Monday, April 24, 2023 | news
Groups Challenge Portion of Anti-Voter Law that Blocks Georgians from Providing Food and Water to Voters Waiting in Long Lines at Polls ATLANTA — Voting rights organizations filed an emergency preliminary injunction motion today to lift part of the restriction in Georgia’s anti-voter law, S.B. 202, that blocks Georgians from providing food and water to […]
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | news
CONTACT: Ella Wiley, ACLU, media@aclu.org, 925-819-0555 Aleisha Flores, Advancing Justice – AAJC, aflores@advancingjustice-aajc.org Adam Ginsburg, LWVUS, aginsburg@lwv.org Rebecca Autrey, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, autreyr@brennan.law.nyu.edu Troi Barnes, LDF, media@naacpldf.org Dominic Hawkins, NAACP, communications@naacpnet.org LatinoJustice PRLDEF, media@latinojustice.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — A coalition of voting rights organizations filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court […]
Saturday, July 25, 2020 | page
What is Voting Rights Defender A new initiative of LDF’s Thurgood Marshall Institute, the Voting Rights Defender (VRD) project will broaden LDF’s monitoring and tracking of voter suppression efforts in targeted jurisdictions months in advance of Election Day to identify as early as possible these suppression measures: POLLING PLACE CHANGES VOTER PURGES LOCAL PRACTICES THAT […]
Friday, September 25, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), sent a letter to the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections urging him to add additional early voting sites and drop boxes in Black communities. Over 3,500 Black residents in the Woodland Heights/Goulding neighborhood, the heart of Pensacola’s Black community, lack access to an early voting […]
Friday, November 14, 2014 | news
Natasha Korgaonkar, Assistant Counsel at LDF, weighs in on the on-going voting law battles leading up to the 2016 general election. Supreme Court rulings forced last-minute changes in state voting procedures for the midterm elections across the country, but the battle over voting rules is far from over. Courts are still hearing arguments over voter ID and […]
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 | news
Cut to Early Voting Decreases Access to the Polls and Weakens Georgia’s Democracy Atlanta, GA, February 25, 2014—A broad and diverse coalition of voting rights and pro-democracy organizations is demanding that the Georgia legislature reject HB 891, a bill that would sharply reduce the early voting days in Georgia municipalities from 21 to, incredibly, just […]
Monday, December 21, 2020 | news
Yesterday, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), All Voting is Local, Georgia, Georgia NAACP, Black Voters Matter Fund, SPLC Action Fund and the League of Women Voters sent letters to officials in ten counties urging them to reject the baseless claims being made to challenge voter eligibility ahead of the January 5, 2021 […]
Monday, November 30, 2020 | news
ATLANTA — All Voting is Local Georgia, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, today urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to immediately direct counties to expand early voting sites and hours, resolve voting technology problems, publish updated ballot status information, and […]
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | post
Read the full statement here. DeKalb, Georgia – Today, the Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, New Georgia Project, Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Common Cause Georgia, and League of Women Voters of Georgia, represented by Advancement Project, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Southern Poverty Law Center, NAACP […]
Thursday, September 17, 2020 | news
Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and the Georgia branch of All Voting is Local sent a Letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger urging him to adopt three crucial strategies to expand and improve access to ballot return drop boxes in order to allow voting to occur as safely as […]
