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Biden campaign names national director for voter protection
Associated Press ^ | May 26, 2020 | Kat Stafford

Posted on 05/26/2020 8:51:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Joe Biden has hired a national director for voter protection, a role his campaign says will focus broadly on voter rights, including the disenfranchisement of people of color amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The campaign said Rachana Desai Martin will join its legal team, serving also as senior counsel. Martin, who has a strong background in voter protection work, previously worked as chief operating officer of the Democratic National Committee and as the DNC’s director of civic engagement and voter protection.

The pandemic has disproportionately affected people of color, especially black Americans who represent an outsize number of infections and deaths. An Associated Press analysis last month found more than one-third of those who have died are African American.

The push for voter protection rights has only intensified in recent weeks, after some primary elections, including Milwaukee’s on April 7, sparked concern that voters were forced to wait in long lines to cast their ballots. Some health officials have warned the coronavirus could spread at polling places.

Several states are looking at remote-voting possibilities. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said last week that all registered Michigan voters were sent absentee ballot applications. The move drew the ire of President Donald Trump, who threatened to hold up federal funding. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; election; electionfraud; fraud; voterfraud; voterprotection; voting
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AP’s writing is getting more and more convoluted, kinda like Biden’s thinking.
1 posted on 05/26/2020 8:51:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Is that protecting illegal, dead, and non-existent voters?


2 posted on 05/26/2020 8:55:24 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

That’s obviously implicit.


3 posted on 05/26/2020 8:59:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
All American Rachana Desai, NOT.
4 posted on 05/26/2020 9:00:36 PM PDT by A strike (" Was that wrong? Should I not have done this? " - Costanza)
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To: Olog-hai

National Director for Agit-prop ...


5 posted on 05/26/2020 9:02:58 PM PDT by dodger
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To: A strike
Such a friendly-looking face too . . .


6 posted on 05/26/2020 9:05:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
I was kinda hoping for…
7 posted on 05/26/2020 9:14:03 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Olog-hai

Trump campaign names so-called "national director" for voter protection


8 posted on 05/26/2020 9:16:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Olog-hai

Nobody’s ‘disenfranchised’ anyone of color since your democrat party was doing it in the 60s, Joe.


9 posted on 05/26/2020 9:17:31 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Does she every look happy?


10 posted on 05/26/2020 9:18:04 PM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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Only when her daily Dunkin Donuts delivery is coming down her street


11 posted on 05/26/2020 9:26:57 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Looks like she has several bags of doughnuts beneath her waistband.


12 posted on 05/26/2020 9:28:10 PM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt
I was expecting to see this VERY experienced gal...


13 posted on 05/26/2020 9:33:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

She reminds me so much of Marvel Comics’ Black Mariah.


14 posted on 05/26/2020 9:40:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: chris37

about 9 tiny paragraphs. at bottom:

Kat Stafford is a member of The Associated Press’ Race and Ethnicity team.
Associated Press writers Nicholas Riccardi, Hannah Fingerhut and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.

Twitter: Kat Stafford, @AP national race & ethnicity writer
https://twitter.com/kat__stafford

Nick re-tweets Maggie Haberman etc:

Twittr: Nick Riccardi, AP western political writer. Father, hiker, pizza snob
https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi

people love lockdowns:

Twitter: Hannah Fingerhut
https://twitter.com/hrfingerhut

Twitter: Darlene Superville, White House reporter for The Associated Press
https://twitter.com/dsupervilleap

no wonder they see electoral fraud as a worry for Dems only.


15 posted on 05/26/2020 9:42:54 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Jane Long

16 posted on 05/26/2020 9:46:16 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: Olog-hai

National director of illegal alien voting and assorted other non-citizen voting.


17 posted on 05/26/2020 10:03:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

#7. Is she 20 months pregnant? Looks like it, or she’s doing a new Alka Seltzer commercial (remember the original one?) with the slogan, “You can believe I ate the whole thing”.


18 posted on 05/26/2020 10:09:20 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Jane Long

#13. The lady definitely is a “Post-It Girl” for “I Voted”.


19 posted on 05/26/2020 10:10:34 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I think she borrowed Jerry NoNadler’s pants.


20 posted on 05/26/2020 10:18:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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