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Our focus is on long term, sustainable and affordable solutions. An approach that is longer than an election cycle, and isn’t purely dependant on volunteers, can enable more qualified candidates to run for office and for more issue groups to bring about positive social change.
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“Check your voting status online”. Too bad if you don’t have internet access. You might just lose your right to vote. Meet Jim Crow online voter suppression. “Republicans in Ohio target voter suppression
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Let vets vote New Republican voter suppression bills deny disabled vets their right to vote. How can politicians ask Americans to die for democracy, but then deny them their right to vote?
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Olympic Gold Medal for voter suppression goes to … If there were an Olympic contest for voter suppression, who would win? We have three contenders. The Republican Party creating new laws to
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A better way to find and canvas unregistered voters Find potentially unregistered voters – faster, easier and with less money using better technology and new data sources. Registering every eligible voter is
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American prison labor camps The $80 billion prison industry enriches the powerful while exploiting and disenfranchising the poor. Prisons can force inmates to work for little or no wage per the 13th Amendment. Once
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Reaching the politically invisible voter Millions of Americans entitled to vote aren’t in the Voter File. They’re invisible to most campaigns. Voter files collect voter registration information (which is a matter of
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