Vice President Kamala Harris addressed voter disenfranchisement in a letter to the Equal Ground Education Fund on Juneteenth.
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The suffrage movement has survived and is now thriving over a century later as thousands of Black descendants of the diaspora and other minorities continue to fight for protections against voter discrimination. Vice President Kamala Harris addressed this topic in a letter to the“Across our nation, extremists have attacked the sacred freedom to vote. This not only harms voters in every state but also disproportionately harms Black voters throughout Florida,” Harris wrote.
Georgia’s governor Brian Kemp, alongside Florida’s leader Ron DeSantis, have both created election police units specializing in the arrest and prosecution of fraudulent voters. These policies oftentimes recriminalize people with past convictions who may be confused about their voter eligibility. DeSantis proudly touted that the Office of Statewide Prosecution had charged dozens with voting crimes already.
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