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In 1911, the House of Representatives passed House Joint Resolution 39 proposing a constitutional amendment for direct election of senators. The original resolution passed by the House contained the following clause: [37] The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators shall be as prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof.
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
Direct election of Senators, established by the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, gave voters rather than state legislatures the right to elect senators. [32] White and African American women in the Territory of Alaska earn the right to vote. [33] Women in Illinois earn the right to vote in presidential elections. [27] 1914
Primary voters in the 6th Congressional District will choose a successor to Bill Johnson after the congressman stepped down in January.. The Republican primary candidates are state Sen. Michael ...
Vance had been trailing in the polls, but as a result of Trump's support, he surged to become the race's frontrunner for the first time and led in most polls up to election day. Meanwhile, State Senator Matt Dolan, who disavowed Trump's claims of voter fraud in the 2020 United States presidential election, saw a late surge after buying ad time ...
In the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump beat President Joe Biden in Louisiana with 58% of the vote. But in Bossier Parish, where Johnson lives, Trump beat Biden with 70% of the vote ...
[25]: 48–50 However, Johnson did not publicly push for the legislation at the time; his advisers warned him of political costs for vigorously pursuing a voting rights bill so soon after Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Johnson was concerned that championing voting rights would endanger his Great Society reforms by ...
Amid calls by Democrats in Wisconsin for a fake Trump elector to resign from the state’s elections commission, Sen. Ron Johnson claims Democrats have done the same thing but is unable to say ...