Let America Vote to Open Field Offices in Five States in 2018

Kansas City, MO – To help elect voting rights advocates that will push back against efforts to disenfranchise certain groups of voters, Let America Vote will open field offices in five states for the 2018 elections. Let America Vote will open offices in Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Tennessee and New Hampshire in 2018 to help elect state and local candidates who support voting rights.

Competitive statewide elections, recent voter suppression efforts and potential to change the voting rights landscape were the deciding factors in the selection of each of the five states that Let America Vote will open offices in for the 2018 elections. Recent voter roll purges in Georgia, an extreme voter suppression law originally introduced by the Secretary of State in Iowa, a new law disenfranchising college students in New Hampshire, and opportunities to make significant gains in voter turnout in Tennessee and Nevada were motivating factors.

The offices will follow the model the organization started in Virginia this year, where Let America Vote has knocked on over 130,000 doors in just over two months out of a field office in Manassas to support Ralph Northam’s campaign for governor and state legislative races.

“I started Let America Vote to create political consequences for politicians who try to roll back voting rights, and that’s exactly what we’re doing with our five-state field operation in 2018,” said Jason Kander, President of Let America Vote. “We’re opening these offices as a direct response to efforts by politicians to make voting harder and their re-election campaigns easier. Politicians in each of the five states will have to answer for their actions on election day, and politicians around the country will think twice before trying to change the mechanics of our elections for political gain.”

Let America Vote will choose a city in each state to open a field office with initial plans to focus on the following:

Georgia:
Governor
Secretary of State (through iVote, a project of LAV)
Targeted Legislative Races

Iowa:
Governor
Secretary of State (through iVote)
Targeted Legislative Races

Nevada:
Governor
Secretary of State (through iVote)
Targeted Legislative Races

New Hampshire:
Governor
Targeted Legislative Races

Tennessee:
Governor
Targeted Legislative Races