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    Are Voter Suppression Efforts Underway For The November Election?

    Sep 23, 2020

    When people think of voter suppression, most people likely think of the efforts in the 40s and 50s to stop Black Americans from voting.

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    Nannie Helen Burroughs holds a banner reading, "Banner State Woman's National Baptist Convention" as she stands with other African American women, photographed between 1905 and 1915. Burroughs was an educator and activist who advocated for greater civil
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    Yes, Women Could Vote After The 19th Amendment — But Not All Women. Or Men

    Aug 26, 2020
    The 19th amendment secured all women the right to vote, but in practice many women of color were excluded. This continues to resonate today with voter suppression among marginalized communities.
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    Tennessee freshman delegate Harry Burn and his mother Febb, who urged him to vote for the 19th amendment in a letter.
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    The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women's Suffrage From Nay To Yea

    Aug 17, 2020
    Tennessee was the final state needed to ratify the amendment that secured women the right to vote. At the last moment, a young state legislator switched his vote to yes after his mom asked him to.
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    In November 2016, Congressman John Lewis viewed for the first time images and his arrest record from a March 5, 1963, nonviolent sit-in at Nashville's segregated lunch counters.
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    Civil Rights Leader John Lewis Never Gave Up Or Gave In

    Jul 19, 2020
    The longtime Georgia congressman died Friday of pancreatic cancer. Lewis, who devoted his life to activism and the civil rights movement, was known as "the conscience of the Congress."
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    Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
    Protesters march against police violence in Atlanta on Monday. The event coincides with state lawmakers returning to work after the session was halted for three months amid concern about the spread of the coronavirus.
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    Hundreds March On Georgia Capitol As Legislature Reconvenes

    Jun 15, 2020
    The NAACP event coincided with lawmakers return after a three-month hiatus due to COVID-19 fears. The march took on added urgency after Rayshard Brooks was killed by police over the weekend.
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    The Democracy Live home page is displayed on an Apple laptop computer. The company is administering a ballot return system for disabled voters in West Virginia, Delaware, and potentially New Jersey.
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    States Expand Internet Voting Experiments Amid Pandemic, Raising Security Fears

    Apr 28, 2020
    Voters with disabilities, as well as those who serve in the military and live overseas could cast ballots via their phone or home computer even as security experts warn the technology can't be trusted.
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    Fifteenth Amendment

    Mar 12, 2020

    This February marked the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution being ratified. The text seems simple:

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    Stacey Abrams at Fair Fight's headquarters outside Atlanta. She's waging a voting rights campaign aimed at helping Democrats win in 18 battleground states.
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    Stacey Abrams Spearheads 'Fair Fight,' A Campaign Against Voter Suppression

    Feb 21, 2020
    Since losing the Georgia governor's race in 2018, the Democrat has launched the voting rights campaign that's active in 18 battleground states ahead of this year's election.
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    Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signs bill honoring the state's pioneering women suffragists on Wednesday. He's surrounded by state senators and representatives, and his wife, who are all wearing the yellow rose symbolizing suffrage.<em> </em>
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    Power Of The Past: Retelling Utah's Suffragette History To Empower Modern Women

    Feb 14, 2020
    Women in Utah became the first in America to vote under an equal suffrage law on Feb. 14, 1870. There are celebrations, but it means confronting the state's uncomfortable polygamy history, too.
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    Gov. Phil Murphy, pictured in March, signed two bills on Wednesday ensuring that former felons can "once again walk into a voting booth and have a say in our democracy."
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    New Jersey Governor Signs Bills Restoring Voting Rights To More Than 80,000 People

    Dec 18, 2019
    "These are residents ... have been needlessly prevented from having a voice in the future direction of their communities," Gov. Phil Murphy said.
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    Abrams Plans To Put Voter Protection Team, Hotline In Nevada

    Aug 15, 2019

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democrat Stacey Abrams says her new voter rights program will put a voter protection team and help hotline in battleground Nevada ahead of the 2020 election.

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    New Districts Upheld In Navajo Voting-Rights Case

    Jul 17, 2019

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that found voting districts in a Utah county were racially gerrymandered and violated the rights of Navajo voters.

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    New Nevada Law Restores Right To Vote For Ex-felons

    Jul 02, 2019

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada has restored voting rights to ex-felons, putting the state in line with at least a dozen other states that automatically grant voting rights to people once they're released from prison.

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    The campaign for restoring voting rights to felons was resoundingly approved by Florida voters last November.
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    ACLU Sues Over Florida Law That Requires Felons To Pay Fees, Fines Before Voting

    Jul 01, 2019
    The ACLU says the new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis creates "two classes of returning citizens: those who are wealthy enough to vote and those who cannot afford to."
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    Civil rights "foot soldier" Theresa Burroughs in 2016, in front of a photo of the day she was arrested in 1965. Burroughs has died at age 89.
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    Theresa Burroughs, Voting Rights Activist, Dies At 89 In Alabama

    May 24, 2019
    "Disappear? We're not going to do that," she said. She went 10 times to the courthouse before the registrar would sign her up to vote. Then she worked to guard the right and never missed an election.
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    Nevada Legislature Passes Bill Restoring Voting Rights To Ex-Felons

    May 24, 2019

    The Nevada Legislature passed a measure to immediately allow ex-felons to vote, including those convicted in other states. 

    The bill also allows people convicted of a crime, but not imprisoned, to cast a ballot. 

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    People lined up to vote early at a Houston polling place in October 2018.
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    Texas Officials Begin Walking Back Allegations About Noncitizen Voters

    Jan 30, 2019
    Just a few days after alleging nearly 100,000 Texas voters may not be citizens, officials now concede their list may not have been accurate.
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    A federal judge has struck down voting restrictions passed and signed during the Wisconsin Legislature's lame-duck session.
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    Federal Judge Strikes Down Lame-Duck Changes To Wisconsin Voting Laws

    Jan 17, 2019
    The bills were passed after Republican Gov. Scott Walker was defeated but before Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was sworn in.
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    People gathered around the Ben & Jerry's "Yes on 4" truck in Miami as they learned about Amendment 4 and ate free ice cream. Floridians voted in November to automatically restore voting rights to most felons after they complete their sentences and probat
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    Old Florida Clemency System Was Unconstitutional, Racially Biased

    Jan 08, 2019
    More than a million felons will be able to vote in Florida. Previously, the system lacked 'any constraints, guidelines, or standards' for restoring voting rights, a judge ruled last year.
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    Democrats Focus On Voting Rights Ahead Of 2020 Primary

    Dec 12, 2018

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats hope to turn the issue of voting rights into an argument that's just as persuasive to voters in 2020 as health care proved to be in 2018.

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    Democrat Dan McCready (left) and Republican Mark Harris are the candidates at the center of a contested race to represent North Carolina's 9th Congressional District. The state is investigating claims that a GOP operative may have manipulated ballots.
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    N.C. GOP Leader Open To New Election As Fraud Investigation Continues

    Dec 06, 2018
    The head of North Carolina's Republican Party says he would "not oppose" a new election in the state's 9th Congressional District if allegations of fraud by a GOP operative prove true.
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    New Hampshire secretary of state Bill Gardner, left, shows former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, the historic ballot box before O'Malley filed papers to run in the 2016 presidential primary. Gardner is the nation's longest-serving secretary of state and
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    Turbulent Trump Era May Unseat The Guardian Of The New Hampshire Primary

    Dec 05, 2018
    For 40 years, New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner's office has been a mandatory stop for presidential hopefuls. But his brief association with President Trump may cost him his job.
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    Then-Georgia Secretary of State, and Republican nominee for governor, Brian Kemp attends an election night event in Athens, Georgia. As secretary of state, Kemp was charged with overseeing the election logistics for the election he was running in.
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    Partisan Election Officials Are 'Inherently Unfair' But Probably Here To Stay

    Nov 29, 2018
    It would take a massive overhaul of state laws to make election administration truly nonpartisan. Voters say they want it, and experts are calling for it, but it probably isn't coming any time soon.
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    Georgia voters at an Atlanta high school on Nov. 6, 2018. Voting issues became a central issue in the hotly contested governor's race between Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams.
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    Georgia Set To Remain A Battleground For Voting Rights Ahead Of 2020

    Nov 21, 2018
    Perhaps more than any other state in the last decade, Georgia has put new restrictions on voting, which became a central issue in the recently concluded governor's race.
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    Democrat Stacey Abrams isn't backing down from her fight against what she calls voter suppression tactics and election mismanagement after losing the Georgia governor's race.
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    Stacey Abrams Says She Was Almost Blocked From Voting In Georgia Election

    Nov 20, 2018
    Democrat Stacey Abrams isn't backing down from her fight against what she calls voter suppression tactics and election mismanagement after losing the Georgia governor's race.
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