Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200

There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live

This is going to be a disaster https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kentucky-braces-for-possible-voting-problems-in-tuesdays-primary-amid-signs-of-high-turnout/2020/06/19/b7b960ce-b199-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html
Kentucky braces for possible voting problems in Tuesday’s primary amid signs of high turnout

Trepidation about how pandemic-era voting will play out in Kentucky comes on the heels of troubled primaries around the country this spring.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kentucky-braces-for-possible-voting-problems-in-tuesdays-primary-amid-signs-of-high-turnout/2020/06/19/b7b960ce-b199-11ea-8f56-63f38c990077_story.html
Mitch McConnell is blocking legislation passed by House Dems to:

-restore Voting Rights Act

-implement nationwide automatic voter registration, early voting & end to voter purging

-expand vote by mail & give $3.6 billion in much needed election aid to states
To learn more about full scope of GOP voter suppression & how to fight back, read Give Us the Ballot https://www.amazon.com/Give-Us-Ballot-Struggle-America/dp/1250094720/ref=nodl_
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

https://www.amazon.com/Give-Us-Ballot-Struggle-America/dp/1250094720/ref=nodl_
If we don’t urgently expand vote by mail AND make it easy to vote safely in person, millions of voters will be disenfranchised in November https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/coronavirus-voting-rights/
How the coronavirus handed the GOP new ways to squash the vote

Postal balloting faces an unprecedented test—and Republicans are setting it up to fail.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/coronavirus-voting-rights/
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