Pete Buttigieg took to BuzzFeed News this weekend to outline in an op-ed what he calls the “most comprehensive and ambitious disability policy plan yet proposed in the 2020 presidential campaign.” Buttigieg is focused on giving people with disabilities greater access to high-paying jobs. He said he plans to work…
Tag: Voting Rights
Florida Governor Passes Law Requiring Felons to Pay ‘Poll Tax’ to Vote
Florida was trying to move on from its racist past, especially when it comes to keeping Black and brown people from voting. In November, Floridians approved Amendment 4, which restored voting rights to former felons who have served their sentence, excluding those convicted of murder and sex felonies, by a landslide 30-point…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Agrees to Sign Bill Blocking Some Ex-Felons From Voting
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has promised to cripple Amendment 4 by signing Senate Bill 7066, which will require that ex-felons pay all fines and court costs before they will actually be able to vote. The Florida Democratic Party has called DeSantis the “Jim Crow Governor” for saying he will sign…
Florida Republicans Seek to Suppress Voting Rights for Former Felons
Republicans want to water down Amendment 4 because having that many new voters, a large percentage of them people of color, could majorly affect future elections in the swing state.
97-Year-Old Black Woman Has Been an Election Day Poll Worker for 79 Years
Laura Mitnaul Wooten plans to head to the polls on Nov. 6 to vote in the midterm elections, and to work, as she’s done every Election Day for the past 79 years, consecutively. Wooten said that the right to vote, which so many suffered and even died for, is currently…
Voting Rights Protections for Minorities in Danger: Report
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights warns that voting rights for minorities around the country are in danger. The federal government isn’t doing anything to counteract it, especially since Republicans have most to lose in key midterm elections. A report, released on Wednesday, cited strict voter ID laws; closing polling…
Obama to Trump: We're Supposed to Stand up to Discrimination and to Nazi Sympathizers
Former President Barack Obama kicked off his campaigning for November’s midterms, on Friday afternoon, and took jabs at President Trump and the spineless backbones of his Republican constituents. Obama spared no expense rebuking the administration’s actions that have emboldened racists. “We’re supposed to stand up to discrimination, and clearly and…
White Male Candidate in Georgia Suppressing Black Votes for Black Woman Challenger by (Ab)using People with Disabilities
UPDATE: Aug. 24, 2018 at 10:15 p.m. ET On Friday, a Georgia elections board blocked a bid to close most polling places in Randolph County, a predominantly Black county, after critics called it a blatant attempt to undercut Stacey Abrams, who could become the country’s first Black woman governor. The…
White Male Candidate in Georgia Suppressing Black Votes for Black Woman Challenger by (Ab)using People with Disabilities
UPDATE: Aug. 24, 2018 at 10:15 p.m. ET On Friday, a Georgia elections board blocked a bid to close most polling places in Randolph County, a predominantly Black county, after critics called it a blatant attempt to undercut Stacey Abrams, who could become the country’s first Black woman governor. The…
Pro-Trump Radio Host's Rumor Blacks Bused to Alabama to Vote Slammed on Twitter
The 30 percent Black-voter turnout in Alabama’s special senate election resulting in Democratic candidate Doug Jones’ victory is unfathomable to some, like Republican candidate Roy Moore, who lost but refuses to concede, and pro-Donald Trump online radio host Bill Mitchell who has decided to spread rumors. In a current environment…