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thisfinecrewDemocrats Need Voters’ Help To Fix Gerrymandering. Will They Get It? (Talking Points Memo, Sep 2018)
At a time when public confidence in the integrity of American elections appears to be slipping — no doubt aided by the president’s lies claiming rampant voter fraud — the efforts among progressives to prioritize voting rights marks a shift for an issue that had long been left largely to lawyers and courtrooms. With Trump as president and the next redistricting process looming large, a slew of new and old organizations is scrambling to figure out how and if they can make wonky, procedural voting issues ones that excite and motivate turnout.
The Cause the Resistance Cares Most About Is Ending Voter Suppression (Vice, Feb 2018)
In our survey, we asked the political influencers we surveyed which three of nearly a dozen issues they would choose as their top priorities. We included two voting reforms: automatic voter registration (in which individuals are registered to vote when interacting with government agencies like the DMV) and restoring the portion of the Voting Rights Act recently struck down by the Supreme Court (by creating a new pre-clearance formula). Single-payer health care (44 percent), automatic voter registration (41 percent), and restoring the Voting Rights Act (36 percent) were the top priorities. In other words, two of the three top priorities among political influencers were related to restoring and strengthening voting rights.
At a time when public confidence in the integrity of American elections appears to be slipping — no doubt aided by the president’s lies claiming rampant voter fraud — the efforts among progressives to prioritize voting rights marks a shift for an issue that had long been left largely to lawyers and courtrooms. With Trump as president and the next redistricting process looming large, a slew of new and old organizations is scrambling to figure out how and if they can make wonky, procedural voting issues ones that excite and motivate turnout.
The Cause the Resistance Cares Most About Is Ending Voter Suppression (Vice, Feb 2018)
In our survey, we asked the political influencers we surveyed which three of nearly a dozen issues they would choose as their top priorities. We included two voting reforms: automatic voter registration (in which individuals are registered to vote when interacting with government agencies like the DMV) and restoring the portion of the Voting Rights Act recently struck down by the Supreme Court (by creating a new pre-clearance formula). Single-payer health care (44 percent), automatic voter registration (41 percent), and restoring the Voting Rights Act (36 percent) were the top priorities. In other words, two of the three top priorities among political influencers were related to restoring and strengthening voting rights.
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Date: 2018-11-11 06:36 pm (UTC)