Content Categorized with "Universal Voter Registration"
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FairVote testifies to Maryland Senate Committee
- Posted: February 26, 2010
- Author(s): Pauline Lejeune
- Categories: Home, Learning Democracy, Reforms, Universal Voter Registration, 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: U.S. Senate Vacancy Elections, Universal Voter Registration, 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, U.S. Senate Vacancy Elections, Universal Voter Registration
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
- Posted: December 9, 2009
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
The Governor's Commission on Strengthening Utah's Democracy today unanimously recommended FairVote.
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Youth Voter Pre-Registration News
- Posted: November 30, 2009
- Author(s): Adam Fogel
- Categories: Home, Universal Voter Registration, 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
- Publication: The Fayetteville Observer
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, 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
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Major Papers Support FairVote-Backed Registration Reforms
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The Right Way to Register Voters
- Posted: July 24, 2009
- Publication: The New York Times
- Categories: Universal Voter Registration, FairVote
Editorial by the New York Times comes out in support of efforts now underway in the US Senate to modernize voter registration practices so that we "live up to the ideal of the founders of a nation governed with the consent of the governed."