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Research by Demos and its partners demonstrates that the compliance gaps found in states such as Missouri, North Carolina and Virginia reflect a nationwide problem.
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The Importance of Counting Everyone in Census 2010 in the Southwest Border Re...mariamarkham
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1 American Civil Liberties Union Statement For .docxmercysuttle
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American Civil Liberties Union
Statement For
“The State of the Right to Vote After the 2012 Election”
Hearing Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Submitted by
Laura W. Murphy, Director
Deborah J. Vagins, Senior Legislative Counsel
Demelza Baer, Policy Counsel
ACLU Washington Legislative Office
December 19, 2012
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Introduction
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), on behalf of its over half a million
members, countless additional supporters and activists, and fifty-three affiliates nationwide, is
pleased to submit this statement for the record for the “The State of the Right to Vote After the
2012 Election” Hearing, before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. The ACLU is a
nationwide, non-partisan organization working daily in courts, Congress, state legislatures, and
communities across the country to defend and preserve the civil rights and liberties that the
Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. The ACLU works
at the federal, state and local levels to lobby, litigate, and conduct public education in order both
expand opportunities and to prevent barriers to the ballot box.
In the wake of significant voter suppression efforts and other election administration
concerns that arose on Election Day, which threatened the electoral participation of millions of
Americans, disproportionately racial and ethnic minority voters, it is particularly crucial and
timely for the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider the state of our most fundamental right as
citizens. We thank the Committee for its attention to these barriers, and we ask that the
Committee consider advancing the federal reforms outlined in this statement in order to ensure
full electoral participation.
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I. The State of the Right to Vote in 2012
Although state voter suppression efforts are not a new phenomenon, during the past two
state legislative sessions, there was a dramatic proliferation of bills that would restrict access to
the ballot. Regressive measures were introduced in 38 states in 2011
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and in 22 states in 2012,
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with 25 new or expanded barriers signed into law since January 2011.
3
These laws cumulatively
represented a significant retrenchment in voting rights, and they had the potential to disfranchise
as many as five million Americans during the 2012 election.
4
However, due to a series of successful legal challenges and advocacy in support of voting
rights, the effect of many of these new laws was blunted in time for the 2012 election. Notably,
voter ID laws were enjoined from going into effect in time for the 2012 election in Pennsylvania,
Texas, Wisconsin, and South Carolina. Other legal challenges resulted in the preservation of
early voting on the three days before Election Da ...
The name of my resource is called, American Factfinder (factfinder.census.gov). American Factfinder is a free, easy and open access reference guide to use. American Factfinder is a "How Many Facts Online?" reference guide based on statistical information on cities, states, towns, counties,etc. The audience is for grade levels 8th through 12th who are just learning how to research and evaluate online resources for school projects based on statistical research. Adults can use this reference guide as well.
As a college student, you are likely aware of how important a college degree is to your long-term economic success. You are probably also aware of how challenging it is to pay for your college education. What you may not know is that paying for a postsecondary degree has not always been so difficult and that it doesn't have to be.
Below is a brief overview of why paying for college has become so difficult, some suggestions for how to lower your own college costs and information on public policies that can make attending college more affordable.
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Public Assistance Databases and Automatic Voter Registrationcoryhelene
Much of the information necessary for a voter to become registered, contained within databases maintained by public assistance agencies, provides a solid foundation for implementing an automatic voter registration system.
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After trillions of dollars in taxpayer funds, cheap loans and other forms of direct and indirect support, the biggest banks are bigger and more complex than ever; and for all the talk of newfound caution and tougher regulation, their recent record reveals an undiminished commitment to the kind of risky practices that inflate short-term profits when they go right but hold the potential to decimate the economy when they go wrong.
U.N. Beijing + 15 Conference and the 30% Solutioncoryhelene
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The U.S. government under President Bush promoted change by adopting hard targets for women in office--but only outside U.S. borders. The government required the new constitutions of Afghanistan and Iraq to have quotas for women in their national parliaments. Afghanistan is now 28th in the world in women's legislative representation, Iraq is 35th.
In stark contrast, the United States has greeted the 30% solution with silence and inaction. It is barely halfway home to reach the one-third mark for women in Congress, and ranks 69th in the world.
"Same Day Registration" (SDR) allows eligible voters to register and cast a ballot after the close of the official voter registration, in the run-up to each election. "Election Day Registration" (EDR) is a variety of Same Day Registration that allows for registration and voting on Election Day itself.
Credit Card Debt: Preliminary Findings from Demos' Low- to Middle-Income Hous...coryhelene
Credit card debt continues to threaten the financial stability of many low- and middle-income families in the United States, hampering their ability to save and move up the economic ladder. When shortfalls arise, credit has been the only available safety net to help these families make ends meet . In this economic crisis, even though America's households took on less credit card debt in 2008 than the year before, high levels of revolving debt from previous charges and compounding interest keep balances high and trap families in a vicious cycle.
When drawing legislative districts, New York State counts incarcerated persons as "residents" of the community where the prison is located, instead of counting them in the home community to which they will return, on average, within 34 months. This practice ignores more than 100 years of legal precedent holding that incarcerated persons cannot be considered "residents" of a prison for purposes of voting.
Paving the Way is part of a larger effort undertaken by the Topos Partnership and Public Works to create more constructive public dialog about public policy and economic outcomes. Promoting Broad Prosperity contains the complete findings and recommendations from this body of research.
Increasing numbers of low- and middle-income families use credit cards for basic living expenses. As health care costs have increased and health insurance coverage has become inadequate, medical expenses have become another basic cost that families increasingly cover through credit cards.
A Primer on the Amendments introduced in the U.S. House to undermine the creation of a much-needed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, in the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
The major credit rating agencies, Moody's, Standard & Poors, and Fitch, bear a heavy burden of responsibility for the financial meltdown. It was their seal of approval that enabled Wall Street to develop a multi-trillion-dollar market for bonds resting on a foundation of tricky loans and bubbly housing prices. Institutional investors around the world were seduced into buying these high-risk securities by credit ratings that made them out to be as safe as the most conventional corporate and municipal bonds.
Six Principles for True Systemic Risk Reformcoryhelene
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Government, The Economy and We, The Peoplecoryhelene
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In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
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1. Dēmos Fact Sheet: NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT
Expanding Voter Registration of Low-Income Citizens Under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993
Democracy works as intended when all citizens are able to participate and make their voices heard. While
the United States has come a long way in expanding the franchise over the past 220 years, barriers to
participation still exist and these barriers disproportionately impact low-income citizens. In 2008, over 11
million low-income adult citizens remained unregistered to vote and the registration between low-income
and high-income citizens was over 19 percentage points.1
Work by Dēmos and its partners holds out enormous promise for reducing this gap.2 Millions of low-income
citizens can be brought into the political process by proper implementation of an often-neglected provision
of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) requiring states to provide Public Agency Voter Registration
when persons apply for benefits, recertify or file a change of address through public assistance agencies and
disability offices:3
» In Missouri alone, almost 200,000 low-income citizens applied for voter registration at public assistance
offices in the first 17 months after a successful court action to improve Missouri’s compliance in July 2008.4
» In Virginia, Dēmos’ work with state officials to improve NVRA implementation resulted in a five-fold
increase in monthly registration applications, without the need for litigation.5
» In North Carolina, over 100,000 low-income citizens applied for voter registration at public assistance
agencies in the three years since Dēmos and its partners worked with state officials to improve
compliance—compared to only 11,600 in
the 2005-2006 reporting period.6 Public AssistAnce Voter registrAtions:
Research by Dēmos and its partners before And After imPlementAtion reform
demonstrates that the compliance gaps found (monthly AVerAge)9
in states such as Missouri, North Carolina and
Virginia reflect a nationwide problem. The 11,403
number of registrations from public assistance
agencies nationwide has declined 62 percent Monthly Average
in the 12 years since initial implementation of (Pre-Reform)
the NVRA, from over 2.6 million registrations in Monthly Average
1995-1996 to only 978,000 in the most recent (Post-Reform)
reporting period of 2007-2008.7 Yet the U.S.
Department of Justice, which has authority
to enforce the NVRA, failed abysmally to take
action against non-complying states during
most of the previous eight years.8
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Much more needs to be done to realize the
promise of the NVRA and fulfill Congress’ 2500
purpose of increasing access to voter registration 2000
for all Americans. Dēmos is working in a dozen
states and pursuing aggressive outreach to 1500
the Department of Justice, the White House,
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Congress and advocates for low-income political
participation to expand opportunities for voter 500
registration of low-income citizens and ensure
state compliance with the NVRA. 0
Missouri10 North Carolina11 Virginia12
2. Endnotes
1. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey November 2008 Voting and Registration Supplement, analysis by Dēmos.
2. See Scott Novakowski, Toward An Equal Electorate: Five States’ Gains Under the National Voter Registration Act (October 2008), available
at http://www.demos.org/pubs/nvra_2.pdf.
3. 42 U.S.C. § 1973gg-5.
4. Data provided by Missouri Department of Social Services pursuant to compliance plan in ACORN v. Scott, No. 2:08-cv-04084 (W.D. Mo.).
5. Data provided by Virginia State Board of Elections. See also Allegra Chapman and Scott Novakowski, Expanding Voter Registration for
Low-Income Virginians: The Impact of the National Voter Registration Act (October 2008), available at http://www.demos.org/pubs/
NVRA_VA.pdf.
6. Data provided by North Carolina State Board of Elections. See also Lisa J. Danetz and Scott Novakowski, Expanding Voter Registration for
Low-Income: How North Carolina is Realizing the Promise of the National Voter Registration Act (Updated April 2008), available at http://
www.demos.org/pubs/NVRAupdated.pdf.
7. Douglas R. Hess and Scott Novakowski, Unequal Access: Neglecting the National Voter Registration Act, 1995-2006 (February 2008),
available at http://www.demos.org/pub1531.cfm and U.S. Election Assistance Commission, The Impact of the National Voter Registration
Act of 1993 on the Administration of Elections for Federal Offices, 2007-2008, available at http://www.eac.gov/program-areas/
research-resources-and-reports/completed-research-and-reports/the-impact-of-the-national-voter-registration-act-on-federal-
elections-2007-2008.
8. Letter dated March 16, 2009 from Miles Rapoport and Brenda Wright to Hon. Charles E. Schumer and Hon. Bob Bennett, United States
Senate, Committee on Rules and Administration, available at http://www.demos.org/pubs/Demos%20letter%20to%20Senate%20
Rules%20Committee%203%2016%2009.pdf.
9. All pre-reform data is taken from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, The Impact of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 on
the Administration of Elections for Federal Office, 2005-2006, available at http://www.eac.gov/program-areas/research-resources-and-
reports/copy_of_docs/the-impact-of-the-national-voter-registration-act-on-federal-elections-2005-2006/attachment_download/file.
Because implementation reform was adopted at different times in each state, the time periods included in the post-reform data vary by
state. See endnotes 10, 11 and 12. Post reform data was provided by the Missouri Department of Social Services, the North Carolina State
Board of Elections, and the Virginia State Board of Elections.
10. Missouri’s public assistance agencies registered an average of 649 voters per month during 2005-2006. After reforms were implemented
on August 16, 2008, through January 2010, the Department of Social Services alone registered an average of 11,403 voters per month.
11. North Carolina’s public assistance agencies registered an average of 484 voters per month during 2005-2006. In the post-reform period of
February 2007 through November 2009, the state’s public assistance agencies registered an average of 2,995 voters per month.
12. Virginia’s public assistance agencies registered an average of 293 voters per month during 2005-2006. Since reforms were adopted in
June 2008 through December 2009, the state’s public assistance agencies have registered an average of 1,558 voters per month.
For more information, see www.demos.org or contact:
Scott Novakowski, Senior Policy Analyst, Democracy Program, snovakowski@demos.org
Brenda Wright, Director, Democracy Program, bwright@demos.org
Dēmos Fact Sheet: NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION ACT