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Voter Purge or Maintenance: 100,000 Voters to be Removed from Georgia's Rolls | Independent Voter Newslast time the voter rolls were cleaned up, election officials removed 287,000 Georgians from the rolls. Fair Fight Action, a Georgia-based voting rights group founded by Abrams, sued the state for doing so. A federal judge rejected this effort to stop the…
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Voting Rights Groups Alarmed as Early Voting Centers Close in Key Georgia County | Independent Voter NewsCounty will be open. The organizations that signed the letter are the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, All Voting is Local Georgia, Georgia's chapter of the NAACP, the SPLC Action Fund, Black Voters Matter Fund and Georgia's chapter of the ACLU…
Arkansas vs Georgia: Who Wants the Worst Ballot Access Laws? | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Campaigns. Arkansas vs Georgia: Who Wants the Worst Ballot Access Laws? February 18, 2019. America's two major political parties may dominate nearly every elected office in the country, but they remain eager to further restrict any competition in…
Independents and Black Voters in Georgia Win the US Senate for the Democrats | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Campaigns. Independents and Black Voters in Georgia Win the US Senate for the Democrats. January 7, 2021. It was quite an afternoon. While Washington DC police, accompanied by federal agents, were finally clearing the Capitol Building of renegade…
10 Political Predictions for 2021: A Never-Ending Georgia Campaign, TMI from Joe Biden & Borat in Congress? | Independent Voter Newswhere we all take representative government more seriously. Georgia On Our Minds. Due to state law, both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate races will be decided by a runoff election on Jan. 5. Republican Sen. David Perdue faces Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Sen…
Pro-Voter Reformers: George's Primary Debacle Underscores Need for Vote-By-Mail Nationwide | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Campaigns. Pro-Voter Reformers: George's Primary Debacle Underscores Need for Vote-By-Mail Nationwide. June 10, 2020. The Georgia elections Tuesday were characterized as “. catastrophe. .” A new $104 million voting system broke down, many. voters…
1 in 8 Iowans Targeted for Eventual Purge Under New Voting Curbs | Independent Voter Newsyear. "It sows distrust and uncertainty while also discouraging voters from voting.". The new law is in some ways more restrictive than the one in Georgia, which has gained much more notoriety because the Peach State is a newly purple presidential…
Giant Funding Gaps Threaten Elections in GOP States, Study Finds | Independent Voter NewsOhio. The fourth is Georgia, which the GOP sees as newly competitive in the presidential race. The last is Missouri, which is not a purple state but is the home of Roy Blunt, a member of the GOP Senate leadership and a central player in negotiations on…
Georgia’s New Election Law: Reasonable or Racist? | Independent Voter NewsUp Next. Deconstructed. Georgia’s New Election Law: Reasonable or Racist? April 21, 2021. Listen & Subscribe. Shawn Griffiths joins host T. J. O’Hara on Deconstructed to discuss Georgia’s controversial new election law. Mr. Griffiths is a nationally…
Breaking Down Barriers: Jackie Robinson at 100 | Independent Voter Newsmy remembrance of Jackie: The Importance of Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, one-hundred years ago today – January 31, 1919. He would grow up to become the “most important black man in American history.”. That was the…