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Apparently, corporate input into politics is okay provided it’s only for the GOP
In 2010, the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case changed corporate influence in politics forever. After nearly a century of guidelines that prohibited corporations and wealthy donors from having outsized power in our democracy, the Supreme Court ruled that limiting corporate spending in politics was akin to limiting free speech — except the First Amendment and its protections of free speech were meant for actual people, not corporate entities.
Since then, we have seen political races whose candidates are raising mega money to the tune of billions, making it all but impossible for regular people to run for office…
The Georgia runoffs in January are important. We need all the support we can get.
In 2017, after President Trump appointed Republican Rep. Tom Price as Health and Human Services secretary, a seat opened up in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. In the special election that June, Democrat Jon Ossoff ran against Republican and former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel. The seat was a stronghold for the Republican Party (it was once held by Newt Gingrich), but due to an influx of younger and minority voters in the district, Democrats had a shot at flipping it. The pressure was on. As a 6th District voter, I felt it with every single door I knocked, every…
Can the Peach State wrestle Senate control from the GOP?
In the wee hours of the morning on November 6, three days after the election, something miraculous happened in Georgia. Joe Biden overtook Trump’s lead for the first time. The counties that helped deliver the votes during those final nail-biting hours included Clayton, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties — strongholds for minority voters. Military, provisional, and the final ballots to trickle in widened Biden’s lead over Trump to 14,000. For Georgia, though, this election was only Round One. Round Two, the U.S. Senate runoff race on January 5, will have far greater nationwide consequences than the state’s 16 electoral votes did.
Monitor: Election 2020
Despite major concerns, Georgians are set to vote on a new controversial electronic election system
All eyes are on Georgia this year, a purple state that could send two Democratic U.S. Senate candidates to Washington—possibly flipping the Senate. But with only a few weeks left before the presidential preference primary on March 24, Georgia voters remain gravely concerned about the reliability of the state’s brand new $104 million Dominion election system, which involves a dizzying combination of touchscreen ballot-marking devices (BMD), printers attached to every BMD, battery backups, electronic check-in poll pads, and one or two optical scanners at every precinct.
This new equipment brings with it a significantly higher electrical load and takes up…
Monitor
The state’s precinct closures and relocations prevented tens of thousands of voters from voting on Election Day 2018
There’s no doubt about it. A comprehensive analysis conducted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and two outside nonpartisan statisticians confirms that Georgia’s 8% of precinct closures and 40% of precinct relocations from 2012 to 2018 prevented some 54,000 to 85,000 voters from making it to their polling places on Election Day 2018. It’s a particularly jarring finding considering that these closures and relocations affected Black (traditionally Democratic) voters the most, and that Governor Brian Kemp bested former Minority Leader Stacey Abrams by only 54,723 votes. …
More than 313,000 Georgia voters could lose their registration
Georgia voters are experiencing a déjà vu.
Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, living up to his promise, is preparing to cancel the registrations of over 313,000 voters (4% of all registered voters in the state) by December 24. The widespread purge of voters is a tradition that was started by Raffensperger’s predecessor, Governor Brian Kemp, who perfected the art of aggressive purges during his eight years as secretary of state. Between 2012 and 2016, he purged some 1.5 million voters. …
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