vote by emily

"There is a need for a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society. For its very survival’s sake, America must reexamine old presuppositions and release itself from many things that for centuries have been held sacred. For the evils of racism, poverty and militarism to die, a new set of values must be born. Our economy must become more person-centered than property- and profit-centered. Our government must depend more on its moral power than on its military power. Let us, therefore, not think of our movement as one that seeks to integrate the Negro into all the existing values of American society. Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny, to a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humaneness.”
- Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

2031
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/who-counts/in-indiana-extreme-gerrymandering-and-low-voter-turnout-go-hand-in-hand/

“Our elected officials have chosen their constituents instead of the constituents choosing their elected officials...

...Christopher Warshaw, a George Washington University professor hired by Women4Change to analyze Indiana’s district maps, found the maps used by the state from 2012 through 2022 to be more biased towards one party — in Indiana’s case the Republican party — than 95% of the maps drawn nationwide over the past 50 years. Republicans, who have long held the majority in the Indiana statehouse, drew new maps in 2021 that will be used in the 2022 elections. In a preliminary study, Warshaw found those maps to “have historically extreme levels of partisan bias...

...Indiana has some of the lowest voter participation rates in the country, and Shahid said the way the state chooses its elected officials is the root issue at the heart of voters’ concerns, no matter the party."

Inside Missississippi Voting Rights Battle
youtu.be/Y1o0zy8Ywlg

www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/voting-rights-restoration/disenfranchisement-laws

vote
www.vote411.org

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