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8/15/18
The ACLU "will very likely win in a rout."https://t.co/fvinozOwI5
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 14, 2018
8/24/18
Trump admin is actively looking for polling places in black areas that violate the ADA so they can shut them down.
Correction: This story has been updated to accurately reflect when the Department of Justice's ADA enforcement actions were initiated and to include comment from counties that had positive experiences with the initiative.A majority-black county in rural Georgia announced a plan last week to close seven of its nine polling places ahead of the November election, claiming the polls cannot continue...
Read more from thinkprogress.org8/24/18
Big news in GA: faced with local outcry & national coverage, officials abandoned the plan to close 7 out of 9 voting sites in a majority-black county.
— Taniel (@Taniel) August 24, 2018
County officials also fired the consultant who'd recommended plan (https://t.co/amZAkbiH3g). https://t.co/kQiaQaqzg0
8/24/18
— ACLU (@ACLU) August 24, 2018
VICTORY: Randolph County rejected the proposal to close 7 polling places, referencing overwhelming public outrage.
Voting is a fundamental right that underpins all others. Public pressure works — when elected officials try to make it harder to vote, they will hear from us.
8/24/18
That's the good news. The bad news is that counties formerly under federal preclearance have closed hundreds of voting sites in the years since SCOTUS lifted preclearance, often to much less attention. Check out this thread: https://t.co/XmssdotCYm
— Taniel (@Taniel) August 24, 2018
9/6/18
Election Officials Are Alarmed as Trump Administration Subpoenas Voter Data From 44 North Carolina Counties
— Vote4Dems (@Vote4Dems2018) September 6, 2018
The move, two months before the midterms, could interfere with election preparation and intimidate voters.#DemForce https://t.co/jba0Xx0FZy
9/7/18
"A federal judge quoted the movie Groundhog Day when ruling Friday that 32 counties across Florida violated the Voting Rights Act by denying Puerto Ricans - displaced by Hurricane Maria and now living in Florida - access to Spanish-language ballots. https://t.co/9cRmgswzRX"
Read more from Twitter9/10/18
Federal judge rules that 32 Florida counties must provide sample ballots in Spanish, but also that's it was too late for actual Spanish-language ballots. https://t.co/sxqa7w8vDe pic.twitter.com/4cnnYDk8CX
— Taniel (@Taniel) September 10, 2018
10/3/18
Suddenly 2,400 Texas who thought they were registered to vote in Nov, might in fact not be. If you are a voter in Texas who used https://t.co/idnNG8pXye to register you MUST read this story: https://t.co/Op4wN77Qk2
— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) October 3, 2018
10/13/18
A WhoWhatWhy investigation shows that a huge percentage of absentee ballots in a majority-minority county are getting rejected - and that at least some voters seem to be kept in the dark about it.
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