Brennan Center: Bravo, Oregon; Where's Selma's legacy?
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Oregon Passes Groundbreaking Voter Registration Bill
The Oregon state legislature last week approved a breakthrough voter registration bill that could add at least 300,000 eligible citizens to the rolls by 2016. The bill would streamline registration at the DMV by replacing a paper-based system with a new process in which voters are added to the rolls electronically. The bill builds on the Brennan Center’s signature Voter Registration Modernization proposal. http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=79198&qid=4019073 “This is a bold new standard that other states should work toward as a model for reform,” Wendy Weiser told The Washington Post. Read more from Jonathan Brater. http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=79200&qid=4019073
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Still Fighting for Voting Rights 50 Years After Selma
The Brennan Center’s Vishal Agraharkar (from left), Nicole Austin-Hillery, and DeNora Getachew were among the thousands who commemorated the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama, which helped galvanize support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The U.S. Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Act in 2013, and there has been a renewed push to restrict voting in recent years. “Too many politicians continue to manipulate the rules http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=79190&qid=4019073 in ways that ensure the poor, the young, and racial minorities have a needlessly difficult time getting registered and voting a ballot that will count,” wrote Agraharkar.
Read more at The Nation, http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=79193&qid=4019073 CNN, The Guardian, and from Wendy Weiser at Moyers & Company. http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=79192&qid=4019073
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