After more than two years as an Arizona State University student, 24-year-old Rebecca Tindle was tired of getting questioned whenever she tried to vote with her out-of-state ID. Arizona law permits a voter to use an out-of-state ID as long as they also have another ID with an address that reasonably matches their voter registration. […]
Read MoreVoteRiders is offering expanded assistance to citizens in Ohio who need an ID to vote, now that one of the most onerous voter ID laws in the nation has gone into effect. Ohio became the eighth state to adopt a strict voter photo ID law after the Ohio Legislature passed HB 458 during the end-of-year, […]
Read MoreThroughout 2022, a small army of dedicated volunteers helped VoteRiders reach voters from Alaska to Florida through local radio stations with public service announcements about their state’s voter ID laws. For the year, these volunteers got 389 agreements to run PSAs on 228 unique stations across the country. This is their story. The volunteers, calling […]
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Carolina fled an abusive relationship that left her with broken ribs, a punctured left lung and destroyed belongings — including her state identification. After a six-day stay at a hospital in Florida, Carolina left with a doctor’s prescription for pain medication, but no pharmacy could dispense the pills unless she presented her ID. She was also […]
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Georgia has some of the strictest voter ID laws in the country, and they became even stricter following the passage of a new voting law in 2021. For this reason, the Peach State has been a priority for VoteRiders the entire year and for many years before that. And ahead of this week’s U.S. Senate […]
Read MoreAs we turn our attention to the runoff election in Georgia as well as the work ahead for the 2024 presidential elections, I thought I’d share with you three lessons from the midterms at this critical moment for both our voter ID work and its impact on our democracy. 1. Voter ID laws are causing […]
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Transgender voters face significant barriers getting to the ballot box to cast a vote that counts. Chanel Riser’s story illustrates the variety of problems the transgender community continues to experience in legally changing their names and getting an ID to vote that reflects their chosen name and gender. Chanel — a 38-year-old hair stylist living […]
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Eleven states will be enforcing new or stricter voter ID laws in 2022, potentially catching unsuspecting voters by surprise. In all, 36 states have some type of voter ID law on the books, some stricter than others. If you get rejected at the polls because you don’t have an acceptable ID, don’t despair! There are […]
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Tracy Pease — VoteRiders’ Detroit Organizer — first learned the importance of organizing when she started going to union meetings with her father at the early age of six. After spending years of working as a volunteer organizer while juggling employment as a door-to-door salesperson and then a restaurant server, Tracy officially began her professional organizing […]
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