Voting Laws

West Virginia’s Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he would vote against his own party and its sweeping voting rights bill called the For the People Act. We discuss what that means for Democrat’s ambitious legislative agenda and more with political journalist Ken Rudin.

A Republican-backed bill that would allow ballot dropboxes only at boards of elections for 10 days before the election and would shorten the window to request early ballots had its first hearing in a House committee.

Voting rights advocates are still pushing back on a recently introduced House bill that would change and restrict election laws in Ohio. Republican backers of the measure say the changes are needed to improve election laws even though they say Ohio’s 2020 election was fraud-free.

Ohio has become the latest state where Republicans are proposing a significant rewrite of state election laws.

Ohio has joined the list of states where Republicans want to make changes to voting laws after the 2020 election. The bill includes changes that appeal to both parties, but some that Democrats have spoken against.

State Rep. Bill Seitz said says the bill could reduce early voting days and prohibit ballot drop boxes, but also could add conveniences like online mail-in ballot requests. Seitz has been working on the bill for months.

Republicans have introduced more than 250 bills in 43 states to restrict voting rights, justified by false accusations of fraud in the 2020 election that sparked a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

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A federal judge is set to hear a dispute over Ohio's voting laws a day after the swing state's presidential primary election.At issue in the case in…