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** Texas legislators put citizen voting requirement on 2025 ballot
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On Nov. 4, Texas voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would add noncitizens to the list of people who cannot vote in the state.
In Texas, a two-thirds supermajority vote in each chamber is required to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. This equals 100 votes in the House and 21 in the Senate, assuming no vacancies. The Republican party controls both chambers but needed 12 Democrats to join them in the House and one Democrat in the Senate to meet the threshold.
On April 1, the Senate voted 28-3 to pass Senate Joint Resolution 37, with all 20 Republicans and eight Democrats voting in favor and three Democrats voting against.
On May 12, the House voted 102-14 to pass SJR 37, putting the amendment on the 2025 ballot. Fifteen House Democrats and 87 Republicans voted yes, and 14 Democrats voted no. There were 22 members present who did not vote and 12 who were absent.
In 1996, the U.S. Congress passed a law prohibiting noncitizens from voting in federal elections. Federal law did not address state or local elections. Currently, the District of Columbia and municipalities in three states allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.
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** Boston could become the seventh of the 100 largest cities to adopt ranked-choice voting
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On May 14, the nonpartisan Boston City Council voted 8-4 to approve a home rule petition to adopt ranked-choice voting (RCV) for city elections.
Mayor Michelle Wu (D), who said she would sign the measure, needs to approve the petition before it goes to the state's legislature for consideration. If the legislature approves the measure and Gov. Maura Healey (D) signs it, the petition will appear before the city's voters for final consideration.
Of the 100 largest cities in the United States by population, six use or are scheduled to use RCV for their city elections: Oakland, California; San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington.
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** Missouri will become the first state where voters will decide whether to repeal an existing right-to-abortion constitutional amendment
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On Nov. 3, 2026, Missouri voters will decide on a constitutional amendment that would repeal Amendment 3, which added a fundamental right to reproductive freedom to the Missouri Constitution. This will make Missouri the first state where voters will decide whether to repeal an existing right-to-abortion constitutional amendment.
Missouri is one of 14 states that have decided on a state right-to-abortion constitutional amendment. The first three states to pass these amendments were California, Michigan, and Vermont in 2022, the same year the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision. Out of the 14 states, voters passed amendments in 11 and rejected amendments in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota.
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