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The new vote-fixing game in Georgia

Once again, it’s down to Georgia in the November 2022 midterm elections. Senator Reverend Warnock is running for reelection, and Stacey Abrams is running for governor against the incumbent Brian Kemp. It’s not a question of who’s going to win. The GOPโ€™s decided it can’t win, so it’s figuring out how to not let the voters vote … READ MORE

Pizza outlawed in Georgia
To Suppress the Vote

I canโ€™t make this up. The state of Georgia passed a law this week, HB 531, that outlaws handing out pizza slices and water to voters waiting for hours to vote.
But Georgiaโ€™s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger objected to the law because, he said, his office had already ruled that pizza… READ MORE

Sec. of State Raffensperger Speaks with Forked Tongue
The Georgia Fraud Story You Havenโ€™t Heard

News has been that GAโ€™s Sec. of State, Brad Raffensperger, bravely stood up to Trumpโ€™s claim of voter fraud in the 2020 election and continues to do so now that Georgians are heading to the polls to decide a crucial runoff election that will decide who controls the Senate. Journalist Greg Palast exposes whatโ€™s… READ MORE

Civil Rights Groups Fight Back Against Georgiaโ€™s Voter Purges

Civil Rights Groups Fight Back Against Georgiaโ€™s Voter Purges

The importance of the January 5 Senate runoff elections in Georgia cannot be overestimated. They will determine which party controls the Senate, with vast ramifications for economic policy, climate change, workersโ€™ rights, immigrantsโ€™ rights, judicial nominees, and much more. The purging of nearly 200,000 registered voters from the voting rolls in Georgia could spell the… READ MORE

Georgia Closes Black Polling Stations
White Polls Open for Early Voting

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[Cobb County, Georgia] โ€œThey didnโ€™t cut one White polling site!โ€
Barbara Arnwine was livid about this fluorescent violation of both Georgia and Federal voting rights law, a subject she teaches at Columbia University. โ€œAll the polling sites they cut were in Black and Brown neighborhoods,โ€ said Arnwine, Founder of … READ MORE

Judge Urges Parties to Meet in Georgia Voter Purge Case

ATLANTA โ€“ Dec. 16. In his ruling in Black Voters Matter et al. v Raffensperger, Federal District Court Judge Steve Jones denied the Plaintiffsโ€™ request for a preliminary injunction in the case, but strongly encouraged the Parties to meet to address what the Court acknowledged were discrepancies between Plaintiffsโ€™ expert lists and the Secretary of Stateโ€™s list. At issue are the close to 200,000 Georgians that Plaintiffs maintain have been improperly… READ MORE

Georgia and its Long History of Voter Suppression

Now that Donald Trumpโ€™s baseless lies about voter fraud have been summarily dismissed by the courts, perhaps some attention can be paid to the true threat to free and fair elections: systemic and massive voter suppression. Voter suppression, not voter fraud, could have critically important effects in Senate runoff elections in Georgia that will determine which party controls the… READ MORE

America’s Got Suppression feat. Christine Jordan & LaTosha Brown

This segment from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah features Christine Jordan, whom we first encountered when she was blocked from voting in Georgia in 2018, and LaTosha Brown, a co-founder of Black Voters Matter and plaintiff in our lawsuit to compel the state of Georgia to restore 198,000 wrongly purged Georgia voters to the rolls before … READ MORE

Georgia takes illegal No Car, No Vote policy for spin

Look out! The Georgia Secretary of State has said that a county can challenge your right to register to vote if you havenโ€™t also registered a car in Georgia. No way. This is completely illegal, a violation of the National Voter Registration Act. And they know darn well… READ MORE