• Pro-Marijuana Legalization Donors Overlook Oregon for More Promising Initiatives in Washington and Colorado
• Source: Oregonian   |   West   |   September 24, 2012
• Deep-pocketed marijuana activists are pouring millions of dollars into legalization measures on the ballot in Washington and Colorado, but they are keeping their distance from a similar pot campaign in Oregon.

• South Carolina Voter ID Law Case Set to Close
• Source: The State   |   South Carolina   |   September 24, 2012
• Closing arguments about South Carolina’s voter ID law will cap an extraordinary case that already has seen charges of racism directed at the law’s author as well as federal judges’ open frustration over state officials’ changing stances on how they would enact the law.

• Study: Voter ID Laws Could Deter Millions of Hispanics
• Source: AP/Politico   |   Nation   |   September 24, 2012
• The combined effects of voter roll purges, demands for proof of citizenship and photo identification requirements in several states may hinder at least 10 million Hispanic citizens who seek to vote this fall, civil rights advocates warn in a new report.

• Wyoming is One of Strictest States for Ex-Felon Voting Rights
• Source: Casper Star-Tribune   |   Wyoming   |   September 24, 2012
• Despite aa 2003 reform, Wyoming remains the third most burdensome state in which to regain voting rights.

• Secretaries of State Still Juggling Politics, Elections
• BY: Louis Jacobson   |   September 21, 2012
• With 10 offices up for election or reappointment, Governing handicaps the races this fall.

• Washington Governor Contender Inslee Would Embrace Medicaid Expansion
• Source: AP/Seattle Times   |   Washington state   |   September 21, 2012
• The Democratic gubernatorial candidate said the Medicaid expansion will have financial benefits by covering all the uncompensated care that occurs in hospitals.

• Texas' Purge of Dead Voters Temporarily Barred by Judge
• Source: Austin American Statesman   |   Texas   |   September 21, 2012
• A Travis County judge temporarily barred Texas election officials from removing thousands of suspected dead people from voting rolls after four living voters complained that they had been improperly identified as "potentially deceased."

• Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Postpone Texas Elections
• Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram   |   Texas   |   September 20, 2012
• The U.S. Supreme Court refused to postpone Texas' congressional elections, rejecting calls from a Hispanic civil-rights group that said the district lines illegally discriminate against racial minorities.

• Denver Clerk Sues Secretary of State to Mail Ballots to Inactive Voters
• Source: Denver Post   |   Colorado   |   September 20, 2012
• Denver Clerk and Recorder Debra Johnson sued Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, challenging a rule from his office to block ballots from being mailed to inactive voters in city and school board elections.

• Alabama Voters Approve Transferring Money from Trust Fund to General Fund
• Source: The Birmingham News   |   Alabama   |   September 20, 2012
• The yes vote was a victory for Gov. Robert Bentley, who warned that failure of the referendum could have led to "devastating" cuts in General Fund spending.

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sends Voter ID Law Back to Lower Court
• Source: Philadelphia Daily News   |   Pennsylvania   |   September 19, 2012
• The Supreme Court told Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson that he must put the voter-ID law on hold if he determines that it will keep voters from casting ballots.

• Democrats Introduce Bill to Nullify State Voter ID Laws
• Source: The Hill   |   Nation   |   September 19, 2012
• House Democrats introduced legislation that would essentially nullify many of the state-based voter ID requirements by allowing voters to sign an affidavit attesting to their identity in lieu of showing the mandated documents.

• Bullock Leads in Montana Governor’s Race
• BY: Public Policy Polling   |   Montana   |   September 18, 2012
• Democrat Steve Bullock has pulled ahead in the race to be Montana's next Governor. He's at 44 percent to 39 percent for Republican opponent Rick Hill. The candidates were tied at 39 percent on Public Policy Polling's last poll of the contest in the spring.

• Preregistration Law for Teens Could Swell North Carolina Voters
• Source: Raleigh News & Observer   |   North Carolina   |   September 18, 2012
• More than 60,000 North Carolina teenagers will be eligible to vote this November because of a state law allowing people to pre-register as young as 16 years old.

• Write-In Candidate Makes It onto Washington State Treasurer's Ballot
• Source: The Olympian/Seattle Times   |   Washington state   |   September 18, 2012
• Republican state treasurer hopeful Sharon Hanek is one of nine candidates for legislative, judicial or statewide office who got enough votes as write-ins in the August primary to move on to the November general election.

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