It's National Voter Registration day, a nonpartisan action day to mobilize voter registration across the United States. Although it is important to register to vote in every state, as House, Senate, and down-ballot races will be decided across the country,

Johnson County’s election commissioner estimates that only 1 in 5 voter registrations his office has received are from new voters. Some are duplicates from people already registered.

Communities across the country are making efforts to get out the vote. At Daley Plaza, the Cook County Clerk’s Election Team set up tents to help people register to vote and sign up to be election judges. Chicago police said the woman was inside a car at the intersection when she was struck in the back by gunfire by an unknown person. A judge denied Robert F. Kennedy's request Monday to erase his name from the presidential ballot in swing state Wisconsin, ruling that state law requires candidates to remain on the ballot unless they die. Scammers have taken more than $100 million meant for senior citizens' Medicare bills, which comes from taxpayer money. The fraud scheme was exposed after swindlers made $3 billion worth of fake Medicare claims. Thanks to vaccinations, measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. But measles cases are now back; one reason is that more families have exempted their children from routine immunizations than ever before.

Two Texas officials were sued this week after they were accused of violating the National Voter Registration Act. On Wednesday, officials in Travis County, Texas, filed lawsuits against the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton and Secretary of State Jane Nelson over alleged attempts to block voter registration efforts ahead of the November presidential election.

The Midland County Voter Registration Event yesterday had about 35 people come out to register to vote, which shows a strong commitment to civic participation in the community. For those who couldn’t make it to the event,