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  • How this Texas election official is winning voters' trust

    November 14, 2022 |

    Votebeat Texas |

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    Response Location: United States, Forth Worth, Texas

    In an effort to minimize disruptions from impassioned poll watchers, one Texas county enhanced transparency by offering tours of the elections office, installing large TV screens to broadcast the tabulation process, publicly posting often-requested information online, and hosting workshops to walk residents through every step of election procedures. The county has been praised for its approach and the 2022 midterm election went off without any outbursts from voting activists.

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  • PWDs Faced Challenges at Airports, but CARE Nigeria has Come up with Change Intervention

    November 14, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Center for Ability, Rehabilitation, and Empowerment (CARE) helps people with disabilities navigate the boarding and departing process at airports by setting up a disability desk with resources including people trained in navigating the challenges people with disabilities often face at airports.

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  • Unions offer graduate student workers a stronger platform to secure living wages and reasonable workloads

    November 10, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, Corvallis, Oregon

    Graduate student unions, like Oregon State University’s Coalition of Graduate Employees, use collective bargaining to allow student employees to successfully negotiate for fair wages, reasonable hours, and other terms of employment.

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  • Non-Citizen Immigrants On Voting In Takoma Park

    November 09, 2022 |

    DCist |

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    Response Location: United States, Takoma Park, Maryland

    Non-citizen residents of Takoma Park, Maryland have been able to vote in municipal elections since 1993, and 16- and 17-year-olds there have had access to the ballot since 2013. Residents of the city, where roughly 30% of the population was born outside of the United States, say participating in city elections makes them feel more welcome in the community and helps them get invested in local issues.

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  • Election Protection Force Fights Voter Suppression: Racist Poll Workers, Vigilantes, Missing Ballots

    November 08, 2022 |

    Democracy Now! |

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    Response Location: United States, Beaumont, Texas

    The Election Protection coalition is a group of law and advocacy organizations that deploys volunteer attorneys to polling places, runs a hotline where voters can bring questions or concerns, and files lawsuits when necessary to enforce voter rights. The coalition filed a lawsuit after Black voters in Beaumont, Texas reported being harassed and improperly turned away by white poll workers, successfully obtaining a court order removing the presiding election judge from their position.

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  • Midterms turnout: Could Australia-style voting help in US?

    November 04, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Australia

    In Australia, all eligible adults are required to vote unless they qualify for an approved exception, with a failure to show up on election day resulting in a fine of A$20. The country has one of the highest turnout rates in the world, with 76 percent of eligible voters casting ballots in 2022.

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  • When It Comes to Voting in Jail, the Devil Is in the Details

    November 04, 2022 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To help eligible voters behind bars participate in elections, civic and volunteer groups visit jails such as the Vernon C. Bain Center with registration packets and absentee ballot request forms. The volunteers also answer questions about issues, candidates, and the voting process, and about 300 people in New York jails have registered to vote since January.

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  • In North Carolina, a Rush to “Restore Hope in the Vote” in People with Felony Convictions

    November 04, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Bern, North Carolina

    A Superior Court ruling in North Carolina restored voting rights to people with felony convictions who are no longer in prison, giving up to 56,000 residents the opportunity to return to the ballot box. Organizations participating in the "Unlock Our Vote" movement are working to connect with and register disenfranchised voters, and people who have been re-enfranchised say reclaiming their rights has given them new hope that they can help effect change.

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  • ‘We depend on each other': A community driven to vote

    November 03, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Decatur, Georgia

    Disability rights activist Zan Thornton organizes a network of volunteer drivers in Georgia to help voters with disabilities get accessible rides to the polls. In 2021, they organized free transportation for more than 150 people and have helped more than 50 so far for the 2022 midterms.

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  • Navajo voters in one Arizona County see their ballots rejected more frequently. Here's what would fix that.

    November 03, 2022 |

    Votebeat Arizona |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Arizona

    Some Arizona counties that include parts of the Navajo Nation have set up voting centers, central locations where residents can come to vote in-person regardless of what precinct they are assigned to. The centers have helped reduce the number of provisional ballots cast on the reservation, which faces significant voting barriers due to distance, transportation access, and spotty mail and internet service, and other counties with reservation land are now pushing to establish their own voting centers.

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