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Maine's ranked-choice voting will be used in a federal general election for the first time, after previously using it in the primary system.
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Update: Democrats have taken the House of Representatives, while Republicans have retained control of the Senate.
Georgia's Brian Kemp Opens 'Cyber Crimes' Investigation Into State Democrats, 2 Days Before Election
Georgia Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp opened an investigation into the state's Democratic Party Sunday, alleging a failed attempt to hack the Georgia voter registration system.
Previously: Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms
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(Score: 3, Informative) by digitalaudiorock on Wednesday November 07 2018, @07:41PM
The one that stunned me...that is the very fact that the law allowed this in the first place...is this:
https://ballotpedia.org/Louisiana_Amendment_2,_Unanimous_Jury_Verdict_for_Felony_Trials_Amendment_%282018%29 [ballotpedia.org]
So now they require unanimous jury verdicts for felony convictions which was NOT the case. Unimaginable. On the PBS coverage last night they talked about some details of all this. It originated from the Jim Crow days where the SCOTUS forced them to allow African Americans on juries. They admitted as much that this law was their way of saying in effect that "You can make us put them on the jury but you can't make us listen to them". The result was that many people went to prison for life without parole on a 10/2 jury decision. Worse yet...the juries were often not even polled at all, and sometimes were, but the judge would seal the result...so in many cases nobody even even knew when decisions weren't unanimous.
Awesome that that's changed but scary as shit that it was ever like that.