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Hundreds of University of Michigan students wait in line to register to vote at the Ann Arbor city
clerk’s satellite office at the university’s Museum of Art on Nov. 8, 2022.
Associated Press Oranjestad to be next Culinary

New year expected to bring more Capital of the Caribbean

changes to state voting laws

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ing. Losses by election-denier candidates
ACACIA CORONADO in top races have emboldened some
Associated Press Democrats to champion expansions of
State lawmakers around the country in- voting rights.
troduced thousands of bills to change the “Voters spoke loudly and clearly about
way elections are run after former Presi- what they wanted and didn’t want, both
dent Donald Trump falsely blamed his 2020 in regards to this office and all these other
loss on voter fraud. Hundreds became law. issues,” said Simon, who defeated a Re-
Even with proponents of Trump’s election publican challenger who parroted some
lies roundly defeated during this year’s of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
midterms, advocates on both sides of the Democrats won majorities in both houses
voting debate are bracing for another of the Minnesota Legislature in Novem-
round of election-related legislation. Re- ber, giving Simon a good shot at enacting
publicans are eager to tighten election changes. He expects to urge lawmakers
rules further while Democrats, who took to adopt automatic voter registration and
control of two additional statehouses, will allow high school students to pre-register.
seek to make it easier to cast a ballot. States routinely make adjustments in their
Minnesota’s newly reelected Democratic voting laws — some subtle, some dramat-
secretary of state, Steve Simon, said he ic.
had spoken to several secretaries of state Page 7
who are eager to push for changes in vot- Continued on Page 2