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Photo: Getty Images President Joe Biden traveled to Georgia Tuesday (January 11) to deliver a speech on voting rights and voter suppression. The remarks come as voting rights advocates have called for federal voting protections for years and as the Senate fails to act on two key pieces of legislation that would put those protections … Continued
The post Biden Says The Battle For Voting Rights Is Not Over During Atlanta Speech [Video] appeared first on Atlanta Daily World.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
Much has been made of the impact that Black voter turnout had on Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
But the contributions go far beyond just showi
It has been a month since MARTA eliminated and reduced transit service throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan area, including Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton and the City of Atlanta.
On April 20, 2020, MARTA CEO Jeffrey Parker eliminated 70 routes and reduced services without any public hearing and without the approval of the MARTA board.
The actions of MARTA could have a negative impact in the poor communities where riders do not have a car to go to the post office or make it to the local precinct, or to go and participate in early voting because they do not have
a way to get to the polls.
I have read and heard from many citizens who have raised
questions about the actions of MARTA regarding the disparity and inequities in the services and which routes were eliminated.
In order to address these concerns, the MARTA board owes the citizens of
DeKalb, Fulton, and Clayton counties an explanation as to how the routes were selected and why, and a vote by the MARTA board to re-establish those routes that were eliminated.
Want to guess how many Caribbean nationals have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic begun? It's not as frightening a tally as is seen in many developed nations and across Latin America.
The post Caribbean News - Guess How Many Caribbean Nationals Have Died From COVID-19 Since 2020? appeared first on Haiti News.
Electoral participation isn’t a means to an end. It is a pathway to a more connected society. By funding sustained engagement and organizing, Patrick sees Bridge Together as supporting local talent and listening to understand from residents what issues matter and how they manifest in their daily lives.
Democratic Labour Party President Verla De Peiza has accused the Barbados Labour Party of being uncaring. In a statement on Saturday, the De Peiza called on residents to put on their masks, walk with their sanitizer and go out in their numbers on January 19 and vote for change. Below is the full statement: 'For […]
The post Democracy not safe in pandemic election, DLP says appeared first on Barbados Today.
Other countries scheduled to hold elections are Egypt, Guinea, Seychelles and Tanzania.
For countries that do hold elections, there may be special voting arrangements that can allow polls to go ahead but reduce the risk of spreading the virus.
In South Korea's elections in mid-April, the electoral commission encouraged people to vote before election day at any of the 3,500 polling stations throughout the country.
This not only decongested polling stations on election day but contributed to the highest turnout in the country for nearly 30 years.
This means that countries planning to hold elections in 2020 or early-2021 need to start discussing these arrangements - across party lines and among multiple relevant agencies - as soon as possible.
As the general elections draw closer, Joe Biden is continuing to build his campaign team and now political strategist Karine Jean-Pierre has been selected as a senior adviser.
Jean-Pierre is expected to advise Biden on strategy, communication and engaging with crucial communities such as Black people, women and progressives.
Biden has already had an advantage with Black voters in the primary elections, especially over his former opponent Bernie Sanders.
Biden swept the Black vote in states like South Carolina, while Sanders lost them by a large margin.
Although Black votes were generally low for Trump during the 2016 elections, Black voter turnout rates dipped for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, according to the United States Census Bureau.
However, democrats believe that this effort is less about fighting voter fraud and more about enabling voter suppression and making the voting process especially difficult for black voters and other minorities.
Republicans are able to do this in part because of a 2018 federal court ruling that allows the national republican party to start campaigns against alleged voter fraud without court approval.
There was previously a ban on republican party voter-fraud operations after courts found instances of republicans intimidating or prioritizing the exclusion of minority voters, with the most recent account taking place in 2004.
The ongoing global pandemic is also having an impact on the voting process, with several democrats calling for the expansion of voting by mail and some republicans saying that doing so would invite voter fraud.
Fair Fight also believes that republican spending on alleged voter suppression will far exceed $20 million.
If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November.
Years of white rage over nonwhite attempts to vote have given Black progressives an incomparable view of right-wing extremism and the nation’s ability to reject it.
By MARC H. MORIAL National Urban League (TriceEdneyWire.com) – “The lie of massive, rampant voter fraud is serving the same function today as it did during the rise of Jim Crow. It stokes [...]
Why is there so much concern about the potential for lower voter turnout in communities of color, particularly among Black and Latino men? A good portion of the answer lies in the results of the 2016 Presidential Election, when, for the first time in twenty years, the nation saw a drop in the turnout rate for Black voters.
The post Obstacles vs. Apathy: Increasing Voter Turnout in Communities of Color appeared first on The Bay State Banner.
The new law, which is expected to be signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott, would ban drive-through voting and 24-hour voting, prohibit election officials from mailing absentee ballots to all voters and many of the methods of voting that were used by hundreds of thousands of voters during the 2020 election.
By Chanel Cain Howard University News Service Every election season there is an emphasis on how each political party’s campaigns will appeal to the black population to gain the coveted “Black vote.” The Black voter is often constructed as a monolith that makes it easy to either praise for adding to the winning side’s margin, […]
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Former President Barack Obama released a statement on Monday, June 1 encouraging protesters of the George Floyd murder to further their activism once they leave the streets.
Released via online publishing platform Medium, Obama touched on the ways that activists can create real change in their communities when the protesting ends.
“… the elected officials who matter most in reforming police departments and the criminal justice system work at the state and local levels,” he explained.
Obama went on to say that activists need to get specific about their demands for criminal justice and police reform, as well as find the best ways to educate their community members about what needs to be done.
Obama ended his public posting on Monday by sharing a video of George Floyd’s brother, Terrence Floyd, encouraging protesters to be nonviolent and vote.
With both the local government and general elections on the horizon, there are mounting calls for the Government and the Opposition to give urgent consensus to holding both polls simultaneously in light of a number of prevailing conditions being faced by the country.
The last local government elections were held in November 2016 and with the next polls due between November 2020 and February 2021.
Jamaicans last elected a government in February 2016, with the current administration’s five-year term ending in February 2021 and the next election due within a maximum of three months thereafter, closing the window in May.
For him, local government and national elections should not be held just because they are due, but for real benefits to the citizens and the country.
In the 2016 general election, only 47.7 per cent of the 1.82 million registered voters participated in the process, the lowest turnout since 1983, when the PNP boycotted the 1983 snap election.
The concern with new variants is that they will become resistant to the vaccines, they will be more infectious, and they will cause worse disease.
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Baba was an educationist and would have never let this happen. But this lot have no regard for education and this is why this is happening.
The post Letter to my people: Why Mugabe honours are awkward appeared first on The Standard.
The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets, not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters.
This important voting bloc is ready to drive seismic change
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