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This series examines the systemic ways that voting rights are denied to so many Americans
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- Sweeping protections for voters, already passed by House and backed by Biden, fail to clear 60-vote procedural hurdle
- Florida governor wants lawmakers to allocate nearly $6m for Office of Election Crime and Security
Reporting
- The agency claims the restrictions, including a ban on providing water and food to those lining up to vote, are racially motivated
- Amy Weirich stirred outrage for bringing criminal charges against Pamela Moses, whose conviction was subsequently overturned
- Victories underscore the continued political potency of the stolen election myth, with most significant win in Arizona
- Measure signed into law by Republican governor in March a ‘textbook violation’ of law designed to protect voters, department says
- Nation’s highest court to hear North Carolina case seeking to remove state courts’ oversight of elections for federal office
- Leading election denier promoting local groups to ‘oversee’ elections and determine if officials are ‘friend or foe’
Features
- Voter suppression – from strict ID laws to closing polling places to purging voter rolls – is deliberately making it hard to exercise the democratic franchise
- While some states have enacted policies that make it easier to cast a ballot, many have gone in the opposite direction
- Florida voters overwhelmingly supported restoring rights for those with felony convictions. But tens of thousands of people remain disenfranchised
Opinion
- The motivations behind today’s efforts to overturn elections and remove black elected officials are not very different than Reconstruction-era motivations
- Despite the tactics of voter suppression working against them, black people are one of the most stable voting blocs in the US
- The House passed a bill that would restore the 1965 act to its full strength – and the US needs reform to make the 2020 election fair for all
- None of the four top Democratic candidates poll consistently above 30% – ranked-choice voting, however, can determine who people actually support
- Given what’s at stake next year, the effort to prevent people voting will be fierce. We’ve been here before – and we can stop it, writes Guardian columnist Carol Anderson
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