2024 Impact Report
2024 Impact Report for All Voting is Local
The story of All Voting is Local in 2024 is a story about Americans stepping into their power to protect and defend our right to vote. In an extraordinarily contentious election year, our team worked with voters and election officials on the front lines of efforts to demand that all citizens—particularly Black, Brown, Native American, and other historically marginalized groups—were able to register to vote, cast their ballots freely and fairly, and have that ballot count. We were able to do so because of our organization’s unique commitment to building bridges with election officials year-round, combining sustained, locally tailored advocacy campaigns with national expertise and resources. The trust we have built on the ground and in communities enables us to work with election officials to expand voting rights as well as push back on officials when they attempt to strip voters of their rights.
The Power of Voters
Amid a whirlwind presidential race and the culmination of four years of election denialism driven by perpetrators of the Big Lie, the 2024 election cycle was marked by a narrative of democracy in crisis. That fear was legitimate, but it fails to encompass the extraordinary resilience voters demonstrated in the face of strong anti-democratic headwinds.
Together, we fostered a culture of opposition to these attacks led by an energized, informed, and resilient electorate. This energy must be harnessed in the years ahead as we continue to engage voters in enshrining their right to vote.
All Voting Wisconsin’s statewide “democracy tour” in fall 2024 mobilized voters to take action as ballot boxes were removed from communities. In the weeks leading up to Election Day, more than 60 communities across Wisconsin considered policies to ban or limit drop boxes.
All Voting Pennsylvania coordinated with partners to expand access to ballot boxes for hundreds of thousands of voters statewide. Together with our coalition partners in PA Voters Decide, including local organizations 1Hood and PA United, All Voting Pennsylvania fought to add 11 new ballot drop boxes in Allegheny County ahead of Election Day—benefiting more than 992,000 voters in the county.
As a co-convener of the Election Protection Arizona coalition, All Voting Arizona recruited and trained over 700 Election Protection volunteers, mobilizing them to actively defend against voter suppression or election sabotage attempts.
On Election Day, voters—especially those of color—overcame extraordinary circumstances to cast their ballots as bomb threats were called into polling locations across the country. In Georgia, All Voting analyzed data from the communities where these threats occurred and identified that the hoaxes disproportionately targeted communities of color. All Voting Georgia provided this data to legal partners who used it to successfully file for extensions of polling hours in six predominantly Black communities in Dekalb County. The concerning pattern we uncovered demonstrates how threats of political violence continue to suppress the votes of people of color in America.
The Power of Election Officials
Our country’s election system is largely decentralized, which means that state and local election officials have a great deal of power in setting policies that govern how elections are administered in communities. As a result, their actions have a direct impact on how voters experience elections—and whether voter access is protected and expanded, or restricted.
As we move forward in 2025 and beyond, our work to uplift the work of election officials and push back on officials when they stray from their role as stewards of our democracy will be more important than ever.
All Voting Ohio conducted critical research on the burdens facing election officials as they resisted mass challenges. Our team’s report with Public Circle Research and Consulting found that large numbers of mass challenges were putting a dangerous strain on election workers—increasing the mental and emotional toll of the work, as well as creating administrative backlogs that wreaked havoc on election processes.
All Voting Florida encouraged state election officials to open new early voting sites to expand access in communities of color. Our teams organized a letter signed by 28 local partner organizations that called on Orange County election officials to address gaps in early voting locations.
All Voting Pennsylvania worked with election officials to help register nearly 600 currently incarcerated individuals to vote—an increase of nearly 1,000%. Alongside 18 BIPOC-led partner organizations across the state, All Voting Pennsylvania launched the Justice Impacted Voter Engagement (JIVE) Coalition to increase voter registration in the former and currently incarcerated population.
The Power of All Voting is Local
From All Voting’s inception in 2018 as a program of the Leadership Conference Education Fund to our launch as an independent 501(c)(3) organization in 2022, our nonpartisan mission has stayed the same: to protect and expand voter access and fight voter suppression and election sabotage. We’ve now expanded our staff and our footprint to eight states, built All Voting is Local Action as our 501(c)(4) affiliate, and have established ourselves as a trusted and credible partner to voters, election officials, state and national peers, and the media.
All Voting Nevada worked with local partners to build a new Election Protection program in Nye County. Our Nevada team built on our long relationship with the local chapter of the national pro-democracy movement Indivisible Civics, supporting their work to build the county’s first Election Protection program.
All Voting Michigan led efforts to ensure election officials and voters understood new voting options—contributing to record-high turnout in the state. This November was the first statewide election in which Michigan voters had access to a slew of new voting options unlocked by the passage of Proposition 2 in 2022. Our team worked with 18 partner organizations to create MIVoted, an initiative that educated the public on how the new provisions improved access for voters.
All Voting Arizona advocated for extended polling hours in a county that predominantly serves Navajo voters. Many polling locations across Arizona’s Apache County experienced long lines and a shortage of ballots on Election Day. All Voting Arizona supported the Indian Legal Clinic, which filed for extended voting hours to allow more voters to get to the polls and make their voices heard.
Looking Forward:
The fundamental tenet of American democracy—that every citizen has the right to participate in a free and fair election—is under attack today. Election denialism has taken root at the highest levels of our government, and leaders have been crystal clear in their intentions to undermine core voter freedoms.
Ensuring this dangerous agenda does not take hold will rely on the type of resilience and power we saw from voters and election officials in 2024. In the long term, that means advancing an elections system and a pro-voter agenda that brings people in and gives them more power and voice in our democracy. In the short term, it means fighting for policies that break down barriers that make it hard to register to vote and to cast a ballot. And it means restoring confidence in our elections for all voters.
In 2025 and beyond, our organizational principles will help guide us in achieving this goal:
We’re building a democracy that invites people in. Since our country’s founding, the way we vote has been set up — and maintained — to keep people out. Our long-term aspiration for All Voting is Local is a big and bold one: that we create systems-level change to build our democracy to bring all Americans in.
Free and fair elections are essential to preserving all our other freedoms – and they are facing unprecedented attack. Our work to protect voter access, improve our election systems, and safeguard our democracy from political violence and conspiracy theory-driven sabotage attempts is essential to making real the promise that this country owes to its people.
Voting rights are nonpartisan. All Voting is committed to working with our partners to advance fair, inclusive rules on voter registration, remove barriers that make it more difficult for people to vote, and prevent partisan interference in our elections so that every legally cast vote counts.
Election officials must uphold their commitments to the communities they serve. It’s time for every election official to ensure our elections are fair, equitable, and accessible and to build a better democracy for everyone.
Our work is sustainable and scalable. With over half of our staff living and working in the towns and communities we serve, we’ve built out scalable and sustainable programs that can be adjusted to meet the needs of our communities across all of our states.
Partnerships strengthen our work. Sharing resources and knowledge, informing state strategies with national expertise, and lifting up local voices and perspectives in the national conversation around voting rights maximizes all of our impact in building a more equitable multiracial democracy.