You Have Rights When You Go To Vote—And Many Are There to Help with Trouble At the Polls
Despite all the challenges to this year’s election—long lines, calls for voter intimidation, baseless claims of fraud—voting is a fundamental civil right.
Despite all the challenges to this year’s election—long lines, calls for voter intimidation, baseless claims of fraud—voting is a fundamental civil right.
Mississippians will not be required to wear masks as they enter polling places on Election Day—but poll workers may ask masked voters to momentarily remove their masks to verify their identities. The mask rules are part of a set of COVID-19 “Polling Place Safety” rules that Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson’s office formalized this week.
Mississippians with medical conditions that cause higher risk for COVID-19 infection and death are suing the State of Mississippi over stringent rules that block them from voting absentee.
Jacob Ray writes that the Civil Rights Movement and Voting Rights Act ended voter suppression in the forms of lynchings, bombings, cross burnings, “bubbles in a bar of soap” tests, literacy tests and “good character” tests, but other forms of suppression survived the federal laws and continue to thrive.
Very few people deserve to be called a hero. But, under any criteria, Congressman John Lewis is one of the great American heroes in our country’s history.
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