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Today at Ms. | December 6, 2022
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Federal Funding Is Necessary to Sustain Election Workers [[link removed]]
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Poll workers at a polling place during the Senate runoff election on Dec. 6, 2022, in Atlanta. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)
BY GOWRI RAMACHANDRAN | Ahead of the midterms, many were concerned that election workers and voters would face intimidation or threats at polling places. By and large, though, the push to recruit an “army” of poll watchers and observers didn’t amount to much.
How was it that this election, conducted in the midst of grave threats to our democracy, went so smoothly? In short, because many of the people who needed to step up did so.
Now, longer-term, consistent and adequate funding from the federal government is necessary to ensure election workers have the support they need to continually improve at their jobs without worrying for their own safety and that of their families.
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The Debunked ‘Independent State Legislature Theory’ Is on the Supreme Court Docket—With Potentially Disastrous Consequences [[link removed]]
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A protest against gerrymandering at the Supreme Court in June 2018 as the Court issued decisions in gerrymandering cases Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause. (Evelyn Hockstein / For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
BY ELIZA SWEREN-BECKER and ETHAN HERENSTEIN | In Moore v. Harper , being argued at the Supreme Court on Thursday, the justices will decide whether the North Carolina Supreme Court has the power to strike down the legislature’s illegally gerrymandered congressional map for violating the North Carolina Constitution.
What’s the case all about? Why did the Court take it in the first place? And what is the dubious ‘independent state legislature theory’?
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Ms. Global: COP27 Negotiations; Record Number of Women Elected to Danish Parliament; Afghan Women Arrested by the Taliban [[link removed]]
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BY CLIO MORRISON and HANNAH PHELPS | Ms . Global is taking note of feminists worldwide. This week: news from Sweden, China, COP27 in Egypt, Iran, and more.
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[link removed] [[link removed]] Tune in for a new episode of Ms. magazine's podcast, On the Issues with Michele Goodwin on
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Iran is currently experiencing its largest civil rights movement since the 1979 revolution. Dr. Goodwin is joined by Dr. Parmis Khatibi and Dr. Yalda Hamidi to delve into the feminist uprising, sparked by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini—who died after being detained by the Iranian "morality police" for being improperly veiled.
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