Center for Public Integrity: How one tribe is fighting to vote early
Alex Gulotta, the Arizona state director for All Voting Is Local, a voting rights group that has worked with the tribe on the bid to restore the site, said Rodriguez’s refusal to open an early voting site is “unthinkable” and “inane,” especially in the middle of a pandemic. But even more, he said, it speaks to a broader problem that many Native Americans face in dealing with state and local election officials. “When it comes to tribes, [local officials] are negotiating with a sovereign government,” Gulotta said. “They have rights that are different than a neighborhood association. It’s a sovereign tribal nation that we have historically disenfranchised in a thousand different ways.”
Michigan Advance: Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act opened floodgates for new restrictions
“Early voting has given Michigan voters additional and necessary options to vote,” said Aghogho Edevbie, Michigan state director of All Voting is Local. “Now voters in our state can vote from home, at their local clerk’s office, at a satellite polling location, or in-person on Election Day. Voters with childcare responsibilities, transportation issues, and busy work schedules have greater access to the ballot than ever before. These options have been especially important amid the pandemic.”
Voter Protection Corps Foundation and All Voting is Local Arizona Lead Coalition of 19 Voting Rights Organizations Urging Action Against Voter Intimidation in Arizona
PHOENIX – The Voter Protection Corps Foundation, All Voting is Local Arizona and 17 other Arizona and national organizations committed to protecting and expanding access to the ballot box today sent a letter to Arizona election officials calling for urgent action to prevent voter intimidation.
Cronkite News: Supreme Court to review Arizona voting laws overturned as discriminatory
The ballot collection prohibition “just prevents people from carrying other people’s ballots to a mailbox,” said Alex Gulotta, Arizona state director for All Voting is Local. “If you do anything with that ballot that was already illegal – it will remain illegal and we want it to be illegal,” Gulotta said. “What we don’t want to be illegal is you being able to carry your elderly neighbor’s ballot to a mailbox.”
Political Interference Has No Place in Pennsylvania’s Elections
HARRISBURG — All Voting is Local Pennsylvania State Director Scott Seeborg issued the following statement in response to the Pennsylvania House Committee on State Government’s passage, along party lines, of House Resolution 1032: “This isn’t oversight, it is obstruction. Pennsylvania’s Department of State must be allowed to do its job. Our democracy is sacred and our votes are too important to allow any politically motivated interference in running a free and fair election where all voices are heard.
WLNS: How to find your ballot drop-box in Michigan
Voters Not Politicians and All Voting Is Local today launched www.MichiganDropbox.com, a free, easy-to-use online tool for Michigan voters to locate a secure drop box location or their local clerk’s office to cast their absentee ballots in the general election.