More than anything else, it was the Florida legislature’s naked voter suppression that tilted the state for the Republicans. — JAY MICHAELSON, DAILY BEAST As things stand at midnight, Donald Trump is projected to win the State of Florida by about 375,000 votes. But there was a huge elephant in the polling booth this year, […]
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‘We will come after you’: Voters report personalized emails pressuring them to vote for Donald Trump | USA TODAY
Nigerian animator Ridwan Moshood was so determined to learn how to make cartoons, he spent hours in internet cafés in Lagos, watching YouTube lessons and taking notes. — JOEL SHANNON, SARAH NELSON & ALESSANDRO MARAZZI SASSOON, USA TODAY Law enforcement and election officials are investigating threatening emails sent to voters in multiple Florida counties pressuring them […]
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Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have To Wait In Line For Hours? Too Few Polling Places | NPR, WAMU 88.5
— STEPHEN FOWLER, NPR, WAMU 88.5 Kathy spotted the long line of voters as she pulled into the Christian City Welcome Center about 3:30 p.m., ready to cast her ballot in the June 9 primary election. Hundreds of people were waiting in the heat and rain outside the lush, tree-lined complex in Union City, an […]
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Trump urges California GOP to ‘fight on’ with unofficial ballot boxes despite prosecution threat | Politico
— CARLA MARINUCCI, Politico OAKLAND — President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to urge the California Republican Party to “fight on” in its move to collect ballots in unofficial “drop boxes’’ around the state, in defiance of legal threats from state officials. Trump’s comments come a day after top California officials sent the […]
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As Arizona, Texas and Georgia become less white, voter suppression could keep these states from turning blue | USA TODAY
— Nicquel Terry EllisRick Jervis, USA TODAY As the race for the White House tightens between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, voting rights activists in Texas, Georgia and Arizona are combating what they say are tactics by Republicans to suppress Black and Latino voters. An expanding liberal base, fast-growing Black and Latino populations and more aggressive get-out-the-vote […]
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California GOP installed unofficial ballot drop-off boxes. State officials say they’re illegal. | The Washington Post
— Katie Shepherd, The Washington Post California’s secretary of state and attorney general sent a cease-and-desist letter to Republican Party leaders on Monday following reports that GOP officials were encouraging voters to drop ballots into unofficial boxes that state officials contend are illegal. “There is nothing more precious or fundamental in a real democracy than the vote,” […]
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Michigan AG Charges Two Conservatives With Felonies Over Robocall Scheme To Mislead Voters | CBS Detroit
— Jack Burkman, Jacob Wohl, CBS Detroit CBS Detroit – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is charging in what others call “right-wing provocateurs” after they set up a racist robocall that went out to thousands of Detroiters. As we reported back in August, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are accused of allegedly sending out misinformation concerning the general election. […]
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Trump 2016 campaign ‘targeted 3.5m black Americans to deter them from voting’ | The Guardian
Secret effort allegedly focused on 16 swing states, several narrowly won by Trump after the black Democrat vote collapsed — Dan Sabbagh, The Guardian Donald Trump’s 2016 US presidential election campaign has been accused of actively seeking to deter 3.5 million black Americans in battleground states from voting by deliberately targeting them with negative Hillary […]
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North Carolina Is Already Rejecting Black Voters’ Mail-In Ballots More Often Than White Voters’ | FiveThirtyEight
— Kaleigh Rogers, FiveThirtyEight In every election, a small percentage of mail-in ballots get rejected. But this election is likely to have a whole lot of mail-in ballots. And in an election where a record number of voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail, you’re likely to hear a whole lot about ballots that […]
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Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily blocks absentee ballots from being mailed a week before deadline | CNN Politics
— Caroline Kenny, CNN Politics (CNN)The Wisconsin Supreme Court told election officials across the state on Thursday — a week before the deadline to mail ballots — that they can’t mail out absentee ballots until the court decides whether to add the Green Party’s presidential ticket to the ballot. The September 17 deadline for when the 1,850 […]
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