Voter Protection 2012
Make Sure Your Vote Counts
New and restrictive voting laws in states across the country are threatening to keep as many as 5 million voters from casting a ballot this November. Many of these laws remove early access to voting, make it more difficult for citizens to register, or require restrictive photo ID cards that many seniors, minorities and students do not have. Click on the Rock the Vote logo below to register to vote today.
Check out how these misguided laws may impact you in your state and how you can be prepared if anyone tries to limit your right to vote. But there is also good news. Educators nationwide are fighting back and want to make sure that every eligible voter has the opportunity to make his or her ballot count. For example, the Maine Education Association recently supported a ballot measure that struck down legislation that removed same day voter registration in the state.
You can check out an interactive map of voter suppression legislation that has been introduced across the country at LawyersCommittee.org, read Education Votes coverage of the issue below, and sign up here for more resources and information on how you can take action to preserve the right to vote for all Americans.
Voter Protection in the News
Voter Protection Fact Sheets
- The Facts: Protecting Our Right to Choose Leaders
- Requiring Photo ID to Vote: A Solution in Search of a Problem
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Posted April 5th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
I am for photo ID for voting. I’m a teacher and I witnessed neighbors trying to vote more than one time. It is not fair. It doesn’t matter if they are voting for the favorite voting more than once is not honest. I’m proud that my state has photo IDs. The people are complaining are the very people that are afraid that they will not be re=elected for another term.
Posted May 2nd, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Wow! NEA says it is restrictive to require ID to vote! What a shocker! NOT!!! And here I thought our job as educators was to promote good citizens that can think for themselves. A poster supporting Obama was posted in my school from the NEA. Really! That is arrogant at best. I’m forced to be a member and frankly I’m ashamed to tell my friends that I am in the teachers union.
Posted May 13th, 2012 at 11:16 am
Although you claim to be forced to belong to a union, who is forcing you to accept the wages and benefits you would never have without that union?
Posted May 12th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Photo ID is not a bad thing; however, when you decide that it must be a passport photo ID, then you are being voter restrictive. I personally have never seen anyone try to vote more than once, but just like there is “identity theft” there can be photo ID theft. Why do they not want to allow students to use their college photo ID? The idea is to identify the voter, not prevent the registered person from voting. You only see one side of this nefarious deed.