North Dakota is one step closer to getting a full sense of how the courts view redistricting challenges in tribal areas. Legal representatives say community-level work factored into the most recent outcome. Last week, a federal court dismissed a lawsuit filed by two GOP officials, who said North Dakota was wrong to consider race in creating a new subdistrict that encompasses the Fort Berthold reservation. .
Voters are selecting leaders for their cities and towns in Tuesday s 2023 Indiana Municipal Elections. Low voter turnout isn t unusual in many communities in these local elections. However, Hamilton County Elections Administrator Beth Sheller said it isn t a typical year in the state s fourth-largest county. .
School board elections in Idaho on Tuesday could impact what students are allowed to read. Although school board elections are often overlooked, they ve increasingly become races to watch - in part because of a rise in "book bans" that supporters say protect kids from content that some consider "obscene." Kurt Zwolfer is director of The Cabin, a center for readers and writers in Boise. He said he thinks school boards are overstepping their duties, when librarians and educators are trained to do the work of book curation. .
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A nonpartisan coalition of voting rights advocates has asked the California Secretary of State’s office to monitor upcoming elections in Shasta County because of concerns about safety
A coalition of six nonpartisan voting rights groups sent a letter to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber calling upon her office to monitor the elections in Shasta County due to concerns about safety and misinformation.