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The state Senate elections committee is prepared to take up some voting reform bills Tuesday.
Republicans introduced 39 bills they claim are in response to concerns raised in last year’s defeat of President Donald Trump. The senate Elections and Ethics committee has three of the bills on their agenda this week.
But critics say the legislation is about “voter suppression”.
But state Senate minority leader Jim Ananich (D-Flint) says theses bills are not what Republicans claim.
“We’re going to fight hard to make sure that people understand these bills have nothing to do with the integrity of the ballot box,” says Ananich. “This has.nothing to do with increasing access. This (is) an attack on our voting rights.”
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For reasons that should become quite clear once the details of the project are explained below, Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have moved production of their upcoming film,
Emancipation. The project had originally been slated to film in Georgia, but following the recent signing into law of restrictive voting-law initiatives by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, the movie’s production has been relocated to Louisiana.
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The announcement is only the latest in a series of actions taken in response to the recent actions by Georgia lawmakers. As we’ve previously noted, the new law is one of the most sweeping of the Republican party’s recent efforts to make American elections more “fair,” i.e., easier for them to win by making it harder for the majority of people, and especially Black people, to vote. (Yes, this is the law that includes making it a crime to hand out food and water to people waiting in line to vote.
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Recently a slew of Republican-held states, like Georgia, have passed or are considering restrictive voting laws.
But there are also issues in New York City, where prisoners must rely on the effectiveness of prison staff to secure their votes.
There are a number of things Bill de Blasio and his colleagues can do to ensure that prisoners get a chance to vote.
Ashish Prashar is the Global Chief Marketing Officer at R/GA and a justice reform activist.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Jim Crow remains alive and all too well among voters in Georgia, Florida, and yes, in New York City, where the most diverse field ever to seek the mayor s office is preparing for a June primary.
America’s corporate elites recently held a conference call on Zoom to discuss how to push back against voter suppression bills being pushed by Republican politicians in dozens of states, according to recent reports.