Organisations fighting voter suppression

[tanaqui]

While we're all celebrating the wonderful result in Alabama, it's worth noting that the (narrow) result was achieved despite confirmed reports of many different attempts at voter suppression.

Various commentators are suggesting the Republicans will only intensify their efforts to suppress votes for their opponents in future races. So it seems a good time to gather together links for a number of organisations who are working to combat voter suppression, improve voter education and get out the vote:

The League of Women Voters

Vote Latino

ACLU (They have a match funding donation drive on right now.)

NAACP

NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Note: this is a separate charity from the NAACP and handles the most prominent cases. They also have a match funding donation drive on at the moment)

VoteRiders

SecondChancesFL -- a campaign to get a voting rights amendment onto the November 2018 ballot which would restore voting rights to 1.6 million felons, many of them people of color, in Florida. They need enough signatures in the next 50 days to get the measure onto the ballot.

If you know of any other resources, please link them in the comments!

Comments

[teaotter]

I found these here:

CollectivePac.org: Founded by wife-and-husband team Stefanie Brown James and Quentin James, CollectivePAC has helped elect 23 Black or progressive candidates — including Doug Jones — in just over a year of their founding. They’re asking people to donate $20.18 in preparation for the all important 2018 midterms and embolden Black political power.

WokeVote.us: A collaborative of grassroots organizers in the South, Woke Vote pounded the pavement in Black Alabamian strongholds to secure the bag for Doug Jones. Want to tell Black Alabamians thank you? Support young Black Alabamians who are registering voters, canvassing our neighborhoods, and building credibility.

ColorofChange.org: They have expanded their reach, leveraging their large base to focus on criminal-justice reform through district attorneys’, attorneys’ general, and sheriffs’ races across the country. By focusing on the smaller, more local wins, Color of Change PAC is helping lead the way in reforming our justice system through the power of the ballot box.

I'm only personally familiar with ColorofChange; but I've been seeing the others mentioned in reports on the ground in Alabama and Virginia.

(The article also includes a couple of organizations that are supporting African American candidates, especially African-American women.)

[tanaqui]

Thanks for extra info! Clearly the efforts of these people (as well as the courage of the voters) played a huge part in making sure the Alabama election wasn't stolen, so I hope they get the resources to carry on the good fight elsewhere.

[minoanmiss]

This is a very useful list. Thank you.

[tanaqui]

You're welcome!

[snickfic]

Thanks so much for the links! I just made a donation to the NAACP LDF.

Also, this Twitter thread does a great job laying out the kind of work the NAACP and other groups did in Alabama to help Doug Jones win.