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North Carolina's Black Voters Are Seeing Their Mail-in Vote Rejected Again
A new study of 2018 mail-in absentee ballot data found ballots mailed-in by Black voters were rejected at more than twice the rate of any other race.
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Texas Spreme Court Denies GOP Petition To Invalidate 127,000 Votes
The decision marks the second time the state Supreme Court denied an attempt to block drive-thru voting in Harris County, a largely Democratic area that includes Houston.
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Crystal Mason, Jailed For ‘Illegally Voting,’ Appeals Her Conviction: ‘I Refuse To Be Afraid’
Crystal Mason, a Black woman jailed for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election while on supervised release for a federal conviction, is asking for her conviction to be overturned.
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The Voting Rights Act Was Signed On This Day In 1965 And Now Trump Is Trying To Destroy It
On Aug. 6, 1965, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by his side, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
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Take The Free Trolley To Vote! | The Savannah Tribune
Take the Free Trolley to Vote or Drop Your Absentee Ballot. The League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia in partnership with The Savannah Tribune has been providing free trolley rides for residents on the Eastside and Westside communities of Savannah to Early Vote or Drop their Absentee Ballots in
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St Kitts Opposition party files election petitions
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC) – Five defeated candidates of the main Opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) have filed petitions in the High Court challenging the results of the June 5, 2020 General Election in the twin-island
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OP-ED: Black People Suffer Disproportionately from Dementia Crisis
Over the past seven years, states and localities have reverted to discriminatory practices that restrict the voting rights of Black, Brown, Native, and Asian American people and have put up unnecessary roadblocks to the
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Election chaos renews focus on gutted Voting Rights Act | The Atlanta Voice
But the meltdown was also a manifestation of a landmark Supreme Court case that gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights
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Mitt Romney slams politicians attacking mail-in voting - Black News Channel
By Sophia Eppolito Associated Press/Report for America SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Sen. Mitt Romney said Friday that politicians attacking the vote by mail system are threatening global democracy but stopped short of criticizing President Donald Trump, who has been openly against an expected surge of
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Citizens continue to take advantage of early voting
Nearly 2,000 Burke County citizens have opted to vote early for the Nov. 3 general election. As of 2 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday), a total of 1,965 ballots had been cast, according to Laverne Sello, executive director for the Burke County Board of Elections and Registration. On the first day of early
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Voting problems persist in Metro Atlanta during Georgias primary | The Atlanta Voice
This morning, the City of Atlanta awakened with expected issues stemming from long lines, voting machines not working, and voters unable to vote because they discovered they were in the wrong polling location. Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms tweeted, voters in line at Ralph Bunche precinct, one
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Milwaukee Health Services, Inc. hosts voter registration event at Isaac Coggs Center
On Friday, October 9, 2020, the Milwaukee Health Services, Inc., hosted a voter registration event at their Isaac Coggs Heritage Health Center, 8200 W. Silver Spring Dr. Attendees could safely register to vote for the upcoming presidential election as well as receive a free COVID-19 safety kit
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North Carolina Proves Black Voters Are Justified For Distrusting Mail-In Voting
As it turns out, Black voters are justified in our months-long surveyed skepticism of mail-in voting. Although the intentional slow down of the United States Postal Service is confirmation in
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Ivory Coast launches new voter registration exercise
On June 10, the Independent Electoral Commission launched the nationwide program to register new voters and also allow for the expunging of those who no longer deserve to be
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Blacks vote in municipal election in Alexandria, Virginia
Blacks voted in municipal election in Alexandria, Va., for perhaps the first time in the South. The election commissioners refused to count the fourteen hundred votes and military officials suspended local elections pending clarification of the status of the freedmen.
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US legislators join calls for GECOM to issue recount results - Stabroek News
Two congressmen who President David Granger earlier this year assured that elections would be free and fair, yesterday joined calls that the Guyana Elections Commission issue results in keeping with the 33-day recount, even as they called out the Chief Election Officer for his ploy to subvert the
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Mississippi voters overturn two Jim Crow-era decisions at ballot box - Atlanta Tribune
Mississippi voters overturn two Jim Crow-era decisions at ballot box With a majority of ballots counted, Mississippi voters are projected to overwhelmingly pass Ballot Measures 2 and 3, reforming how statewide elections are won and approving a new state flag, respectively. The following statement
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LeBron James Group Touts Sports Venues as Mega-voting sites - Black News Channel
By BILL BARROW Associated Press/BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — If basketball icon LeBron James gets his way, NBA arenas and other sports venues around the country will be mega polling sites for the November general election. James and his voting rights group, formed this spring with other black
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SPLC Announces $30 Million Investment to Increase Voter Registration
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced it is investing up to $30 million from its endowment in voter outreach organizations in the Deep South to increase voter registration and participation among people of color with a lower propensity to
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#JaVotes2020 | Dwayne Vaz says PNP is ready to retain Westmoreland Central
Despite having only one of the five parish council divisions in the constituency of Westmoreland Central, incumbent candidate Dwayne Vaz of the People's National Party (PNP), was the first candidate nominated at 10:15 a.m. with much...
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GOP lawmakers seek tougher voting rules after record turnout - DefenderNetwork.com
Republican lawmakers in statehouses across the country are moving swiftly to attack some of the voting methods that fueled the highest turnout for a presidential electionin 50 years. Although most legislative sessions are just getting underway, the Brennan Center for Justice, a pu
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Democrats call on governor to seek resignation of Stu Soffer from the Jefferson County Election Commission - African American News Today - EIN News
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Nsé Ufot: Why The Georgia Establishment is Afraid of Our Power | The Atlanta Voice
For too many years, Georgia’s conservative leaders have gotten used to cherry picking their voters. Instead of trying to appeal to a wider swath of voters, they have worked to deny voting rights to those Georgians whom they don't care to represent, especially Black people. Thanks to extensive voter
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Voting Delays, Long Lines Bring Chaos to Georgia Primaries
ATLANTA (AP) — Voters waited as long as five hours to cast ballots in some Georgia precincts on Tuesday amid reports of voting machine malfunctions and high turnout in a state that President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are expected to hotly contest in the
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More than 4.5 million Californians have already cast ballots in the 2020 general election - and there're still 12 days to go. Roughly one-fifth of the 21.5 million ballots mailed to registered voters had been processed as of Tuesday evening, blowing away previous election totals. About three times
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