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Republican lawmakers in the state of Ohio are playing a bit fast and loose with efforts to support redistricting reform and abortion rights: they have passed an amendment to the state's constitution to make it harder for voters to ETA: put reforms/initiatives/measures of any kind pass constitutional amendments (like one that's being considered to make abortion a right in their state constitution) /ETA, and they are hiding it in a special election on August 8th, where they hope voter turnout will be low to begin with. Here's a nice explanation from dailykos. And you may remember the Hope Springs from Fields folks from a previous post of mine, but they're kicking off canvassing for the 2024 election cycle in Ohio, which may also be relevant to the August election.

(FYI, there's currently no state tag for Ohio, or I would have used it here.)


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It's estimated that hundreds of thousands of rape kits sit untested in police department and crime lab storage facilities across the country. This means that DNA evidence that could be used to solve and prevent crimes isn't being made available.

End the Backlog is a campaign to get all states to put in place the necessary legislation and policies to eliminate the backlog of untested kits and ensure kits are tested in a timely fashion going forwards.

You can find out how your state is doing and what actions you can take at https://www.endthebacklog.org/
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Via Chase Strangio -- the ACLU has a handy tracker for legislation affecting LGBTQ+ rights across the country:

https://www.aclu.org/legislation-affecting-lgbt-rights-across-country

Find out what's happening in your state, pester your representatives to deter or encourage them (the tracker covers good bills as well as evil ones) as appropriate!
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Now that the 2021 legislative sessions have begun in most states, state lawmakers have already introduced hundreds of bills aimed at election procedures and voter access. Some of them are good and will make it easier for people to vote; some of them are bad and will make voting harder or will disenfranchise people.

The Brennan Center has done a round-up of all the new bills so you can check out what's going on in your state and contact your state reps to encourage them to either oppose or support the bills they'll be voting on.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-2021

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