Over 155 million Americans voted in the 2020 election, resulting in the highest American voter turnout percentage since 1900. Now Republicans are seeking to suppress the vote. In the first half of 2021 alone, over 400 bills have been filed in 49 states to suppress the right to vote: the largest attack on our voting rights since the Jim Crow era. 

In Arizona, Republicans introduced voter suppression measures that would make it extremely onerous to vote absentee/by mail, restricting who can assist voters in delivering absentee ballots, requiring that all mail-in ballots be notarized, and adding a voter ID requirement for returning ballots in person.

In Georgia, Republicans passed a sweeping elections bill that was signed into law, that imposes strict voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes, and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to simply give them food and water. 

In Texas, Republicans have introduced sweeping measures that would ban drive-thru voting, enforce stringent ID requirements, ban the distribution of unsolicited mail-in-ballot applications from local elections officials, and more. 

Jewish Dems reject these cynical voter suppression tactics at the state level and support federal efforts to protect American's right to vote. We reject measures to suppress the vote and urge Congress to pass H.R. 1 and S.1, the For The People Act, which would reform our elections process, The Freedom to Vote Act, a compromise reform bill, and the John Lewis Voting Advancement Rights Act, which would enshrine the full protections of the original Voting Rights Act of 1965. 

It is a deep tradition of American Jews to fight for fair access to the ballot box. We should be making it easier - not harder - for all Americans to cast their ballots.

Sign here to voice your opposition to renewed GOP efforts to suppress the voices of millions of Americans and in favor of protecting our right to vote.