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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only laid bare the structural inequality in American society; it has also made that inequality deadlier.

Zachary Fancher is a student at Fairmont State University who will be working as an organizing intern with ACLU-WV this fall. 

For many years, West Virginia has used an unconstitutional method for determining the order that candidates appear on our ballots.  Under this method, officials give the top placement on the ballot to the candidate whose party won the last presidential election.

 

ACLU-WV is excited to announce that Dijon Stokes, who previously interned with the organization as a policy fellow, has joined the staff in the newly created role of Voting Rights Project Manager. 

Secretary of State Mac Warner announced today that all West Virginia voters will be able to vote absentee in the November General Election because of the COVID-19 emergency.

 

COVID-19 may have canceled this year’s in-person Appalachian Queer Youth Summit, but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to learn, make new friends, and plan for an even bigger and better camp in 2021.

On July 6, Governor Jim Justice announced he had issued an executive order that will establish an indoor face covering requirement in West Virginia. The mask mandate, which went into effect July 7, requires everyone over the age of nine to wear an adequate face covering inside public places where social distancing cannot be maintained.