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La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 03:01 PM Feb 2017

Jason Kander has started his own organization to expand voting

https://www.letamericavote.org/

Join and Donate if you can (i am not being paid to say this), but I like Kander and voting rights are SEVERELY under attack.


Leading the fight for voting rights.

We have a voting problem in America. Voting in our country has never been easy, but there’s a new challenge: Politicians are now trying to stop Americans from voting because of who they are likely voting for in an election. Extreme voter suppression laws that disproportionally impact people based on their race or ethnicity, gender, age, or income have started popping up all over the country, and if we don’t fight back, more and more Americans will become disenfranchised.

Over the past decade, momentum has gone dangerously in the wrong direction. Jason Kander started Let America Vote to fight back against proposals across the country that make it harder for eligible voters to exercise their constitutional right to cast a ballot. Whether it’s extreme identification requirements, questionable purges of voter rolls, voter intimidation, new and extreme voter registration processes, or anything that makes voting harder, Let America Vote will be there to lead the way against it.

The full website for Let America Vote is coming soon. Until then, you can learn more here: http://bit.ly/2jZo2OG
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Jason Kander has started his own organization to expand voting (Original Post) La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 OP
I like this guy a lot RockaFowler Feb 2017 #1
+1 La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 #2
I am liking this guy a lot! logosoco Feb 2017 #3
me too La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 #4
Already joined and donated! ananda Feb 2017 #5
yay La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 #6
Kander was my favorite candidate running for the Senate this past year. PatsFan87 Feb 2017 #7
i like Kander too. He's not my fav, but he's up there La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2017 #8

PatsFan87

(368 posts)
7. Kander was my favorite candidate running for the Senate this past year.
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 03:45 PM
Feb 2017

In a state that Hillary lost by 20, he lost by less than 3. And he did so without having to abandon talking about gay rights, women's rights, Black Lives Matter, etc. It shows our party that we don't need to act like Republicans to win in red/purple states. We just need likable candidates and strong messengers.

Also, I wish Dems recruited more veterans to run. Kander and Duckworth are both awesome.

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