DeKalb County Officials Must Add Early Voting Sites
ATLANTA - All Voting is Local Georgia state director Aklima Khondoker issued the following public comment to the DeKalb County Board of Elections today in response to the county’s long early voting lines, which disproportionately harm Black and Brown voters:
Florida Deserves a Working Voter Registration Website, Not Willful Ignorance
TALLAHASSEE – All Voting is Local Florida State Director Brad Ashwell issued the following statement in response to Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker’s decision not to extend Florida’s voter registration period, following the system’s crash on the deadline day:
Shame On Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for His Voter Registration Extension Sham
TALLAHASSEE - All Voting is Local Florida State Director Brad Ashwell issued the following statement in response to Florida’s new voter registration deadline of 7 p.m. local time today. Gov. Ron DeSantis granted the insufficient deadline extension after the state’s voter registration website crashed for hours on Monday, October 5 - the original deadline to register for the general election
Governor DeSantis Must Extend Florida’s Voter Registration Deadline After Website Crashes
TALLAHASSEE - All Voting is Local Florida and 34 voting rights advocates today urged Gov. Ron DeSantis and Secretary of State Laurel Lee to extend the voter registration deadline for the 2020 general election to 11:59 p.m. on October 7. The request for an extension is in response to the state’s faulty registration website, which was down for hours on the day of the deadline, October 5.
Action, Accountability Needed as Florida’s Online Voter Registration System Crashes Again
TALLAHASSEE - All Voting is Local Florida State Director Brad Ashwell issued the following statement in response to reports that Florida’s online voter registration (OVR) system has crashed again today - the deadline to register for the November general election:
Voting Rights Advocates Call on Georgia Counties to Prioritize COVID-19 and Emergency Preparedness Plans
ATLANTA — All Voting is Local Georgia, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and Fair Fight Action, urged all county commissioners in Georgia to work with county elections officials to draft and publicly release COVID-19 preparedness plans.