Debate over a swing state’s presidential primary date hinges on Passover
A Democratic-supported bill to move up the primary to April 2 due to Passover faces hurdle in Pennsylvania's GOP-controlled upper chamber
A Democratic-supported bill to move up the primary to April 2 due to Passover faces hurdle in Pennsylvania's GOP-controlled upper chamber
Sarah Dowling and Justin Meszler may not be old enough to vote, but they’re making an impact in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff election. “Everyone deserves to have their voice represented in government,” Dowling said. Dowling and Meszler, both 16, are youth volunteers and organizers for “Every Voice, Every Vote,” the Reform movement’s national, non-partisan…
The acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that officials have not seen foreign actors successfully interfering in voting or ballot counting, despite efforts to do so. “We face a multitude of foreign interference threats against our election infrastructure,” from adversaries like China, Iran and Russia, said DHS Secretary Chad Wolf…
My roommate and I struck out early to vote Tuesday morning. Close to our polling place, a school in deep Brooklyn, we began to pass strangers wearing voting stickers. It wasn’t a very New York thing to do, but we waved at them, and they waved back. I couldn’t help it: despite the extenuating demands…
Half an hour before sunrise on Election Day, New York City’s 92nd Street Y opened its doors to voters. About 60 people had already gathered outside, presumably hoping to beat the crowds. “People are very excited and voting like their lives depend on it,” said Aristotle Rosario, 44, one of the poll workers stationed outside…
Throughout the turbulent last four years, various pundits have predicted either that President Donald Trump could attract unusually high numbers of Jewish votes during the 2020 election cycle — or lose many of the ones he had in 2016. As American careens toward a historic Election Day, the picture remains a bit muddled, with news…
For the past several months, actress Beanie Feldstein has been hunkering down with her parents and phonebanking up a storm. Songwriter Hannah Friedman has been composing ditties at the behest of the Biden campaign. “Queer Eye” star Tan France, when he’s not cyber-stalking Beanie Feldstein, has been telling everyone he knows to vote. All three…
The snapshot showed an elderly woman doing what thousands of Americans are doing this week: mailing her ballot for the presidential election. Yet it also captured the surreal nature of being a citizen at this precise moment in American history. The voter in question — 102-year-old Beatrice Lumpkin — was born in 1918, a year…
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