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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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The recently passed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act severely threatens democracy by requiring documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration. These measures are unnecessary given existing laws that already prevent noncitizen voting. This legislation disproportionately impacts marginalized groups, potentially disenfranchising millions of eligible voters. The SAVE Act is part…
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BY BARBARA RODRIGUEZ, GRACE PANETTA, THE 19TH — AUGUST 30, 2024 Advocacy groups are mobilizing to safeguard access to the ballot as states implement laws that could deter trans people from voting in November. In Kansas, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union have drafted a letter reminding election workers…
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AUGUST 28 –"Between the impact on nonwhite voters and the absence of widespread voter fraud, Democrats have not been shy about describing voter ID laws as racist and disenfranchising...But after a decade of taking their case directly to the American people, it appears Democrats may be softening that stance because…
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