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Fox 5 Atlanta: Advocates for voters rights concerned about Georgia’s upcoming ‘purge’ of voter rolls
“Kendra Cotton, CEO of voting rights group New Georgia Project Action Fund, acknowledges voter rolls must be correct. She worries, however, the cancelations could disenfranchise legitimate, registered voters.”
Axios: Secretary of State set to trim Georgia voter rolls ahead of 2024
"’Voting is a right,’ said Kendra Cotton, the group's CEO. ‘If someone chooses not to use it, that doesn’t mean they lose it.’”
NewsOne: Georgia ‘Voter Suppression’ Alleged Over Plans To Drop Nearly 200K Registered Names From Rolls
“’The officials who oversee our elections…should be concerned with expanding access to the ballot box,’ New Georgia Project Action Fund CEO Kendra Cotton said in a statement emailed to NewsOne on Wednesday morning.”
AJC: Georgia plans to cancel registrations of 191,000 inactive voters
“’Georgia is well-known for its wide-ranging and creative attempts at voter suppression,’ New Georgia Project Action Fund CEO Kendra Cotton said.”
Newsweek: The Supreme Court Just Proved the American Dream Isn’t for Black People | Opinion
“‘In a country founded on the dehumanization of Black people, I've become completely unsurprised by every new report and statistic that details how Black Americans have been left behind—in education, in politics…in prosperity’, says Bell.”
Democracy Docket: Black and Brown Voters Are Building Power in Rural America
“’At New Georgia Project Action Fund, we intentionally engage Georgians living in the rural Black Belt — a strip of 29 counties across the southern middle of the state that have a high Black population’, says Kendra Cotton, CEO of [...]
AJC: Voter challenger rejected for seat on Fulton County election board
“‘He wants to make it look like Fulton is worse. This is a way to intentionally break down people’s trust in voting,’ said Stephanie Ali, policy director for the New Georgia Project Action Fund, a voter registration organization.”
CNN: ‘It’s a hard sell’: Gen-Z activists warn Biden over frustration among young voters
“Billy Honor, the director of organizing for the New Georgia Project Action Fund, told CNN he’s more excited about upcoming local races in battleground states than the presidential contest.”
CNN: Georgia legislature passes bill criminalizing private funds to election offices
“Stephanie Ali, policy director of the New Georgia Project Action Fund, said the new bill will create limitations on what’s available for offices to carry out elections and “disproportionately impact Georgians who live in counties with more people.”
USA Today: ‘We just keep getting hit’: Borrowers rally over Supreme Court case on student loan debt relief
For Maggie Bell, a 24-year-old organizer from Georgia, student debt relief is a racial justice issue. “Not having student loan debt opens the gates for me to have more opportunities at living life, like capital letters LIVING LIFE,” she said.
