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  • Native American Rights Groups Are Targeting Six States to Fight Voter Suppression in 2020

    February 14, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, North Dakota

    Native American voters are disproportionately impacted by restrictive voter ID laws, particularly those that require proof of address because many Native Nations do not use formal street addresses. In response, the voting rights group Four Directions helped create and implement a system that allowed tribal officials to set up at polling places and immediately generate an ID on tribal letterhead with an address based on a location that a voter pointed to on a map. The group also supported lawsuits to expand polling places, lessening the financial and travel burdens for Native American voters.

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  • Can a Nonreligious Church Save Politics?

    December 05, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Modeled after faith-based services, Civic Saturday encourages civic participation by creating a space for people to discuss social change, organize to vote, and engage in other democracy and community-building activities. The concept has been replicated in cities across the United States.

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  • Make Voting Easy

    November 07, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Voter turnout is higher where voting is made easy. Consider one innovation: vote-by mail. States that allowed mail-in ballots had an average of 10 percent more voting in the 2016 election than other states. More innovations include pre-registering young voters, automatically updating a voter’s address when they move, automatically registering citizens unless they opt out, and same-day voter registration.

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  • An evidence-based way to help fix our broken politics

    November 05, 2018 |

    Ohio State News |

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    Response Location: United States

    If elected representatives have a few hours to speak with their constituents, where’s what they should do: discuss policy issues online with a small group of randomly selected constituents. Participants appreciate the opportunity to speak with their representatives, rate them more highly, and are more likely to vote for them – even months later. The evidence supporting this method of engaging constituents is so compelling that researchers will present their work to all new members of Congress this year.

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  • Hospitals help patients get out the vote while stuck in bed

    November 02, 2018 |

    Associated Press |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Some hospitals are finding ways to help their patients vote. Penn Votes Project is an initiative between hospitals and the Penn Law School that helps patients fill out and notarize their absentee ballots. Then there’s Patientvoting.com where patients can find information on medical absentee voting by state. “Every citizen of the United States has the right to vote and we think getting ill shouldn’t impair that process.”

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  • The Seattle Experiment

    November 02, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle’s “Democracy Vouchers,” funded by a ballot measure to increase property taxes, provide money for residents to make campaign contributions, which increases civic participation and helps people running for office without political connections fund their campaigns. Every city resident receives four 25$ vouchers that they can sign over to the candidate of their choice and mail back in a pre-stamped envelope. Even though only 3% of vouchers were actually used, the number of people contributing to campaigns tripled and several non-establishment candidates were able to run campaigns and get elected.

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  • These election tools are here to help you make sense of your long, complicated ballot

    November 02, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Easy-to-use web apps provide information about candidates and referendums, gathering information all in one place for voters. BallotReady and We Vote are two such tools.

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  • Thousands of American Indian voters in N.D. getting free IDs

    October 31, 2018 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Bismarck, North Dakota

    In the face of stricter voter ID rules, organizers are working to ensure that those deemed ineligible to vote in North Dakota because of their lack of street address - a group that is disproportionately Native American - are given a chance to participate in America's democracy. So far, projects spearheaded by groups like the Lakota People's Law Project and funded by donations have provided around 2,000 IDs.

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  • Law & Disorder: Progressive Prosecutors Hope to Dismantle Mass Incarceration

    October 30, 2018 |

    News Beat |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Across the United States, individuals and organizations are seeking to shift the criminal justice system through District Attorney elections. From online communities like colorofchange.org, which seeks to support grassroots election efforts, to individuals like Minnesota’s Mark Haase, who is running on a platform of diversity and inclusion, to the Texas Organizing Project that wants to empower Black and Latinx communities, each of these missions seeks to create more equity and transparency in the criminal justice system.

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  • 'A labor of love': Postcard campaign writers seek to increase voter turnout in midterm elections

    October 30, 2018 |

    Local News Matters |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    After lackluster experiences phone banking during the 2016 presidential election, volunteers altered their strategy to write postcards to citizens to turn out the vote in the 2018 mid-term elections. Writing postcards was seen as a viable, and personal, alternative to door knocking, phone banking, mass leafleting, and even relatively modern techniques like mass texting.

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