'Cannot wait for Washington:' How voting rights activists are navigating new restrictions ahead of November elections
CNN
With the prospect of passing federal voting legislation dim, activists are plunging ahead with voter-education efforts and using upcoming municipal contests in places like Georgia to test their tactics for next year's midterm elections.
A sweeping voting law Georgia enacted this year now requires voters who do not have a driver's license or state ID to provide a copy of another form of identification with their absentee ballot application.
So Pettyjohn Jones and other volunteers with Sisters in Service of Southwest Georgia plan to take photos of that identification and print them out on the spot for voters to submit along with their absentee ballot applications.
The Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Thursday morning will send a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland referring a potential criminal case involving former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice, alleging he lied to Congress.