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Voters may weigh in on potential full|time Legislature


Voters may weigh in on potential full-time Legislature, proposed ...

All would be put forth to voters in November 2024 via a constitutional amendment that would ask: “Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to ...

Missouri business groups weigh challenge to voter-approved ...

Critics of Proposition A, which won on Tuesday with 58% of the vote, say they're exploring litigation and legislative changes ...

State elections, policy choices, and accountability

Since state legislators evidently care about reelection, voters may be able to influence the policy process by creating more electoral pressure on lawmakers ...

Legislative races could shape election policies in swing states

In states including Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, she said, the Voting Rights Lab is watching how lawmakers handle ...

Voting Outside the Polling Place: Absentee, All-Mail and other ...

Most states now permit voters to cast ballots before Election Day, either in person at designated early voting sites, or via a ballot that has been mailed to ...

do voters affect or elect policies? evidence from the us house* david ...

To do so, we consider electoral races where a Democrat holds the seat—and hence an electoral advantage—and measure the roll-call voting records of the winners ...

The Power of One Vote - Center for American Progress

There are a total of 538 Electoral College votes; for a candidate to be elected president, they must receive a majority—at least 270—of these ...

Term Limits: The Only Way to Clean Up Congress

Term limits would ameliorate many of America's most serious political problems by counterbalancing incumbent advantages, ensuring congressional turnover.

Electoral rewards for political grandstanding - PMC

This paper demonstrates that US House representatives who made statements conveying political messages more intensely in any given two-year term tended to gain ...

How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior? Evidence ...

We find that legislators who can no longer seek reelection sponsor fewer bills, are less productive on committees, and are absent for more floor votes, on ...

The Primary Path for Turning Legislative Effectiveness into Electoral ...

Effective lawmakers are the workhorses of the US Congress, yet we know little about the electoral payoffs of their efforts.

Too Far to the Bottom? Exploring the Phenomenon of Voter Roll-Off

Using precinct-level voting data, we find that when voter turnout increases for state-wide races, voter roll-off increases at the lower levels of the ballot. We ...

One Person, One Weighted Vote - UF Law Scholarship Repository

Ashira Pelman Ostrow*. Abstract. This Article argues that weighted voting should be used to comply with the constitutional one-person, one-vote requirement ...

Voting Laws Roundup: February 2022 | Brennan Center for Justice

As of January 14, legislators in at least 27 states have introduced, pre-filed, or carried over 250 bills with restrictive provisions, compared to 75 such ...

Legislative Term Limits and Voter Turnout - jstor

We find that term limits significantly increase voting rates in state legislative elections. Keywords term limits, legislative politics, political participation ...

The Supreme Court is weighing a theory that could upend elections ...

It claims that under the US Constitution, state legislatures have the power to determine how federal elections are run, without any checks or balances from ...

Weighted representative democracy - ScienceDirect.com

We propose a new system of democratic representation. Any voter can choose any legislator as her representative; thus, different legislators can represent ...

The voters spoke, and they want more scrutiny of the Legislature

And on election night, Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka issued a joint statement saying, “Consistent with how the Legislature has moved ...

How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the Ballot Box | ACLU

Suppression efforts range from the seemingly unobstructive, like strict voter ID laws and cuts to early voting, to mass purges of voter rolls ...

14.3 Governors and State Legislatures - American Government 3e

Anyone elected to the office of governor assumes tremendous responsibility overnight. He or she becomes the spokesperson for the entire state and their ...