Errin Haines Originally published by The 19th The battle for voting rights came to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s backyard this week, as the mustard seed-sized Black population of the state got reinforcements from across the country. A caravan of Black organizers pulled into Charleston Thursday for a late …
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The League of Women Voters of Florida, Black Voters Matter, and the Florida Alliance For Retired Americans filed a lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 90 just minutes after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial new voting restrictions into law. Several individual voters joined the organizations in their legal challenge of …
Read More »Three Advocacy Groups, Including Black Voters Matter Sue After 200,000 Voters Purged
In a lawsuit filed in Georgia, three advocacy groups are asking a federal judge to reinstate nearly 200,000 voters for the January runoff race for the state’s two senate seats in Congress. The American Civil Liberties Union released a report after investigative journalist Greg Palast found out that most of …
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