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RESOURCES ON VOTER SUPPRESSION IN THE AGE OF COVID-19
We asked our panelists to provide us with reading materials pertinent to their talks. In addition, listeners shared other suggestions on Zoom Chat. We have organized these materials by topic and provide links to them all here.
VOTER PROTECTION STRATEGIES
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Brennan Center for Justice, by Max Feldman & Wendy R. Weiser.
The Atlantic, by Kevin Townsend.
Interview with Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on the Wisconsin Election. Includes print and video interview. Recommended by HR73 classmate Sylvester Monroe.
VOTING BY MAIL
- How popular is voting by mail in the US? 67% of voters support mail-in ballots.
- Check out where your state is with needed policies to protect voters in the age of COVID-19 here!
- The Brennan Center for Justice on making elections safe: the cost of implementing COVID-19 election resiliency measures.
- Brennan Center for Justice resource on how to protect the 2020 vote from the coronavirus.
GETTING BY: ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH LOW INCOME
- Link to Helen Hershkoff and Stephen Loffredo’s book “Getting By: Economic Rights and Legal Protections for People with Low Income” for purchase on Amazon.
OPINIONS OF NON-VOTING AMERICANS- Link to a Knight Foundation article on the political views of Americans who don’t vote:
VOTING IN WISCONSIN
- Political commentator and classmate Ryan O’Connell's article on the Wisconsin primary election and the related attempt at suppressing voting in that state.
- Article on the five polls that were open in Milwaukee for its 2020 primary election.
VOTER PURGES
- Article on the risks of voter purges in 2018.
- Voter Purge Rates remain high, analysis finds.
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