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Voting Rights

OP-ED: NC Senate’s proposed budget includes measures that could undermine fair elections

Read SCSJ Executive Director and Chief Counsel for Voting Rights Allison Riggs’s Raleigh News & Observer op-ed HERE. ___________________________________________________________________________________ State Senators, sent to Raleigh to…

Voting Rights

SCSJ Responds to NC Senate Passage of Anti-Voter Bills

RALEIGH, N.C. (6.16.2021) — The North Carolina Senate today advanced three bills that would slash mail-in voting deadlines, create a redundant online voter registration system,…

Voting Rights

Southern Coalition for Social Justice Joins N.C. Voting Rights Advocates to Oppose Anti-Voter Bills

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2021
CONTACT: Sailor Jones, sailor@scsj.org, 919-260-5906 RALEIGH, N.C. (June 14, 2021) — Voting rights advocates converged on the grounds of…

Communications

Southern Coalition for Social Justice Responds to Senate Bill 724’s Fast-tracked Changes to Online Voter Registration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2021
CONTACT: Sailor Jones, (919) 260-5906, sailor@scsj.org DURHAM (June 9, 2021) — North Carolina-based voting rights group Southern Coalition for Social…

Voting Rights

OP-ED: North Carolinians have the right to know the truth about those seeking their sensitive voter information

North Carolinians have the right to know the truth about who is seeking their sensitive voter information

Voting Rights

Protecting Against the Onslaught of Voter Suppression Efforts in the States: A Statement from the Voting Rights Working Group

READ THE FULL STATEMENT.

(May 18, 2021) — As a nation, we have a shared commitment and responsibility to protect the voices and the rights…

Voting Rights

4th Circuit Upholds Right to Privacy in Lawsuit Requesting NC Voter Information

SCSJ: “We are grateful for the Court’s clear requirements to protect these voters’ identities.” Durham, N.C. (May 11, 2021) — In a ruling issued on…

Voting Rights

Southern Coalition for Social Justice Responds to Slate of Anti-Voter N.C. Legislation

SCSJ: “We vehemently oppose these latest legislative efforts to attack the freedom to vote and vow to continue pushing back from the committee room to…

Trial Challenging NC’s Discriminatory Voter ID Law Begins April 12

RALEIGH, N.C. (April 11, 2021) — Opening statements begin April 12, for North Carolina’s long-awaited state voter ID trial in Holmes v. Moore. The trial,…

Voting Rights

SCSJ Co-Executive Director to Testify in Front of Congress about Voting Rights and the 2020 Election

Durham, N.C. — Allison Riggs, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s Chief Counsel for Voting Rights and Co-Executive Director, will testify in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Elections for the 117th Congress on Thursday, April 1, at noon.

Voting Rights

Statement on Election Protection Litigation Brought During the 2020 Elections

Durham, N.C. — Members of the Voting Rights Working Group issue the following statement about its election protection litigation for the 2020 elections.

Voting Rights

As Georgia Election Nears, Coalition Demands That Facebook, State Dept. Protect Poll Workers, Stop Proliferation of Violence Online

A new letter released today by a coalition of more than 60 progressive groups is urging that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and Director of External Affairs Lindsay Elin stop right-wing extremists from harassing and violently threatening poll workers leading up to Georgia’s runoff Senate election on January 5th, 2021.

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