New Jersey Election Protection Coalition Releases Report on 2020 General Election April 29, 2021, 1:37 pm | in
New Jersey Election Protection Coalition Releases Report
on 2020 General Election
NEWARK – The New Jersey Election Protection Coalition (the “Coalition”) today released a report (the “Report”) analyzing issues New Jersey voters encountered during the November 3, 2020 general election, including in the weeks leading up to it beginning on October 15. A full copy of the Report can be found here.
The Report highlights the challenges posed in an election run during a global pandemic and notes that, despite these challenges, New Jersey administered a safe and sound election. Indeed, the data show significant successes: more than 400,000 voters used a new online voter registration system that launched the month before the voter registration deadline, and turnout was historically high. At the same time, issues reported by voters throu
Expert Witnesses Show How Pandemic Harms Already Vulnerable Populations
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on civil rights in the workplace at its first all-virtual Commission hearing today.
“Today’s testimony makes clear that, while the pandemic continues to have serious impacts on public health and our economy, it has also created a civil rights crisis for many of America’s workers,” said EEOC Chair Charlotte A. Burrows. “All of us have a critical role to play in our economic recovery. We must come together to ensure that all employees can work free of discrimination and that everyone who wants to work has equal employment opportunities.”
Witnesses said nearly 40 people took part on Tuesday in a protest in downtown Graham at which two people were arrested.
The protest formed in reaction to the killing of Andrew Brown Jr. by deputies of the Pasquotank County Sheriff s Office in Elizabeth City, N.C. Graham Police charged two of the protestors with violating the city’s new protest ordinance.
Protesters walked around Court Square, according to Elon University professor and photographer Tony Crider, and stopped at Sesquicentennial Park, often referred to as Wyatt Outlaw Park. There were no counter-protesters or any obvious police presence until about 7:20 p.m., when Graham Police officers came out and started distributing flyers with information about the protest ordinance. The city ordinance requires a permit or notice of protest for a demonstration of 10 or more downtown.
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Arizona PBS
April 26, 2021
The fight over the 2020 election continues in Arizona, where state lawmakers this year filed the third-highest number of voting restriction bills in the nation, according to a national survey. Four of the 23 voting restriction bills are given a shot at passing, while none of the 15 that would expand voting access is still alive at the Legislature winds down. (Photo courtesy Maricopa County Elections Department)
WASHINGTON – Arizona lawmakers, who began the year with one of the highest number of voting restriction bills in the nation, are winding down a legislative session in which it appears only a few of those bills will survive.