America needs to change how it votes right now because of the coronavirus
crisis. Voters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s blackest city, were forced to stand in lines for hours and through the dark of night. They once had 180 polling places to go and vote, but rather than increasing that number to increase physical distancing, Republicans cut the total to five. Meanwhile, in the whiter, wealthier suburbs, better options were available, including drive-up voting options that enabled people to stay in their cars while they handed over their ballots.
“We have a new lens through which to view” voter suppression, says Maxim Thorne, managing director of the, named for one of three civil-rights workers murdered in Mississippi by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. “That is the lens of disease. It will kill us as it is killing our democracy.
Voting by mail doesn’t open the doors to fraud, as Republicans claim, but it is not a panacea. According to Hannah Fried, the national campaign director for the advocacy organization All Voting Is Local, states that are home to indigenous tribes that don’t have regular postal service are not well served by vote-by-mail solutions. The recently signed Ballot Interference Prevention Act in Montana, a state whose June 2nd primary will be held entirely by mail, threatens that population specifically.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China.
Lire la suite »
NATPE Budapest, Streaming Plus Rescheduled to Summer Amid Coronavirus UncertaintyWhile January’s NATPE conference and market is one of the few events to have been spared by the coronavirus pandemic, organizers have rescheduled their summer editions as the global coronavirus pan…
Lire la suite »
For Stand-up Comedy, the Pandemic’s Effects Have Just BegunOn this episode of the GoodOnePodcast, let mariabamfoo and roywoodjr distract you from your coronavirus anxieties with their own coronavirus anxieties
Lire la suite »
'I am negative': Rand Paul recovers from coronavirusThe Kentucky Republican is out of quarantine.
Lire la suite »
Listener Questions About Ventilators And How The Coronavirus Attacks LungsDr. Meilan Han, a pulmonologist at the University of Michigan hospital, and NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton answer questions about ventilators and the way COVID-19 affects lungs.
Lire la suite »
Coronavirus live updates: Wisconsin election set for Tuesday despite coronavirus crisisCoronavirus latest: • UK PM Johnson in ICU with coronavirus • China records no new deaths on Monday for first time since January • Wisconsin election set for Tuesday despite coronavirus crisis
Lire la suite »