By now, you've heard the news that Congress has introduced the Freedom to Vote Act, a transformative proposal that would increase Americans’ access to the ballot box, neutralize partisan and racial gerrymandering and increase transparency in our campaign finance system. But what exactly is in the bill, and how would it help combat state laws creating barriers to voting that impact millions of Americans?
Join us next Tuesday, September 28—National Voter Registration Day— for a special online event about the Freedom To Vote Act and what it means for our democracy. We'll chat with voting rights experts about the bill and its provisions. We'll also discuss CLC's State Scorecard, a report that grades how states have changed their vote-by-mail and early voting laws this year. The results make a compelling case for why the Freedom To Vote Act is so monumentally important to achieving the promise of democracy for us all.
The American people have been calling for national standards to protect our freedom to vote, ensure fair representation and increase transparency in political campaign spending. The Freedom to Vote Act is a significant step in that direction. We hope you can join us to find out why!
Platform: Online Webinar
Date: September 28, 2021
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific
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Meet the Speakers
Full line-up coming soon!
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Trevor Potter is the founder and president of Campaign Legal Center. He is a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and was general counsel to John McCain’s 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, and an adviser to the drafters of the McCain-Feingold law. To many, he is perhaps best known for his recurring appearances on The Colbert Report as the lawyer for Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, during the 2012 election, a program that won a Peabody Award for excellence in reporting on money in politics. He has served as chair of several American Bar Association election law and lobbying regulation committees and task forces and is currently a member of the ABA's Standing Committee on Election Law as well as the American Law Institute.
Follow Trevor on Twitter at @thetrevorpotter.
Jonathan Diaz joined CLC as legal counsel, voting rights in 2018. He has served as counsel for plaintiffs in numerous cases, including Jones v. DeSantis, challenging Florida’s practice of denying voting rights restoration to citizens with past felony convictions who have outstanding legal debt they can’t afford to pay, and Fair Fight Action v. Raffensperger, challenging a number of deficiencies in Georgia’s electoral system that burden voters—particularly voters of color. Jonathan also advocates for laws and policies to improve ballot access and create a democracy that works for all Americans, and he represents CLC in voting rights and democracy reform coalitions.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter at @JMDiazJD.
Jo Deutsch joined CLC in September of 2019, after fighting for more than 35 years as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill for equality and rights for women, the LGBT community and the labor and progressive movements. At CLC, Jo is responsible for federal lobbying and is the point of contact for many of the coalitions in which CLC participates. Prior to her work at CLC, Jo was president of Deutsch Initiatives Group, where she focused on lobbying and political activism to support her clients. Before that, she was federal director for Freedom to Marry, where she successfully oversaw the District of Columbia campaign and lobbied for the freedom to marry for same-sex couples.
Valencia Richardson is an equal justice works fellow at CLC. Her work focuses on addressing local-level election compliance under the Voting Rights Act in the Deep South. Valencia received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. During law school, Valencia served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Modern Critical Race Perspectives and the president of Georgetown Law Students for Democratic Reform. Valencia also worked as a student attorney in the Georgetown Law Civil Rights Clinic and interned for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and the Campaign Legal Center. She is the author of a nonfiction book, “Young and Disaffected.”
Follow Valencia on Twitter at @valthebeast.
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