Thread by @srl

If you're thinking about not voting on Tuesday here are some things worth considering before you make that powerful choice:

In Georgia, SoS Brian Kemp was on notice a system they used to flag voter registration was discriminatory and inaccurate. Lawmakers stuck with it anyway. 53,000 people's registrations are now in suspense, approx 70% of whom are black huffingtonpost.com/entry/georgia-…

Also in Georgia officials in one county wanted to close 7/9 polling places, but it quickly became public they had no reason for doing that. They kept the polling places open after public outcry. Since 2013, the state has closed 8 percent of its polls ajc.com/news/state--re…

In Florida, the state banned early voting at the University of Florida and public universities. A federal judge shredded the state and said that was unconstitutional.

Over 7,900 people voted early this year on campus at UF because of this ruling. huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-…

Florida permanently bans people with felonies from voting, unless the governor restores their voting rights. The governor can decide to do that for whatever reason he wants and doesn't have to give an explanation. People wait over a decade to get a hearing huffingtonpost.com/entry/voting-r…

Floridians are voting on a measure -- Amendment 4 -- on whether to end this on Tuesday. It would affect an estimated 1.4 million people, and approximately 1 in every 10 eligible voters in Florida.

In Michigan, Republicans controlled the redistricting process in 2011. A Republican aide discussed being able to cram "dem garbage" into certain districts. State is voting on Tuesday on whether to create an independent redistricting commission

detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…

In Texas, the Secretary of State is appealing a court ruling that required him to come up with a way to update people's voter registrations when they update their DMV info online. huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-vo…

In Missouri, the Secretary of State unsuccessfully fought an injunction blocking the state from requiring people to sign a sworn statement to vote if they didn't have ID at the polls. joplinglobe.com/news/missouri-…

Ohio removes people from its voter rolls if they don't vote for two years, fail to respond to a mailer and then don't vote or take steps to update their information for an additional 4 years. The Supreme Court said that was constitutional in January huffingtonpost.com/entry/ohio-vot…

Whether or not Ohio's process was a good way to identify ineligible voters, Justice Alito wrote, was not the Supreme Court's job to decide

Voters in North Carolina are living under a congressional map that is so gerrymandered to benefit Republicans, a federal court said it's unconstitutional. They're going to vote under this map this fall. huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-ca…

The lawmakers elected this cycle will play a role in redistricting in 2021.

Also in NC, GOP lawmakers put a constitutional amendment to require photo ID on the ballot. If the amendment passes, those lawmakers will decide what kinds of ID are accepted

In New York, one of the bluest states in the country, there's no early voting and you have to have an excuse to cast an absentee ballot. You have to change your party months before a primary if you want to vote in one. huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york…

In southern CA, a local sheriff refuses to let organizers inside jail to register detainees to vote, even though the 6K people inside are likely eligible. The organizers have been standing outside in the middle of the night, past 3 am, to register people huffingtonpost.com/entry/register…

Voters will choose the next sheriff in this county this fall.

In Pennsylvania, Republicans unsuccessfully fought tooth and nail against a challenge to strike down the state's congressional map. This fall, for the first time this decade, Pennsylvanians are voting under a new map drawn to be more fair huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylv…

In Texas, a woman was sentenced to five years in state prison for illegally voting in the 2016 election. She says she had no idea she was ineligible.

She's currently in federal prison serving a 10 month sentence tacked on to her state sentence huffingtonpost.com/entry/crystal-…

Finally, consider LaVaughn Williams, who I met last year and still think about all the time.

https://twitter.com/srl/status/927901493608550400

In Kansas, Kris Kobach, the head of President Trump's commission on voter fraud, is in a tied race for governor. Kobach backed what was perhaps the most restrictive voting law in the country. The law was struck down earlier this year.

huffingtonpost.com/entry/judge-ru…

In North Dakota, Native Americans can be blocked from voting for not having a street address nytimes.com/2018/10/30/us/…