Cindy Carr, cindy.carr@sierraclub.org
DETROIT -- Today, the Sierra Club will be launching the largest-ever non-partisan digital voter registration campaign in the organization’s 127 year history. The campaign, called Ready To Vote, will educate the public on their voting rights and register historically disenfranchised voters, including students and young people, and African American and Latinx communities in Michigan. The Sierra Club will run digital ads directing people to check their voter registration and register to vote using the educational tool TurboVote. The campaign will also run in Missouri, Georgia, and Florida.
For additional information on Ready To Vote, visit sierraclub.org/readytovote.
In response, Sierra Club Michigan Chapter Director Gail Philbin released the following statement:
"The Sierra Club Michigan Chapter recognizes the critical importance of a fair and fully representative democracy in the fight to protect the values every Michigander holds dear. Michigan expanded access to the ballot box for thousands of voters by passing Prop 3 in 2018. This ballot measure granted Michiganders same-day voter registration and access to no-reason absentee voting among other things. We now need to make sure as many voters as possible know that voting rights have been expanded.
“We are proud to join the efforts of organizations around the state who are already helping to register thousands of voters. Our work won’t be done until every eligible Michigander has access to the ballot box and a chance to voice their opinions on the top issues of the day, regardless of where they live and how much money they make.”
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