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The Biden administration supported the For the People Act (also known as HR 1) which seeks to expand voting rights, reduce the influence of money in politics, limit partisan gerrymandering, and create new ethics rules for federal officeholders. The bill was passed by the House on March 3, 2021, and is currently in the Senate.
The Ethics of Voting by Jason Brennan is a book which outlines a contrasting argument to the idea that it is the civic duty of individuals within a democracy to vote. The core tenet upon which his argument resides is that the individuals who do not know what they are voting for should not feel the moral obligation to vote on issues about which they are uninformed, and that democracies would ...
Electoral integrity refers to the fairness of the entire voting process and how well the process protects against election subversion, voter suppression, and other threats to free and fair elections. The consequences of unfree or unfair elections can include doubts in the legitimacy of the outcome, loss of faith in the democratic system, and ...
Voting should be an act of conscience, not compulsion. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
Legislators passed several more voting-related laws this year, including one new law aimed at “ballot harvesting,” which makes it illegal to deliver someone else’s completed absentee ballot ...
The three-member committee of the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility, which handles attorney ethics cases in the U.S. capital, determined Clark’s conduct violated at least ...
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
A split Kansas Supreme Court ruling last week issued in a lawsuit over a 2021 election law found that voting is not a fundamental right listed in the state Constitution's Bill of Rights. The ...