The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 26, 2024

If You Want to Vote this Fall, You’ll Need to Be Registered. To Register, You Need to Be Prepared, and Time is Running Out.
If you want to vote this fall and you’re not registered, it’s time to get busy. Fifteen states require a citizen to register 30 days prior to an election. And a recent study showed 9% of Americans don’t have ready access to the documents required. Here’s what you need.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
U.S. Election Assistance Commission – Register And Vote in Your State
USA Vote Foundation - Registration, Eligibility, State Election Office Links
Vote.Gov - Register to Vote in Your State
Vote.Org – Check Your Registration to Vote
National Conference of State Legislatures - Voter Registration Deadlines
Brennan Center for Justice - Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available

Groups Taking Action:
Rock the Vote, Mi Familia Vota, Black Voters Matter, League of Women Voters Vote 411, Brennan Center for Justice, ACLU, Center for Voter Information, Native Vote, APIAVote

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 25, 2024

Signatures for Ohio Citizen-Led Redistricting Ballot Measure Certified; Ohio Disabled Absentee Voters Win in Federal Court
Two significant wins for Ohio voters, with signatures certified for a citizen-led redistricting commission ballot measure, and a federal court ruling striking down a portion of a state voter suppression law.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
American Democracy Minute - Following Three Chaotic Years of Politician-Run Redistricting, Ohio Organizers Submit Ballot Measure Signatures for Citizen-Led Commission
Ohio Capital Journal - Signatures certified: Ohio anti-gerrymandering amendment on its way to November ballot
Democracy Docket - Ohio’s New Voter Suppression Law Unpacked
Ohio Capital Journal - Federal judge scraps Ohio’s narrow list of helpers for disabled voters
U.S. DISTRICT COURT, NORTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO, EASTERN DIVISION - Ruling in League of Women Voters v. Ohio Sec. of State Frank LaRose and the Republican National Committee

Groups Taking Action:
Citizens Not Politicians, League of Women Voters Ohio, ACLU Ohio

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 24, 2024

Claims of Widespread Voting by Undocumented Immigrants Might Be Red Meat for the Base, But It’s Complete Nonsense.

At the Republican National Convention, Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that Democrats tolerated illegal immigration so noncitizens would fraudulently vote. Such claims might rile up the GOP base, but they are patently false.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
Brennan Center for Justice - Myth of Noncitizen Voting
Democracy Docket -Debunking the Myths Surrounding Noncitizen Voting
Washington Post - (Possible paywall) The truth about noncitizen voting in federal elections
NPR - Conservatives are warning about noncitizens voting. It's a myth with a long history
Only Citizens Vote Coalition - Cleta Mitchell's allegations of noncitizen voting
Cato Institute - Noncitizens Don’t Illegally Vote in Detectable Numbers
Brennan Center for Justice - (2017) Noncitizen Voting: The Missing Millions

Groups Taking Action:
Common Cause, Anti-Defamation League, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 23, 2024

Biden Withdraws as the Presumptive Nominee and Endorses Harris. What Happens Now?
President Joe Biden withdrew July 21st as the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. What’s next in the process, and how does that process work?

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
National Constitution Center - A brief history of presidential primaries
ABC News - DNC readies to move forward with virtual roll call Biden nomination despite concerns
National Task Force on Election Crises - Candidate Succession Before Election Day
Democratic National Committee - Call for 2024 Democratic National Convention and Convention Rules
American Democracy Minute - What Are ‘Open’, ‘Brokered’, and ‘Contested’ Party Conventions, and Could We See One This Summer?
Washington Post - (Possible paywall) How Democrats can pick a new candidate, step by step
The 19th - Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Harris. What happens next?
Politico - Playbook: The Kamala Harris juggernaut

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 22, 2024

Some Campaign Strategists Hope You’ll Show Up at the Polls, Only to Find that Your Voter Registration has been Purged. Don’t Let that Happen.

Here’s a scenario likely to be more common in the 2024 elections: You show up expecting to cast your ballot, but the clerk says you’re no longer registered. In many states, you used to be able to register the day of the election, but your state legislature changed the rules, and you’re now required to bring citizenship & birth certificate papers to re-register. So sorry.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
American Bar Association (2020) - "Use It or Lose It": The Problem of Purges from the Registration Rolls of Voters Who Don't Vote Regularly
PBS NewsHour - Conservative groups want to clean voter rolls, raising concerns about election integrity
Florida Phoenix - Under DeSantis, FL has become the bellwether state for voter disenfranchisement
Ohio Capital Journal - Advocates concerned with Ohio’s mass voter purge set to remove 500 people experiencing homelessness
Ohio Capital Journal - How to find out if you are still registered to vote before Ohio’s purge
The New Republic - Georgia Republicans Pass Bill Making It Easier to Purge Votes in 2024
Vote.Org - Check Your Registration to Vote
U.S. Election Assistance Commission - Register And Vote in Your State

Groups Taking Action:
Brennan Center for Justice, ACLU, Center for Voter Information

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 19, 2024

Utah Voters Fought Back After Their Fair Voting Districts Constitutional Amendment was Gutted by an Anti-Voter Legislature. They Won.
Utah voters passed the Better Boundaries Proposition 4 in 2018, setting standards for competitive, nonpartisan redistricting. Utah’s legislature, in an effort to retain partisan power, gutted that amendment. The state supreme court just ruled for the voters.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
Utah News Dispatch - Utah Supreme Court hands big win to plaintiffs in anti-gerrymandering lawsuit
Utah Supreme Court (via Democracy Docket) - League of Women Voters Utah v. Utah State Legislature
Democracy Docket - Utah Supreme Court Reinstates Challenge to Repeal of Anti-Gerrymandering Initiative

Groups Taking Action:
League of Women Voters Utah, Mormon Women for Ethical Government, ACLU of Utah

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 18, 2024

‘This wasn’t politics as usual, this was politics for profit.’ U.S. Senator Robert Menendez Convicted of Bribery & Conspiracy Charges.
U.S. Senator Robert Menendez was convicted July 16th on all federal charges of conspiracy, bribery, extortion, wire fraud, obstruction and acting as a foreign agent in schemes involving an Egyptian-American businessman and a New Jersey developer.

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Articles & Resources:
U.S. Justice Department - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, His Wife, And Three New Jersey Businessmen Charged With Bribery Offenses
U.S. District Court, Southern District of NY (via NJ Monitor) - Superceding Indictment for U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, Fred Daibes, and Wael Hana
New Jersey Monitor - Sen. Menendez convicted of bribery, all other charges in federal corruption trial
American Democracy Minute - Shades of Corruption: Menendez & Cuellar Prosecuted for Accepting Cash & Cars; Trump Reportedly Promises Climate Rollbacks for $1B in Campaign Contributions from Big Oil with Repercussions Unlikely
New Jersey Monitor - (2023) Experts alarmed by claims that Menendez eased military aid to Egypt
USA.Gov - How federal impeachment works

Groups Taking Action:
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Public Citizen

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The American Democracy Minute Radio Report & Podcast for July 17, 2024

Civil Rights and Democracy Champion John Lewis Remembered With National Day of Commemoration and Action July 17th
July 17th marks the anniversary of the death of civil rights icon and democracy champion Congressman John Lewis. Exactly two years before he died, he gave a speech before the U.S. House on the right to vote, in support of the Voter Empowerment Act. We have an excerpt of his speech.

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Today’s Links

Articles & Resources:
Office of Congressman John Lewis - Speech in the U.S. House, July 18, 2018
U.S. Congress - HR 12 Voter Empowerment Act

U.S. Congress - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (2024)
Declaration for American Democracy - John Lewis National Day of Commemoration and Action Events

Groups Taking Action:
Declaration for American Democracy, APIA Vote, Human Rights Campaign, League of Women Voters, Common Cause, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

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