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  1. Thank you #HeatherCoxRichardson for putting things into perspective...
    " On August 6th, Dr. King and Mrs. Boynton were guests of honor as President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Recalling the outrage of Selma, Johnson said, this right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
    Let's not forget that of all the rights Americans enjoy, the #RightToVote is the most consequential!
    #LyndonJohnson #BloodySunday #GOPVoterSuppression
    heathercoxrichardson.substack.

  2. Judge Denies GOP Missouri Officials’ Bid to Block DOJ Election Monitors
    If a court blocks the DOJ from deploying personnel to St. Louis on Tuesday, they won’t be able
    to ensure they don’t violate the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal laws. democracydocket.com/news-alert. #DemocracyDocket #GOPVoterSuppression

  3. GOP are busy cancelling voter registrations in three counties in Iowa. Voter registrations 'wrongfully' canceled before Nov. 5 election, ACLU says #GOPVoterSuppression #IowaElections. youtube.com/watch?v=cjw0LS3njM

  4. Federal judge sides with Iowa secretary of state over voter eligibility dispute stoping pill workers from disputing ballots questioning citizenship.
    #gopelectiontampering #GOPVoterSuppression #iowaelections youtube.com/watch?v=wPxCFqbJt7

  5. MAGA Republican Nazi parties only plan for America is to stop citizens from voting. #GOPVoterSuppression #

  6. Georgia Mass Voter Challenges Lawsuit (GA NAACP)
    Under Section 5 of  S.B. 189, the plaintiffs claim private citizens can challenge the eligibility of voters whose address is deemed “nonresidential.” The plaintiffs argue that this would impact voters living in college dormitories, shelters, transitional housing or other locations that may show as nonresidential under local zoning laws. 
    #georgiaelectioninterference #GOPVoterSuppression
    democracydocket.com/cases/geor

  7. Texas' Right-Wing Leaders Are Going To ‘Scary’ Lengths To Intimidate Political Rivals

    The Texas attorney general is using search warrants, undercover operations and more to intimidate Latinos, organizers said.
    #TexasFascistState #GOPVoterSuppression #votingrights
    #TexasGOP huffpost.com/entry/ken-paxton-

  8. Nearly 50 million Americans lack an active ID that has their current name and address. And if they’re in a state with strict voter ID laws, it likely means they can’t vote. But who in America lacks photo ID and who gets squeezed out of the electorate because of it? Lauren Kunis of VoteRiders joins Marc Elias to break down these stats, myths behind noncitizens voting and more. #GOPelectionrigging #GOPVoterSuppression youtube.com/watch?v=18zMWQCEhz

  9. July 29, 2024, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced a new online portal to request the cancellations of voter registrations. Raffensperger said that the portal is intended for people who move out of state or who want to cancel the registration of a deceased family member. With Georgia's history of mass voter challenges, a website to cancel voter registrations is wrong #GeorgiaElections #GOPVoterSuppression #GOPelectionFraud #GOPelectionrigging youtube.com/watch?v=MK4b-meIGP

  10. The GOP Campaign to Sow Chaos at the Ballot Box Has Already Begun

    A new lawsuit filed against the state of Nevada by the Trump team and its friends in the RNC says a lot about how they plan to suppress the vote in November.

    thenation.com/article/politics #GOPTraitorsToDemocracy #VoteBlue2024 #GOPVoterSuppression

  11. Expect even more election cheating by desperate republicans Trump and Republicans file suit to nullify Nevada ballots mailed on Election Day
    Election Day is Nov. 5, ballots postmarked on or before that date must be accepted & counted if they are received by election offices by 5 p.m. on Nov. 9
    Trumpers in the new lawsuit argue that practice violates federal law and as a result “valid, timely ballots are dilated by untimely, invalid ballots.” nevadacurrent.com/briefs/trump #GOPVoterSuppression

  12. Black Louisiana Voters Ask US Supreme Court To Allow State To Use Struck Down Congressional Map
    Black Louisiana Voters Ask US Supreme Court To Allow State To Use Struck Down Congressional Map #
    democracydocket.com/news-alert. #GOPVoterSuppression #votingrights #democracyDocket

  13. #GOPVoterSuppression
    US Supreme Court Will Not Review Texas’ Age-Based Mail-In Voting Restrictions
    The #IllegitimateSCOTUS has denied a petition from three Texas voters who asked the justices to take up a case challenging the state’s age-based restrictions on mail-in voting.
    Individuals are only eligible to vote by mail without a qualifying excuse if they are 65 yrs or older on Election Day. Voters argued that the law violates the 26th Amendment democracydocket.com/news-alert
    #TexasVoterSupression

  14. democracydocket.com/news-alert #GOPVoterSuppression #votingrights Delaware Court Strikes Down Permanent Absentee and Early Voting Laws

    Republican extremists will stop at nothing to attack our access to the ballot box.” Rochester also emphasized that the ruling serves as an “urgent reminder that we need federal voting rights protections.” 

  15. commondreams.org/opinion/gop-v #GOPVoterSuppression #GOPvoterfraud #GOPelectionmeddling Warning: The Great GOP Voter Purge of 2024 Is Underway

    Using arcane laws and loopholes, Republican-affiliated groups are challenging the right to vote of thousands of mostly Democratic voters across the states most likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 election.

  16. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jac Jackson: Supreme Court Does Not Endorse 5th Circuit’s ‘Extraordinary’ Interference In Louisiana Map Case
    Experts say it was “striking” to see an appellate court micromanaging a lower court’s docket this way They worry that the move from state officials & acquiescence from the Fifth Circuit panel is all in service of slow-walking fixing the maps, so the state has to conduct another election without crafting an additional likely Democratic House seat #GOPvoterSuppression

  17. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/m Staff at the advocacy group Disability Rights Wisconsin say they have received reports of elections clerks rejecting absentee ballots from disabled voters as recently as March. Despite federal protections, this is just one of many barriers to voting that voters with disabilities face in Wisconsin and across the United States. #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #votingrightsprotections #VotingRightsAct #WisconsinVoterSuppression #GOPvoterSuppression #VotingLaws