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By Mark Hedin, Ethnic Media Services
Published April 1, 2021
Voting Rights Deputy Director, Sophia Lin Lakin (Ethnic Media Services)
Less than a week after the state of Georgia enacted new voting rules, a third federal lawsuit is seeking to have the changes overturned.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU and NAACP, acting on behalf of religious, student and ethnic minority-serving organizations, allege the new regulations are unconstitutional and violate the federal Voting Rights Act.
“This law (Georgia S.B. 202) is voter suppression, plain and simple, aimed at making it harder for black and brown and other historically disenfranchised communities to have a voice in our democracy,” Sophia Lin Lakin, deputy director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, said in a press briefing March 30.
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UNITE HERE Local 11, a Los Angeles-based labor union, campaigned for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Georgia one day before calling for a “true lockdown” at home, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday. (Screenshot via Facebook/@UNITE . more > By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
A Los Angeles-based labor union campaigned for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Georgia one day before calling for a “true lockdown” at home, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday.
UNITE HERE Local 11, which says it represents over 31,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona, posted about its “field team” doing campaign outreach and knocking on doors for the Democratic candidates in Atlanta on Dec. 15. On Dec. 16, the group signed a letter demanding Los Angeles County cl