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Nation Has Georgia on Its Mind, but Many States Are Making Voting Easier
A voter in Louisville, Kentucky, votes during November’s presidential election. Kentucky enacted a law this week that adds three days of early voting.
Darron Cummings
The Associated Press
During the waning days of the presidential election, Vermont Democratic state Sen. Cheryl Hooker got a desperate call from one of her constituents: The woman said she had forgotten to sign her name on the absentee ballot, it had been rejected by the town clerk and she couldn’t fix it.
This was a familiar story around the country, as the pandemic forced voters and election administrators to take a crash course in mail-in voting.
NH Primary Source: New Nevada primary bill leaves door open for NH to remain first-in-nation
False alarm? Text of bill as rolled out ensures only that Nevada remain first in West, but we re told it will be amended Share Updated: 8:00 PM EST Feb 18, 2021
NH Primary Source: New Nevada primary bill leaves door open for NH to remain first-in-nation
False alarm? Text of bill as rolled out ensures only that Nevada remain first in West, but we re told it will be amended Share Updated: 8:00 PM EST Feb 18, 2021 New Hampshire Primary Source gives you breaking and behind-the-scenes political news by John DiStaso, the most experienced political writer in the state and a recipient of a New Hampshire Press Association Lifetime Achievement Award. To sign up for WMUR s weekly New Hampshire Primary Source and political email newsletter, which will be delivered to your inbox on Thursday at 6 a.m., click here.FALSE ALARM? The much-heralded Nevada primary bill unveiled
February 17, 2021 11:36:51 am
Nevada Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson and Assemblywomen Teresa Benitez-Thompson and Brittney Miller introduced Assembly Bill 126 Monday to move Nevada from a presidential caucus to a primary system.
Caucuses were once the most common method of choosing presidential nominees. In 2020 only four states Iowa, Nevada, North Dakota and Wyoming held either a Democratic or Republican caucus. In Nevada, the parties directly manage their respective caucuses, as opposed to state and local election offices. However, the process has come under fire lately for its long waits and lack of accessibility.
Primaries, on the other hand, are a direct, statewide process of selecting candidates and delegates. Similar to the general election process, primary voters cast secret ballots for the candidates of their choosing. The results are used to determine the configuration of delegates at the national convention of each party. AB 126 specifies that minor political partie
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) A bill that would change Nevada's presidential caucus to a primary and make it the first nominating contest in the country has been unveiled.The legislation from Nevada Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson, a Democrat, calls for Nevada to hold the primary on the second-to-last Tuesday in January.It would include 10 days of early voting that wraps up the Friday before the election.The primary would be run by the state, instead of the caucuses run by political parties, and would be a separate election from a June primary held to pick party nominees and narrow the field of candidates for federal, state and local offices.