Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

June 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Voter survey: Increase in drop box availability?

Iowa Capital Dispatch: States target ballot drop boxes in fight over voting rights   We want to hear from likely voters in your area about the election proposals under consideration in several states. Will you take our one-question poll right away?  John: Should there be more drop boxes available fo…

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June 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Foxes in the hen house

DemDocket: DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm  We wish there was a hero riding over the hill at full gallop to come save us, John. Real life isn't the next binge-worthy series on TV, however, and it's up to us, our movement, and our supporters to fight back when we l…

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June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Their unacceptable desire for control

Des Moines Register: Iowa is changing when candidates can request a recount — and who conducts them. Here's how. Iowa's legislature isn't making these changes for fairness, for efficiency, or for a better democracy. It's to protect their power and shave the edges off our democracy so they stay in co…

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

June 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM

More purges?

Fox5 Atlanta: Georgia set to purge nearly half-million inactive voters this summer John: Another 500,000 Georgians are at risk of having their voter registration “purged” this summer.  What happens? Partisan election officials conduct mass registered voter removals, as required by recent Georgia vot…

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June 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM

A fifty state battle

Opponents of voting rights are betting we'll ignore certain states John -- Opponents of voting rights have made a strong bet. They've doubled down on it the last few years, too. Their bet was that we'd only care about certain states. That as long as we were focused on the swing states like Arizona, …

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June 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Tracking poll: Shuttering the FBI's foreign election interference unit

CNN: Trump's Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combating foreign election interference threats CNN is reporting that the FBI has disbanded a team of specialists charged with combating foreign threats to U.S. elections. The shuttering of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and reassig…

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June 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM

The suppressive lawyer appointed as “Acting Chief, Voting Section” at DOJ

DemDocket: DOJ’s New Top Voting Lawyer Worked for Leading Anti-Voting Law Firm  This seems like something out of a twisted novel, John, but the new top voting lawyer at the Department of Justice was until recently an attorney and activist for a leading anti-voting legal group that has worked for y…

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June 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM

All about protecting their own power

Des Moines Register: Iowa is changing when candidates can request a recount — and who conducts them. Here's how.  John: Last year, Congresswoman Marianette Miller-Meeks won reelection in Iowa by just 0.19 points after a recount—the second-closest House race in the country.So what have the opponents…

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June 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM

The Senate must stop this before it's too late

The SAVE Act would suppress votes to address a made-up problemWe MUST stop this bill in the Senate and more like it but we need to unite and fight now, before opponents of voting rights in the Senate start checking voter suppression bills off their to-do list. Why? Listen to Senator Richard Blumenth…

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  Voter Research // Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Survey: Minimum Wage

Should it be raised for the first time in more than a decade?   Straight from Axios, John: "The federal minimum wage has basically become an outdated relic: It last went up to $7.25 on July 24, 2009 — 15 years ago."The even more stunning fact -- "in inflation-adjusted terms, the federal minimum wage…

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  End the Electoral College Team @ Voter Action Project · [email protected]

June 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM

A big priority

We can scrap the Electoral College The movement to end the Electoral College is making progress, John: Minnesota joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and Maine's state legislature is working to join as well.If you don't remember -- The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) …

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

May 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM

They want to cancel mail-in voting

Democracy Docket: With New Order, Trump Tries to Kill Off Vote By Mail   Trump’s order is the culmination of years of attacks on absentee ballots and vote-by-mail. In the months before the 2020 election, Trump repeatedly spread disinformation and conspiracy theories about the legitimacy of mail-in b…

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May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Chilling

Reuters: Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism  We don't want to see any nonprofit bludgeoned and silenced for dissent -- especially not one dedicated to protecting and expanding our right to vote. This dangerous bill needs to be stopped before bad actors are empowered to weaponize…

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May 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Making their stand

The SAVE Act would suppress votes to address a made-up problem The Senate is standing up to stop the SAVE Act in its tracks, John. Defenders of voting rights know that non-citizen voting is already illegal, extremely rare, and that this bill is written in a way that could disenfranchise millions of …

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May 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Keep moving forward

We can scrap the Electoral CollegeWe must keep the momentum in our fight to end the Electoral College, even with opponents of voting rights fighting back in these two states and elsewhere across the country. From the NPVIC to other movements to advance the popular vote, we've got to keep advancing i…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

May 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM

States and their suppressive agendas

Brennan Center: 10 States Enacted Restrictive Voting Laws in 2024   This is what we're still up against: States have continued to execute an agenda of voter suppression, driven by partisan lies. Dark money and decades of work by opponents of voting rights have brought us here. It's scary and it show…

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May 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Executive order attacking mail-in voting

Democracy Docket: With New Order, Trump Tries to Kill Off Vote By Mail  We're going to keep hammering this home, John, because the mainstream media continues to ignore this executive order and how it will change our elections forever. President Donald Trump's massive anti-voting executive order has …

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  Voter Action Project Georgia · [email protected]

May 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Suppression without consequence

Atlanta Voice: Georgia seeks another Supreme Court showdown over Voting Rights Act It's simple: The Voting Rights Act was passed to outlaw racial discrimination in elections, including the drawing of districts in ways that effectively blocked minority groups from electing their preferred candidates.…

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May 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM

A dangerous precedent

Reuters: Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism  John: We must pay attention to President Trump's words, taking them literally and figuratively.Why? When we called out a frightening bill, last known as H.R. 9495, that already passed the House and would give President Donald Trump b…

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  Voter Action Project Electoral College Team · [email protected]

May 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Making progress

We can scrap the Electoral College The movement to end the Electoral College is making progress, John: Minnesota joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and Maine's state legislature is working to join as well.If you don't remember -- The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) …

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May 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Can't lose sight of these facts

Brennan Center: 10 States Enacted Restrictive Voting Laws in 2024  John, we're not kidding: Ten states enacted new voting restrictions in 2024.In fact, according to the nonpartisan Brennan Center For Justice, "states enacted more restrictive voting laws in 2024 than in any year in the last decade ex…

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May 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Georgia vs. the Voting Rights Act

Atlanta Voice: Georgia seeks another Supreme Court showdown over Voting Rights Act  Bad news for everyone, John: The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act, asking a federal appeals court to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much hard…

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  VAP Research Team · [email protected]

May 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Tracking poll: Seizing voting machines?

@NorahODonnell: The January 6th committee shows a draft executive order from Dec. 2020 that would direct the Secretary of Defense to seize voting machines immediately.  The January 6th committee showed evidence in a hearing that President Trump was going to order the Department of Defense to seize v…

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  Voter Action Project Research · [email protected]

May 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM

Poll: Runoff elections

Fox 5 Atlanta: Georgia secretary of state calls for end of general election runoffs   Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has said that he wants the Georgia General Assembly to end the Peach State's use of general election runoffs. In a statement, Raffensperger called on Georgia officials …

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May 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM

A "must stop" kind of bill

CBS: Experts warn the proposed SAVE Act could make it harder for some married women to vote. Here's who could be affected. Sean Wilentz, a professor of American History at Princeton University, makes the stakes of the SAVE act clear: “It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American h…

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

May 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Poll: Barriers to voting

Newsweek: How Trans Voters Could Be Excluded From the Election  Nearly 210,000 transgender Americans who were eligible to vote in the 2024 general election faced barriers to voting because of stringent voter ID laws, according to new research. The study shows that roughly 414,000 voting-eligible tra…

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May 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM

An "extraordinary attack"

CBS: Experts warn the proposed SAVE Act could make it harder for some married women to vote. Here's who could be affected. Sean Wilentz, a professor of American History at Princeton University, makes the stakes of the SAVE act clear: “It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American h…

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May 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Formerly the "crown jewel"

The Guardian: Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit  Back in January the voting section of the civil rights division had seven managers overseeing around 30 attorneys. Since then, one manager was detailed to a task force, one retired, and the other five were all reas…

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May 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM

A stunning assault

CBS: Experts warn the proposed SAVE Act could make it harder for some married women to vote. Here's who could be affected.    The SAVE Act was fast-tracked by opponents of voting rights and passed the U.S. House of Representatives. This bill is a stunning assault on our fundamental right to vote, an…

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May 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM

Voter survey: New Postmaster General

NPR: David Steiner of FedEx is tapped to be the U.S. Postal Service's new leader   President Donald Trump and the USPS Board of Governors have named former Waste Management CEO David Steiner to lead the Postal Service. Steiner was most recently the lead independent director at FedEx, a USPS competit…

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May 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Just three lawyers left , apparently

The Guardian: Trump’s justice department appointees remove leadership of voting unit  This speaks for itself, John. Straight from The Guardian:"Donald Trump’s appointees at the Department of Justice have removed all of the senior civil servants working as managers in the department’s voting sectio…

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May 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Stop their purges and lies

Wired: Inside the ‘Election Integrity’ App Built to Purge US Voter RollsOpponents of voting rights have a vast network of dark money organizations -- from The Heritage Foundation and their partner Heritage Action to True the Vote and the Election Integrity Network. Their lies spread unchecked, repea…

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  Voter Action Project Research Team · [email protected]

May 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM

Your thoughts: Local government election funding

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, nonpartisan v…

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May 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Stripping the legal avenue to right wrongs

Democracy Docket: New Ruling Cuts Off Key Tool to Protect Minority VotersVoters desperately need a "private right to action" to protect their rights. All that phrase means is that we, the people, can bring forward a lawsuit ourselves when we see wrongdoing in our elections. These 8th Circuit decisio…

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May 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Dark money mass voter challenges

Wired: Inside the ‘Election Integrity’ App Built to Purge US Voter Rolls You've heard us talk about True the Vote (TTV) before, John, most notably for mass challenges to the registrations of voters in Georgia. A little background: TTV is a Texas-based right-wing group whose self-described mission …

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May 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Voter survey: USPS privatiztion

AP: FedEx board member Steiner is picked to be next USPS postmaster general amid talk of privatization   David Steiner, a former CEO of the nation’s largest waste management company who currently serves on the FedEx board of directors, is poised to take over control of the U.S. Postal Service, becom…

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  Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Important news --

Democracy Docket: New Ruling Cuts Off Key Tool to Protect Minority Voters John: An update from the federal 8th Circuit on one of the most dangerous anti-voter rulings we’ve seen in years. A federal appeals court this week cut off a key avenue for private groups and individuals to bring racial disc…

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May 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Survey: Another Fox New host appointee

Bloomberg: Trump Tests Appointment Power With Pirro Pick for DC US Attorney   President Donald Trump’s decision to tap another interim US attorney in Washington tests the bounds of a federal statute governing temporary officials and reflects a growing trend of presidents leaning on temporary appoint…

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May 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM

An update on the 8th Circuit

Democracy Docket: New Ruling Cuts Off Key Tool to Protect Minority Voters John: An update from the federal 8th Circuit on one of the most dangerous anti-voter rulings we’ve seen in years. A federal appeals court this week cut off a key avenue for private groups and individuals to bring racial disc…

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May 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM

Breakthrough

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 system…

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May 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Poll: Air Force One from Qatar?

Trump apparently wants a new plane  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]. President Donald Trump is facing backlash for his willingness to accept an airplane worth an…

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May 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM

So much still to do

Multiple states are giving us an opportunity to fight back and defend out right to voteIt's not just elections, John. There are state legislative sessions going right now and continuing all year across the country. We're fighting to expand the right to vote, increase ballot access, make voting more …

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  Voter Action Project Electoral College Team · [email protected]

May 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM

Our greatest democracy defender --

MSNBC: Jamie Raskin thinks the Electoral College threatens democracy. He's right.  There's no greater defender of our democracy than Congressman Jamie Raskin -- and he 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 lo…

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May 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM

More than a handful

Multiple states are giving us an opportunity to fight back and defend out right to vote 2025 has been a handful so far John. Thankfully, we have opportunities on the horizon to fight back for our fundamental rights.There are upcoming elections in Virginia, Arizona, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, a…

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May 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM

Supporter poll: Voter data verification system

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 anal…

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  Voter Research // Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM

New poll: USPS Ballot Division

Are you worried they are a target for DOGE?  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]. A few years ago the United States Postal Service created a special division to hand…

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May 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM

Poll: Trump's voting access executive order

Do you agree with his decision? 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].  John: On his first day in office, President Donald Trump rescinded former President Joe Biden’s…

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  Voter Action Project Alabama · [email protected]

May 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM

More good news, John

AP: Alabama’s congressional map at stake in federal Voting Rights Act trial Another happy update to end the week: In a "scathing" ruling, a panel of three federal judges struck down Alabama’s 2023 congressional map as a violation of both the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the 14th Amendment to the U.S.…

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  North Carolina Voter Action Project · [email protected]

May 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM

GREAT news

The saga is over, months laterJohn, Last year's Supreme Court election is finally over. Yesterday, Judge Griffin conceded. We're not going to pretend like everything is fixed now. Opponents of voting rights still spent six months litigating this loss, trying to throw out thousands of legitimate vote…

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  Voter Action Project Team · [email protected]

May 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM

What this is all about

Popular Information: New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theoriesLook, this isn't about wanting to silence people's opinions. If someone wants to believe these radical conspiracy theories, we can't stop them. This is about lies being taught as the truth when we need to live -- and …

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