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Vote. Learn about your power. Richard C. Bell On Sunday Morning Magazine

Vote. Learn about your power. Richard C. Bell On Sunday Morning Magazine

Vote. Learn about your voice. Vote. Learn about your power. Richard C. Bell Speaks to Kate Daniels On Sunday Morning Magazine 10/24/21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXeE-YpaZ2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TncNgj-rv-I Richard Bell is a New York City civil rights attorney, deeply passionate about voting. He’s the author of Voting: The...

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A Storied Newspaper Takes a Stand Against The Big Lie

A Storied Newspaper Takes a Stand Against The Big Lie

A Storied Newspaper Takes a Stand Against The Big Lie: This past week the latest attempt to perpetuate "The Big Lie", a/k/a Trump's completely baseless and thoroughly debunked theory that he really won the election, came to an embarrassing end. Not only was the Arizona so-called "audit" of the Maricopa County 2020 election vote count an inept...

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The New Texas Voting Law: Voter Suppression on Steroids

The New Texas Voting Law: Voter Suppression on Steroids

Texas, in its race to the bottom to restrict voting rights, has enacted voter suppression laws that are an assault on Texas residents' fundamental right to vote. An excellent article on the new Texas law was in The Washington Post and was aptly titled, "New Texas voting bill deepens growing disparities in how Americans can cast their ballots." I...

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The U.S. Supreme Court Continues to Enable Voter Suppression

The U.S. Supreme Court Continues to Enable Voter Suppression

With all of the voter suppression laws being passed in state legislatures in 2021, one would think the U.S. Supreme Court would be the institution to thwart voter suppression when challenges to restrictive voting laws reach the high court.  Think again. The Roberts Court had the chance this past term to declare unconstitutional two Arizona laws...

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The New York City Board of Elections Predictably Fails Again

The New York City Board of Elections Predictably Fails Again

Recently, the New York City Board of Elections announced pending vote totals in the Democratic Mayoral Primary only to reverse its position within hours due to a major error in including 135,000 computer “test ballots” that were not actual votes.  The embarrassing error was corrected and the new results were tallied with Eric Adams being declared...

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