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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStacey Abrams: These are the places to watch for voter suppression in 2020
Stacey Abrams remains mum on whether she plans to run for president. In the meantime, shes continuing her fight against the one thing that kept her out of the Georgia governors mansion in 2018: voter suppression.
Abrams is sounding an alarm about voter suppression laws in place in Republican-led states like Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and Texas that could affect the 2020 election. But she also is issuing a warning about states with newly-elected Democratic governors, like Michigan and Wisconsin, where Republican lawmakers will block any effort to strip existing unjust voter laws already on the books.
Youve got a raft of states, 25 states, that since 2010 have passed laws to increase voter suppression and decrease access to the ballot, Abrams said in an address at the Council on Foreign Relations.
A former minority leader in Georgias House of Representatives who narrowly lost the governors race, Abrams is in the vanguard of a movement to expand the number of voters of color, who often support Democrats.
https://thinkprogress.org/stacey-abrams-these-are-the-places-to-watch-for-voter-suppression-in-2020-3985470bfe4a/
Abrams is sounding an alarm about voter suppression laws in place in Republican-led states like Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and Texas that could affect the 2020 election. But she also is issuing a warning about states with newly-elected Democratic governors, like Michigan and Wisconsin, where Republican lawmakers will block any effort to strip existing unjust voter laws already on the books.
Youve got a raft of states, 25 states, that since 2010 have passed laws to increase voter suppression and decrease access to the ballot, Abrams said in an address at the Council on Foreign Relations.
A former minority leader in Georgias House of Representatives who narrowly lost the governors race, Abrams is in the vanguard of a movement to expand the number of voters of color, who often support Democrats.
https://thinkprogress.org/stacey-abrams-these-are-the-places-to-watch-for-voter-suppression-in-2020-3985470bfe4a/
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Stacey Abrams: These are the places to watch for voter suppression in 2020 (Original Post)
demmiblue
May 2019
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Wounded Bear
(58,704 posts)1. K & R...for visibility...
Something we need to monitor and fight against.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)2. K&R, these are places were provisional ballot anomalies should be watched
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)3. K & R ... + 1,000,000 for exposure ... K and R and K and R .... rinse repeat
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)4. Eric Holder has been doing a lot on this as well
if I'm not mistaken, as well as gerrymandering.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. K&R