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WEB4 days ago · In 2024, Politics Is Local. Bolts covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up. We report on the places, people, and policies that shape public policy. We focus on criminal justice and voting rights, …
Your Cheat Sheet to the 2024 General Elections - Bolts
WEB4 days ago · Arizona Prop 139: On establishing a right to abortion access.: California: San Francisco Prop O: On shoring up local protections for abortion rights.: Colorado Amendment 79: On establishing a right to abortion access.: Florida Amendment 4: On establishing a right to abortion access, overturning a 6-week ban.: Maryland Question 1: On establishing a right to reproductive freedom, including ...
What’s on the Ballot - Bolts
WEBSep 5, 2024 · Thousands of public officials have decisive roles in policy-making. Our cheat sheets and databases offer resources on who has the power to do what, and how they come to be in power.
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WEBBolts is the new home of “What’s on the Ballot,” a platform that since 2018 has offered cheatsheets and databases to organize the chaos of U.S. democracy. “What’s on the Ballot” is now continuing to help readers follow elections small and big, local and national, by producing more cheatsheets and information.
In Illinois, a Private Prison Company’s Long Trail of Deaths and …
WEB3 days ago · Michael Broadway gasped for air inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a sprawling complex of beige and gray about an hour and a half southwest of Chicago. It was a sweltering mid-June day, when the heat index outside topped 100. Inside the crumbling prison, it felt even hotter, with one ...
Your Guide to Local Elections Where Abortion Is on the Line ... - Bolts
WEBJul 14, 2022 · These two states’ supreme courts have each struck down GOP gerrymanders, though Ohio lawmakers have for now circumvented those rulings. But new court majorities may emerge in November—five justices will be elected across the two states—and re-open the floodgates of gerrymandering, as Bolts reported in March.Friendlier courts could enable the GOP to draw maps that last the full decade and ...
Ask Bolts: What’s on State and Local Ballots This November
WEBThe image that accompanies this page on social media shows voters in Des Moines precincts 44, 58 and 59 casting their ballots at Callanan Middle School on election day 2020.
Waiting for a Second Look - Bolts
WEBMar 17, 2022 · D.C.’s initial big jump into sentencing reform came in the form of the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA), which allowed people convicted of serious crimes committed before their 18th birthday to apply for resentencing.The original IRAA, passed in 2016, required that applicants serve at least 20 years of their sentence before applying, but a later amendment cut that down to 15 ...
Voting Rights - Bolts
WEBAug 28, 2024 · Who Runs Our Elections? Our Bolts resources compile, state-by-state, the local and state offices responsible for administering elections, and those responsible for counting and certifying results.These sleepy offices hold …
Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting …
WEBOct 12, 2023 · On March 4, 2020, a few months after signing the order to restore voting rights, Beshear held a press conference in Frankfort to tout a new online search tool people with felony convictions could use to determine their voting eligibility. This, the governor said, showed he was delivering on one of his top priorities: “Restoring the right to vote to Kentuckians that have done wrong in the ...