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Republicans use signature matching for voter suppression

Democracy Denied: The Dark Side Of Signature Matching For Voter Suppression

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller The same goes for voter suppression. If you don’t look, you could miss it. There’s many ways to deny the will of the people:Peaceful protestors can be killed.Groups helping arrested protestors get bail can be charged. Referendums demanding …

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Racist Voter Suppression: Virginia Republican Scheme Explainer

Leave a Comment / Legal, Mapping and Story Mapping, Technology, Software, and Apps, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

Politicians choose their voters and suppress voters who don’t support them. That’s voter suppression. That’s not how it’s supposed to be. Voters in a democracy choose their politicians, not the other way around. “Republicans on the Virginia Electoral board closed downtown and South Richmond early voting locations. This leaves the general registrar’s office in an …

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How Republicans gerrymander Alabama

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Legal, map, political districts, accountability, Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

Alabama Republicans uses racial gerrymandering to suppress Black voters. The state also has one of the highest rates of poverty in the country. What’s the connection? Voting determines political representation and how federal resources get allocated. Denying Black voters their fair voting power also denies Black communities their fair share of prosperity. “The Supreme Court …

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Top Newsletters On Protecting Democracy

Leave a Comment / Disinformation, Ethnic Media, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Legal, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

American democracy is at stake and it depends on each one of us to defend it. Stay informed. This infographic features some of the best newsletters organized in four broad categories.– Analysis & Editorial: Experts explain developments and their impact on American democracy– Fascism & Disinfo: How fascists gain power and how to counter disinformation– …

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Black Voters Matter organizes to oppose racist Georgia Republican voter suppression bill

Black Voters Matter organizes to oppose new racist Georgia voter suppression bill

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Legal, map, political districts, accountability / By Deepak Puri

Right now in Ware County, Georgia, the House GOP is voting to take over the Board of Elections and potentially remove all 3 Black members. Similar actions are being taken in Macon-Bibb and Ben Hill counties. Black Voters Matter is sounding the alarm and mobilizing supporter to oppose the racist Georgia HB422 bill. Where are the …

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Republicans can't handle the truth so they ban books, fire teachers and whitewash history

Can’t handle the truth? Ban books. Bully teachers.

Leave a Comment / Legal, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

What happens when education is censored, free speech denied and history whitewashed? “The memory of fascism is keen in Europe and Europeans know that book burning marked the beginning of fascism in Italy and Germany… It matters little whether the removal literally takes the form of burning or consists of storing the books in basements …

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Voter suppression through racist prison policies

Leave a Comment / Legal, Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Republican’s racist prison policies prevent even those not convicted of a crime from voting. Illinois conservatives are fighting to keep CASH BAIL, a policy that frees pre-trial, the rich who can pay bail, but sends the poor who cannot afford bail to jail. Why? Could it have something to do with the race of the …

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Fight racial felony disenfranchisement laws

Leave no American voter behind

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping / By Deepak Puri

Millions of Americans can’t vote because of a prior conviction despite having served their sentence! Did you know that 5.2 million Americans are disenfranchised? 2.3% of the voting age population! Felony disenfranchisement laws don’t hurt all Americans equally. Judge for yourself: Racial felony disenfranchisement Florida under DeSantis leads in disenfranchisement Florida is the disenfranchisement leader. …

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Republicans attempt to silence voters and trash their votes

Mapping Republican attempts to trash votes. Count every vote!

Leave a Comment / Legal, Vote count and election integrity, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

“Republicans are engaged in an aggressive effort to invalidate ballots in key states from legal voters.” We mapped just a few of the dozens of lawsuits Republicans have filed to silence voters and throw out valid votes using information from Popular Information and Democracy Docket. American democracy is at stake and it depends on each …

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Alabama Republicans gerrymander voting maps to Black voters powerless

How Alabama Republicans rig voting maps to cling to office

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Legal, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Want to make sure can’t get voted out of office? Rig voting district maps to make your critics’ votes powerless. See how Alabama Republicans gerrymander so well! You’ll also learn how to override rulings from your Federal District Court that say your voter suppression is wrong. (Hint: It involves the GOP-packed Supreme Court). Background: Alabama …

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