#voter-suppression

#voter-suppression

Economic justice advocates in Georgia are mobilizing ahead of next month's runoff U.S. Senate election in the state, working to convince low-income residents who lack access to healthcare and living wages to back Democratic Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock.The Georgia Poor People's Campaign announced late Wednesday that it is launching a statewide canvassing, text-banking, and social media campaign to reach out to millions of Georgia voters who are low-income, calling the push their "If We Ever Needed To Vote, We Sure Do Need To Vote Now Tour."
"It ain't over yet, and every vote must be cast to count," said the group.

It slipped out quietly this month in the brouhaha of the approaching budget.The regulations listing acceptable ID documents that will allow people to vote at elections were not included in the shameless voter-suppression bill that passed through parliament this year.Are you surprised that the list includes all kinds of acceptable ID held by older voters, but that ID the young might have has been struck out?

It turns out that the Land of Lincoln is not entirely immune to the contagion of election denialism and voter suppression.Nationally, hundreds of election deniers are running for office; some of them refuse to say they'll accept the results of their elections.Election officials across the country are bracing for possible disruption by extremist groups planning "aggressive poll watching."