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California State

TheDailyBeast

A California state senator, fed up with the Democratic Party’s supermajority in the Golden State’s legislature, announced she is defecting to the Republican Party. Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil was elected in 2022 to represent California’s fourth senate district, which includes parts of the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the agrarian Central Valley. Alvarado-Gil made the party switch announcement on Thursday, after serving two years of her four year term. “I was elected to serve the public, not a political ideology,” Alvarado-Gil said in a statement. “The status quo under a supermajority Democratic rule in the legislature is simply not working for this state.” In an interview with Sacramento Bee opinion columnist Marcos Bretón, Alvarado-Gil said the “last straw” was the attempt to pass reforms to Proposition 47—a decade-old ballot initiative that downgraded some property crimes like shoplifting, forgery, and writing bad checks to misdemeanors. Read it at Sacramento BeeRead more at The Daily Beast.

California State Senator Defects From Democratic Party

Iowa State

Nebraska State

The Center Square

(The Center Square) – Nine states have filed a lawsuit this week to stop President Joe Biden's executive order concerning federal workers and voter registration.
                The states say that the federal bureaucracy is inserting itself into state electoral systems and the voter registration process without the scrutiny of a public comment period.
                Mississippi, Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota filed a complaint in the...

Nine states file lawsuit to stop Biden voter registration executive order

Fox News

Lawful permanent residents are becoming naturalized United States citizens at a pace unseen since 2013 and 2014, potentially reshaping the electorate ahead of the election.

Immigrants becoming citizens at breakneck speed as election approaches: report

Colorado State

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David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Wisconsin State

TIME

A guide to the battleground states in the 2024 election fight between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

The 7 States That Will Decide the Election

Denver, CO

In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

WashingtonExaminer

When voters cast their ballots in the presidential election this fall, those in several key states to decide the presidency will likely notice changes to election procedures compared to the 2020 election. With control of the House, Senate, and White House up for grabs on Nov. 5, the direction of the country will be decided […]

Pivotal states where election laws have changed since 2020

Ohio State

The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

North Carolina State

Axios Raleigh

After losing voters for most of the last six months, the Democratic Party has seen a bump in affiliated voter registrations since President Biden ended his re-election campaign, per an analysis by Western Carolina University political professor Chris Cooper.Why it matters: Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign saw an influx of both volunteers and donations in its first week — pointing to momentum building in the Democratic party around her candidacy. Zoom in: The latest voter registration numbers in North Carolina are also evidence that Harris' campaign launch is giving the party a modest but much-needed boost in the state. It's "potentially...

NC Democrats see voter registration bump since Biden-Harris switch

Salem, OH

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

Arizona State

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of lawyers with deep ties to the Republican Party scrambled over the weekend to rescue an effort to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the Arizona ballot, offering one of the clearest examples yet of the GOP’s extensive involvement in furthering the left-wing academic’s long-shot bid. As a deadline loomed to submit the needed paperwork, two well-known Republican lawyers in the state and a GOP attorney working to get West on the ballot elsewhere learned that two of their would-be electors — Jerry Judie and Denisha Mitchell — were not interested in fulfilling the...

Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot. The left-wing academic is OK with it

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A historic marker could be erected to honor the victims of the racist mass shooting at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood nearly a year ago. If approved by the Jacksonville City Council, a marker would be installed at Kings Road and Canal Street on Aug. 25, a day before the first anniversary of the shooting, when a white gunman took the lives of three Black people.

Memorial considered to honor Dollar General victims

The election authorities of at least 48 states, both Republicans and Democrats, say there are no obstacles that would prevent Vice President Kamala Harris from getting on election ballots if she becomes the official Democratic presidential nominee, as expected.

Exclusive: CNN survey finds 48 states say Harris can get on ballot instead of Biden, rejecting claim switch breaks state laws

Florida State

Democrats have been sunny in their hopes to flip Florida in the presidential and Senate elections in November, but Republicans have expanded a key advantage that wasn’t in their favor four years ago. The Florida Republican Party announced Sunday that it expanded its voter registration advantage in the state to more than 1 million voters, […]

Democrats fall into 1 million voter hole in former swing state

A former Colorado county election official was found guilty on Monday of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 presidential election. A jury found former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a Republican, guilty on seven out of 10 counts in the election interference case. Peters has become well known among...

Ex-county clerk found guilty of election interference

Missouri State

Ballotpedia News

Wesley Bell (D) defeated Rep. Cori Bush (D) and two other candidates in the Democratic primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District on August 6. Bell received 51.2% of the vote and Bush received 45.6%. The primary election took place against the backdrop of a federal investigation of Bush’s alleged...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) becomes the fourth U.S. House incumbent to lose a primary election this year

Minnesota State

In the 37 states that have held primaries so far this year, 136 state legislative incumbents—3.4% of all incumbents seeking re-election—have lost. That’s less than at this point in 2022, when 174, or 4.6%, of incumbents had lost in primaries. Four of the 136 defeated incumbents were legislative leaders: three Republican state senators and one Democratic House member. More on that below.

136 state legislative incumbents have been defeated in primaries this year – four of which were legislative leaders

Former President Donald Trump cast an early voting ballot in Florida on Wednesday, his first as a convicted felon. However, his right to vote could be curbed depending on sentencing in New York and the outcomes of his two other court cases. Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in his Manhattan hush money […]

Trump votes early in Florida after felony conviction but could face disenfranchisement

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said he will consider more DUI patrols if voters legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida. Voters will consider Amendment 3 in November. It would allow adults 21 or older to possess, purchase or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical purposes.

More DUI patrols possible if marijuana issue passes

Georgia State

As part of a national effort to shut out independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ticket, challengers said he should be blocked from the ballot in Georgia for his use of a “sham” New York address for ballot access petitions. Chief Judge Michael Malihi of...

RFK Jr. and three others face legal hurdles to Georgia’s ballot

San Martin, CA

Coyote, CA

Gilroy, CA

Freedom, CA

NewsBreak

Full slate of candidates set for city, school board election

Now that the qualifying period for candidates in the Nov. 5 general election is over, the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office has released a...

Full slate of candidates set for city, school board election

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