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Battle for Brisbane to be three-party race as Greens lose 'older millennials'
By Rachel Stewart

Political commentators believe the battle for Brisbane will be a tight three-party contest, determined by how preferences fall.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-04/bri

ABC News · Healthcare a key election issue in Brisbane as Labor, Coalition threaten to take federal seat from GreensBy Rachel Stewart
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Also, I voted in London. By mail, and I mean the trad. arr. mail, not e-mail.

I had ordered the papers to a friend living in London and mailed them back to Finland after filling them. I had to ask two total strangers in the hotel bar as witnesses and was quite uncomfortable asking, since they had to give their name, address and birth date, but they graciously agreed.

That was probably not what they'd planned to do that evening, but I'm grateful anyhow.

The Texas Senate passed a bill that would require people to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in state elections. It would effectively require the state to prepare one ballot for federal elections and another for state elections.

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

Houston Public Media · Texas Senate passes bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to voteBy Andrew Schneider

I'm a proud Anishinaabe who asserts my Indigenous sovereignty. That's why I won't vote
Andrea Landry's mother often reminded her that she was Anishinaabe and not Canadian. While she advocates for her people and speaks out for treaty rights, she says she has not and will not participate in the colonial political system by voting in federal ...
#politics #indigenous #voting #rights #News #Canada
cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewa

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From the article: "According to the Center for American Progress (CAP), the order makes passports important to guaranteeing an American’s right to vote. But roughly half of all adult citizens—about 146 million people—do not have a passport.

"Meanwhile, Trump has made it illegal for trans people to get passports that match their gender identity. Trans people have reported their passports being delayed, seized or withheld."

#Transgender #LGBTQ #Allies #Voting #USPolitics

erininthemorning.com/p/trumps-

Erin In The Morning · Trump’s Anti-Voter EO Could Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Trans PeopleBy s. baum

"New bill proposes repealing vote-by-mail in Oregon, public invited to testify"

koin.com/news/politics/new-bil

It looks like this bill would make in-person voting default and folks would need to request mail ballots. Our current system sends out all ballots by mail automatically.

There's a 48 hour window to submit a public comment:

olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz

I don't know how much support this bill has but I wrote comment opposing it just in case.

"Three weeks after U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death and just over a month before the state’s next uniform election, Gov. Greg Abbott has not yet called a special election to fill the seat representing parts of Houston, a Democratic stronghold, in Congress."

About 773,000 Houstonians will have no representation in Congress for about a year 🤬

texastribune.org/2025/03/26/gr

Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at "Parent Empowerment Night" at San Antonio Christian School, in San Antonio on February, 17, 2025.
The Texas Tribune · Gov. Greg Abbott showing no rush to replace late U.S. Rep. Sylvester TurnerRepublicans hold a tiny majority in the House, creating an incentive for Abbott to hold off on calling an election for Turner’s seat, which would likely be filled by a Democrat.

Just a reminder that it is NOT a joke that Wisconsin has a vote on April 1st.

It's going to determine voting rights at a state constitutional level and the composition of our courts for the next decade.

We cannot afford to sit this one out, even though it's not the "exciting" presidential election.

#vote#WI#Wisconsin

"On one end are white men without four-year college degrees. This is a generally blue-collar demographic that is now deeply aligned with Trump and opposed to progressive politics. On the other end are white women with at least four-year college degrees. This is a more affluent demographic that has been racing leftward, particularly on cultural issues, and is squarely opposed to Trump."

nbcnews.com/politics/elections

NBC News · Steve Kornacki: White men, white women and the gap within the gender gapBy Steve Kornacki

So you are a communist/socialist/"independent"/green/anarchist.

How do you vote?