Democratic Voices

Communication Focus Group

Your voice and opinions are powerful. As a voter you enjoy more persuasive ability to influence a member of Congress than a lobbyist in Washington. It is not ONLY your right, but your duty to make contact with your legislatures. 

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Weekly Message

Perseverance

What's it going to take to win in 2021 and beyond

Way back in the summer of 2019, I wrote for this group an article "What It's Going to Take to Win 2020". I thought it might be useful to look back and see what worked and didn't work based on 2020 election results as a way to look ahead.

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              by Bibiana (Bibie) Boerio

Constitutional Corner

The Right to Vote and Voter Suppression

In the ongoing struggle to secure voting rights, March is an appropriate time to highlight women's fight to secure and claim their franchise. The theme of 2021 Women's History Month, "Refusing to be Silenced," typifies the character of the determined women who fought for the right to vote. The National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton, was organized to push for a constitutional amendment to champion women's right to vote. The nineteenth amendment did not guarantee full voting rights to all women. Discriminatory state voting laws blocked African American and other minority women from voting. Forty-five years later, the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act declared that all women were free to vote. When a group does not agree with voting results, they need to limit access. Over one hundred bills, promoting a flurry of restrictions designed to restrict access to voting, are now winding through 28 states including Pennsylvania. As a side note: section 2 of Amendment XV and Amendment XIX state that Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. 

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            by Barbara Shrump