Content Categorized with "Universal Voter Registration"
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Pennsylvania Committee Backs FairVote Reform
- Posted: March 9, 2010
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation, 17-year-old Primary Voting Fact Sheet, FairVote
A Pennsylvania legislative committee backed a bill that would allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they will be eligible to vote in the general election.
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FairVote testifies to Maryland Senate Committee
- Posted: February 26, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Fair Elections, Home, Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation, Learning Democracy, Policy Perspectives, Reforms, Limited Voting, FairVote
Yesterday, the Maryland Senate Education, Health & Environmental Committee held a public hearing on several election bills. FairVote’s Right to Vote Director Adam Fogel testified in favor of two of the bills that are sponsored by Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-20):
- SB 292, which will set a uniform voter registration age of 16
- SB 293, which will establish a permanent absentee ballot list. -
Setting the Record Straight on Universal Voter Registration
- Posted: February 3, 2010
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
Right to Vote director Adam Fogel sets the record straight about universal voter registration.
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Ocean State Un-Vetoes Electoral Reform
- Posted: January 7, 2010
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation, Elections for U.S. Senate Vacancies, FairVote
This past Tuesday, FairVote and its friends in America's most wee state were very happy, as the state legislature reversed the vetoes of two bills close to our hearts: pre-registration and U.S. Senate vacancies.
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Rhode Island Legislature Overrides Electoral Reform Vetoes
- Posted: January 6, 2010
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation, Youth Preregistration Fact Sheet, Elections for U.S. Senate Vacancies
The Rhode Island State Senate and House of Representatives yesterday voted to override two gubernatorial vetoes of landmark electoral reform legislation, thereby enacting FairVote-initiated measures allowing voter pre-registration for 16 and 17-year-olds and mandating popular elections to fill all U.S. Senate vacancies.
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Utah Commission Endorses Automatic Registration
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Youth Voter Pre-Registration News
- Posted: November 30, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, Youth Preregistration Fact Sheet, FairVote
The past few weeks have brought us a lot of voter registration news that shows that we are moving closer and closer to a system of universal voter registration.
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Giving teens a civic voice
- Posted: September 27, 2009
- Author(s): Ashley Holloway Foxx
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation, FairVote
In January, North Carolina will become the third state to implement FairVote-endorsed youth preregistration. -
Inconvenienced by Democracy: Dismantling the Argument Against Universal Voter Registration
- Posted: August 6, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Trope
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation
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Major Papers Support FairVote-Backed Registration Reforms
- Posted: July 27, 2009
- Author(s): Paul Fidalgo
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, Fair Access to Participation