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Critics say Republicans’ SAVE Act will make it harder for Black voters and others to cast their ballots

On a mostly party-line basis, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced the SAVE Act, a bill that would establish new restrictions to voting. After years of court orders that have weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and a slew of contested state laws and voting maps, Black leaders say the latest legislation only stands to make voting harder. “.. let’s be real, it’s a straight-up voter suppression bill,” wrote Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, on X just before […]

todayApril 10, 2025

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After running out of ballots in Black precincts, Mississippi officials blame human error, poor training

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The county election officials under whose watch ballot shortages hampered voting in Mississippi’s largest county said technical mishaps and insufficient training were to blame for election day chaos in November. At a meeting with representatives from a coalition of statewide and national civil rights organizations, Hinds County election commissioners said Monday that their mishaps caused several polling locations in Hinds County to run out of ballots. They admitted to sharing the wrong voter data with the […]

todayDecember 20, 2023 2