Category: voting

Why Are Republicans Greenhorns at Rounding Up Them Absentee Votes?

News Analysis COSTA MESA, Calif.—“I can’t begin to understand what ballot harvesting is,” Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the former Republican House Speaker, said in an interview in the wake of a 2018 political upset in Orange County, California. Democrats had swept the congressional seats in one of California’s few Republican strongholds, largely due to a well-executed…


LIVE 12 PM ET: NTD News Today (July 11): House GOP Rolls Out ‘Election Integrity’ Bill; Nato Summit Begins as Turkey Okays Sweden Membership

A group of House Republicans has met in Atlanta to discuss federal voting law ahead of the 2024 elections. They’re introducing what they call America’s most conservative election integrity bill in over 20 years. President Joe Biden scores a diplomatic win. After intense lobbying by Western leaders, including by Mr. Biden, Turkey made a sudden…


NTD News Today (July 11): House GOP Rolls Out ‘Election Integrity’ Bill; Nato Summit Begins as Turkey Okays Sweden Membership

A group of House Republicans has met in Atlanta to discuss federal voting law ahead of the 2024 elections. They’re introducing what they call America’s most conservative election integrity bill in over 20 years. President Joe Biden scores a diplomatic win. After intense lobbying by Western leaders, including by Mr. Biden, Turkey made a sudden…


Polls Shut in Guatemalan Presidential Election, Run-Off Expected

GUATEMALA CITY—Polling stations closed on Sunday evening in Guatemala’s tight presidential election, which has been dominated by international concerns over corruption, the exclusion of a leading candidate and the cost of living. The contest is expected to go to a run-off in August, with former First Lady Sandra Torres tipped to win the first round…


Greek Conservatives Storm to Victory in Repeat Election

ATHENS—Greece’s conservative New Democracy party stormed to victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday with voters giving reformist Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term as prime minister. With most votes counted, New Democracy was leading with 40.5 percent of the vote and 158 seats in the 300-seat parliament, interior ministry figures showed. It was more than…


Voters Head to Polls in Four Byelections in Quebec, Manitoba, Ontario

Voters in Quebec, Manitoba, and Ontario are heading to the polls in four byelections on June 19 to pick four new MPs. The byelections are being held in the ridings of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount in Quebec, Oxford in Ontario, Winnipeg South Centre in Manitoba, and Portage–Lisgar in Manitoba. In recent elections, all four ridings were relative strongholds for the…


Vote With Your Wallet!

Commentary In graduate school, I encountered the disturbing theory that your vote doesn’t actually count for much. We have a winner-take-all system of voting in this country. That means that one vote for x is always canceled out by a vote for y. So a husband and wife who disagree might as well stay home….


EXCLUSIVE: Novel Pro-Trump Club Woos Pennsylvanians, Following Florida Example

ERIE, Pa.–As voters drown in a sea of high-priced, negative TV and radio ads, grassroots groups can throw them a lifeline: a meaningful personal interaction that might snare their votes, if research findings hold. One such group is being formed in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state, to build support for former President Donald Trump. The…


EXCLUSIVE: Grassroots Trump Organizers Testing New Club Approach

ERIE, Pa.–As voters drown in a sea of high-priced, negative TV and radio ads, grassroots groups can throw them a lifeline: a meaningful personal interaction that might snare their votes, if research findings hold. One such group is being formed in Pennsylvania, a critical swing state, to build support for former President Donald Trump. The…


Labour May Give EU Nationals Full Voting Rights, Says Starmer

The Labour Party may give settled EU migrants full voting rights if it wins the next general election, party leader Sir Keir Starmer has said. Starmer made the remarks in response to a report by The Sunday Telegraph, which said the opposition leader is prepared to allow settled migrants and 16- and 17-year-olds to vote…