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ID and assistance restrictions on tap for voters in Mississippi
Fri, 03/16/2012 - 5:10pm — Jen
Voting might soon get more difficult in Mississippi where HB 921 and HB 1315 have just passed the House.
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UPDATE: PA Passes ID Under Objections of 45 Groups and 13,000 Pennsylvanians
Thu, 03/15/2012 - 5:09pm — Jen
HB 934 went straight from concurrence to signing by Governor Corbett. It is now law.
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Think you can help people register to vote? Tell that to Florida and South Carolina.
Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:30pm — Jen
South Carolina would like to follow Florida’s lead in passing a law that makes it more difficult for community groups to help register voters.
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State legislation shines national spotlight on voter ID
Tue, 03/13/2012 - 3:40pm — Jen
"We need people to understand that not only is history not very distant, but we stand on the precipice of repeating it."
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UPDATE: Voter ID challenges moving forward in Wisconsin
Tue, 03/13/2012 - 11:09am — Jen
Judge Niess issues permanent injunction against voter ID in League of Women Voters case.
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DOJ and Houston senator take a stand for voting rights, against ID law
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 4:57pm — Jen
The US Department of Justice has officially objected to the Texas voter ID law. State Senator Rodney Ellis of Houston had urged such action.
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UPDATE: Virginia poised to tighten voter ID requirements
Fri, 03/09/2012 - 10:20am — Jen
Approved last week by the Virginia Senate, SB 1 has now passed the House and is expected to be signed by Governor Bob McDonnell.
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PA Passes ID Under Objections of 45 Groups and 13,000 Pennsylvanians
Fri, 03/09/2012 - 8:40am — Jen
Photo ID looks set to become law under objections raised by Protect Our Vote, a coalition of 45 groups that has the support of 13,000 Pennsylvanians.
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LWV New Hampshire: We deserve honesty from House leaders
Wed, 03/07/2012 - 5:56pm — Jen
When New Hampshire House leaders chose politics over facts in the voter ID debate, the New Hampshire League of Women Voters called them on it: “We deserve honesty from House leaders.”
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Voter ID challenges moving forward in Wisconsin
Tue, 03/06/2012 - 6:10pm — Jen
Act 23, Wisconsin’s strict photo ID law, is up for debate in court.
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Minnesota fighting the voting rights battle on multiple fronts
Fri, 03/02/2012 - 5:15pm — Jen
Voter ID and same-day registration are in the news in Minnesota.
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Virginia poised to tighten voter ID requirements
Tue, 02/28/2012 - 3:54pm — Jen
In a tie-breaking vote cast by its Lieutenant Governor, Virginia yesterday came one step closer to tightening its voter ID requirements.
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Pew report reveals our real voting problem
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 3:01pm — Jen
The Pew Center on the States’ Election Initiatives today released Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient, detailing an astonishing voter registration crisis in this country.
“Voter registration is the gateway to participating in our democracy, but these antiquated, paper-based systems are plagued with errors and inefficiencies,” said David Becker, director of Election Initiatives at the Pew Center on the States. “These problems waste taxpayer dollars, undermine voter confidence, and fuel partisan disputes over the integrity of our elections.”
Mr. Becker makes an important point: our problems are found in a system that hasn’t kept up with the times. The solution is to modernize that system, not cause further harm by prioritizing politics over participation.
Last fall’s The Right to Vote under Attack: The Campaign to Keep Millions of Americans from the Ballot Box, a Right Wing Watch: In Focus report by PFAW Foundation, details just how harmful the politics can be.
“This report reveals just how the far the Right Wing is willing to go to win elections,” continued Keegan. “Eroding the achievements of the Civil Rights movement by disenfranchising voters is abhorrent. All Americans have a fundamental right to vote, and we need to be vigilant to make sure that ever eligible voter is ready and able to vote on Election Day."
The Brennan Center for Justice continues:
“Last year, a slew of states passed new laws making it harder to vote. Notably, none of those laws addressed the concerns highlighted in this study. Rather than erecting barriers between eligible American citizens and their right to vote, we should be opening pathways to a modern voting system. Voter registration modernization is a common sense reform that would cost less, register many more voters, and curb any possibility of fraud. It should be put in place without delay.”
There is no question that we have a lot of work to do to ensure that eligible Americans can exercise their right to vote. But the goal should be fair and honest enfranchisement, not the politics of distraction.
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PFAW Foundation Report: The Right to Vote Under Attack
“I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”
-- Paul Weyrich, “founding father of the modern conservative movement,”1980
A new Right Wing Watch: In Focus report by People For the American Way Foundation reveals how the Right Wing distorts and exaggerates the impact of improper voting in order to implement policies that keep millions of eligible Americans from casting votes. The report, “The Right to Vote Under Attack: The Campaign to Keep Millions of Americans from the Ballot Box,” is available here.
“Laws proposed to address the mythical problem of ‘voter fraud’ undermine the very foundation of our democracy,” said Michael Keegan, President of People For the American Way Foundation. “The Right Wing, with no evidence, has propagated the myth of widespread voter fraud as an excuse to create laws that are all about making it harder for people vote. Their clear target is driving down Democratic turnout and installing in office people who will do the bidding of the Right Wing and their Republican allies. Stealing elections by systematically disenfranchising millions of voters is as unpatriotic as it gets.”
The report uncovers:
- The extreme rarity of fraudulent voting and its negligible impact on even the closest elections
- The partisan agenda behind anti-voter fraud laws
- The vote-suppressing strategies employed by states, including photo-ID requirements and restricting DMV hours in Democratic-leaning jurisdictions
- The secretive forces that fund and draft vote-suppressing legislation
“This report reveals just how the far the Right Wing is willing to go to win elections,” continued Keegan. “Eroding the achievements of the Civil Rights movement by disenfranchising voters is abhorrent. All Americans have a fundamental right to vote, and we need to be vigilant to make sure that ever eligible voter is ready and able to vote on Election Day.”
The report is available here.
The Campaign to Keep Millions of Americans from the Ballot Box
A new Right Wing Watch: In Focus report from People For the American Way Foundation examines the myriad ways Americans' right to vote is under attack by politicians and interests whose electoral success often depends on denying ballot access to certain communities.
PFAW Foundation Stands with Americans to Expose ALEC
Today, a group of concerned Americans held a press conference outside of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)’s summer meeting in New Orleans.
ALEC: The Voice of Corporate Special Interests In State Legislatures
Our Right Wing Watch In Focus looks at the American Legislative Exchange Council, a right-wing policy group that funnels pro-corporate legislation to the states at the expense of citizens whose rights and interests are sold off to the highest bidder.
PFAW Foundation Report: ALEC—The Voice of Corporate Special Interests in State Legislatures
Today, PFAWF released its latest Right Wing Watch: In Focus report on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the quietly influential organization behind pro-corporate laws in states throughout the country.
Appeals Court Strikes Down Arizona Proof of Citizenship Law
In a victory for voting rights advocates yesterday, a federal appeals court in Phoenix struck down a key part of an Arizona law requiring voters to produce proof of citizenship before registering to vote
PFAW Urges Florida Legislature to Reject Restrictive Registration and Voter ID Rules
Bill would ban ID frequently used by seniors, force voters who have recently moved to vote on ballots that often go uncounted, and make it harder for groups registering voters
Tallahassee, FL—With two weeks left in the legislative session, members of the Florida Legislature are working hard to pass a bill that could suppress the vote of hundreds of thousands of Florida voters, and criminalize well-meaning activists who want to bring more people to the polls.
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