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With Pennsylvania s primary election less than 60 days away, a nonpartisan group is stepping up the pace to educate people on voting by mail and by absentee ballot. The redesigned mail-in ballot will debut statewide in April for more than eight-million registered voters. The ballot materials have a barcode, so no individual voter can be identified, said Jessica Myers, who co-chairs the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania s voter services. .
Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed new congressional maps into law. The move comes a few days after Democrats in the legislature rejected maps drawn by the state s Independent Redistricting Commission. .
South Dakota is once again at the center of a debate about the future of direct democracy. A legislative plan would shake up signature rules for citizen-led ballot initiatives. Now making its way through the state Senate, the plan would create a process for people who want their signature removed from a petition for a statewide ballot question. .
More than 100,000 people voted "uncommitted" in Michigan s presidential primary. What happens next will be, at least in part, up to President Joe Biden. The aim of some voters was to show the President his support for the Israeli government s war in Gaza is a decisive factor within the Muslim, Arab American and pro-Palestinian communities. .