{"id":5881,"date":"2021-05-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2021-05-28T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:08:51","slug":"recording-a-look-at-voter-suppression-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/recording-a-look-at-voter-suppression-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording: A Look at Voter Suppression in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Free and fair elections are foundational for any healthy democracy. In this installment of Meetup\u2019s <strong>Dismantling Social Injustice<\/strong> series, we discuss the state of elections in the United States, including new bills that seek to limit voter turnout.<br>Watch Jessica Ring Amunson of Jenner &amp; Block and Jonathan Diaz of <a href=\"https:\/\/campaignlegal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Campaign Legal Center<\/a> for a discussion of historical and contemporary attempts at voter suppression. You&#8217;ll also hear from Stephanie L. Young of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whenweallvote.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">When We All Vote<\/a> (WWAV), who will share advice for how we can take action now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Look at Voter Suppression in the U.S.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ErfLUinwPvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Main Takeaways on Voter Suppression:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>Jessie<\/em>: We are seeing a rash of new laws proposed and enacted across the country that restrict the right to vote in various ways and I see those laws as falling into five main buckets:\u00a0<ol><li>Restrictions on voting by mail<\/li><li>Restrictions on early voting<\/li><li>Restrictions and new regulations on in-person voting<\/li><li>Restrictions relating to voter registration<\/li><li>New restrictions on local election officials<\/li><\/ol><\/li><li>Jonathan: In many cases, these bills that are being proposed or passed and states are adding additional bureaucratic obstacles that voters will have to jump through in order to be able to cast their ballot.<\/li><li>Jessie: Heritage Foundation database shows that there are 1322 &#8220;proven instances of voter fraud in the United States since the early 1980s.&#8221; The fact that there are 1322 proven instances of voter fraud across 40 years of elections is just mind-boggling.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WWAV&#8217;s Call to Action:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>Stephanie<\/em>: We want to give you the tools and resources to take action in your own ways to make sure that you&#8217;re not only registered and ready to vote but you are also informed about what&#8217;s happening in Washington DC and in statehouses around you.<\/li><li>Join us now by going to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/whenweallvote.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WhenWeAllVote.org<\/a>&nbsp;and calling or tweeting your Senators to urge them to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.<ul><li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/weall.vote\/pledge\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Join the fight<\/a>&nbsp;for a fair and accessible democracy for every American.<\/li><li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/weall.vote\/forthepeople\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Call<\/a>&nbsp;or<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/weall.vote\/tweetforthepeople\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;tweet<\/a>&nbsp;your federal lawmakers, and tell them to support expanding voting rights for all Americans.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/weall.vote\/votingprinciples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WWAV Call Tool\/ Voting Principles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top Q&amp;A Questions\/Resources:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>From your experience, how are voters&#8217; or constituents&#8217; voices measured against the voices of lobbyists and large donors?<ul><li>Stephanie: You can never, I think, underestimate the power of the people and\u2029 the voice of the people, and what they&#8217;re most afraid of is not being elected. So if we are able to cause enough noise and ruckus and keep these issues not just in the news, but we&#8217;re making these phone calls or tweeting were consistently having\u2029 this barrage of good noise coming, they can&#8217;t ignore that.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Is there a website or other resource to show what each state&#8217;s new restrictions or voting requirements are?<ul><li>Jonathan: If you&#8217;re looking to see what the rules are in your jurisdiction in particular, your number one resource should be your local election officials.\u2029 And then as far as what&#8217;s going on on the national level, \u2029there are a number of really great nonpartisan organizations that track all of these legislative changes, both the ones that have passed and also the ones that have been proposed to be debated.<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/state-voting-bills-tracker-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State Voting Bills Tracker 2021 | Brennan Center for Justice<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tracker.votingrightslab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voting Rights Lab tracker<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Additional resources:<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/aboutus\/ncslservice\/bill-information-services-overview.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Conference of State Legislatures<\/a> bill tracking<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/voterfraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Heritage Foundation<\/a> voter fraud database<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\"><p>In this installment of the Dismantling Social Injustice series, learn about historical and contemporary attempts at voter suppression, and what you can do about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":5892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,127],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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