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Pro-Trump activists are using Jim Crow-era laws to disenfranchise voters. Unfortunately, while the The Georgia NAACP, Black Voters Matter Fund, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, and other frontline organizations have sued over these challenges, the U.S. Justice Department is, so far, nowhere to be seen.

▶️ My latest for Truthout: truthout.org/articles/pro-trum

Truthout · Pro-Trump Activists Are Using Jim Crow-Era Laws to Disenfranchise VotersRight-wing vigilantes have been in overdrive attempting to challenge the ballots of 2 million voters by Election Day.

Carry Smith wrote her PhD thesis on the Voting Rights Act and challenges to the right to vote in Georgia. Now dig this: Smith, the expert on challenges to voting rights, nearly lost her vote because a GOP vigilante challenged her registration — along with 900 other Savannah voters — forcing her to make an appearance in front of her local Elections Board to get it restored.

Full story: gregpalast.com/savannah-vigila

Adrian Consonery Jr. was challenged by officials in Cobb County, Georgia. The elections officers claimed that the signature on his drivers license “didn’t match” the signature on his ballot. Were these local pols forgery specialists? No, they were Republicans. No problem, they told Consonery, a student in the middle of his finals; all he had to do was drive to their offices, eight hours away, and re-sign his ballot.

Full story: gregpalast.com/savannah-vigila

"One of the ways that we can actually make sure that we don't have to continue to deal with [voter suppression], not at the same level of intensity, is we've gotta stop it and there has to be consequences, which is why we have to come out in record numbers.” — LaTosha Brown, Co-Founder #BlackVotersMatter

▶️ Learn more about how to protect your vote at: SaveYourVote.org

If you missed our #SaveYourVote broadcast feat. an all star cast, you can view it here. youtube.com/live/KL2t49XH9Lo