Fund Free Elections

In a healthy country our elections would be fair, free and funded. We get there by funding the groups working for that future. From voter registration to legal challenges for questionable outcomes, it all takes time and money. Today, we donate: the price of a coffee, a dinner, or a night at the Opera : whatever you can afford.

Vote, vote, vote!

How to do it:

From gerrymandering to registration and ballot challenges, the right funds extensive efforts to reduce turnout. We have to fight back one race and one ballot at a time. That takes time and money. Here are a few charities we’ve vetted that could use help:

Vote.org maintains useful tools to help voters register, check voter status, remember deadlines, or track their ballot. These tools are linked from thousands of discussions about enfranchisement, including multiple posts on this site.

The League of Women Voters is a time-honored feminist voting rights group with overlap to other minority voting drives. They engage in GOTV (get out the vote) and ballot-guide work.

The League of Minority Voters is a bipartisan voting rights group that focuses on issues that affect minority voters and recent immigrants. They lean left of late, as you might imagine.

Sunrise Movement is a hybrid direct-action, legislative pressure group. They were behind the Green New Deal elements Biden included in his renewal bill, helped elect AOC, and take a radical yet practical approach to voting. e.g. they pressured Harris for progressive platforms, then pivoted to pressure members to turn out and vote for her anyway. They are arguably the most effective youth-turnout machine today, taking an issues-forward, pragmatic approach.

The Election Protection Hub offers practical legal and technical support to local elections officials, with a focus on defending minority or other disenfranchised community access to elections.

The ACLU is the premier legal defender of Democracy in America. They’re always a safe choice.

Charity Navigator’s recommendations for other top-rated voting rights groups.

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