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By Harm Verhuizen, AP / Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Black and Hispanic voters in Wisconsin’s largest city say a Republican election commissioner publicly applauding GOP strategies he credits with depressing minority turnout are a public admission of a conservative strategy in place for years. “He’s proudly telling Hispanic and Latino voters, ‘I’m […]
It was the morning after Labor Day and Pamela Moses was in a rush. All summer, the outspoken activist had been feuding with election officials in Memphis, Tennessee. She wanted to get her name on the ballot for Memphis’s 2019 mayoral election, even gathering enough signatures to do so. But officials said she could not […]
Wanted: Black Men needed to be buffoons — think Hershel Walker — in exchange for being treated like a King of the Moment and a figurehead greeted by Republican cheers? If interested, please call the GOP. Perhaps it is too easy to reduce the small but increasing rush of Black male Republicans to an imaginary advertisement for […]
When Lauren Nicks, a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta, cast her vote in last month’s midterms, she did so in her home state of New York. Nicks, a 21-year-old international studies major at the historically black college, had been told months earlier by fellow students about a law that does not allow students from […]
It is the second consecutive runoff for Warnock, who won his seat in a January 2021 special election over then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler. That victory, coupled with Sen. Jon Ossoff’s win on the same day, gave Democrats control of the Senate for the past two years. This time, the runoff is taking place earlier — and […]
State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Columbia, compares his proposed map of U.S. House districts drawn with 2020 U.S. Census data to a plan supported by Republicans on Jan. 20, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Federal judges are deciding whether South Carolina’s new congressional maps are legal in a lawsuit by the NAACP which says the districts dilute […]
State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Columbia, compares his proposed map of U.S. House districts drawn with 2020 U.S. Census data to a plan supported by Republicans on Jan. 20, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Federal judges are deciding whether South Carolina’s new congressional maps are legal in a lawsuit by the NAACP which says the districts dilute […]
By Tali Arbel Updated Nov. 27, 2022 9:56 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Americans will soon get a chance to vote in the Eurovision Song Contest, the musical competition that celebrates kitschy pop and helped launch the careers of ABBA and Celine Dion. Eurovision’s pomp and spectacle draw comparisons to the Olympics. It’s
Early voting in Georgia runoff election for US Senate Polls in some Georgia counties opened on Saturday. Several counties are offering early voting on Saturday in the Georgia runoff election for the U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. The Georgia Supreme Court ultimately sided with Georgia Democrats to […]
Wisconsin Elections Commission member Robert Spindell blasted for voting comments
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January 11, 2023
By Scott Bauer, AP MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission called for a Republican member who bragged about GOP efforts to suppress votes in Milwaukee to resign from the bipartisan panel. Commissioner Robert Spindell’s comments sent in an email to Republicans in the 4th Congressional District were first reported […]