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Vermont’s Same-Day Registration Bill is a Key Step to Fixing Our Electoral System

Demos Vice President of Policy & Outreach Lenore Palladino issued the following statement on Vermont’s passage of Same-Day Registration:

"Demos applauds Vermont’s passage of Same-Day Registration (SDR), which will allow residents to register to vote and then cast a regular ballot in a one-stop process at every polling location. Every eligible American should have an equal opportunity to vote, and it should be free, fair and easily accessible. SDR is an important step to ensure this happens.

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One Chart Shows the Depressingly Racist Truth About Voter ID Laws You Tried to Ignore

Republicans claim voter ID laws aren't racist, but numbers don't lie.

Sean McElwee, a researcher for progressive think tank Demos, compared measures of racist sentiments among white people in each of the 50 states (such as whether they believe blacks are trustworthy or intelligent) to dataon voting laws in each state, including when they were introduced and how strict they are.

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Tom McKay

North Carolina in Violation of "Motor Voter" Law

Voting Rights Groups Call on State to Fix Voter Registration at DMVs, or Face Litigation

Press release/statement

Vermont Enacts Same-Day Registration

Officially count Vermont as the latest state to usher in Same-Day Registration.

Blog
Damon L. Daniels

7 Ways Student Debt Can Ruin Your Life

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Zeeshan Aleem

Democrats Look to Make Debt-Free College the Key Campaign Issue of 2016

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Jana Kasperkevic

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ New Bill Would Make Attending A Four-Year Public College Free

Senator Bernie Sanders may be shaking up the 2016 presidential election already, but he’s also continuing to make waves in Congress. The senator from Vermont has proposed something pretty radical: free college for all at public four-year colleges and universities for those who meet admission standards.
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Annie Wood

Texas’ Motor Vehicles Department Misfires on Voter Registration

During the 2012 and 2014 elections, thousands of Texans arrived at the polls having registered to vote at the Department of Public Safety (Texas’ motor vehicles department), only to be told that they were not on the voter rolls.

Blog
Stuart Naifeh

Blacks’ Right to Vote ‘No Longer Endangered’? Look Again

Jeff Jacoby ends his June 29 column by asserting that black citizens’ right to vote “is no longer endangered anywhere in America.” What America is he talking about?

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Brenda Wright