[Voting Rights for Felons]
When people with past felony convictions visit Vote.org, they will now be directed to CLC’s www.RestoreYourVote.org to understand if they can vote. And when eligible voters visit www.RestoreYourVote.org, they’ll be prompted to use Vote.org’s best-in-class tools to register to vote and those who do register will be sent www.Vote.org’s proven election reminders and get-out-the-vote outreach.
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[Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King\”Give Us the Ballot” speech]
Dr. King: “Give us the ballot, and we will fill our legislative halls with men of goodwill…Give us the ballot, and we will place judges on the benches of the south who will do justly and love mercy.”
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[New York Senate\Voting Rights]
New York Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins: “Voting is the bedrock of democracy. We must do more to help eligible New Yorkers participate in the political process and have their voices heard. These bills build on the voting reforms we passed first thing last session, and will empower more New Yorkers to register to vote and utilize early voting opportunities.”
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[New Jersey\Voting Rights]
ACLU-NJ Executive Director Amol Sinha:”People who have been disenfranchised in every sense of the word have regained their most fundamental power in a democracy, thanks to Gov. Murphy’s signature and the leadership of the legislative sponsors.”
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[Voter Suppression News\Stacey Adams lawsuit]
Stacey Abrams’ non-profit Fair Fight has retained the Palast Investigations team experts to provide court testimony, based on our six years of investigation, in Fair Fight’s federal lawsuit to overturn Georgia’s massive, racially-biased purge of voters.
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[Congressional Black Caucus Commemorates John Conyers]
“Just four days after the assassination of Dr. King, Congressman Conyers introduced a bill to create a federal holiday in his honor and reintroduced the bill every year for 15 years until it was signed into law. Mr. Conyers continued his pursuit of voting rights in Congress as a lead co-sponsor of the Voting Rights Act of 1965… Mr. Conyers also championed the issue of reparations by introducing a bill to establish a commission to study the issue of slavery and race relations in America, which he fought for consideration every year.”
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[Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer]
Fannie Lou Hamer, in 1964: “I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?”
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[Voting Rights News]
Newly launched voter modernization advocacy group Secure Elections for America Now (SEAN) pledges to fight to “ensure election integrity.”
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