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Feb 21 2023
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Report: NY can boost voter turnout with this single change
Could New York City’s notoriously low voter turnout just be a scheduling snafu? That’s the argument in a new report from Citizens Union to be released on Friday. The nonpartisan good government group examined how holding local elections in the same year as state or federal races boosted participation rates in other U.S. cities by as much as 460%. Currently, New York City holds its local
Gothamist
Dec 03 2022
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Georgia Voters Break Senate Runoff Turnout Record — Again
The single-day early voting turnout Friday in Georgia broke the last record set just days ago in an indication of intense interest in the race for Senate between former football player Herschel Walker and incumbent Raphael Warnock.
Top election official Gabriel Sterling touted the results on Twitter, revealing that 350,574 people had voted as of 8 p.m. Friday.
“That’s just an
HuffPost
Jun 07 2022
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Voters cast ballots for primary races; turnout nears 12%
Almost 12% of the voters eligible to participate in Tuesday’s primary election have cast their ballots already – with Republicans slightly more likely to turn out than Democrats.
But voters still have 12 hours to boost those numbers.
Polling locations across New Mexico will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, and same-day registration is available for new voters or
Albuquerque Journal
Mar 09 2023
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Conservative Robocallers Found Liable in 2020 Voter-Suppression Suit
Two conservative activists violated federal and state civil rights laws with a robocalling scheme designed to suppress Black voter turnout in 2020, a judge ruled Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of Black civic groups and the New York Attorney General’s office.
Bloomberg
May 25 2022
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Record Georgia turnout exposes the Democrats' voter suppression lie
Early voting has ended in Georgia. This means that at long last, the nation gets to find out just how out of touch with reality Democrats were when they denounced the state's new election reform law.
At the time, the Democratic Party used its media tentacles to intimidate much of corporate America into denouncing Georgia's law and others like it as "voter suppression" measures. They
Washington Examiner
Oct 29 2012
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Activists Pour Cash Into Voter Turnout
In a tight election where voter turnout could be crucial, a new force is sending people door to door to try to get conservatives to the polls.
Conservative groups, most notably Americans for Prosperity, are spending millions of dollars to ensure that as many supporters as possible cast a ballot. Their efforts, echoing voter drives by unions and other Democratic-leaning groups, represent
Wall Street Journal (News)
Nov 22 2021
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Dark money group spent $100M on voter turnout in 2020
An organization dedicated to turning out young voters and people of color spent more than $100 million delivering mail and digital notices to voters in 2020, delivering hundreds of thousands of votes from those who were likely to back President Biden last year.
The Voter Participation Center, a nonpartisan group based in Washington, raised $85 million and spent even more through 2020,
The Hill
Feb 27 2016
News
Low Voter Turnout Expected in South Carolina
The Democratic primary in South Carolina is expected to see a turnout far less than what we saw in last week's record breaking Republican primary.
Townhall
Aug 03 2020
Background
Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes
From 2000 to 2018, 20 states enacted voter identification requirements, bringing the total to 34 states. The most pronounced shift has been toward strict voter identification. While no states had such laws in 2000, 10 states had enacted (and sustained) such laws as of 2018. Under strict requirements, a vote is counted only if the voter produces a photo ID (in seven states) or nonphoto ID (in
Mar 18 2015
News
Would Automatic Voter Registration Increase Turnout?
Go to renew your driver's license in Oregon, and you will now be signed up to vote automatically.
It's the first state in the country with that sort of law, which is designed to make voting easier, and stands in contrast to the trend seen in the past several years in more conservative states.
"It's really interesting — when we've seen restrictions emerging in Republican-leaning
NPR (Online News)