The Marshall Project: The 470,000 Potential Voters Most Likely To Be Disenfranchised Next Election
Mike Brickner, the Ohio state director of All Voting Is Local, an advocacy group run by The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, fears that “we could end up back where we were before 2016, when few to no people in jail had a practical right to vote.” Before the pandemic, he said, the administrators of the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland had been very open to expanding ballot access to people behind bars there, seeing it as a way to remind them that they are still part of the social contract even while awaiting trial.
All Voting is Local Welcomes Scott Seeborg as Pennsylvania State Director
PHILADELPHIA – All Voting is Local welcomes Scott Seeborg as its new Pennsylvania State Director. In this capacity, Scott will lead the charge for effectuating All Voting is Local’s mission to expand voting rights in Pennsylvania, developing strategies to remove barriers between Pennsylvanians and the ballot box.
Talking Points Memo: Vote-By-Mail, Critical In Pandemic, Poses Risks For Voters Of Color
“For communities — and this is true for African American voters — that have higher rates of moving and lower rates of voter-by-mail usage, [election officials] need to be figuring out how to reach voters, and not looking for ways to, frankly, cut corners and in turn cut people out of the process,” said Hannah Fried, the national campaign director of the advocacy group All Voting Is Local.
Sunny 95: Will mail-in voting work?
That is less than half as many as in 2016, said Ohio state director of All Voting Is Local Mike Brickner. Brickner says the state’s system of distributing absentee ballots needs to be smoothed out or there will be an extremely low turnout for the November election if the coronavirus lingers or returns and LaRose’s office is forced to rely heavily on voting-by-mail.
Turn Up Tuesdays Arrives in New York to Fight for the Right to Vote
NEW YORK – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, with its campaign And Still I Vote and in partnership with Common Cause New York, will hold multiple events this week to mobilize voters and urge officials in New York to ensure fair, free, and safe elections in 2020. These activities are part of Turn Up Tuesdays, a weekly, national call to action that focuses on a state in the country that needs to do more to ensure we have a fair and safe election in November.
WOSU Public Media: Voting Rights Group Says Ohio’s Election Participation May Be Half Of 2016
“In 2016, we had a little over 3 million people who voted in the primary election," says spokesman Mike Brickner. "For the 2020 election thus far, we are looking at about only 1.5 million people who have either cast an early ballot or requested an absentee ballot since we extended the time. All Voting Is Local looked at information from the Ohio Secretary of State for the March 17 primary, which lawmakers extended to April 28 after polling places were closed.