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  • Meet the Latinos Trying to Get Latinos to the Polls

    Isabella Grullón Paz

    February 10, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The Democratic Party consistently struggles to turn out the Latinx vote, which is projected to be 32 million people. Instead of trying to find a cohesive message for this incredibly diverse group of people like in the past, Democratic candidates this year are letting Latinx people lead engagement in their own communities.

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  • Explaining 'Citizens Assemblies', a Real Kind of Democracy

    Julia Hotz

    December 18, 2019 |

    Vice |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Leeds

    In the city of Leeds, England, a group of randomly selected demographically representative citizens came together to solve the climate crisis. This group of twenty-one strangers formed the Leeds Climate Citizens' Jury, which is a smaller version of the better-known Citizen's Assembly. Over the course of several weeks, the members of the assembly or jury learn about and discuss how to tackle a certain political problem, like climate change. Similar assemblies have formed in Ireland, Australia, and Poland to tackle political problems like abortion and nuclear storage.

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  • Translators help Korean American voters in Harris County find their electoral voice

    Alexa Ura

    November 26, 2019 |

    The Texas Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Even in multicultural and diverse Harris County, Texas, with a population greater than 26 states and over 145 languages spoken, some groups, like Korean Americans, are marginalized when it comes to voting and civic participation due to language and other cultural barriers. Houston resident is fighting this marginalization by organizing Korean American Early Voting Day, which provides Korean-speaking Texans with translated voter guides and other translation services.

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  • The Way America Votes Is Broken. In One Rural County, a Nonprofit Showed a Way Forward.

    Jessica Huseman

    November 12, 2019 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Ackerman, Mississippi

    In Mississippi, a recent election went off without a hitch thanks to new voting machines built by nonprofit VotingWorks. The machines, which were not approved by federal or state regulators, were easy to use, set up, and take down, and improved security of votes.

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  • Let's nix Columbus Day and make Election Day a paid holiday instead

    Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

    October 14, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Sandusky, Ohio

    Sandusky, Ohio, recently got rid of Columbus Day in favor of a holiday on Election Day, following the lead of several countries around the world such as South Africa, Germany, and India. Sandusky's swapping of Columbus Day for Election Day is largely symbolic, but symbols can be powerful, especially for small towns.

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  • Jewish and Arab women unite to defy Bedouin voter suppression in Israeli election

    Eetta Prince-Gibson

    September 18, 2019 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Israel

    Jewish and Arab organizers arranged for volunteers to bring Bedouin women in remote villages to their polling place to vote in parliamentary elections. Bedouin villages on tribal lands don’t have polling places, so dozens of women volunteers used their own cars (due to a last-minute ruling making it hard for organized groups to bus voters) to bring hundreds of Bedouin women to distant polling stations. Many of the women would not have voted without the help of the volunteers, who contributed at least in part to the 10-percentage point voter turnout increase in Arab communities.

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  • Young voting advocates take up the fight against suppression

    Milan Polk

    August 29, 2019 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Greenville, South Carolina

    Young advocates for voting rights are fighting back against laws that make it difficult for young people and other marginalized groups to register to vote. Through public campaigns, lawsuits, and voter registration drives, these youth advocates are taking action as their peers come of age to vote.

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  • San Francisco voters rank their candidates. It's made politics a little less nasty.

    Lee Drutman

    July 24, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In 2002, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to adopt ranked choice voting, which allows voters to rank their candidates by 1st choice, 2nd choice, and so on, in what effectively becomes an instant run-off. This heads off voter fatigue in successive rounds of voting. But also, ranked choice voting encouraged more campaigning, voter engagement, and coalition-building.

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  • These voters are using democracy vouchers to influence Seattle's City Council races

    Daniel Beekman

    June 12, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, taxpayers are funding a program called democracy vouchers, in which registered voters and other eligible residents receive $25 vouchers that they can contribute toward city council races. In this program unique to Seattle, each donor can contribute up to four vouchers, which are helping to diversify the field for grassroots candidates.

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  • The End of the Polling Booth

    Tina Rosenberg

    June 11, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    In Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, the traditional polling place has all but disappeared. In its place is the rise of the mail-in ballot, a convenient, inclusive method where states mail ballots to every registered voter--automatically. Evidence from all three of those states, as well as five California counties with a similar initiative, have showed an increase in voter turnout.

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