Voter Initiative Supports Making it Easier to People to Vote During Coronavirus Pandemic
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 -- 9:39 AM
(AP) -A voter initiative led by Michelle Obama announced support Monday for making it easier for people to register to vote and cast ballots during the coronavirus pandemic.When We All Vote, a nonpartisan voting initiative, says Americans should have greater access to voting by mail, early in-person voting and online voter registration. The announcement follows last week’s primary election in Wisconsin, where thousands of people waited hours in line, without protective gear and in defiance of orders to stay home, after the state Supreme Court overturned the governor’s order to postpone the vote as more than a dozen other states have done because of the pandemic.
Thousands of other Wisconsin voters, unwilling to risk their health, stayed home. When We All Vote’s announcement also comes amid vociferous opposition by the President to mail-in voting, even though he and some of his family just recently voted by mail. The former first lady, a co-chair of the organization, said expanding access to vote-by-mail, online voter registration and early voting are long overdue “critical steps for this moment.”
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