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By Ben Tyson, national field director, Let America Vote The calendar says it’s June, 2018, but sometimes I just can’t believe it. In early 2017, I walked into an empty office space as the newly hired national field director for Let America Vote, eager to start organizing the drive to protect voting rights and win […]

By Leigh Chapman, Senior Policy Advisor, and George Hornedo, Policy Fellow, for Let America Vote Across the country, election officials have tried to control who turns out on Election Day with a deviously simple strategy: they find flimsy excuses to purge otherwise eligible voters from the voting rolls. In Georgia, for example, the secretary of state […]

By George Hornedo, Policy Fellow for Let America Vote New Hampshire Republicans were hard at work this legislative session making it harder for people to vote. Stung by elections in 2016 in which their candidates for president and the U.S. Senate narrowly lost to Democratic opponents, GOP lawmakers set out first in 2017 and again […]

By Leigh Chapman, Senior Policy Advisor Legislative sessions are adjourned or winding down across the country, leaving a mixed record on voter access and voting rights in 2018. In several states, lawmakers introduced voter-suppression measures only to scuttle them when faced with organized and vocal opposition. Elsewhere, vote suppressors advanced bad bills limiting access to […]

#LetYoungPeopleVote: Attacks on Youth Voter Access and Solutions for Increased Engagement By Leigh Chapman, Senior Policy Advisor OVERVIEW Young voters between the ages of 18 and 29[i] have the potential to significantly impact the 2018 and 2020 elections, with a whopping 22 million teens turning 18 by 2020[ii]. The March for Our Lives and National […]