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VoteRiders CEO Lauren Kunis released the following statement on the trial over North Carolina’s voter ID law. — MAY 13, 2024 This week, the much-anticipated trial in a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law is expected to conclude. VoteRiders is disappointed that our staff in North Carolina were…
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[caption id="attachment_10648" align="alignleft" width="175"] Evan (left) and Roger (right) holding copies of their ID order receipts.[/caption] A multiple sclerosis diagnosis, a job loss, an eviction, and a flood that destroyed most of their important documents – these are the calamities that forced Roger and Sandra, their son Evan, (names changed…
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Nefertiti Helem and her partner, Ernest Barksdale, moved to Milwaukee from Chicago in 2013. Until VoteRiders and Citizen Action organizers visited their apartment complex for low-income seniors and people with disabilities, they didn’t realize that their Social Security cards or their Illinois IDs would not be valid for voting. Neither…
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Marine veteran Dennis Hatten was initially denied an ID to vote by the Wisconsin DMV office in Milwaukee because his birth certificate had a mistake. It took six months of persistence by VoteRiders’ Wisconsin Statewide Coordinator, Anita Johnson, before Dennis was finally able to vote. Anita met Dennis in September…
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VoteRiders' Digital Communications Coordinator, Erin Carden, speaks with VoteRiders' National Outreach Director, Selene Gomez, about what VoteRiders is doing to celebrate National Latinx Heritage Month, the importance of calling out the systemic structures that silence Latinx communities in the United States, and how we are working together to build a…
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AUGUST 15, 2022 — Phoenix, Arizona — Arizona Mirror details VoteRiders' role in helping voters in the disability community by highlighting the story of one visually impaired Arizona couple who voted for the first time in 6 years after receiving voter ID assistance from VoteRiders. Author: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy Published: August…
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BY CARRIE LEVINE — MAY 1, 2023 Barriers including lines & voter ID laws present challenges for young voters [caption id="attachment_14985" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Lawyer Cleta Mitchell speaks to the South Carolina Republican Party in 2022.Gerard Albert III / Myrtle Beach Sun News / Tribune News Service via Getty Images[/caption] Good…
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Eleven states will be enforcing new or stricter voter ID laws in 2022, potentially catching unsuspecting voters by surprise. In all, 36 states have some type of voter ID law on the books, some stricter than others. If you get rejected at the polls because you don’t have an acceptable…
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Mark S. Hoose is Vice President, Tax & Trade at Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (2021 Sales $5.71 billion) in Sunnyvale, California. His prior positions include Senior Director, International Tax and Managing Tax Counsel at Intel Corporation; Managing Tax Counsel at Phillips 66 in Houston, Texas; Senior Tax Counsel for Occidental Petroleum,…