UPDATE (9/22): In honor of National Voter Registration Day, Amazon is dropping the paywall on Stacey Abrams doc, All In: The Fight for Democracy. Stacey Abrams and Lin-Manuel Miranda will also hold a Twitter watch party Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET. *** Stacey Abrams examines the spread of voter suppression …
Read More »Tina Knowles-Lawson Urges Congress to Protect Voters During COVID-19
Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson, penned an open letter to Senate leaders urging them to pass a COVID-19 relief bill that includes significant funding for the upcoming November elections. Knowles-Lawson wrote the letter in partnership with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ campaign, And I Still Vote. It’s addressed …
Read More »Georgia's Voting Problems Are Now Under House Investigation
The letter that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent to Georgia’s new governor dated March 6th had a quite a few footnotes. All of them, save one, cited a media report covering various problems with voting in Georgia during this last election season: voter purges and suspensions, malfunctioning …
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