Tag Archives: Voting

Several civil rights and voting rights groups have joined together to challenge SB 202, a bill that Georgia Republic Gov. Brian Kemp signed last week. The bill requires voters to use identification cards to obtain an absentee ballot, limits access to voter ballot boxes and make it illegal to give …

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp passed a bill that adds new restrictions to the voting process. Democrats believe that the bill disenfranchises Black voters. “Georgians turned out in record-breaking numbers because they could access the ballot,” Rep. Rhonda Burnough said. “Lies upon lies were told about our elections in response, …

Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Rep. Jody Hice for Georgia’s Secretary of State. “Jody has been a steadfast fighter for conservative Georgia values and is a staunch ally of the America First agenda,” Trump said. “Unlike the current Georgia Secretary of State, Jody leads out front with integrity,” Trump said. ” I have 100 percent confidence …

Georgia State Rep. Barry Fleming has been asked to resign as a county attorney after co-sponsoring a bill restricting voting access in Georgia. Fleming, a Republican, served as county attorney in Hancock County, where 7 of 10 residents are Black. Hancock county’s election board was accused in a federal lawsuit of unfairly …

Texas Republicans are working to shake up things in Houston by changing the voting process. Republican lawmakers introduced two dozen bills to suppress votes. “We must pass laws to prevent election officials from jeopardizing the election process,” Gov. Greg Abbott said. The bills will disable counties from sending absentee ballots …

The non-profit watchdog group, Campaign for Accountability, filed a complaint with the House Committee on Ethics to investigate 13 Republican lawmakers. According to the group, the Republican House members used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to skip in-person voting to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference. According to CNN, …

After months of claiming that mail-in ballots contributed to election fraud, former president Donald Trump has request one for a municipal election in South Florida. The Palm Beach Post reports that a mail-in ballot was requested for the president’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. In August, Trump praised Florida’s …

SB 241, a voting bill that would end no-excuse absentee voting after 16 years, was passed by Republicans in the Georgia Senate. Four Republican Senators opted to be excused from the vote. Georgia’s Lt. Gov Geoff Duncan chose not to preside over the vote because he is opposed to removing no-excuse absentee …

The House on Wednesday night passed a sweeping voting and campaign finance reform bill that aims to expand voting access, increase election security and change how congressional districts are drawn across the county. The For the People Act of 2021, known as H.R. 1, passed by a vote of 220 to 210. …

The Senate is in the process of passing its budget resolution to move forward with writing and passing a COVID-19 relief bill. In order to move forward, the senate must go through a vote-a-rama. “It’s generally a free-for-all once you get into vote-a-rama,” John Thune, Minority Whip, said. “It just …

Republican state senators are looking to change the way that the voting process is handled in Georgia. The senators are looking to ban automatic voter registration, ballot boxes, and no-excuse voting. “We’ve got to restore confidence in the ballot box. When people lose confidence in the ballot box, they ultimately …

The elections company Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit Friday against Donald Trump’s former attorney, Sidney Powell. Powell is accused of being one of the loudest amplifiers spreading election fraud conspiracy narratives on the 2020 Presidential election, NPR reports. Dominion is suing Powell, an attorney who worked for the Trump …

The director of product strategy and security for the company Dominion Voting Systems has gone into hiding since becoming the subject of conspiracy theories on the right. The employee, Eric Coomer, is suing the Trump campaign, numerous campaign allies, and pro-Trump media outlets over allegations of defamation, NPR reports. Dominion …