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Ari Berman
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In 2005 @desmondmeade stood on railroad tracks & prepared to take his life

In 2018 he led effort to restore voting rights to over 1 million Floridians

Today he registered to vote for first time in decades

"This is what democracy is all about" he said

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
So many powerful stories of returning citizens registering to vote in Florida today under Amendment 4

“Thousands of people are registering to vote today,” says @Volzie, who registered for first time in 13 years

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Florida’s Jim Crow era felon disenfranchisement law blocked 1 in 10 from voting, including 1 in 5 African Americans

Over 1 million now eligible to register starting today. Could be largest enfranchisement of new voters since Voting Rights Act

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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Ari Berman
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A shorter sentence than black woman in Texas who got 5 years for voting while on supervised release
Here's story of Crystal Mason, who got 5 years for illegally voting even though she didn't realize she was ineligible to vote. Paul Manafort got less time for betraying his country huffingtonpost.com/entry/felon-vo…
Hispanic woman in Texas with green card got 8 years in prison for voting when she didn't realize she was ineligible, twice the sentence of Paul Manafort nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/…
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Ari Berman
@AriBerman
Voter suppression tainted @staceyabrams race against Brian Kemp:

-1.5 million purged

-53k registrations on hold

-4.5 hour lines

-214 polling places closed

-Candidate overseeing own election

Voting rights will be major theme of her SOTU response

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Good chance @staceyabrams would be giving this speech as governor of GA not private citizen if it wasn’t for GOP voter suppression
Abrams hits back at Mitch McConnell: “We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted is a 'power grab.’”
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Ari Berman
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How bout Mitch McConnell also resigns for this
How bout Republicans who support racist voter suppression laws also resign
How bout Steve King, a literal white supremacist in Congress, also resigns
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