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States throw voters under the bus in efforts to stop Medicaid expansion
The fight in the holdout states to thwart Medicaid expansion — or the mere threat of it — has reached a new low. Forget the “no” votes in state legislatures year after year that keep poor Americans from getting health care.
California voters reject revamp to property tax system
California voters have rejected a proposal to partially dismantle the state’s 42-year-old cap on property taxes, a move that would have have raised taxes for many businesses in a pandemic-hobbled economy. Following Tuesday’s update to the vote count, Proposition 15 had only about 48% support and was trailing by more than a half-million votes.
FBI investigates robocalls warning voters to ‘stay home’
Voters across the U.S. received anonymous robocalls in the days and weeks before Election Day urging them to “stay safe and stay home” — an ominous warning that election experts said could be an effort to scare voters into sitting out the election.
Riverside looks to fill charter committee
Riverside is asking the city’s registered voters to apply for a position on its charter review committee. The 11-member panel examines the document that determines how the city is run and advises the city council on possible changes to it, according to a statement on the city’s website.
On National Voter Registration Day, Voters Urged to Make a Plan
September 22, 2020 was National Voter Registration Day, and good-government groups say it's more important than ever. Millions of citizens have not yet registered. So Jonathan Mehta Stein, executive director at California Common Cause, is working to spread the word: Every vote counts.
