Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 21, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Call to action

AJC: VP Harris visits ‘ground zero’ for voting rights battle in Atlanta  More from V.P. Harris: "Yet we have seen in the state of Georgia, by example of what is happening in the country, anti-voter laws — laws that have limited drop boxes, have made it illegal to even provide food and water to peopl…

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  Electoral College Team (VAP) · [email protected]

March 20, 2024 at 6:08 PM

Progress is being made

This is the kind of change that makes a difference   The movement to end the Electoral College is making progress, John: Minnesota joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact last year and Maine's House of Representatives has passed a bill to join! If you don't remember -- The National Popu…

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  Research Team (Voter Action Project) · [email protected]

March 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Tracking survey: Voting barriers

The Hill: More than 200K transgender Americans face barriers to voting in midterm elections     As many as 203,700 transgender Americans who were eligible to vote in the 2022 general election faced barriers to voting because of stringent voter ID laws, according to new research from the Williams Ins…

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  Voter Registration @ VAP · [email protected]

March 20, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Clock is ticking

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights John -- this campaign to register 1 million new voters as a coalition is the most important thing we're doing over the next 230 days.Vote-suppressing state legislatures are gearing up to pass more restrictive laws. Congress is paralyzed. Be…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM

All the new restrictions

538: 16 States Made It Harder To Vote   John: This headline is from December, but it's worth emphasizing how new voting restrictions were passed in 16 different states in 2023. Driven by many opponents of voting rights' false belief that lax voting laws allowed the 2020 election to be stolen, near…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 19, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Truly "ground zero" this year

AJC: VP Harris visits ‘ground zero’ for voting rights battle in Atlanta   Straight from Vice President Kamala Harris during her recent trip to Georgia, John: "Leaders here who have a continuing conversation — a conversation that many of us have been having for years — around the significance of figh…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 18, 2024 at 6:10 PM

This year of all years

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights this year John -- In 2022 Former First Lady Michelle Obama challenged a coalition of voting rights organizations to be a part of her efforts to "register more than a million new voters across the country" as part of that year's elections. W…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 18, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Supporter poll: Automatic voter registration

Would you be in support?   You are invited to join our one-click issue response poll. For data integrity purposes, please do not complete this survey if your email address is not [email protected]. Former President Barack Obama has said "Let's make automatic voter registration the new norm across…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 18, 2024 at 12:01 AM

Over 90% of pro-voting lawsuits are brought by private citizens

AP: Federal appeals court deals a blow to Voting Rights Act, ruling that private plaintiffs can’t sue  We desperately need a "private right to action" to protect voting rights. All that phrase means is that we, the people, can bring forward a lawsuit ourselves when we see wrongdoing in our elections…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

March 17, 2024 at 6:05 PM

Election funding poll

NPR: Private funding saved the 2020 election. Now, some GOP-led states are banning it     Private sector companies and nonprofit charities often donate money and provide grants to communities across the country to help administer voting.This includes mail sorting machines in Philadelphia, nonpartisa…

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  Voter Research (Voter Action Project) · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM

Benchmark Poll: Minimum Wage

@RBReich - Federal minimum wage: 2009: $7.25 2021: $7.25 The crisis here isn't a labor shortage. It’s a living wage shortage.    We often benchmark our activists on important issues not related to voting rights. Today we'd like to know your thoughts on the economy and current minimum wage.We are aim…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 6:06 PM

Expanding the use of drop boxes and so much more

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is revisiting a controversial decision Easily accessible drop boxes, clarifying the tricky witness signature requirement, more time to cure valid ballots with tiny errors so that they count instead of getting thrown out... if the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules the right …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM

Powerful voices

MSNBC: Jamie Raskin thinks the Electoral College threatens democracy. He's right.  Jamie Raskin, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren -- with more and more powerful voices throwing their weight behind abolishing the Electoral College, we are on the verge of a breakthrough! We deserve a popular vote syst…

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  Voter Action Project NC · [email protected]

March 15, 2024 at 12:01 AM

They're targeting these folks because they think they can get away with it

DD: Disenfranchising Rural North Carolina Is By Design There's no code to break down when we say "rural". We're not talking about voters who are likely to vote one way or another. This is about the working poor and struggling middle class that are continually targeted by opponents of voting rights…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 14, 2024 at 9:04 PM

A threat to pro-voting lawsuits against suppressive laws

AP: Federal appeals court deals a blow to Voting Rights Act, ruling that private plaintiffs can’t sue   The recent 8th Circuit ruling is one of the most dangerous anti-voter rulings we’ve seen in years. In the eight states impacted by the ruling, voters and voting rights organizations can no longer…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 9:03 PM

Breaking news in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is revisiting a controversial decision Remember this from way back in 2021, John? Back then, in response to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, Wisconsin’s then-conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in ele…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 6:09 PM

Poll: Voter data verification

CNN: Florida, West Virginia and Missouri withdraw from bipartisan effort aimed at maintaining accurate voter rolls    The Electronic Registration Information Center, also known as ERIC, is a nonprofit system that helps participating states keep their registration rolls accurate and up to date by ana…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 3:05 PM

Jamie Raskin has a good point

MSNBC: Jamie Raskin thinks the Electoral College threatens democracy. He's right.   Congressman Jamie Raskin knows the score, John. Here's what he had to say: “I think that the Electoral College now, which has given us five popular vote losers as president in our history, twice in this century al…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 13, 2024 at 12:02 AM

Top, top priority this year

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights  Our voter registration campaign made a huge difference in 2022 and 2023. We've got no choice but to keep it going for 2024 and stop any chance of losing more of our voting rights to cynical conspiracy theorists spreading lies. John: RUSH $24…

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  North Carolina Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 12, 2024 at 9:04 PM

Sneaky suppression

DD: Disenfranchising Rural North Carolina Is By Design   One of the sneakiest things about North Carolina's 2023 voter suppression bill, S.B. 747, is how it disenfranchises rural communities across our state. The North Carolina state legislature, along party lines, passed a sweeping package of chan…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM

Opportunity to eliminate the filibuster

Sinema's retirement opens a window to change archaic Senate rules We all know it, John: We need federal protections for abortion access and voting rights. We need common sense gun control to protect lives. We need immediate climate action to tackle the global crisis. We need all of that and more, …

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 12, 2024 at 12:01 AM

Answering Biden's call to action

BCJ: Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is groundbreaking federal legislation that will protect the rights of millions of voters across the country. That's why President Biden called for Congress to act on this bill during his annual S…

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  Voter Action Project Voter Registration Team · [email protected]

March 11, 2024 at 6:07 PM

Defending the right to vote one registration at a time

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights this year   John: Our 2024 voter registration campaign needs your help. If "voter registration campaign" was all you needed to hear to support our work, please click right here to fuel our efforts. The math is simple: It only costs us about …

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 10, 2024 at 9:08 PM

Chuck was right

Chuck Todd is asking key questions about the Electoral College  Chuck Todd is right -- nobody is happy with the current Electoral College system and our country deserves better. The American people deserve a system where their votes directly count and their voices aren't muffled.We can end the Elect…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 10, 2024 at 6:05 PM

Need your opinion on the USPS

Do you feel like they're equipped to succeed?   You are invited to join our one-click issue response poll. For data integrity purposes, please do not complete this survey if your email address is not [email protected]. The United States Postal Service created a division to handle election mail is…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

March 8, 2024 at 10:02 PM

Member survey: Last night's State of the Union

How do you think President Biden did?   You are invited to join our one-click response poll. For data integrity purposes, please do not complete this survey if your email address is not [email protected]. Last night, President Biden gave the annual State of the Union speech to Congress. We keep t…

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  Voter Action Project Arizona · [email protected]

March 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM

Shameless

AZ Mirror: More than 75% of voters use early ballots. Every AZ House Republican voted to take that away.   Let's be real about this: Shameless, partisan opponents of voting rights want to roll back early voting in Arizona because they think that if less people participate in Arizona's elections they…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 8, 2024 at 4:03 PM

The President asked for our help last night

BCJ: Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act John: Last night President Biden took the time in his State of the Union speech to highlight a key fact: That the landmark John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement has been stuck in the U.S. House of Representatives since last fall. He cal…

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  Voter Registration Team [VAP] · [email protected]

March 8, 2024 at 1:02 AM

Our key to 2024

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights John -- this campaign to register 1 million new voters as a coalition is the most important thing we're doing over the next 242 days.Vote-suppressing state legislatures are gearing up to pass more bills. Congress is paralyzed. Beating our v…

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  (VAP) Electoral College Team · [email protected]

March 7, 2024 at 7:04 PM

A valid question

Chuck Todd is asking key questions about the Electoral College   Straight from the mouth of NBC's Chuck Todd, John:  “Is anyone really happy with this bizarre Electoral College system we use today to decide our president?” The answer is no. It’s the biggest tool the opponents of voting rights have t…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

March 7, 2024 at 1:02 AM

He had a plan

REUTERS: Florida appeals court upholds DeSantis-backed congressional map  DeSantis had a plan, called his play to take over Florida, and made it happen. He's taken away minority congressional districts, gerrymandered the state legislature beyond all recognition, and instituted extreme MAGA policies …

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  Arizona Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 6, 2024 at 7:04 PM

Bad news out of Arizona

AZ Mirror: More than 75% of voters use early ballots. Every AZ House Republican voted to take that away.   This headline says it all, John. Arizona made "no-excuse" early and mail-in voting legal back in 1991. For decades, Arizona's mail-in voting laws were the model of ballot accessibility, making…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM

One spot filled, one to go

To strengthen the USPS and lower costs, remove DeJoy This is simple:  Louis DeJoy is the Postal Service's biggest problem and he needs to go. The raised prices, the additional facility closures, the jobs lost... President Biden must get DeJoy removed.He recently appointed former Labor Secretary t…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 6, 2024 at 1:02 AM

Safe and secure

CBS: Stanford study: No evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, other states during 2020 election   We've known it's all a big lie, even before state government investigations wasted millions of taxpayer dollars in certain states that were desperately looking for fraud to prove a political point an…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

March 5, 2024 at 7:05 PM

Yesterday's decision shows us why SCOTUS needs term limits

A broad coalition of legal experts has endorsed reform. Reforms are needed the Supreme Court's health and legitimacy. Term limits have been described as one of the best ways to ensure SCOTUS maintains its integrity, and continues to serve the best interests of its people. Please, sign this petitio…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 5, 2024 at 4:07 PM

We've got to push it

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights this year John -- In 2022 Former First Lady Michelle Obama challenged a coalition of voting rights organizations to be a part of her efforts to "register more than a million new voters across the country" as part of that year's elections. W…

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  Voter Action Project Florida · [email protected]

March 5, 2024 at 1:02 AM

Ron DeSantis made these maps

REUTERS: Florida appeals court upholds DeSantis-backed congressional map   Ron DeSantis got his vote-suppressing way, John.Recently a Florida appeals court upheld the state's congressional map (pushed through by Gov. Ron DeSantis) that a lower court had ruled violated the state constitution by dim…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 4, 2024 at 7:11 PM

This report should end any debate

CBS: Stanford study: No evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania, other states during 2020 election   We feel like we need to scream it from the rooftops, John: A new study -- a literal 85-page report, from a study conducted by two Stanford University academics -- found no evidence of voter fraud in…

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  Mississippi Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 4, 2024 at 1:02 AM

Challenges to overcome

AP: Mississippi has a history of voter suppression. Many see signs of change as Black voters reengage John, we're intimately aware of the challenges we need to overcome to make sure our voices are heard in our elections -- because our partners on the ground have been facing dow…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

March 3, 2024 at 7:17 PM

Protect vote by mail!

The right to vote — a cornerstone of our freedoms — is under attack. Your right to vote — a cornerstone of our freedoms — is under attack. Legal challenges are threatening to roll back the clock on voting accessibility, targeting mail ballot deadlines that are essential for ensuring every voice is…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

March 1, 2024 at 1:01 AM

How far they'll go

538: 16 States Made It Harder To Vote This Year   This is what we're still up against: Sixteen states executed an agenda of voter suppression in 2023. Dark money and decades of work by opponents of voting rights have brought us here. It's scary and shows just how far the vote suppressors are willing…

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

February 29, 2024 at 10:05 PM

This could protect millions

BCJ: Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act is groundbreaking federal legislation that will protect the rights of millions of voters across the country.With what we've seen over the past few years in Texas, in Florida, in John Lewis' own b…

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  Voter Registration Team [VAP] · [email protected]

February 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM

How we make a huge difference

Voter registration is the key to protecting voting rights  Our voter registration campaign made a huge difference in 2022 and 2023. We've got no choice but to keep it going for 2024 and stop any chance of losing more of our voting rights to cynical conspiracy theorists spreading lies. John: RUSH $24…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

February 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM

Voter suppression in Mississippi

AP: Mississippi has a history of voter suppression. Many see signs of change as Black voters reengage There were a lot of reasons to be excited about last year's election results, John, but what happened in Mississippi should give us all pause and show us why we need to fight …

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  Voter Action Project HQ · [email protected]

February 29, 2024 at 1:02 AM

Cannot hesitate

Democracy Docket has exposed something important We wanted to make sure you saw this note. Our country hasn't seen a political party lean into voter suppression like this in the modern era, and at few comparable times in our country's history, often the most shameful periods.We cannot hesitate to …

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  Voter Action Project Alerts · [email protected]

February 28, 2024 at 10:08 PM

A third of the states

538: 16 States Made It Harder To Vote This Year   John: This headline is from December, but it's worth emphasizing how new voting restrictions were passed in 16 different states in 2023. Driven by many opponents of voting rights' false belief that lax voting laws allowed the 2020 election to be st…

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  Electoral College Team {Voter Action Project} · [email protected]

February 28, 2024 at 7:08 PM

Enabled by an antiquated system

Election experts are worried about the Electoral College  John: We don't have any time to waste. Opponents of voting rights' refusal to accept their 2020 loss and peddling of shady legal theories not only lost cases challenging that election, caused an insurrection, and has put them in serious legal…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

February 28, 2024 at 4:05 PM

Landmark bill needs to be law

BCJ: Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act John: The landmark John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement has been stuck in the U.S. House of Representatives since last fall. We need your help to get it moving again. After ten long years of attacks on voting rights, from the 2013 Supre…

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  Team VAP · [email protected]

February 28, 2024 at 1:02 AM

The endgame of their plan

Mother Jones - Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country   This multi-million dollar D.C. think tank bankrolled a decades-long dark money campaign against our voting rights. It put a huge amount of money behind vote-suppressing state legislator…

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  Michael Kanick, Voter Action Project · [email protected]

February 27, 2024 at 10:07 PM

Stunning statistic

Our friends at Democracy Docket have exposed something important  John,I want to draw your attention to a stunning stat I came across the other day. We all know about the wave of voter suppression, fear, and lies that has washed across our country since the 2020 election. We've been highlighting an…

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