Report: Eligible Wisconsin Voters in Jail Still Face Unnecessary Hurdles to the Ballot

MILWAUKEE — All Voting is Local, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, and the ACLU of Wisconsin today released Ballots for All: Ensuring Eligible Wisconsinites in Jail Have Equal Access to Voting, an update to the July 2020 report, Ballots for All: Ensuring Eligible Wisconsin Voters in Jail Have Equal Access to Voting. The new report found that many jail administrators have taken small, but important, steps to increase ballot access for individuals in their care. However, troubling voting barriers persist for the approximately 13,000 people incarcerated in Wisconsin’s jails at any given time.

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Governor DeSantis Again Misses the Mark on Protecting Florida’s Election

All Voting is Local Florida state director, Brad Ashwell, issued the following statement on Governor DeSantis’ executive order on how Florida will handle the upcoming primary and general elections amid concerns of COVID-19: “Governor DeSantis’ executive order is woefully insufficient to ensure that Florida’s elections this year are free, fair, and safe. DeSantis cannot allow our elections to repeat the debacles in Wisconsin and Georgia, where far too many Black and Brown voters had to risk their health to cast their ballots.

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Election Timeline Fix Heads to Governor Hobbs’ Desk After Weeks of Negotiations

February 8, 2024 PHOENIX – Voting rights advocates are celebrating a win for democracy today following Governor Hobbs’ and Arizona legislators’ passage of bipartisan pro-voter legislation. HB 2785 protects Arizona’s presidential electors, ensures overseas members of the military can vote, and expands access to early voting. Alex Gulotta, All Voting…

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Voting Rights Groups Urge Secretary of State Frank LaRose to Include Further Provisions in Election Officials Manual to Increase Access to the Ballot

CLEVELAND — Today, three key organizations of the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition and the nonpartisan Election Protection coalition – All Voting is Local, ACLU of Ohio, and League of Women Voters of Ohio – submitted comments for the Election Officials Manual (EOM), urging the state to ensure voting policies that increase access to the ballot so that all Ohio voters can make their voices heard.

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Conspiracy Theorists Are Using Luzerne County’s 2022 Elections to Perpetuate Big Lie Rhetoric

March 28, 2023 PHILADELPHIA —  All Voting is Local Action’s Pennsylvania Special Projects Director Deborah Hinchey issued the following statement following today’s United States House Committee on House Administration hearing on a paper ballot shortage during the 2022 election in Luzerne County: “Conspiracy theorists in Pennsylvania have unsurprisingly used…

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All Voting is Local Announces Voter Education Campaign

MILWAUKEE--In 2011, Wisconsin lawmakers passed one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation, but, since then, haven’t taken meaningful steps to educate voters on how to comply with the law.  All Voting is Local is filling that void by launching today a voter education campaign to arm residents with information to ensure their voices are heard on Election Day.

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