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Despite women voters remaining more engaged in elections than their male counterparts, there’s still a major disparity that Americans are fighting to rectify: Our elected officials are still majority male.
Democrats need high levels of new voter registration, well-organized voter turnout operations and streamlined, constitutional and equitable access to the ballot box for voters of color in order to win elections.
Limiting access to the ballot box weakens our electoral system. But, there’s another side effect of voter suppression laws: Limiting ballot access can have severe economic consequences for a state.
It seems that one solution to low youth turnout in our elections is the most obvious one: make it easier to vote and make sure that young people know that convenient voting methods are available to them.
Over 145 bills proposed by Republican legislatures would reassign various powers of election officials and the executive branch to highly partisan legislatures. This “legislative seizure” could have sweeping consequences.
Elected officials who claim to be allies of the LGBTQ+ community should immediately work to amend voter ID requirements and make obtaining an accurate ID less costly and strenuous for their trans constituents.
New analysis from the Voter Study Group. “Voices on the Vote,” published in May 2021 takes a look back at voter confidence in the 2020 election, and polled Americans about the barriers they faced at the ballot box.
It’s clear that the U.S. Supreme Court’s striking down of the Grandfather Clause did not significantly protect Black voters in Louisiana from disenfranchisement — the state government just came up with new ways to target them.
It can be hard to get an overall picture of how relatively easy or difficult it is to cast a ballot where you live. A new study attempts to quantify exactly how much the process of voting “costs” a voter in each of the 50 states.
We’re looking back at a 2020 study that dove into the impact of redistricting on the partisan seat share in the U.S. House over the last 50 years — and how Republicans have manipulated the redistricting process for their own benefit.
