54% of Democratic lawmakers sponsored Kathy Tran’s late term abortion bill, in addition to Governor Ralph Northam, Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, and Attorney General Mark Herring. The bill is supported by a majority of Virginia Democrats. Here’s the list.
Proposals to rescind voter ID laws have remained widely unpopular across the U.S., which tells the tale of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s effort to repeal them.
58,000 non-citizens were confirmed to have voted in Texas elections. Virginia Senator Mark Peake (R-Lynchburg) has introduced legislation to verify voter citizenship and prevent a similar problem in the Commonwealth. Peake’s bill has advanced out of committee, with all Republicans in support and all but one Democrat opposed.
“Republicans have won the ‘framing war’ over voter ID, largely neutralizing the Democratic voter suppression frame, even among average Democrats,” a 2017 study shows.
