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NAACP and voting-rights groups press delegation on disaster-voter access, fair maps and restoration-of-rights database
Summary
Local civil-rights and voting-advocacy groups urged the delegation to oppose a proposed road-renaming honoring Charlie Kirk, back bills easing voting access for disaster-affected residents, and create a central restoration-of-rights database for returning citizens.
Dr. Rufus Woods, president of the Bay County NAACP, asked the delegation to oppose a bill—already circulated in the Legislature, he said—that would require campus road names at 40 state colleges be renamed after commentator Charlie Kirk. Woods described Kirk as “not a hero” and said the organization objects to honoring someone they view as promoting “lies…
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