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The Guardian - US
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Melissa Hellmann

After Michigan success, Biden ballot protest movement heads to Georgia

A man, pictured below the neck, holds a green and red sign in Arabic and English that says 'uncommitted,' beyond whom a woman in a headscarf stands on a curb.
In Michigan, 100,000 voters marked their ballots ‘uncommitted’. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

A protest movement in Georgia – a swing state that President Joe Biden narrowly won in 2020 – is seeking to apply pressure to the incumbent over his support of Israel before the 12 March Democratic primary election.

On Monday, a group of multifaith and multiracial groups called the Listen to Georgia Coalition launched the Leave It Blank campaign, which urges voters to submit a blank ballot next Tuesday. The push follows a similar grassroots effort – Listen to Michigan – in which more than 100,000 voters marked their ballots “uncommitted” last month.

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