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The Atlantic: Signed, Sealed, Delivered—Then Discarded
“Everybody’s vote should count,” says Hannah Fried, the national campaign director at All Voting Is Local, a nonprofit that seeks to expand voting access. “If you’re an eligible voter and you voted, your ballot should not be rejected for a highly technical reason out of your control—because the signature was sloppy, or you cannot write in the same way you used to be able to write. There’s something fundamentally unfair about it.”
Las Vegas 8 News Now: Advocates ask for easier voting access for Northern Nevada tribes
All Voting is Local Nevada and Nevada Native Vote Project, asked Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske for better access on behalf of the Shoshone-Paiute tribe of the Duck Valley Reservation and the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation.
KJZZ: Early End Ordered To Arizona’s Voter Registration Extension
An appeals court on Tuesday night ordered an early end to an extension of Arizona’s voter registration deadline that was ordered by a judge after pandemic restrictions led to a decrease in people signing up to vote. Alex Gulotta is the director for All Voting is Local in Arizona, which is working to register voters in Arizona. He joined The Show to talk about the decision.
Bridge Michigan: Crush of poll watchers expected at Michigan election raises intimidation fears
“Voters should have confidence that those laws will be upheld,” said Aghogho Edevbie, the Michigan director for All Voting is Local, a nonpartisan voting rights advocacy group. “That being said, given the times that we live in and the tenor of the conversation that we’re having as a country and as a state, local officials need to be cognizant of these rules and be prepared to enforce them.”
The New York Times: Georgians Flock for Early Voting, Facing Glitches and Long Lines
Aklima Khondoker, the Georgia director for All Voting Is Local, a voting rights group, said that electronic poll pads on which voters check in had created problems around the state. “We’ve seen over 10 counties where this is happening,” she said.
Wisconsin Examiner: ‘De facto disenfranchisement’: outside groups work to make sure jailed voters can cast a ballot
Peter Burress, Wisconsin campaign manager for All Voting is Local, says the first obstacle to be cleared is making sure people know their rights. “The fact that a vast majority of people in our jails are eligible to vote, they may be in jail pretrial or serving a sentence for a misdemeanor, folks need to know that their right to vote has not been taken away,” Burress says.