National Automatic Voter Registration

America suffers from disturbingly low voter registration and turnout rates. Almost 50 million eligible people were not even registered to vote in the 2012 election, and another 12 million experienced problems with their registration that kept them from voting. Until America remedies its anemic voter turnout and registration, it cannot be called a true democracy.

Voting rights activists have long known that the proliferation of voter ID laws threatens our democracy by disenfranchising low-income workers, young people, and communities of color. In a growing number of states, people are fighting back.

CPD Action, along with their sister organization Center for Popular Democracy, works to create equity, opportunity, and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions. They work on campaigns that promote a pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda and win victories to improve people’s lives.

CPD Action is working across the country to make it easier for millions of Americans to vote. The policy at the core of ensuring full enfranchisement of all citizens is Automatic Voter Registration.

Automatic Voter Registration ensures:

- The Government, whether State or Federal, depending on the law adopts the responsibility of registering eligible Americans to vote.

- A reduction in State Government costs of paper registration systems.

- Increased voter participation.

- Adding as many as 55 million new voters to the rolls nationwide.

- Increased representation of communities of color, youth, and low-income communities.

CLICK HERE to sign their petition to to stop voter suppression and implement Automatic Voter Registration now.











NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker

Pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act!

Voting rights are in a state of emergency. Emboldened by a bad Supreme Court decision, politicians are launching unprecedented attacks in a handful of states, cuts to early voting and same day registration in North Carolina, a strict photo voter ID law in Texas, cuts to strong reform in Ohio, making it harder for the most marginalized among us to vote.

Common Cause is pushing back on these anti-voter efforts that hit voters of color, students, and the elderly hardest. But to stop these rollbacks before they start, we need to modernize and restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act.

The Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), a bill to do just that, is about to become the latest casualty of Congressional gridlock.

We have a unique opportunity for progress. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is the newly elected Speaker of the House. He’s promised to fix dysfunction in Congress and unite lawmakers in support the essentials, things every American can agree are important.

And what’s more essential than voting? Please join our allies at Center for Popular Democracy Action to tell Speaker Ryan how important it is to fix voting rights.

Right now, the Voting Rights Advancement Act can’t even get a full hearing in committee, and if we can’t pass the VRAA soon, it’ll be too late to implement it in time for next year’s election.

This is Speaker Ryan’s first test: if he’s serious about uniting Congress behind the American people’s priorities, getting the Voting Rights Advancement Act passed should be a no-brainer. The right to vote is just too important to be a partisan political football. For decades, legislators crossed the aisle in Congress to protect our most fundamental of constitutional rights; we can get there again.

CLICK HERE to sign the petition at CPD Action: Tell Speaker Paul Ryan to pass the Voting Rights Amendment Act.











NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker