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\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.

\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.

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Republican lawmakers in Texas have moved to introduce laws to tighten ID requirements, limit early voting and enhance consequences for errors. More than two dozen GOP-sponsored elections bills are under consideration in the Legislature. The changes could likely occur this year as the moves have seen support from Texas GovernorGreg Abbott. “We must pass laws […]

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\nRepublican lawmakers in Texas have moved to introduce laws to tighten ID requirements, limit early voting and enhance consequences for errors. More than two dozen GOP-sponsored elections bills are under consideration in the Legislature. The changes could likely occur this year as the moves have seen support from Texas GovernorGreg Abbott. “We must pass laws […]\r\n\nThe post Texas GOP introduce slew of voting restriction bills following 2020 elections appeared first on DefenderNetwork.com.\r\n","MaxDetailCharacters":300,"ImageUrl":"https://cdn.blackfacts.net/uploads/blackfacts/facts/2021/03/a0fdd25b-021b-4c77-8e8a-f599ec597c55.jpg","ImageHeight":675,"ImageWidth":1200,"ImageOrientation":"landscape","HasImage":true,"CssClass":"","Layout":"","Rowspan":1,"Colspan":1,"Likes":0,"Shares":0,"ContentSourceId":"B779496F-2857-445D-A3CB-BB0EB65A611C","SourceName":"Houston Defender Network - Houston's Leading Black Community News & Information Source","ContentSourceRootUrl":"https://defendernetwork.com","ContentSourceIcon":null,"SponsorId":null,"IsSponsored":false,"SponsorName":null,"SmallSponsorLogoUrl":null,"SponsorUrl":null,"HasSmallSponsorLogo":false,"EffectiveDate":null,"HasEffectiveDate":false,"MonthAbbrevName":null,"FormattedDate":null,"Year":null,"Month":null,"Day":null,"LastUpdatedDate":"2023-11-25T05:14:39.027","LastUpdatedBy":null,"IsEditable":false,"InsertAd":false,"JSONFactData":"{\"date\":\"2021-03-17T04:05:43Z\"}","JsonExtData":{"date":{"ValueKind":3}},"Html":null,"Css":null,"Script":null,"ScriptHash":null,"Id":297912,"FactUId":"567E435E-B265-49C7-BCFE-F8EB269FE33D","Slug":"texas-gop-introduce-slew-of-voting-restriction-bills-following-2020-elections--defendernetwork-com","FactType":"News","VirtualSiteSlug":"blackfacts","Title":"Texas GOP introduce slew of voting restriction bills following 2020 elections - DefenderNetwork.com","LocalFactUrl":"/fact/texas-gop-introduce-slew-of-voting-restriction-bills-following-2020-elections--defendernetwork-com","ResultCount":200,"SearchType":"OmniSearch.RelatedId"},{"FadeSummary":true,"SponsorRedirectUrl":"https://ai.blackfacts.com/redirect/Sponsor/c774164e-1b1a-4b35-8157-9ce64ec2e2c6/f34a97c7-4f5b-417d-bbbc-2a98f1257d4f/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prospanica.org%2Fmembers%2Fgroup.aspx%3Fcode%3DBoston","SourceRedirectUrl":"https://ai.blackfacts.com/redirect/ContentSource/cfa7a71e-fc49-4a6f-a051-681818a284aa/f34a97c7-4f5b-417d-bbbc-2a98f1257d4f/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackenterprise.com","DisplayText":"

By Jason Lange and Trevor Hunnicutt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Campaign staff for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are advertising their donations to a group that pays bail fees in Minneapolis after the city’s police jailed people protesting the killing of a black man by a white police officer.

At least 13 Biden campaign staff members posted on Twitter on Friday and Saturday that they made donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which opposes the practice of cash bail, or making people pay to avoid pre-trial imprisonment.

Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to Reuters that the former vice president opposes the institution of cash bail as a “modern day debtors prison.”

President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Saturday said it was “disturbing” that Biden’s team “would financially support the mayhem that is hurting innocent people and destroying what good people spent their lives building,” in an email about the Reuters story that called for Biden to condemn the riots.

“It is up to everyone to fight injustice,” Colleen May, who identified herself as an campaign organizer for Biden in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Florida, said in a Twitter post that included an image of her receipt from donating $50 to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

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