This is how Trump wins: Voter Suppression Alert 14JUN20

THE drumpf / trump-pence administration with moscow mitch mcconnell and most of the gop / greed over people-republican party are employing all the dirty tricks and technics available to keep people from voting in local elections, state primaries and in the presidential election on Tuesday, 3 NOV 2020. Civil liberties and civil rights groups, moderate republicans and non-partisan voting organizations are all calling out the administration on their voter suppression and voter denial policies and actions. One of the best ways to make sure elections are fair and all who want to vote can is voting by mail. That, along with ending mass unregulated purging of voter rolls, backing  up electronic voting with paper ballots and election day monitoring will help guarantee the American are able to vote in free and fair elections. Please consider donating to this campaign to protect all voters rights from Demand Progress (I did) and please take the time to e mail your state senator and representative and your federal senators and representative and tell them to provide not only the funding but also the legal protections to guarantee or local, state and federal elections are free and fair. AND REMEMBER TO VOTE ON TUESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2020, the fate of our democratic Republic is at stake!!! Go to Rock The Vote or U.S. Vote Foundation to check the status of your voter registration, to register to vote and to request an absentee ballot if you need one.

Georgia's primary election on Tuesday was an absolute disaster. Four-hour-long lines. Malfunctioning voting machines. Tens of thousands of absentee ballots “lost” in the mail.1,2 It was so bad that there have been calls for United Nations elections monitors to step in.3 And as usual, these problems were worse in majority Black precincts.4 Georgia's voting disaster is being called a “giant warning siren” for what could happen in November.5 If Congress doesn't act now, millions of voters could be disenfranchised or forced to choose between their health and their civic duty. Congress must pass national vote-by-mail IMMEDIATELY. Will you donate $5 to help Demand Progress rally grassroots pressure to pass a national vote-by-mail law? Once the coronavirus pandemic began, Georgia’s election officials asked voters repeatedly to request absentee ballots in order to alleviate pressure on understaffed polling places. The voters complied with more than 1.5 million requests for mail-in ballots.6 But the state didn't hold up its end of the bargain. More than 60,000 people hadn't received their ballots by the last days before the day of the primary, and those who did were told to return the ballots in envelopes that didn't exist, along with other confusing instructions.7,8 On the day of the election, the state implemented new voting machines in some districts—machines that experts said were not ready to be deployed—which immediately malfunctioned.9 Polling places in the Atlanta metro area—a section of Georgia that is predominantly people of color—were understaffed and unprepared for the people needing to vote in person, while polling places in whiter, richer areas had fewer problems.10 Social media was flooded with pictures of hours-long lines in the Atlanta area, while other places had no lines at all.11 As former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said, “It is a disaster that was very preventable, emblematic of the deeply systemic issues” Georgia has.12 But it's clear that Georgia's leadership has no interest in preventing these failures. It's not just Georgia whose election suffered during the primary. In Pennsylvania, thousands of voters were sent the wrong ballot. Maryland had outdated registration lists. Washington, DC, wasn’t able to fulfill many absentee ballot requests and had fewer than 15% of its polling places open due to the coronavirus.13 Experts are predicting a second wave of the coronavirus in the fall, right around the general election.14 If we want every state to have the mandate and the resources for a successful vote-by-mail program and give everyone a chance to have their voices heard in November, Congress must pass a nationwide vote-by-mail law with the next coronavirus bill. More than 100,000 Demand Progress members have emailed Congress asking for a vote-by-mail law, and now we’re going to step up our campaign. Will you donate to help pass vote-by-mail legislation and protect our civic rights in November? Thanks for standing with us. Robert Cruickshank, Demand Progress DONATE Sources: 1. CNN, "'A giant warning siren': Concerns about November's election grow after Georgia's disastrous primary," June 11, 2020 2. 11 Alive, "What if you never got your absentee ballot? You've got options," June 8, 2020 3. Esquire, "Georgia Is Screaming Out for U.N. Election Monitors," June 9, 2020 4. NBC News, "Georgia election 'catastrophe' in largely minority areas sparks investigation," June 9, 2020 5. CNN, "'A giant warning siren': Concerns about November's election grow after Georgia's disastrous primary," June 11, 2020 6. The New York Times, "Beyond Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand Vote-by-Mail" June 11, 2020 7. Ibid. 8. Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Georgia absentee voting instructions to be corrected," April 28, 2020 9. The New York Times, "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown," June 11, 2020 10. Ibid. 11. Tweet by Brent Peabody, June 9, 2020 12. The New York Times, "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown," June 11, 2020 13. The New York Times, "Beyond Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand Vote-by-Mail" June 11, 2020 14. CNN, "Another wave of coronavirus will likely hit the US in the fall. Here's why and what we can do to stop it," May 2, 2020 PAID FOR BY DEMAND PROGRESS (DemandProgress.org) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. Join our online community on Facebook or Twitter.