Voting rights group files lawsuit over ballot proposal

LANSING, MI – A group trying to get a voting rights proposal on the November ballot is suing state election workers for not validating the initiative despite the group having the necessary number of signatures.

Georgia County Rejects Plan to Close 7 Polling Places in Majority-Black Area Image

CUTHBERT, Ga. — The consultant, a white man, came to the mainly black Randolph County in rural southern Georgia and recommended that it eliminate seven of its nine polling places. He said the move would save the county money. He said the polling places had disability compliance issues.
Read More....

ICE, Justice subpoena voter records from North Carolina

Washington (CNN)Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Justice have gotten a court order for North Carolina to turn over eight years of voter registration records from the state.
Read More....

The Fight For Voting Rights and the 2018 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference."t

The Fight For Voting Rights and the 2018 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference.”
Read More....

Voting Rights Advocates Used to Have an Ally in the Government. That’s Changing.

WASHINGTON — A new voter ID law could shut out many Native Americans from the polls in North Dakota. A strict rule on the collection of absentee ballots in Arizona is being challenged as a form of voter suppression. And officials in Georgia are scrubbing voters from registration rolls if their details do not exactly match other records, a practice that voting rights groups say unfairly targets minority voters.
Read More....