… Mayor Andy Berke and the Mayor’s Youth Council also held a forum earlier this fall focusing on ways to get more young people involved in the election process, including events and initiatives that high school students could host in local schools. On Aug. 29, they hosted Jason Kander of Let America Vote, who, along with Berke […]

… “Over the course of our history, it has not been exclusively one party that has perpetrated voter suppression. It has been people in power against people who have less power,” says Jason Kander, a Democrat, former Missouri Secretary of State and founder of the grassroots organization Let America Vote. “In the modern iteration of […]

The civil rights movement is on the ballot this November. Don’t fool yourself for a second by thinking the movement is a closed chapter in history, or that its work is finished. The struggle for civil rights goes on in 2018 ― and just as in 1870 and 1965, it runs straight through the right […]

… Seeing an opportunity to elect officials who will make it easier to vote, Democrats are investing in secretary of state races. In Ohio, for example, Kathleen Clyde, the Democratic nominee, has said she would end the state’s aggressive voter purging, while her Republican opponent has said he would continue the practice. In Arizona, Democrats […]

… Let America Vote, the group started by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, also criticized the finding. “We’re disappointed to see the New Hampshire Supreme Court restore the anti-voter provisions of SB3,” said Let America Vote Board Chairman Abe Rakov. … Read the full story here.

Republican politicians across the country are scared for their jobs, but instead of coming up with policy proposals to win over more voters, they’re trying to rig our elections. Whether it’s kicking eligible Americans off the voter lists for simply not voting, refusing to process voter registration cards, moving or shutting down polling places, trying to confuse voters about requirements or any number […]