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OMAHA — The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen was wrong to stop registering voters under a new state law eliminating the two-year wait for people who have served a sentence for a felony conviction. The court did not decide the constitutional question raised by Evnen and Attorney General Mike Hilgers — which branch of state government has the authority to set the timing of when people who have served a sentence for a felony conviction can vote. Aaron Sanderford, Nebraska Examiner.
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Election administration ballot measures
By M. Mindy Moretti
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Voters in 18 states and the District of Columbia will make choices this year on how elections are administered in the future at the state level. With 25 different elections-related measures this is by far the most states and elections-related measures that voters have considered in more than a decade.
This cycle, statewide measures largely focus on ranked choice voting, noncitizen voting and state primary systems (often included in the ranked choice voting ballot measure, but not exclusively). The others run the gamut from redistricting to voter ID to no-excuse absentee voting. Alaska is the only state to have a ballot measure that would repeal a previous ballot measure.
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