While Christmas is this week, that has not slowed down the election news. Below are the latest updates.
States
In Pennsylvania, the state house passed a bill that would ban private individuals from funding elections.
In Alaska, Anchorage has passed new election measures ahead of what will likely be a competitive 2022 election for the state.
In Georgia, there is a bill that would ban election drop boxes. Meanwhile, a judge has allowed for a NAACP lawsuit against Georgia’s recent election law to proceed.
In Colorado, the Secretary of State is seeking to increase her security detail because of threats she has received. Former President Donald Trump has backed Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s re-election.
In New York, New York City passed a law that gave noncitizens the right to vote in city elections. Interestingly, outgoing Mayor and potential gubernatorial candidate Bill De Blasio said he had mixed views on the measure. In NY’s gubernatorial race, Attorney General Letitia James announced she would end her gubernatorial candidacy to run for for re-election. James’s decision is a boon to incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul. It has also caused all of the other Democrats running for Attorney General to leave the race.
In Massachusetts, some in Boston are calling for the city to match New York City in giving noncitizens the right to vote.
In Florida, three Republicans were indicted for voting multiple times in the 2020 election.
In Michigan, state Democrats are calling on President Joe Biden to increase election security.
In North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper vetoed legislation to ban private funding of elections because he believes that this kind of funding helps election protections.
In Arizona, there is litigation over an election law that stops some voters from being able to vote early.
In Massachusetts, the state legislature is fighting over a bill to increase mail-in voting.
In Wisconsin, a Republican state senator is speaking out against the controversial Republican election audit.
In West Virginia, Republican US Representatives Alex Mooney and David McKinley are in a primary battle because redistricting combined their districts. Mooney is endorsed by Trump and is attacking McKinley for voting for the infrastructure bill.
In Virginia, some Trump supporters feel that new elected Governor Glenn Youngkin is abandoning them.
Culture
The New York Times has a piece that alleges Trump’s allies are taking over elections.
Biden recently said that Democrats would increase their majorities in Congress for the midterms, while Republicans are saying he will be disappointed.
The debt ceiling has been increased through the 2022 elections.
The Associated Press conducted a report that found there was not nearly enough fraud in the 2020 election to change the results.
Reality TV father Jim Bob Duggar failed to advance to the run-off in a Arkansas state senate race.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking re-election, which assures that she will remain in charge of Democrats through November and maybe even beyond it.
There are several high profile candidates this cycle who are facing criticism for carpetbagging.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s family is saying MLK day should not be celebrated if a voting rights bill does not pass. Similarly, Democratic Governors are calling for Congress to pass voting rights reform. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris recently both warned against different interests threatening the right to vote. When Biden met with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, several activists were arrested when they protested the visit.
A report has found that the view that Democrats are socialists cost them Hispanic votes in the 2020 elections.
Corporate
Many Republicans who objected to the 2020 election results have had strong fundraising.
A report has found that Mark Zuckerberg’s election group spent more in the GOP counties in the 2020 election.
In Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit over election coverage against Fox News, Dominion is seeking emails from Rupert and Lachan Murdoch to see if they influenced election coverage.
Amazon is under fire for allowing the sale of shirts that accuse the 2020 election of being stolen.
Democrats have introduced legislation that would ban foreign corporations from spending in US elections.
In the high profile gubernatorial race in NY, Hochul is seeking a lot of corporate money to help her re-election.
Washington DC has hired two prominent law firms to sue Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for the violence that the city faced on January 6.
Todd Carney is a writer based in Washington, DC. The views in this piece are his alone and do not reflect the views of his employer.