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UPDATE: Good news for voting rights in Connecticut

| July 20, 2012 - 12:12 pm

Tags: 112th Congress, Brendan Sharkey, Cheri Quickmire, Christopher Donovan, Common Cause, Connecticut, Dannel Malloy, demos, Denise Merrill, Donald Williams, Election Day Registration, Hawaii, Martin Looney, Miles Rappaport, Nancy Wyman, Neil Abercrombie, online voter registration, Policy Corner, public policy, Same Day Registration, voter suppression, voting rights

UPDATE: Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut signed HB 5024 on May 31. Governor Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii signed HB 1755 on July 5.

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Good news for voting rights in Connecticut

| May 7, 2012 - 6:00 pm

Tags: 112th Congress, Brendan Sharkey, Cheri Quickmire, Christopher Donovan, Common Cause, Connecticut, Dannel Malloy, demos, Denise Merrill, Donald Williams, Election Day Registration, Hawaii, Martin Looney, Miles Rappaport, Nancy Wyman, online voter registration, Policy Corner, public policy, Same Day Registration, voter suppression, voting rights

The Right to Vote under Attack: The Campaign to Keep Millions of Americans from the Ballot Box, a Right Wing Watch: In Focus report by PFAW Foundation, details the worst of the worst of the Right’s fight to suppress the vote. Many states have indeed taken up this fight with voter ID, proof of citizenship, and other suppressive legislation.

This weekend it was refreshing to see Connecticut buck that trend.

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