Three branches was really a smart call by the founders. https://t.co/cxgrPJx1gu
— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) February 9, 2017
Hey, remember Cole’s Missouri pick, Jason Kander?
Kander had some time on his hands after the election, so he’s started a new gig…
The fight for voting rights has been waged in courts of law. Today it expands to the court of public opinion. https://t.co/GWAKWAjFRQ
— Let America Vote (@Let_AmericaVote) February 7, 2017
… “Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately it’s never been guaranteed for everyone,” Kander said. “But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, in the early 2000s we got to a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so. Today, that progress is in danger as laws targeting low-income and minority voters continue popping up across the country. Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws. For the first time, politicians intent on denying certain Americans the right to vote will first have to consider the political consequences.”
Jason Kander saw the mounting threat of voter suppression first hand when he fought against extreme voter photo identification proposals each of his four years as Missouri’s Secretary of State. Kander argued that over 200,000 legally eligible Missouri voters might not be able to vote if the laws passed, and that there has never been a case of voter impersonation fraud in Missouri, but proponents of the law would not be dissuaded. In 2016, in perhaps the most egregious and transparent act of voter intimidation the state has seen in decades, a local election authority stationed police officers outside polling places in minority neighborhoods. What is happening in Missouri is happening around the country…
Let America Vote, a 527 organization, will also team up with groups that share the mission of preventing voter suppression. iVote President Ellen Kurz will join Let America Vote as a member of the Board, and Kander will join iVote’s Board. Kander will also be joining the Board of Priorities USA in support of Every Citizen Counts, their initiative focused on voting rights litigation and statehouse lobbying. Priorities Chairman Guy Cecil will serve on Let America Vote’s Board.
ICYMI: @JasonKander teams up with @joshearnest, @danpfeiffer, @jonfavs, @WhitfordBradley to fight voter suppressionhttps://t.co/xYOvXuhrbc
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) February 8, 2017