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LaVaughn Williams is a former felon who voted for the first time in Virginia today. Listen to her talk about the power of the ballot
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Sam Levine
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- USPS confirms in a statement it will deliver mail-in ballots that lack postage. "It is the Postal Service’s policy not to delay the delivery of completed Absentee or Vote-By-Mail ballots even if no postage has been affixed or if the postage is insufficient." (1/2)
- Breaking news: Prosecutors are dropping all criminal charges against Pamela Moses, the Memphis woman sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register to vote. She was granted a new trial in February, but prosecutors said today they won't pursue it.
- Breaking news: A federal judge found Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) in contempt of court, saying he failed to fully follow a 2016court order to make sure voters were fully registered. He is ordered to pay attorney's fees to the ACLU.
- Theodore Dortch,37, is a former felon who had his voting rights in Virginia restored this year. Today he voted for the first time
00:00 - Breaking news: The Supreme Court DENIED a request for a stay in PA partisan gerrymandering case. GOP lawmakers wanted court to let them hold off on redrawing map before 2018, Court said no.
- New: DoJ is suing Arizona over a new law that requires voters to prove their citizenship to vote in presidential elections or vote by mail in any election. The law is a "textbook violation" of a federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, the department says.
- North Carolina court permanently blocks state's voter ID law, saying it was "was motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters." (clarifying earlier tweet). Full opinion: drive.google.com/file/d/1g3xeOQ…
- Breaking news: The US Supreme Court said it would not halt a ruling from the PA Supreme Court extending the ballot receipt deadline in the state. This is one of the most significant rulings of the 2020 election cycle
- Scoop: The majority black Georgia county that's proposing closing nearly all of its polling places can't produce a single document, record or analysis of why it needs to close them. huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-…
- Two lawyers who recently left DOJ announce they are starting a firm to represent civil servants
- Breaking news: Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers subject to viscous harassment after falsely being accused of wrongdoing in 2020, have settled their defamation lawsuit against the far right news website The Gateway Pundit
- Rev. William Barber, holding a press conference outside Sen. Manchin's office, says Manchin lied to John Lewis, saying he supported voting rights legislation and then switching his position after Lewis died and Democrats took control of the US senate
- Breaking news: A federal judge struck down Kansas' proof of citizenship law. The law was championed by Kansas SoS Kris Kobach, Trump's voter fraud czar, and personally defended by him in court
