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Voting Rights Coalition Launches First-Ever “Election Protection” Program for 2022 Midterm
Common Cause Delaware (CCDE) continues to build Election Protection 2022, an independent, nonpartisan effort to ensure that every eligible voter can vote safely and smoothly in the First State.
Found in: Common Cause Delaware
CNN: How the Biden DOJ’s vows to protect voting rights have played out in practice
“Do I wish they could do more? Yes. Do I know that they are limited by their jurisdiction and their staying in the law? Yes,” said Sylvia Albert, the director of voting and elections at Common Cause, an organization that advocates on democracy issues. “It points to the need to update federal legislation to protect against new types of threats.”
Found in: Common Cause
Washington Post: GOP push to monitor voting in Texas’s Harris County spurs outcry
Anthony Gutierrez, executive director of the nonpartisan voter education and advocacy group Common Cause Texas, said that while so far there have not been many complaints to his group’s hotline, he is concerned that poll observers could overstep in this year’s tense atmosphere. During a training last week, Gutierrez said volunteers reported seeing people without the required identification circulating at polling locations close to voters. One Black voter complained to the hotline that when he showed up to vote at a polling location at a southwest Dallas community college, a White man outside told him he had to first surrender his cellphone and smartwatch, Gutierrez said. He said the voter complied, cast his ballot and recovered his items, only to discover the man who seized them “was not a worker at that poll site. They were just trying to be intimidating.”
Found in: Common Cause
Nonpartisan Info - Connecticut Early Voting Ballot Question - November 8, 2022
Found in: Common Cause in Connecticut
'We have to resist the outside threats': Confronting barriers to voting in N.C.
Many North Carolinians interested in making their voices heard in the 2022 midterm election have faced institutional, economic and informational challenges. According to Bob Phillips, the executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, these major barriers undermine the ability of eligible voters to understand and execute their electoral privilege.
Found in: Common Cause North Carolina
Early voting is on the ballot in CT, a key issue for Black and Latino residents
“If you go after work, be prepared to wait in line,” said Foster in her soft Jamaican accent, near picnic tables topped with sorrel, ginger beer and palm-sized coconut pies — all of which she made herself. The well-regarded vendor has stayed civically active during her 35 years living in the predominantly Black and Latino city, often finding it helpful to plan in advance for Election Day. Foster, who assists her 96-year-old father to the polls, knows first-hand the difficulties people experience trying to cast ballots, many of which might keep voters away altogether. Some folks work multiple jobs. Trains get delayed. Rush hour traffic clogs the highways. Anything can happen, she said. But Foster didn’t know that early voting was on this year’s ballot — a measure which, if approved, could give people more time to vote in person before Election Day.
Found in: Common Cause in Connecticut
Bloomberg: Masked poll watchers are showing up at voting sites with handguns and Kevlar vests
“Ballot drop boxes are open for much longer than polling places. They aren’t staffed and they are often placed in locations that make them vulnerable for people to act in a way that you would probably not see in a polling place,” said Suzanne Almeida, who is heading a voter intimidation hotline for the advocacy group Common Cause.
Found in: Common Cause
Livingstone students holding voting pep rally, bus to the polls today
Students at Livingstone College will take part in a voting pep rally, bus to the polls and party at the polls event on Wednesday to make their voices heard in this year’s election.
Found in: Common Cause North Carolina
Florida's Statewide Early Voting in the 2022 Midterm Election Starts Across Saturday
Voters who have questions or problems can contact the nonpartisan Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE.
Found in: Common Cause Florida
Early Voting in the 2022 Midterm Election Begins This Monday, Oct. 24
Texas voters can make their voices heard in the November 8 midterm election beginning today, October 24 through Friday, November 4.