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Early in-person voting started this Saturday in dozens of counties across the Golden State, and this year, older adults are expected to have outsized influence at the ballot box. Data from the Public Policy Institute of California has shown that older voters make up the biggest share of high-propensity voters....
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services New York Times columnist David Leonhardt says gerrymandering is not the biggest threat facing American democracy. Activists who are fighting against a new Jim Crow and one-party politics in nine Southern states would beg to differ. Unfair election maps are bound to produce unfair...
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Peter White Ethnic Media Services David Leonhardt, periodista de The New York Times, dice que la manipulación de la circunscripción electoral no es la mayor amenaza a la que se enfrenta la democracia americana. Los activistas que luchan contra una nueva política uni-partidista a lo Jim Crow en nueve...
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Un grupo de vigilancia por la democracia de Nevada dice que las redes sociales, los blogs, los sitios web y las organizaciones de noticias hiperpartidistas están trabajando horas extras para difundir desinformación en un esfuerzo por influir en las elecciones de mitad de periodo en noviembre. Una de las...
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A Nevada democracy watchdog group said social media, blogs, websites and hyperpartisan news organizations are all working overtime to spread disinformation in an effort to influence the midterm elections in November. One debunked claim said voting machine algorithms are changing votes, which has driven two Nevada counties to move...
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Sameea Kamal & Ariel Gans CalMatters ¿Un regalo o una maldición? Para Angelique Ashby, postularse como “defensora de las mujeres” en una acalorada carrera por el Senado estatal en Sacramento podría ser un poco de ambos. Su competidor, Dave Jones, un colega demócrata, acudió a los tribunales para impedir...
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Sameea Kamal & Ariel Gans CalMatters A gift or a curse? For Angelique Ashby, running as a “women’s advocate” in a heated state Senate race in Sacramento might be a little of both. Her competitor, Dave Jones, a fellow Democrat, went to court to block Ashby from using that as her ballot designation...
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Se espera mucho de los votantes de California. En cualquier año electoral dado, se nos puede pedir que nos quitemos el polvo de los sombreros de abogados laborales, repasemos las regulaciones de petróleo y gas, nos familiaricemos con décadas de política fiscal o analicemos la financiación de la infraestructura....
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Much is expected of the California voter. In any given election year, we may be asked to dust off our labor lawyer hats, brush up on oil and gas regulations, reacquaint ourselves with decades of tax policy, or analyze infrastructure funding. We may have to weigh the moral pros and cons of capital punishment, marriage equality or pig protection and...