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Dear
Friend,
People
shouldn’t be confused about how to vote or worry that, if they do
vote, they’ll catch COVID-19. In some recent primaries, we’ve seen
people forced to choose between not voting at all or voting at the
risk of becoming sick.
That is
why, in our Young
People’s Reproductive Justice Policy Agenda (the Policy
Agenda), we list
Democracy Reform as one of our six major policy sections. In
it, we’re calling for measures that make it easier for all people to
vote ALL the time, not just in a pandemic.
As the
New American Majority — composed of young people of color and women —
increasingly participates in our democracy, regressive politicians
have responded with dangerous attacks on voting rights. From Kansas to
Georgia, elections are threatened and historically marginalized
communities — specifically Black and Indigenous folks and young people
— face significant barriers to voting or having their votes count at
all. We must expand voting rights, protect the integrity of elections,
and ensure broad participation of young people and people of color by
ensuring their enfranchisement.
Read more about Democracy Reform
here.
For
updates on policy happenings across our states and federally, please
join me Monday, April 27th, at 4pm EST on URGE’s Instagram. Until then, check out the latest This Week
In Policy here.
Until
then, please stay safe and do what you can to take care of others by
practicing social distancing.
In
Solidarity,
Preston Mitchum (He/Him)
Director
of Policy
URGE:
Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity
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