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reasonsforhope · 4 months

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"Colorado is poised to be the first state to to expand automatic voter registration to Native American reservations, thanks to a new registration system.

Tribal members have the right to vote in elections, from the local to the national level, just like other U.S. citizens. But actually casting a ballot has been an uphill battle for many tribal residents, including those here in Colorado. Even after obtaining official U.S. citizenship a century ago, Native Americans’ ability to vote has been consistently ignored or actively undermined. In recent decades, unequal access to in-person voting, early voting and election funding on tribal lands has been a particular issue...

Working with Colorado tribes, state lawmakers passed a set of election reforms earlier this year to expand voting access for Native Americans. Those reforms include the nation’s first automatic voter registration program of its kind for Native Americans. The program will cover both of the federally-recognized Native American reservations in the state—the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and will allow the tribes’ governments to submit lists of members to be registered through the Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s office.

Griswold said the new registration system could make a big difference for Colorado's tribal communities.

"Seeing registration rates and turnout rates being much, much lower on tribal lands is a big problem that we want to solve,” Griswold said. “I personally believe automatic voter registration is one of the best ways to register voters in the state of Colorado, and all of our data shows how highly effective it is.”

Colorado is one of more than two dozen states that have automatic voter registration systems, but Colorado is the only state so far to extend its system to cover Native American reservations. When Colorado rolled out its system for the first time in 2020, about 250,000 people were added to the state’s voter rolls within the first year.

Now, [Secretary of State] Griswold hopes the new registration program will have a similar effect on tribal lands in the state. She wants to see the program in place in time for the 2024 election. For now, tribal leadership is reviewing the plan and providing feedback on it.

“It will not take us much time to register people once we start receiving data,” Griswold told KUNC. “But I think there's a couple of logistics to still work through.”

Measures to keep tribal members' information confidential were added recently at the request of the Southern Ute tribe, and lawmakers have also increased the number of on-reservation vote centers available for early voting and on Election Day.

This year’s election reforms also build on a slew of changes in recent years. For example, in 2019 Colorado lawmakers guaranteed in-person voting centers on tribal lands and loosened address requirements for voters."

-via GoodGoodGood, December 15, 2023

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alwaysbewoke · 2 months

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jomiddlemarch · 1 year

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So, 27% of youth age 18-29 voted in the midterms. Based on my extensive experience in text-banking and my entire career working with adolescents and youth, what I’m NOT going to do is castigate young people for not turning out to vote in a higher percentage...BECAUSE THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO MAKE IT HARD FOR THEM!

- they have the least experience and habit of voting

- they have to contend with figuring out voter registration rules that vary from state-to-state

- mail-in ballots are not reliably received nor processed in several states

- they have fewer financial resources to help them get to the polls (gas money, bus passes, time off low-paid work are all factors)

- there are not enough polling places on/near college campuses (having to wait in incredibly long lines for hours is an example of voter suppression!)

What I AM going to do is praise the young voters who made a huge difference in the recent election and work to support organizations that increase youth turnout and write postcards to young voters and continue text banking. If we got 27% this time, we could get 30-40% next go round.

#us elections #youth turnout #gen z #gen x in support of gen z #make it easier for people to vote #voting access

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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#Election Infrastructure #Voting Access #Voter Suppression #Right to Vote #News

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ivygorgon · 5 months

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Hey everyone,

Quick favor – I stumbled upon this cool thing to support voting rights. JESSCRAVEN101 just posted about "Pass the Freedom to Vote / John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act." It's super easy to sign – just text "Sign PDDVHM" to 50409

And you can read it first;

Let's make our voices heard together!

Cheers!

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trmpt · 9 months

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2022 October

#voting access #voting rights #voting dropboxes

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mizelaneus · 9 months

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2022 October

#voting rights #voting access

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aromanticduck · 8 months

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Just to make the distinction between the first two clear:

Option 1 is for people who couldn't follow the plot of a show/film at all without subtitles. (And it should say 'difficulties' - it cut me off)

Option 2 is for people who would miss bits but still get some of it, or who could follow but would have to work really hard to do so.

#subtitles #accessibility #movies #film #television #organic home grown content #polls #no option for 'i have no actual issues following subtitled media but i bitch when people want them on anyway'#because if that's you you're a big ableist baby who doesn't deserve a vote #100 tier

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profeminist · 14 hours

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Political button, circa 1918

The two biggest pieces of sh*t in the SCOTUS right now are also the oldest! Don't let TRUMP pick their replacements!!!

REGISTER HERE: https://vote.gov/

#feminism #feminist #vote #scotus #abortion #abortion rights #dobbs #pro-choice #stop forced childbirth #abortion access #republican war on women #politics #u.s.

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kinokoshoujoart · 6 months

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best bachelor at losing every popularity poll he is ever entered into! give it up for rock!!!

seriously though, this is the first poll i’ve seen where he didn’t get one-sidedly slaughtered… it was pretty close!! good job bbg 🥳

#he died peacefully this time. in his sleep. doing what he loved #rock is doomed by the narrative to never win anything (except number one scum man)#he has a small but persistent harem but only in a dimension he cannot access. sad!#the toby vs rock poll had an unreasonable amount of votes even from the start… toby must have a lot of fans……..!#my art #cora clownposting content #rock tumbling (sos)#bokumono #post traveled back in time by like an hour. wtf. d-mail ass shenanigans on my tumblr dot com

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reasonsforhope · 27 days

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For all the concern in recent years that U.S. democracy is on the brink, in danger or under threat, a report out Tuesday offers a glimmer of good news for American voters worried that casting a ballot will be difficult in 2024.

Put simply, the new data shows that voting in America has gotten easier over the past two decades. More voters have the ability to cast a ballot before Election Day, with the majority of U.S. states now offering some form of early in-person voting and mail voting to all voters.

"Although we often talk in a partisan context about voter fraud and voter suppression and whether voters have access to the ballot, the reality is, over the past 25 years, we've greatly increased the convenience of voting for almost all Americans," said David Becker, the founder and executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), which authored the new report...

The data shows that, despite real efforts by some Republican-led legislatures to restrict access at the margins, the trend in the U.S. since 2000 has been toward making it easier to vote: Nearly 97% of voting-age American citizens now live in states that offer the option to vote before Election Day.

"The lies about early voting, the lies about voting machines and efforts in some state legislatures to roll back some of the election integrity and convenience measures that have evolved over the last several decades, those efforts almost all failed," Becker said. "In almost every single state, voters can choose to vote when they want to."

Forty-six states and Washington, D.C., offer some form of early in-person voting, the report tallied, and 37 of those jurisdictions also offer mail voting to all voters without requiring an excuse...

In 2000

In 2024

Infographic via NPR. If you go to the article, you can watch an animation of this map that shows voting availability in every election since 2000.

There are some political trends that show up in the data. Of the 14 states that don't offer mail voting to all voters, for instance, 12 have Republican-led legislatures.

-via NPR, March 19, 2024. Article continues below.

But maybe the more striking trends are geographic. Every single state in the western U.S. has offered some form of early and mail voting to all voters since 2004, according to the data. And those states span the political spectrum, from conservative Idaho to liberal California.

"It's really hard to talk about partisanship around this issue because historically there just hasn't been much," Mann said. "We've seen voting by mail and early in-person voting supported by Republican legislatures, Democratic legislatures, Republican governors, Democratic governors. We see voters in both parties use both methods." ...

In 2020, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts all made changes to make voting more easily accessible, which have since partially or fully become permanent. Delaware is currently embroiled in a legal fight over whether it can implement early and mail voting changes this election cycle as well.

The South, with its history of slavery and Jim Crow laws, has long lagged behind when it comes to voting access. The CEIR data shows that, although some states have slowly started expanding options for voters, generally it is still the most difficult region for voters to cast a ballot.

As options nationwide have become more widely available, voters have also responded by taking advantage.

In the 2000 election, 86% of voters voted at a polling place on Election Day, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

In 2020, during the pandemic, that number dropped to less than 31% of voters. It went back up in 2022, to roughly half of the electorate, but was still in line with the two-decade trend toward more ballots being cast early.

...in reality, Becker says, more voting options actually make elections more secure and less susceptible to malicious activity or even human error.

"If there were a problem, if there were a cyber event, if there were a malfunction, if there were bad weather, if there were traffic, if there were was a power outage, you could think of all kinds of circumstances. ... The more you spread voting out over a series of days and over multiple modes, the less likely it's going to impact voters," he said...

-via NPR, March 19, 2024

#united states #voting #voting matters #early voting #mail in ballots #voting access #american politics #us elections #election 2024 #us politics #democrats #republicans #election day #election news #good news #hope

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videodrme · 3 months

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#david cronenberg #david lynch #*#poll #srry for the fincher erasure #he’s good but not fitting for the poll #i vote cronenberg cause he’s more accessible/relatable to me personally #and i’m a horror girlie #tho i haven’t seen a lot of lynch’s filmography yet so things may change #but somehow i doubt lynch will ever surpass cronenberg for me

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whenweallvote · 18 days

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A near total abortion ban will go into effect soon in Arizona after the state Supreme Court ruled they must follow a restrictive abortion law from the 1860’s. Previously, Arizona doctors were allowed to provide abortions up to 15 weeks into pregnancy. There are no exceptions for rape or incest and it makes performing an abortion punishable by two to five years in prison.

But voters could be the ultimate decision makers on abortion access in Arizona this year. More than 500,000 Arizonans have signed a petition to put a state constitutional right to abortion on the ballot this November. They need 383,923 signatures from registered Arizona voters by July 3rd to qualify, and the group leading the effort hopes to gather at least twice as many to guarantee enough signatures are valid.

Arizona will not be able to enforce the decision for 14 days, so abortions are still available in the state until then.

Reminder: abortion access has been undefeated at the ballot box since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Your vote is your voice. Make sure you’re registered right now, visit weall.vote/register.

#arizona #abortion #abortion rights #abortion access #roe v wade #breaking news #vote #voting #election #abortion ban

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librarychair · 2 years

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I know it's not fashionable among leftists to encourage voting, presumably because it supposedly discourages other political action (I suspect this is not true) but the primary I voted in last week had a 15% turnout. A ballot proposal to funnel more taxpayer money toward the construction and maintenance of prisons passed. If more leftists had voted, we could have made an incremental dent in the institution of prisons. Considering voting is one of the lowest effort political actions you can take, I'm continually pissed to see people acting like it's not important, because a lot of people just don't have the time, resources, or emotional energy to do things like direct action. Voting, though it will never fix everything, really does matter, and you likely can do it even if you can do nothing else.

#voting #A while back someone tried to insult me by saying I'm so liberal I'd tell people to vote #I honestly hate that this is the attitude among young leftists #It explicitly rejects the easiest and most accessible means of political participation

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kirby-the-gorb · 1 year

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#kirby #politics #us politics #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #please vote if you're able! it may not feel like it's worth much but it's not nothing.#(I got my ballot by mail and already sent it in.)#(some people are not able and that is fine.)#(but if you're able at least take a look at the ballot and vote for things you think are better (and/or less bad))#(if you'd rather overthrow the government or whatever that's between you and god and I guess the government)#(but we might as well use the power they've already given us access to to make it less bad in the meantime.)#(it does very little harm and it may do very real and concrete good.)#(for example california has a ballot measure to write abortion protections into the state constitution.)#(that's pretty important to vote on!)#if you live in a vote-by-mail state and haven't mailed your ballot yet you can still take it to a drop box to make sure it's counted.#drop box locations are generally available online through the state or county website.

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trmpt · 9 months

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2022 October

#voting rights #voting access

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