By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor Not unexpectedly, as we approach the midterm elections, the Trump administration is taking steps to significantly interfere with the electoral process —specifically as it concerns mail-in voting. Significantly, The President...
Rule Will Give Anti-Democracy Groups Ammunition to Falsely Challenge Registrations
By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor The Nebraska legislature recently restored the voting rights of 7,000 people with felony convictions who have already completed their full sentences. However, two days before the law (Legislative Bill 20) was set to go into...
This generation of lawmakers should respond to the call of the majority of Americans who support new legislation to protect the vote.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) reintroduced the Democracy Restoration Act, federal legislation that seeks to restore voting rights in federal elections to the millions of disenfranchised Americans who have been released from prison but are still denied the right to vote.
Although the court’s favorable judgement came as a surprise, voting rights advocates quickly recognized its significance, and enthusiastically welcomed it.
Today is a day of exaltation for many but should also illuminate the need for intentional engagement and political participation, irrespective of race and in the interest of equity for all Alabamians.
The true takeaway is that many Americans made an affirmative statement with their vote. They affirmed that they will not passively allow out of control autocrats and White supremacists to destroy 244 years of a flawed but mostly successful experiment in democracy called America.