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West Volusia Beacon “Florida voting organizations warn voter suppression lurks in proposed legislation”
“We don’t believe there is a problem that necessitates any of this,” All Voting is Local Florida State Director Brad Ashwell said.
NPR Marketplace “What responsibility do corporations have to weigh in on voting rights?”
“This is directly targeted toward Fulton County, because Fulton County was the only county that had mobile buses,” said Aklima Khondoker, state director for the Georgia chapter of All Voting is Local, a voting rights group. “If you are interested in what’s in my purse, then you ought to be interested in my ballot access,” Khondoker said.
Pew Charitable Trust “Republican Wave of Voting Restrictions Swells”
“It’s all sort of geared toward addressing this specter of fraud and the specter of problems that don’t really exist,” said Brad Ashwell, the Florida state director for All Voting is Local, a voting rights nonprofit. “They’re looking to make the process harder, more costly, and create a lot more voter confusion.”
Time Magazine: Georgia Has Enacted Sweeping Changes to Its Voting Law. Here’s Why Voting Rights Advocates Are Worried
Aklima Khondoker, Georgia State Director for All Voting is Local, a national voting rights group, is concerned that the new limits on the availability and access to dropboxes will especially impact voters in areas with fewer early voting sites—often in diverse neighborhoods—as well as those with disabilities. “You can’t call it a mailbox anymore if you shove it inside of the United States Postal Service and say that this is a mailbox like any other mailbox,” says Khondoker. She describes the new law as similar to “death by 1,000 cuts,” calling it “voter suppression by 1,000 measures.”
Congress Must Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to Stop State Anti-Voting Measures
WASHINGTON — Wade Henderson, interim president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed S.B. 202 into law — an hour after the legislature passed the anti-voting rights measure:
Georgia Officials Must Stop the Charade and End Anti-Voter Policies
ATLANTA - All Voting is Local Georgia state director Aklima Khondoker issued the following statement urging the legislature to reject Senate Bill 202 and House Bill 531: