[Voters of Color]
EMS: “According to the American Election Eve Poll by Latino Decisions, 56% of whites voted for Trump. A CNN exit poll found a similar number, 57% of whites voting for the President. But voters of color were a different story. According to the LD poll, 70% of Latinos, 89% of Blacks, 68% of Asians and 60% of American Indians voted for Biden.”
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Brennan Center for Justice
Voters of Color Restored Democracy to America in 2020 Presidential Election
California Voters Approve Prop. 17, Restoring Voting Rights to Formerly Incarcerated
[California’s Proposition 17]
Abdi Soltani: “With the passage of Prop 17, California voters have delivered a resounding victory for voting rights and for the rights of the formerly incarcerated.”
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Brennan Center Launches “I’m an Election Official” Campaign
[2020 Election]
Liz Howard: “With a record number of votes already cast in states across the country, some election officials have already begun to tally the results, others are bound by law and must wait to start counting until the polls close on Election Day.”
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Texas Court Rejects Governor’s Voter Suppression Limit on Drop-off Ballot Sites
[Texas Voter Suppression]
Myrna Pérez: “Texas counties range so much in size that limiting them all to one drop-off site each doesn’t make sense.“Governor Abbott’s one-size-fits-all approach would have taken healthy, reasonable, safe options away from some of this state’s most vulnerable voters, jeopardizing their right to vote.”
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Reps. Jeffries & Velázquez Introduce Bills to Honor Former Brooklyn DA Kenneth Thompson
[Kenneth P. Thompson]
Lu-Shawn Thompson: “My husband was a man of vision. He believed in the power of second chances and thought everyone should have the opportunity to overcome mistakes from their past. During his time in office, he fought to lighten the penalties for those charged with low level offenses and exonerated over 20 wrongfully accused persons.”
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Racial Justice can only Begin when Police Departments truly Reflect Communities
[Racial Policing]
EMS: “Research organizations have uncovered hundreds of federal, state, and local law enforcement officials participating in overt bias, via racist and sexist social media activity.”
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Texas NAACP, ADL Southwest Seek to Join Voter Suppression Lawsuit
[State of Texas v. Chris Hollins]
Toubin: “If the clerk is blocked from mailing ballot-by-mail applications to all registered voters in Harris County, many Texans may be disenfranchised.”
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