Faced with a rising tide of voters and elected officials of color, new legislation in Tennessee tries the tack of regulating those running voter mobilization and registration drives.
In the 2018 midterm elections, American Indian turnout in North Dakota hit record levels. But doing this required a massive effort to mobilize and counter policies, such as hard-to-access voting locations and stringent voter ID rules that discourage voting.
The elections subcommittee, led by Rep. Marcia Fudge, took a trip to Georgia last week. There, they found “a stack of interwoven intentional efforts” by Governor Kemp, also Georgia’s former Secretary of State, “to disenfranchise black voters.”
A new nonprofit launched by Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight Georgia continues to pursue its lawsuit against Georgia, seeking to end state practices that marred the 2018 election.
This past Tuesday, Florida’s Proposition 4, which restores voting rights to over a million people previously disqualified because of past completed prison sentences, became law.
Brian Kemp may have stolen Georgia’s governorship from Stacey Abrams…for now. Expert analysis finds that as many as 340,000 voters were wrongfully removed from the registration rolls over the past four years.
In a speech earlier this month, Reverend William Barber II pointed out that elected officials who win by suppressing the black vote go on to enact policies that hurt white people too.
Fifteen people were arrested yesterday in Georgia, including State Sen. Nikema Williams, for demanding that every vote be counted.
A nonprofit seeks to counteract voter ID requirements the hard way, working one person at a time to keep legal barriers from denying people the right to vote.
Make a note: Leaders of color and issues of marginalized communities have taken the main stage, and we must all step up to help center them.
