Judge Orders Georgia Officials to Stop Tossing Absentee Ballots Over Signatures
The decision was a victory for voting rights activists, who feared the signature mismatch practice could disenfranchise thousands of voters.
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Keeping Jim Crow Alive in Georgia With ‘Exact Match’
“Exact match” voter registration is a law enacted by the Republican-controlled Georgia state legislature; it carries on the infamous history of suppressing the African American vote in the Peach State.
NYC Board of Elections Admits to Illegally Purging More Than 200,000 Voters in 2016 Primary
The New York City Board of Elections admitted after a lawsuit that it broke the law by purging thousands of people from voter rolls before the 2016 New York presidential primary. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says the board violated “the law and New Yorkers’ trust in the institutions meant to protect their rights.”