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I'll be monitoring voting problems across country today. If you have any problems voting let me know & more importantly contact @866OURVOTE 866-Our-Vote right away
Starting a thread on voting problems today. In Texas border patrol conducting "crowd control exercise" in Latino neighborhood of El Paso. Dem state reps call it "a cynical effort to suppress the Latino vote in a region seeing record turnout.” texastribune.org/2018/11/06/bor…
Multiple polling sites were closed this am in Maricopa County AZ (Phoenix). At one polling place building in foreclosure. This is same county where they had 5 hour lines in 2016 primary because closed 70% polling sites fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-n…
Voting machines malfunctioning in Georgia's largest counties, leading to long lines at polls. Georgia is one of 5 states that use electronic voting machines with no paper backups ajc.com/news/local-gov…
Voters in Missouri wrongly being told they need photo ID to vote. You can vote with non-photo ID, such as voter registration card kansascity.com/news/politics-…
300,000 registered voters in Alabama, 1 in 10 voters, are listed as inactive. If you're listed as inactive when you go to vote you can still cast a regular ballot mynbc15.com/news/local/mor…
I'm at Election Protection call center in NYC where hundreds of lawyers taking calls from voters, trying to make sure their votes count. Shout out to the thousands of @866OURVOTE volunteers helping people vote today
County clerk in Dodge City KS not allowing media in polling site. They have 1 polling site for 13,000 in city 61% Hispanics & moved it outside of town, 1 mile from bus stop
4.5 hour lines in Georgia because voting machines malfunctioned. Elections there now resemble former Soviet republic motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Voting problems so far today:

Tribal IDs not accepted in Standing Rock ND

4.5 hour lines b/c machines malfunctioning in GA

Voters wrongly being asked for ID in MO

300,000 inactive voters in AL

Ballot scanners not working in NC

Polling sites opened late in AZ & IN
In Sioux County ND, home to Standing Rock reservation, election officials ran out of ballots & told Native voters to drive 30 minutes to another polling place. Insane
Brian Kemp said that 53,000 voters on his pending registration list could cast regular ballots. But there were hundreds of reports today of voters turned away from polls or forced to cast provisional ballots @pemalevy reports motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
OMG Brian Kemp himself had trouble voting today, brought an invalid voting card. Good thing this guy is overseeing his own election
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Breaking: Scott Walker signs lame duck GOP legislative coup stripping his Democratic successor of power & making it harder to vote. This is the kind of thing autocrats do

A very dark day for democracy in Wisconsin
Scott Walker just signed lame duck coup brazenly stripping power from Dem gov/AG & making it harder to vote

Similar legislative coups underway in MI & NC

GOP shamelessly gutting democracy before they lose power

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Gutting unions

Lame duck coups

Extreme gerrymandering

Rampant voter suppression

Eviscerating campaign finance

This is Scott Walker's legacy in Wisconsin

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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RIP to 97-year-old civil rights activist Rosanell Eaton who passed away yesterday

She passed literacy test to register to vote & then registered over 4,000 people. She was plaintiff in @ncnaacp lawsuit challenging NC voter ID law

A remarkable woman I was honored to know
Rosanell Eaton had to pass literacy test in 1940s to register to vote under Jim Crow

Then when NC passed voter ID law she had to make 11 trips to different state agencies to get right ID

NC just passed new version of voter ID law in lame duck session thenation.com/article/the-92…
As I wrote in my book Give Us the Ballot, civil rights hero Rosanell Eaton had to recite Preamble to Constitution to register to vote under Jim Crow

70 years later she was still fighting for voting rights in North Carolina & joined @RevDrBarber's Moral Monday movement
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Breaking: North Carolina GOP passes voter ID law in lame duck session before they lose supermajority & Dem gov can veto

Law targets voter impersonation, which is practically non-existent, while doing little to stop massive election fraud committed by GOP in NC09
Last time NC GOP passed voter ID law court said it targeted black voters "with almost surgical precision"

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
This is very important

NC's last voter ID law exempted mail-in ballots, where massive election fraud in NC9 committed, while targeting voter impersonation, which is basically non-existent

That's b/c Dems vote more in person while GOP votes more absentee

nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/…
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1) You cannot join a Whatsapp group without revealing your phone number. This is an immediate risk for minors - the room for abuse is so large I'm stunned that schools allow this. Pedophilia, sexual predation, grooming - all possible when adults have kids' phone numbers.
2) There is also risk of harassment by other kids. I remember my friends in high school (esp girls) who kept phone numbers very private, because they didn't want to be constantly bombarded.

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