Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recently announced a voter purge of 330,000 people that could affect the 2020 elections. Voting rights activists are rallying to fight this and other similar purges throughout the South.
Republicans are not appealing the court ruling. The state legislature now must draw a nonpartisan map by September 18 — and “in full public view.”
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It’s the second state in a week, after Michigan, in which judges said a GOP-drawn map violated voters’ constitutional rights.
Just before sunrise on Wednesday, a Republican-controlled senate approved bills to restrict early voting and curb the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general. The state assembly was expected to follow suit.
A Federal Court Just Ruled That Thousands of Eligible Voters in Georgia Must Be Allowed to Vote.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp had blocked over 3,000 naturalized US citizens from voting in 2018.
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Conservative groups such as Pilf publish voters’ details online in what experts say amounts to ‘insidious modern-day intimidation’.
Thousands of pages of internal records are likely to bolster critics of the short-lived Trump administration commission.
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