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If you haven’t heard or experienced it yet, 2022 is a consequential civic year. And businesses have an important role to play this midterm season. According to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer, business is once again reported to be the most trusted institution in our society. In fact, 74% of…
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As the country’s leading organization focused on voter ID, VoteRiders saw the need for our nonpartisan voter ID information and help exponentially increase in 2022. But VoteRiders rose to meet the challenges of this moment. As detailed in our 2022 Impact Report, we supported 7 million voters across the country…
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[caption id="attachment_14593" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Nick Ramos, Interim Ohio Voter ID Coalition Coordinator for VoteRiders[/caption] BY NICK RAMOS - APRIL 5, 2023 Over the next several weeks, Ohioans will be heading to the polls for early voting ahead of the special and primary elections in May. Unfortunately, because of a new…
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April is National Volunteer Month and VoteRiders is honoring all of our dedicated volunteers who work so hard to help us ensure that every eligible voter has the ID they need to make their voices heard! When Yaretzi Perez asked community members living in a low-income area of Central Florida…
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By Sabrina Mommers, VoteRiders North Carolina Organizer VoteRiders encourages voter participation and helps Americans overcome barriers to the ballot by educating them about voter ID laws and assisting those in need of an ID to vote in communities across the nation. As VoteRiders’ North Carolina Organizer, my main responsibility is…
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Like many Americans, Helen Peeples secured her first government-issued identification, a driver’s license, when she first learned how to drive at just 16 years old. But this is not the reality for millions of other Americans. As of 2020, nearly 29 million voting-age U.S. citizens lacked a non-expired driver’s license.…
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BY MOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT Identity documents (IDs), like driver’s licenses and birth certificates, are common and vital parts of everyday life and civic engagement. Yet, clear system-level failures make it too difficult for many people to get and maintain accurate IDs. These challenging obstacles can turn to real harm for…
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By Ceridwen Cherry, VoteRiders Legal Director — June 28, 2023 As VoteRiders’ new Legal Director, I’m tasked with monitoring changes to voter ID laws in states around the country so that we can provide continuously updated and accurate information to voters and our thousands of partner organizations. Here’s the bad…
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BY ERIN C., DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR, VOTERIDERS — OCTOBER 18, 2023 In one fell swoop, fifty-one-year-old Fandrea Nazir lost her Social Security card and birth certificate — as well as the birth certificates of her two daughters and two grandchildren — when the folder in which they were stored was mistakenly…