Five Ways to Make Sure Our Votes Count in the Upcoming Recall Election

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Five Ways to Make Sure Our Votes Count in the Upcoming Recall Election

For African Americans, the right to vote was won by the passion, sacrifice and bravery of many who came before us.

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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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Republicans, including White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, have downplayed the president's suggestion that the election be delayed.

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Georgia Senate Republicans advance bill to end no-excuse absentee voting amid fierce opposition | The Atlanta Voice

Monday afternoon, an omnibus election reform bill, Senate Bill 241 passed in the Georgia Senate 29-20, along a strict party-line vote, which saw four Republicans abstain from the vote. Senate Bill 241 would eliminate no-excuse absentee voting, which was enacted by Republicans in 2005, just months

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A Study Shows The BLM Protests Have Led To a Voter Registration Surge

A new study shows the Black Lives Matter protests that have been taking place across American all summer led to a surge in voter registration.

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District 2 Candidate Clinton Edminster Announces New Absentee Ballot Request Initiative | The Savannah Tribune

Candidate for 2nd District County Commissioner Clinton Edminster is working with businesses across the district to provide Absentee Ballot Request forms for eligible voters leading up to the August 11th runoff. Forms will be placed in rain-proof brochure boxes installed outside businesses at

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Tennessee judge denies request seeking absentee ballot info - TSDMemphis.com

by Kimberlee Kruesi - NASHVILLE — Democratic officials improperly filed a public records request while seeking last-minute information on voters who have requested an absentee ballot but haven’t returned them yet, a Tennessee judge ruled Monday. Tennessee’s Democratic Party and the campaign of

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Georgia Democrats seek additional time for voters to correct rejected ballots | The Atlanta Voice

The Georgia Democratic Party is asking a county judge to grant additional time to review absentee and provisional ballots from the state’s primary earlier this week following widespread election

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Lowenfield not acting in interest of democracy - Stabroek News

Following Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield’s decision to disregard the request by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairperson Claudette Singh to submit a report on the outcome of the general elections using the results of the national recount exercise, the Organization of American

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#Election2020: Democrats sue Georgia election officials over lines at polls | The Atlanta Voice

Democrats are asking a federal judge to order Georgia election officials to take steps to prevent long lines at the polls on Election Day. A lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Atlanta alleges that the causes of long lines that have forced Georgians to wait hours to vote during multiple

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Georgia Officials Add 2 Voting Sites In Cobb County After Voter Suppression Claims

The news comes after voting rights activists again accused election officials of voter suppression, voicing concerns that lack of accessibility limits access for Black and Latino voters.

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Fighting Texas voter suppression - DefenderNetwork.com

Jeren Washington always knew that she was going to vote in the 2020 presidential election – she just didn’t know how. She fit the qualifications for a mail-in ballot since she was disabled. But with what she calls ‘relentless voter suppression’ tactics, she wasn’t taking any chances. “My plan was

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Ivory Coast launches new voter registration exercise

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Georgia Senate passes sweeping voter restriction bill following Dem. election wins - TheGrio

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Dr Alexis would have better served his clients by encouraging them to accept the reality of their electoral loss

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#Election2020: Texas governor limits election drop boxes to one per county | The Atlanta Voice

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation Thursday limiting the amount of drop-off locations for mail-in ballots to one site per county. The move significantly affects the Democratic stronghold of Harris County, which is the state's largest county by population - one of the most populous in the

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Georgia: All That’s Right (and Wrong) With America - African American News Today - EIN Presswire

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Jim Crow in the 21st Century: Republican lawmakers working to turn back the clock on voting | The Michigan Chronicle

by Barrington M. Salmon For Atlanta Daily World (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Donald Trump no longer occupies the White House, but he continues to cast a long shadow over one crucial aspect of politics: access to free and fair elections in the United States. After election results last November showed that

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Kentucky’s Election Wasn’t A Disaster, But It Exposed Problems In Pandemic-Era Voting

Kentucky voters turned out in record numbers for the primary election Tuesday, even as the threat of the novel coronavirus pandemic lingered, thanks to a hotly contested Democratic Senate race and an expanded vote-by-mail program, which generated unprecedented enthusiasm in Bluegrass State

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NBC Puppets Push Dem Warning of ‘Red Mirage’ on Election Night

When the Democratic Party comes up with a narrative that it wants to push, it can always rely on supporters in the leftist media to promote the partisan talking points. Such was the case on NBC’s Today show Tuesday morning, when correspondent Tom Costello hyped the fears of a Democratic data

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Republicans and Democrats in California prefer a mail ballot, but safe, accessible options are important - Black Voice News

In summary In the November election, California will have to meet the bipartisan demand from voters for mail ballots and redesign sites for safe, in-person voting. By Mindy Romero and Mindy Romero is a political sociologist and director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the Price School

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Sec. of State Shirley Weber Urges All Californians to Vote in Upcoming Recall Election | Post News Group

Weber is California’s first African American Secretary of State and the fifth Black person to serve as a constitutional officer in the state’s 170-year history. She said working as president of the San Diego Board of Education and serving four terms in the state Assembly after that showed her how

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IEC will ask ConCourt to postpone local govt elections to February next year | News24

The IEC says it plans to approach the Constitutional Court to seek an order postponing the local government elections to February 2022.

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Georgia’s Primary Fiasco Is A Bad Sign For Election Day 2020

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Oct. 5 voter registration deadline quickly approaches — Georgia League of Women Voters president, Lucy Hale, calls students to action this election season. In the 2016 election, young people 18 to 29 years old contributed only 19% of votes. As we near the next election in the midst of ongoing

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