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Georgia voting shattering turnout records after MSNBC, CNN, others ran with ‘Jim Crow’ accusations
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Last year, President Biden called the law, known as SB 202, a "blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience," ascribed it as "Jim Crow in the 21st century" and was supportive of Major League Baseball moving...
Georgia early voting is surging as voters deal with new laws
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Early voting has surged in the Georgia primary, with a record-number ballots cast ahead of Tuesday's contests. While Republicans have claimed victory after more than a year of Democrats and others saying the vote ...
Here’s how redistricting could shift voting power in 5 states headed to polls
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Every 10 years, states redraw the boundaries of their congressional districts to reflect new population counts from the census. Explore CNN's interactive analysis of how redistricting efforts in the following states...
Preakness Stakes 2022: Early Voting overcomes favorite Epicenter to win second leg of Triple Crown
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Trailing in the middle of the pack for most of the race, Early Voting pulled ahead through the final stretch – winning it by just 1 ¼ lengths ahead of Epicenter, the runner-up at the Kentucky Derby earlier this month...
Black faith leaders push back after elimination of Sunday voting in one Georgia county
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Griffin, Georgia The Rev. Zachary Holmes spent part of last weekend assembling people to head to the polls ahead of Tuesday's primaries. But the church parking lot was a lot less crowded than it normally would have b...
Americans say economy, Roe v. Wade decision top voting motivations as midterms approach
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"I think if something like Roe v. Wade were to be overturned" and "what was the leaked memo becomes the final decision, I think that should probably be top of mind for people," one man, Nick, told Fox News. "It feels...
Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger says media ‘showed their bias’ on state voting law, defends record
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Perhaps the most well-known secretary of state in the U.S. due to Georgia's prominence in elections drama over the past four years, Raffensperger told Fox News Digital he's always "followed the law and followed the C...
Feminist writer on MSNBC trashes White conservative women for ‘voting against their interest’
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Host Tiffany Cross set up her White, liberal panel to attack White Republican women for making the Supreme Court’s potential overturning of Roe v. Wade, possible. Cross asked Filipovic why White women voted against ...
Michigan State Police seizes voting machine as it expands investigation into potential breaches tied to 2020 election
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The Michigan State Police has expanded its investigation into whether third parties gained unauthorized access to voting machine data after the 2020 election, and is now examining potential breaches in at least one ...
Trey Gowdy: The only Republicans the media likes are either dead, defeated, or voting with Democrats
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TREY GOWDY: I try to be helpful when I can, so I'm going to do something which may surprise you. I'm going to help the New York Times, Politico, CNN and the Washington Post. Those media outlets are struggling right n...
DC college students say climate change and COVID-19 are top voting priorities
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"Certain populations are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, specifically black and Latino populations," one student said. "Because of that it’s created a lot of health disparities [and] it’s made them...
Voting rights advocates warn of fresh threats to ballot access in Georgia
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A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Voting rights advocates had warned that controversial elections laws Georgia legislators passed in 2...
Kahele defends dual role as member of Congress and Hawaiian Airlines pilot, along with proxy voting record
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Rep. Kai Kahele defended his part-time work as a commercial pilot for Hawaiian Airlines, saying the arrangement complies with House Ethics rules, and attributed his lengthy absence from the Capitol to the pandemic a...
Attacks on voting rights aren’t slowing down and Black Americans are in the crosshairs, new report finds
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Some Republicans and far-right groups' attacks on voting rights and American democracy are making it harder for Black people to achieve racial equality, according to a new report from the National Urban League. Th...
The race to change voting rules is on
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A version of this story appeared in the CITIZEN BY CNN newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. With less than eight months to go before the November midterms, Republican lawmakers around the coun...
Psaki frequently cites judgment of ‘history books’ when talking Russian invasion, voting rights
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In at least five separate instances, Psaki asserted that Russia and its economic allies should be thinking about how they want to be remembered in history books and what side of history they would like to fall on whe...