Posted in Columns Community organizing Democracy Minority Voters Politics Voter Purge Project Voter registration Voter suppression Voting rights Wade Rathke

Field testing voter purges and “drops”

Columbus        As the Voter Purge Project moves forward, we are now analyzing the voter files on more than a dozen states on our way to double that number in coming weeks, many of them include the…

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Posted in Columns Community organizing News Voter Purge Project Voter suppression Wade Rathke

Ohio battles to protect the vote

Columbus        Twenty-five people made their way into the Vanderelli Room in Columbus.  The art, performance, and all-around community space in the Franklinton neighborhood of the city near downtown had been offered to TrustVote and the Columbus…

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Posted in Columns Voter Purge Project Voter registration Voter suppression Wade Rathke

Government shouldn’t play gotcha on voting and benefits

New Orleans       Talking to a reporter from Politico about voter purges and why there needed to be supplemental efforts other than failing to answer a letter in the US Mail to determine whether a voter…

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Posted in Columns Community organizing Democracy Elections Off the wire Politics Voter Purge Project Voter suppression Wade Rathke

More and more on pernicious voter suppression

Culebra      This is a warning on the eve of a new year:  I’m obsessed with stopping voter suppression as we countdown the months and days to the election in November.  Besides my general obsession, I’m especially…

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