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If we do not close voter turnout gaps, our democracy is destined to become less and less representative in the coming decades.

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Sean McElwee

Adam Lioz

Former Senior Counsel

How our work to enforce Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act has resulted in over 3 million new voter registration applications through public assistance agencies.

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Laura Williamson
Pamela Cataldo
Brenda Wright

Brenda Wright

Former Senior Advisor, Legal Strategies

Naila Awan

Former Senior Counsel

Same Day Registration (SDR) allows eligible voters to register to vote and cast their ballots on the same day. Depending on the state, this one-stop process for registering and voting may be offered on Election Day, during the early voting period, or both.

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Large disparities in turnout benefit the donor class.

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Sean McElwee
Souls to the Polls is a time-honored tradition, often led by clergy, to activate and engage congregants to exercise their right to vote that starts long before Election Day. It is a mobilization strategy to make the process of voting easier for their congregants. But sadly, voter suppression efforts
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Caleb J. Gayle
Chiraag Bains, a former prosecutor and civil rights attorney at the U.S. Justice Department, said that because criminal codes are so complicated, prosecutors have an incredible amount of flexibility in deciding whether and how to bring a case. Prosecutors normally consider the culpability of the
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Sam Levine
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Demos Policy Analyst Laura Williamson joins other democracy experts for a conversation on the mid-term elections and the current political landscape.
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