Kadida Kenner: Unfortunately, disqualifying voters’ mail ballots over a trivial paperwork error on their return envelope discourages voters from participating in the democratic process,” Kadida Kenner, chief executive officer of the New PA Project Education Fund, said in a statement. “We want Pennsylvanians voting twice a year — every year — not disenfranchised by this…
Tameka Ramsey: It’s a shame that ever since Black people were guaranteed the right to vote, they’ve had to pick “the lesser of two evils” on their ballots, said Tameka Ramsey, interim executive director of the Michigan Coalition on Black Civic Participation. “But that’s so old,” said Ramsey, whose group was inspired by the February…
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by Willy Blackmore, reprinted from Word in Black. But so far only lawyers have seen any money. In 2021, when a settlement between the state of Michigan and residents of Flint was approved, there was a sense that those who were affected by the water crisis were close to reaching some kind of closure. “Flint families are finally…