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McConnell says GOP to oppose Manchin's compromise on voting rights bill
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed that Republicans will oppose a compromise voting rights bill offered up by West... View Article The post McConnell says GOP to oppose Manchin's compromise on voting rights bill appeared first on TheGrio.
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SPLC Announces $30 Million Investment to Increase Voter Registration
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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#Election2020: Conservative hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls | The Atlanta Voice
Two conservative operatives were charged Thursday in connection with false robocalls that aimed to dissuade Black residents in Detroit and other Democratic-leaning U.S. cities from voting by mail, Michigan’s attorney general announced. Jacob Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 54, each face four felony
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Allegheny County reports 87 new COVID-19 cases, 9 new hospitalizations and 1 new death | New Pittsburgh Courier
by PublicSource Reporters Allegheny County reported 87 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, Aug. 8, bringing the county total to 8,796 reported cases, with nine new hospitalizations and one new … Continued
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OP-ED: Check Your Mailbox —Your Vote Will Count
She recently announced her department will be sending out unsolicited absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million registered voters in
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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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Before the pandemic, California’s polling places were already disappearing - Black Voice News
Standing in line at their local polling place, a longtime ritual for many Californians, will be a thing of the past this Election Day for half of the state's voters. That's because in 2016 the California Legislature passed the Voter's Choice Act, which allows counties to transition from polling
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Take The Free Trolley To Vote! | The Savannah Tribune
Take the Free Trolley to Vote or Drop Your Absentee Ballot. The League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia in partnership with The Savannah Tribune has been providing free trolley rides for residents on the Eastside and Westside communities of Savannah to Early Vote or Drop their Absentee Ballots in
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MEC step up strategies to address voter apathy | Malawi 24 - Malawi news
The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) says it has intensified several interventions to address voter apathy in the June 29 by-elections. MEC Commissioner Olivia Mchaju Liwewe made the remarks in Blantyre after briefing the district's elections supervisory team on the June 2021 by-elections. Liwewe
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Senator Raphael Warnock to assist voter registration - Atlanta Tribune
Senator Raphael Warnock and Rep. Nikema Williams and Sen. Raphael Warnock Announce Bicameral Legislation to Help People Register to Vote as they Change Residences. Representative Nikema Williams along with Representatives Jesús “Chuy” García (IL), John Sarbanes (MD), Marc Veasey (TX), Terri
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Biden, Harris Meet With Civil Rights Leaders As Groups Push White House To Preserve Voting Rights
Biden and Harris met with civil rights leaders Thursday at the urging of movement leaders and congressional Democrats who are concerned about the recent attempts to disenfranchise Black voters and marginalized groups, especially in light of the upcoming 2022 midterms elections.
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Voter registration and inspection ends on low note in Chikwembere ward | Malawi 24 - Malawi news
Despite the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) instituting a vigorous voter civic education in readiness for the June 29 by-elections, voter registration and inspection has ended on a low note in Chikwembere Ward in Blantyre North Constituency. The development has raised fears of a possible voter
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Walrond confirms in-person voting for NUPW’s July 15 elections - Barbados Today
General Secretary of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Wayne Walrond has confirmed that there will be in-person voting for the union’s July 15 elections. Walrond, also the Chief Electoral Officer of NUPW’s elections, said that there are uncertainties surrounding whether persons will be
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Democrats To invest $25 Million In Voter Registration And Education news -The Black Chronicle
Reuters – The Democratic party will invest $25 million in voter registration and education efforts, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will announce on Thursday, as the Biden administration tries
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WORLD Channel Continues its Celebration of Pride Month with a Film looking at Young LGBT Asylum Seekers
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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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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EOJ crafts COVID rules for election day
Jamaicans gearing up to cast their ballot are being urged to wear masks when they vote on election day but Director of Elections Glasspole Brown said that those in breach will not be turned away from polling stations. Instead, Electoral Office of...
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For All the People, By All the People
Our nation was founded on a profound principle — a government that is chosen by the people.
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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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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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As a key deadline approaches, Mississippi activists work to register new voters - TSDMemphis.com
by Najee El-Amin - In 2016, Mississippi’s voter turnout rate took a nosedive as 70,000 eligible citizens did not show up to cast a ballot. Activists have been trying to figure out why this happened and how to get African Americans, a powerful voting bloc, energized and back to the polls. Their
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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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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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Ranked Choice Voting: Is it voter suppression? | New York Carib News
The state of voting rights in 2021 may not be the slave-era of 1821 or the Jim Crow era of 1921, but let there be no doubt we are seeing a renewed systematic and racist effort to restrict the ability of Black voters to exercise the right for which so many have died.
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Fighting for Freedom, One Person at a Time - Voice and Viewpoint
By Dr. John E. Warren, Publisher Now that the Fourth of July is over and we have all been reminded of what Frederick Douglas said and did, the cookouts are behind us, but so is the memory of the White Nationalists marching in the streets of Philadelphia with flags and faces covered. Let us now
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Guinea electoral register 'of sufficient quality' for October elections: ECOWAS | Africanews
After the distribution of voting cards which began last Saturday, Ecowas certified Guinea electoral register as ‘of sufficient quality' for October
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Malawi opposition leader heading for election win - media | News24
Malawi's opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera appeared headed for victory on Thursday in a re-run of a presidential vote that was scrapped over massive irregularities, unofficial tallies showed.
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LeBron James Group Touts Sports Venues as Mega-voting sites - Black News Channel
By BILL BARROW Associated Press/BNC Contributor ATLANTA (AP) — If basketball icon LeBron James gets his way, NBA arenas and other sports venues around the country will be mega polling sites for the November general election. James and his voting rights group, formed this spring with other black
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Tanzania: Hands Off Tanzania Polls, China Says
[Daily News] WITH less than a week remaining before the highly-anticipated General Election, China has called on all nations to respect the non-interference principle in other countries' internal affairs.
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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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