A steady stream of bureaucratic rule changes in Georgia is creating a framework that election deniers could use to delay the certification of the presidential election results come November, advocates say. It seems election deniers are setting the U.S. up for more political violence events in the time after the election to instigate more division and polarization in the United States 🇺🇸
https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2024/08/23/georgia-county-election-board-rule-changes
Union announces tentative deal for conductors with Amtrak. The agreement with the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers-Transportation Division (SMART-TD) will include a “substantial general wage increase,” the union said on its website, and will be retroactive to July 1, 2022. Other features include substantial paid parental leave; a paid holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day; increased away-from-home expense; and increased training pay.🇺🇸
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A non-partisan group known as VoteRiders is making certain North Carolina’s new voter ID law doesn’t keep people at home this election cycle by helping people register to vote. 🇺🇸
Election 2024: How to Look Up Your Voter Registration Status Online 🇺🇸
Vote.org is one of the more popular sites that you can use to check your voter registration status online.
Can I Vote from the National Association of Secretaries of State is another one-stop shop for voting resources.
Vote411.org, funded by the League of Women Voters, also lets you check on your voter status, register if you're not signed up, and see what's on your local ballot.
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Senate Republicans blocked the border security bill designed to crack down on migration and reduce border crossings at the request of Trump as he seems to want wants more immigrants to cross the border illegally to create division and help him win the presidential election in November. 🇺🇸
Members of the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials are worried that significant changes to the rules such as those the board has adopted in recent weeks will disrupt preparations already underway for absentee, early, and Election Day voting. 🇺🇸
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Kamala Harris’ housing boost is overdue. Harris wants 3 million new homes in four years, on top of what homebuilders were already planning. That’s a punchy target: developers completed just 1.5 million units in 2023. Her campaign aims to encourage what it calls “innovative” approaches to affordable housing, like providing grants and loans to local developers and non-profit organizations. The plan leans heavily on zoning reforms and employs language about cutting red tape. 🇺🇸
https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/kamala-harris-welcome-housing-boost-is-overdue-2024-08-21/
With half the U.S. states banning or severely restricting abortion, millions of students will be attending college this fall in states without access to abortion care and options to manage unintended pregnancies. These students don’t have freedom & autonomy over their own bodies because of abortion bans. 55% of undergraduate students last year were women—and the highest rate of unintended pregnancy in the U.S. is among women 20 to 24 years of age.🇺🇸
https://reproductiverights.org/college-students-abortion-access-2024/
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