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Early voting begins May 6 for South Rock Creek bond issues
The Shawnee News-Star
Early voting begins Thursday May 6 for the South Rock Creek school bond issues in Pottawatomie County . Voters who will not be able to make it to the polls on Election Day, May 11, have the option of voting early at their County Election Board offices in downtown Shawnee.
Pottawatomie County Election Board Secretary Patricia Carter said early voting is open to all voters.
“You do not need to provide an excuse to vote early. Oklahoma allows early voting for all elections conducted through the State Election Board from school board and municipal elections to state and federal elections. This is a great option for those who will be out of town on Election Day or who want to avoid long lines,” Carter said.
Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 or really
Bush v. Gore in 2000. This time, a massive new Georgia law, the Election Integrity Act of 2021, also known as Senate Bill 202 (or SB 202), has triggered national apoplexy, with Democrats, including President Joe Biden, declaring it the new Jim Crow. Such comparisons are insulting to those who fought for civil rights in the 1960s, incendiary to a public discourse already hampered by low institutional confidence, and at base disingenuous.
Sorting out fact from fiction is not only important for this particular law, the fallout from which has already reached Major League Baseball and some Hollywood productions, but to understand the general debate over election regulation in America.
Houston, We Have a Problem: The Chronicle Misleads on Election Integrity
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To lead off its editorial railing against Senate Bill 7 and efforts to reform or at least regularize the rules for voting in Texas, the Houston Chronicle evokes the White Man’s Primary Association of Dimmit County. But like the editorial itself, there’s far less here than meets the eye.
It’s true that in tiny Dimmit County in South Texas, white Democrats established white-only primaries and sought other ways to disenfranchise newly freed Blacks. But what’s the link between that practice (struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in
Patricia Carter named secretary of Pott. County Election Board
The Shawnee News-Star
Maud High School graduate, mother and grandmother Patricia Carter was appointed the secretary of the Pottawatomie County Election Board April 1.
Carter said she is honored to be given the title and looks forward to fulfilling her duties. It is my mission to administer elections to Pottawatomie County voters impartially in accordance to state and federal law, while efficiently reporting election results with maximum accuracy, Carter said.
She explained as secretary she plans to focus on voter outreach and education. With false and misinformation being sowed throughout the voting population, it is my goal to put to rest to some of these myths so that Pottawatomie County voters feel secure and confident in Oklahoma’s uniform election system, Carter said.