Category: VoteRiders Blog

VoteRiders Receives $100,000 Grant to Expand Voter ID Work in Arizona

October 19, 2021 — Nation’s Leading Voter ID Education and Assistance Nonprofit Receives Grant from BridgeTogether.

VoteRiders Announces Lauren Kunis As New Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer

JULY 20 – Nation’s Leading Voter ID Education and Assistance Nonprofit Welcomes Lauren Kunis as New Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer and Expands Services and Resources to Empower All Eligible Voters to Cast Their Ballot

Vote with Pride

VoteRiders and HeadCount launch #TransPeopleVote, helping transgender and non-binary voters get the IDs they need to vote. In observance of Pride Month 2021, VoteRiders and HeadCount’s Vote With Pride initiative launched the Trans People Vote campaign to help transgender and non-binary voters around the country get the IDs they need to vote. HeadCount is a […]

Engaging Campus Communities

Guest Post by Amy Ludwig, Executive Director of CEEP – “Access to voting is just as important as knowing who and what to vote for,” stated Campus Election Engagement Project’s Florida State University 2020 Fall Fellow Travis Waters. Travis Waters was instrumental this past fall in helping FSU place a signature strip on the back […]

Digging Deep in North Carolina

Today, proper identification is critical for Americans to be able to vote. However, having that precious ID can also be the passport to changing an individual’s life for the better, in important and unexpected ways. Randy is one such person. Randy lived on the street and faced the common barriers that people experiencing homelessness have […]

#Ham4Progress IG Live with Darnell Abraham

We’re always inspired by our Hamilton Musical ambassadors and so proud to be part of the Ham4Progress initiative! VoteRiders’ National Volunteer Manager Sylvester Johnson III went live on Instagram to celebrate Black History Month with the incomparable Darnell Abraham! Check out a recording of their full conversation below– getting into how voter ID laws impact […]

Volunteer Julie Ann Winkelstein Brings VoteRiders to Libraries

The nation’s libraries often serve their communities by providing basic voter information to help people get registered. Now, volunteer and activist librarian Julie Ann Winkelstein is helping librarians offer citizens with the resources they need to make sure their votes count. Inspired by viewing “Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook,” Winkelstein helped arrange and promote a […]

Souls to the Polls Milwaukee — A Success Story

The 2020 election saw a record number of voters turning out to cast their ballots despite the obstacles of a pandemic and new voter ID laws. One of the biggest success stories in voter education came out of Wisconsin, where Anita Johnson of VoteRiders and the Souls to the Polls organization worked with local churches […]

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Q&A with Galaxy Theatres CEO Frank Rimkus

Galaxy Theatres is a fully-integrated movie theatre company. Privately owned, it is ranked by size in the top 8% of its industry and currently has theatres in Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas and Washington. As Galaxy’s theatres re-opened this election season, VoteRiders’ Public Service Announcements (PSAs) ran on screen before each show. Frank J. Rimkus is […]