Press Releases
about Voting Rights
Jan 29, 2020
Federal Court Orders Sumter County to Adopt Court-Drawn Maps For School Board Elections
Court Orders County to Move Election from May to November to Increase Black Voter Participation
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Dec 18, 2019
NJ Gov. Murphy Signs Restoration of Voting Rights to People on Probation and Parole
New Jersey gets closer to the ideals of a representative democracy by restoring the franchise, and can go further by restoring rights of incarcerated people
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Dec 16, 2019
Bill to Restore Vote for People on Parole and Probation Passes Legislature, Next Step is Re-Enfranchising People Who Are Currently Incarcerated
TRENTON – A bill to restore voting rights to people on parole and probation passed in both the Assembly and the Senate today and now moves to the Governor’s desk for signing. A...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Nov 04, 2019
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Georgia Calls on Secretary of State to Stop Removing Citizens from the Voter Rolls
ATLANTA – The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Georgia has found discrepancies in the Secretary of State’s office list of 330,000 Georgia citizens whose voter registrations it intends to cancel. The li...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Sep 25, 2019
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Georgia, Lawyers’ Committee Demand DeKalb County Election Board Adopt Policies to Protect Against Wrongfully Removing Legally Registered Voters from the Rolls
ATLANTA — The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Georgia and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, on behalf of the New Georgia Project and the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda, sent ...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Sep 11, 2019
Crystal Mason’s Legal Team Appeals Illegal Voting Conviction
FORT WORTH, Tex. – The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Texas today presented oral argument in the appeal of Crystal Mason’s five-year sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election. Th...
Issue Areas:
Voting Rights
Court case: Crystal Mason v. State of Texas
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