Absentee voting benefits wide range of people, including older adults
By Lynn Kellogg Attacks on absentee voting are just wrong. Absentee voting was created to assure registered voters have a way to vote without physically going to a poll and waiting in line. The President recently voted absentee. Why? Because he’s a busy man and couldn’t get to or take time to get to his […]
Don’t create barriers to ballot access
By Lynn Kellogg We just passed the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This law protects the right to vote and ensures the government will fight efforts to suppress it. Originally aimed to rid the country of rules designed to block voting by Black Americans, for many minorities it signaled the beginning of […]