
Alex Burness
Reporter at Bolts
Covering local and state politics, voting rights/elections, criminal justice for @boltsmag. Previously @denverpost and @dailycamera. Support local journalism.
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1 week ago |
thefacts.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness
Washington, DC (Bolts)Frustrated by slowing mail delivery, particularly in rural areas, the Kansas legislature in 2017 passed a law to let elections officials count mail ballots that arrived after Election Day, for up to three extra days, so long as the ballots were postmarked before polls closed.
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2 weeks ago |
boltsmag.org | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness
Big cities are deciding their mayors and a swath of ballot measures, while battles keep raging over school boards. Follow along as Bolts tracks May elections across eight states.
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2 weeks ago |
register-herald.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness
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messenger-inquirer.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness
Washington, DC (Bolts)An old-fashioned, four-legged polling booth is on display in the lobby of the Salt Lake County clerk's office. Its metal frame roughened and its red, white, and blue privacy curtain wrinkled, it's a reminder of what voting in Utah looked like in the time before drop boxes for mail ballots and computerized tabulators.
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messenger-inquirer.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness
Washington, DC (Bolts)The biggest name in Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election belonged to neither of its candidates, but to Elon Musk, who spent extravagantly on the race in an effort to further cement Republican control of American democracy. In the final stretch of her race to join the court, Susan Crawford stumped against Musk, calling him "my opponent," even as she officially faced Brad Schimel, the state's former Republican attorney general and an outspoken ally to President Trump.
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