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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:41 PM Oct 2021

'Cannot wait for Washington:' Voting rights activists scramble to navigate new restrictions ahead of

November elections

When activist Tammye Pettyjohn Jones knocks on voters' doors in her rural corner of Georgia this month, she'll have a new tool in hand: a portable printer.

A sweeping voting law Georgia enacted this year now requires voters who do not have a driver's license or state ID to provide a copy of another form of identification with their absentee ballot application.

So Pettyjohn Jones and other volunteers with Sisters in Service of Southwest Georgia plan to take photos of that identification and print them out on the spot for voters to submit along with their absentee ballot applications.

"You don't have time to hem and haw about how hard it is" to vote, said PettyJohn Jones, who is working to turn out voters ahead of November's municipal elections in places like Americus, Georgia. "You've got to go into a problem-solving mode."

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'Cannot wait for Washington:' Voting rights activists scramble to navigate new restrictions ahead of (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
A simple solution gratuitous Oct 2021 #1
How are they going to out organize laws against voting access? Or even nullification?! Do we know we uponit7771 Oct 2021 #2

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. A simple solution
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:53 PM
Oct 2021

And if it turns out to be effective, you can bet that the Republicans will move heaven and earth to shut it down.

uponit7771

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2. How are they going to out organize laws against voting access? Or even nullification?! Do we know we
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 03:08 PM
Oct 2021

... are up against?!!?

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