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U.S. Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief to Support Appeal by Colorado Civil Rights Organizations in Voter Intimidation Suit

Posted on November 15, 2024 (November 20, 2024)

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in support of NAACP Colorado, League of Women Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. These groups, represented by Free Speech For People and co-counsel Bryan Sells, filed their appeal brief last week, challenging the
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Computer Scientists: Breaches of Voting System Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification

Posted on November 13, 2024 (November 18, 2024)

Election Protection

A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessed
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Free Speech For People’s Statement on the 2024 Election

Posted on November 8, 2024 (November 12, 2024)

FSFP Updates

Our democracy is worth saving. This election cycle, our democracy has been staggered by blow after blow. We cannot pretend otherwise; to do so would be to accept that this hamstrung system is the one with which we must live. It is not and we do not accept that it is. We will keep fighting
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News & Record – Greensboro, North Carolina

Amanda Lehmert

September 24, 2012

Local advocates have joined a national protest against corporate influence over elections.

Residents, including Elon law students, are pushing for a constitutional amendment to upend Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, a 2010 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. That ruling allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to support candidates under the protection of the First Amendment free speech rights.

A local grass-roots group, called the Peoples Coalition Against Citizens United, and Elon’s chapter of the National Lawyers Guild asked the Greensboro City Council to consider a resolution opposing the court decision. Advocates, including City Councilwoman Marikay Abuzuaiter, want city leaders to ask Congress to start the amendment process.

“There is no other way to do this but from the bottom up,” said coalition leader Barbara Heidrick Carrano of Greensboro.

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