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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.”
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.”
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.
Arizona Public Media: Voting advocates answer questions in virtual town hall geared for Native Americans
Voting advocates came together Monday night to answer Native American Arizonans' questions about voting. The experts represented All Voting is Local Arizona, Arizona State University's Indian Legal Clinic and Arizona Advocacy Network and Foundation, with Election Protection Arizona and the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona also hosting.
Business Insider: Pennsylvania’s election is in uncharted territory with a new rule that rejects ‘naked’ ballots
“I don’t think the numbers lie, and the difference now is that the state has gone through almost 10 months of public communication on how to securely submit a mail-in ballot,” Scott Seeborg, the Pennsylvania State Director of advocacy group All Voting is Local, told Insider of Deeley’s estimations. “Extensive public education will move the needle downwards on the number of ‘naked ballots’ even as the total volume increases to more than 20 times the 2019 levels, as we saw in the primary.”