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Voter Purge Legislative Resource Guide

This resource guide is intended to help advocates and local leaders make common-sense improvements to current voter removal practices and oppose bad bills that limit access to the ballot.
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SCOTUS 'Code of Conduct' Fails to Address Outside Influence and Corruption

"We can't rely on the Court to regulate itself."  
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Phi Nguyen
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Clarence Thomas’ resignation would be a first step toward repairing trust in SCOTUS

“Thomas’s time in the headlines may come and go, but it’s never too late for court reform.”
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Taifa Smith Butler
United States Supreme Court

Partisan Aims Cannot Excuse Racial Gerrymandering

Voters of color cannot be used as partisan pawns to gerrymander districts, as Black voters were in South Carolina. When they are, it is unconstitutional, and it should never be tolerated.
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League of Women Voters of Ohio v. LaRose
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We are challenging the new process for conducting Ohio’s primary election. It will deprive Ohioans of their fundamental right to vote and fail to allow voters to register up to 30 days prior to the election, in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
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Economic Justice
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The current go-it-alone economic system has created record inequality and stalled mobility for the next generation. A new paradigm must be created.
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