Trump Indictment Highlights Georgia Voting Rights Movement
From today’s ABC News: As the 2024 election draws near, voting rights advocates are taking lessons from the 2020 elections to safeguard the rights of voters in areas like Fulton…
Federal Judges Overturn Parts of GOP Voting Laws in Georgia and Texas
From today’s Associated Press News: Federal judges in Georgia and Texas have ruled against key provisions of two controversial election laws passed two years ago as the Republican Party sought…
Georgia’s Runoff Elections Have Segregationist Roots
From today’s PBS News: Georgia’s Dec. 6 runoff election pitting Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock against Republican Herschel Walker is historic for having two Black candidates representing major parties on that…
Georgia Voters Defy Efforts to Suppress Them
From today’s New York Times: Tuesday afternoon, I waited over an hour and a half to vote in Atlanta in the Georgia Senate runoff between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican…
Voting Surges in Georgia Despite Controversial New Election Law
From today’s Washington Post: When the Spalding County Board of Elections eliminated early voting on Sundays, Democrats blamed a new state law and accused the Republican-controlled board of intentionally thwarting…
Georgia Seeks Dismissal of Fair Fight Voting Rights Case
From today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Voting rights groups failed to prove in court that Georgia’s election policies disenfranchise voters, an attorney for the state told a federal judge Thursday, asking him…
Biden and Harris Call for Voting Rights Laws and Senate Reform in Georgia
From today’s New York Times: President Biden will endorse changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights protections during a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, the most significant step he…
Georgia election workers sue far-right website over false fraud claims
From today’s Reuters Online: Two Georgia election workers targeted by former U.S. President Donald Trump in a vote-rigging conspiracy theory have sued a far-right website that trumpeted the false story,…
How Voting Rights Activists Navigate New Restrictions For 2022 elections
From today’s CNN Online: When activist Tammye Pettyjohn Jones knocks on voters’ doors in her rural corner of Georgia this month, she’ll have a new tool in hand: a portable…
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MLB Pulls All-Star Game from Atlanta in Protest of Restrictive New Voting Law
From today’s NBC News Online: Major League Baseball on Friday pulled this year’s All-Star Game out of Atlanta in protest of Georgia’s new restrictive voting law. The “Midsummer Classic” was set for July 13 at…