2024-25 school budget. The ballot question is required by New Jersey law when school districts want to raise school
nj.comOct 22 2020
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DNI Ratcliffe: Iran Using Americans’ Voter Info to ‘Intimidate’ Voters and ‘Damage President Trump’
The Iranian regime is behind spoof emails sent to Americans, “designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest, and damage President Trump,” Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Wednesday night. He added an assurance that despite claims to the contrary in the emails, “your votes are secure.”
Ratcliffe was speaking alongside FBI Director Christopher Wray at a hastily-
CNSNews.comApr 15 2024
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Napoleon voters to decide police millage renewal in May election
JACKSON COUNTY, MI – Napoleon Township residents will decide in May whether or not to continue funding the community’s police and fire departments. A milage renewal is on the May 7 election ballot in Napoleon Township, where voters will decide if they want a levy of 2.25 mills on their property tax bills for the next five years. The milage renewal is expected to collect $642,231 to pay for
MLive.comApr 17 2024
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Decision to ask voters for higher 911 surcharge will come down to the wire
GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- The county Board of Commissioners will go down to the wire before deciding whether to ask voters for a higher telephone surcharge to support the 911 emergency dispatch system. Commissioners voted for a second time on Wednesday, April 17, to postpone a decision on whether to add the surcharge proposal to the August primary ballot, saying they still have questions about
MLive.comApr 17 2024
News
Petition drive launched to give Chicago voters power to recall mayor
Chicago Sun-TimesApr 11 2024
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: Does Voter Fraud Impact US Elections?
In the wake of Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 federal election, reports alleging widespread voter fraud gained prominence in the American media cycle.
Although theories relating to voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election may be unprecedented in scale, 2020 does not mark the first instance of public distrust in the electoral system. And though no evidence of decisive voter
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