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LWVIL Communication: Take Action on "For The People" Act

7/17/2021

 
This announcement was adapted from an email from the President of the Illinois League of Women Voters (LWVIL), July 16, 2021. See the LWVIL website Action Alerts page for other suggestions on taking action. 
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In a recent speech about challenges to voting rights, President Biden said, “I’m not saying this to alarm you, I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”

The League of Women Voters of Illinois is alarmed. I am alarmed, are you?

I am alarmed because across our country state legislatures are passing bills which are anti-voter, enacting laws which restrict voting opportunities, disproportionality suppressing the votes of certain groups of people. The health of our democracy depends on more voters, not fewer.

What’s the answer? It is the For the People Act - a federal bill which establishes national standards that will guarantee the freedom to vote for every voter in the country. Why? Because your right to vote and your access to the ballot should be the same in every state in our country. 

Each of us must act to protect our democracy. We all have two jobs:
  1. Tell our senators 
  2. Share the information and activate our networks.
Our Senators need to know that we support the For the People Act, and that we expect them to keep up the pressure to get it passed. Call or email and tell them exactly that. Today. 
Senator Durbin:
  • Washington DC: 202-224-2152
  • Email: https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email
Senator Duckworth:
  • Washington DC: 202-224-2854
  • Email: https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/connect/email-tammy
Share and activate. Tell everyone the For the People Act is crucial. Our freedom to vote is at stake. Our democracy is at stake. 

Be the trusted source of information for your friends, your family, your neighbors, your faith group, your book club … call, write, send emails, share LWVIL’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter messages. Ask people to do the same. Everyone needs to know how important this is, and everyone needs to take action.   We all need the For the People Act

Allyson E. Haut, Ph.D. President, League of Women Voters of Illinois 

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