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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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#Election2020: Biden is running ahead of Clinton's 2016 pace | The Atlanta Voice
Poll of the week: A new national Fox News poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden with a 48% to 40% lead over President Donald
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Kerry Washington Defends Eva Longoria Saying Latinas Are The ‘Real Heroines’ Of The Election
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Atlanta mayor fights back on new voting laws | New Pittsburgh Courier
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms uses Executive Authority to Expand Access to Voting, Mitigating Impact of Voting Restrictions of SB 202 Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an Administrative Order to ensure every Atlanta resident has an opportunity to exercise their right to vote. The Order directs the
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Local leaders make a final plea to Black voters – Daytona Times
BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES With early voting set to end on Nov. 1 and the general election on Tuesday, local Black leaders are making one last pitch to get the Black community to vote. On Oct. 30, a press conference was held behind the Midtown Cultural & Educational Center in Daytona Beach
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Opinion: Voting is the Centerpiece of Our Democracy
August 6 is the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. If the constitutional amendments passed after the Civil War — the 13, 14 and 15th Amendments — were the “second founding” of democracy in America, the Voting Rights Act, which after nearly a century of segregation gave legal effect to the
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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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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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Uganda: Scientists to Decide Fate of 2021 Polls - Museveni
President Museveni's message on the effects on Covid-19 was yesterday delivered by the Secretary General of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), Ms Justine Kasule Lumumba, to the Inter-party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) meeting where Justice Forum (Jeema) took over its leadership from
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Trump seizes on small election issues to spread concern - Black News Channel
By MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine ballots discarded in Pennsylvania. A mail carrier who altered a handful of affidavit ballot applications. People being sent double ballots. In the run up to Election Day, President Donald Trump is seizing on small, potentially routine
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In Alabama, both GOP, Dems Find Common Ground: Absentee Voting On Saturdays  
By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times   It took Democrats and Republicans to open the downtown Birmingham and Bessemer County Courthouses on a Saturday in Alabama for in-person absentee balloting ahead of the November 3 general election. A bipartisan group of Jefferson County Commissioners on
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Push Back by Republicans after Trump Floats Idea of Delaying Elections - Houston Forward Times

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It’s Up to Us to Defend the Black Vote - Houston Forward Times
Just weeks before Election Day, with millions of people voting already, the Black vote is… The post It’s Up to Us to Defend the Black Vote appeared first on Houston Forward Times.
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What you need to know about early voting - DefenderNetwork.com
Early voting has begun in Texas. And though there may not be any major races on the ballot for the city of Houston, others in Harris County should check to see what's on the ballot. Earlyvoting started Monday morning and runs through April 27. Election Day is May 1. Below, Houston
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GOP lawmakers heading into the legislative session take aim at voter fraud, despite no evidence of widespread problem | Dallas Weekly
Editor’s note: This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. The article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. Fresh off a presidential election replete with accusations of
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Voting Rights, Criminal Justice Reform And Marijuana Win Big As Biden And Trump Fight For Votes
Civil rights advocates were delivered good news from final results in certain statewide elections that have provided somewhat of a silver lining to the national political fray between presidential candidates.
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Poll watchers emerge as a flashpoint in battle over ballots - Black News Channel
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press Election officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by the Trump campaign that Republican poll watchers were being improperly denied access to observe the counting of ballots, saying Thursday that rules were being
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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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Texas AG, Harris County clerk in fight over mail-in ballots | Afram News
Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins is speaking out about a lawsuit filed against his office by Attorney General Ken Paxton for sending unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to over two million Harris County registered voters.
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Georgia Voting Rights Activists: Expansion Of Absentee Voting Drop Boxes Is Important, But More Can Be Done | The Savannah Tribune
Today, the Georgia Election Protection Coalition released a joint statement about the Georgia State Board of Elections’ rules amendments ahead of the August 11th runoff. The rules, which allow counties to set up 24/7 absentee ballot drop boxes for the runoff and give counties the ability to begin
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Georgia Senate GOP introduce bills to limit mail voting | The Atlanta Voice
Republicans in Georgia’s state Senate have introduced a raft of voting legislation, moving quickly to seek new limitations and requirements after Democrats won the presidential election and two U.S. Senate runoffs in the once reliably red state. Democrats say the bills are unnecessary, politically
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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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Assemblyman Michael Blake makes allegations of voter suppression | New York Carib News
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House-to-House registration should be reactivated - Stabroek News
Dear Editor, My country remained a strange and interesting place in the run up to the National and Regional Elections 2020, for reasons which I never understood. The article House-to-House registration should be reactivated appeared first on Stabroek News.
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U.S. House of Representatives Passes Milestone Voting and Ethics Legislation - Los Angeles Sentinel
House Resolution 1 – the “For the People Act of 2021” – counts as a strong rebuke and counterbalance to voting restrictions considered or enacted in various Republican-led states across the country. It restricts partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts and nullifies obstacles for
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#Election2020 – As early voting concludes, Warnock is pleased with youthful protesters | The Atlanta Voice
During the early voting period, more than 30,458 Fulton County voters cast their ballots, according to a joint statement by Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections Chair Mary Carole Cooney and Director of Registration & Elections Richard
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OP-ED: Rep. Maxine Waters, 'Donald Trump is More Focused on Saving Statues of Slaveholders & Confederate Generals than Protecting Americans from the Coronavirus'
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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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Voting focus could be legacy for latest wave of NBA activism - DefenderNetwork.com
NBA players are building on the framework of Colin Kaepernick’s protests during the national anthem that helped raise awareness about police brutality, efforts that have permeated the league since it restarted its season in Florida last month amid the coronavirus pandemic. But where
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PPP/C declared winner on Guyana elections | New York Carib News
The PPP/C has emerged the winner of March 2, 2020, General and Regional Elections following the national recount of the final ballot box (#4877) from Region 4 (Demerara-Mahaica).
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