Civil Rights Organization Hosts National Film Screening to Galvanize Communities to Fight for the Right to Vote
WASHINGTON-- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and All Voting is Local, with its joint And Still I Vote℠ campaign, will debut the Amazon Original film “All In: The Fight for Democracy” as it opens in drive-in theaters nationwide on Wednesday, September 9.
Philly Magazine: Four Ways Election Day in Philly Could Go Terribly Wrong
Scott Seeborg, Pennsylvania state director of All Voting Is Local, stressed in a recent statement the importance of drop boxes as a “vital lifeline for voters to be heard” during the COVID-19 pandemic and offered a rebuke of the Trump campaign’s lawsuit.
Advocacy Groups Urge Ohio’s Secretary of State to Mandate Drop Boxes for General Election
CLEVELAND - All Voting is Local, Common Cause Ohio, Columbus Stand Up, and several religious and community organizations sent a letter today to Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose urging him to increase the number of ballot drop boxes in each county.
The New Yorker: Battling Anxiety Over Making Sure Your Vote Gets Counted
Such funding is certainly needed, though, for, among other things, allowing election administrators to create multiple paths to the ballot box for voters most at risk of being denied access to it. Democrats have rallied this summer to defend mail-in voting against the President’s attacks, and that is necessary, but “the truth is, vote by mail does not work for every voter,” Hannah Fried, the national campaign director for All Voting Is Local, a campaign housed under the Leadership Conference Education Fund, which works to remove barriers to voting, told me. “African-American voters vote by mail at much lower rates than white voters. Native Americans living on tribal land without a standard address or reliable delivery” of mail can’t rely on that means. “We need options,” Fried said, including ballot-return drop boxes and adequate early in-person polling places.
Pittsburgh City Paper: Allegheny County advocates and elected officials call for ballot drop-off boxes and other election fixes
“We need to ensure safe access for voters,” said Aerion Abney of advocacy group All Voting is Local. “Voters should not have to choose between their health and commonsense democracy.”
Pennsylvania Elected Leaders, Advocates Urge Allegheny County Officials to Expand Voting Access for General Election
Pittsburgh, PA-- This afternoon, All Voting is Local, SEIU Healthcare PA, SEIU 32BJ, Pittsburgh United, Casa San Jose, Just Harvest, and Circles Greater Pittsburgh held a virtual press briefing to call on Allegheny County officials to adopt satellite county election offices, ballot drop boxes, hazard pay for poll workers, and enough polling places for voters on Election Day. A recording of today’s press briefing can be found here.