Ben Tyson, National Field Director, Let America Vote Campaigns, like summer vacation, can seem endless. You’re out knocking doors, making calls, getting to know your candidates and learning your turf and it feels like it could go on forever. Before you know it, though, August is here. Summer is ending. School is starting. Suddenly you’re […]
By Evan McCullers, fellow, Let America Vote-Iowa Last year’s passage of Iowa’s restrictive and unnecessary voter ID law dealt a devastating blow to the state’s voting rights. The law, authored by Secretary of State Paul Pate and pushed through the Republican-controlled legislature in 2017, slashed the state’s early-voting period and implemented a voter identification requirement […]
By an intern I knocked thousands of doors this summer in the fight for democracy. As an intern for the national voting rights organization Let America Vote, I spent this summer meeting face-to-face with voters to ensure we elect leaders this fall who will stand up for voting rights. I could tell a great story […]
By Conor Kelly, policy fellow, Let America Vote As we face down another vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, one thing is abundantly clear: President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh only further imperils the status of voting rights across the country. The current Court, with Justice Kennedy representing the key fifth vote of a conservative […]
By Martin Fitzgerland, state director, Let America Vote-Nevada I get asked all the time why Let America Vote set up shop in Nevada when there are so many other states facing egregious, headline-grabbing voter suppression campaigns. The answer is pretty simple. Advancing pro-democracy policies can be a very effective way to keep voter suppression from […]
By Jason Kander, president, Let America Vote There’s so much at stake for Iowans on the ballot this year. Voters in November will elect a governor and choose which party controls the Iowa House and Senate, deciding, in effect, whether to lean further into the hard-right turn of the past two years or correct back […]
