My Vote My Right

My Vote, My Right, the AFL-CIO’s voter protection and education program, is a nonpartisan effort to raise awareness on voting rights, educate voters on new voting laws, and ensure voters are able to vote fairly and without intimidation—and that those votes are counted. Check out these resources to protect your right to vote.

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Voting rights vary by state. Find out what you need to bring to the polls in order to cast your ballot.

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America was founded on the principle that we're created equal and voting is the one time when we all have the same say.  It wasn't always this way.

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Judge Orders Virginia Voter Registration to Reopen Through Friday

October 19, 2016 | ThinkProgress

A federal judge has ordered voter registration in Virginia reopened through midnight Friday, October 21, due to a failure of the state's registration website earlier this week.

Court Forces Ohio to Allow Most Illegally Purged Voters to Cast Ballots

October 19, 2016 | ThinkProgress

A federal district court ruled on October 19, 2016, that Ohio must allow most of the voters illegally purged from the rolls to vote in this year’s presidential election using provisional ballots. “If those who were unlawfully removed from the voter rolls are not allowed to vote, then the Secretary of State is continuing to to disenfranchise voters in violation of federal law,” Judge George Smith warned..

Judge Clears Way for Election Day Registration in Illinois Polling Places

October 4, 2016 | Chicago Sun-Times

A federal appellate judge halted a lower court judge’s decision to bar Election Day voter registration in polling places, after the Illinois Attorney General’s office argued last week that the statute doesn’t inhibit, but enhances the right to vote.

North Carolina Elections Board Settles Fight Over Voting Guidelines

September 9, 2016 | The New York Times

North Carolina’s state elections board settled a deeply partisan battle over this fall’s election rules on Thursday, largely rejecting a Republican-led effort to write local voting guidelines that would limit Democratic turnout in a political battleground state.

Federal Judge Bars North Dakota From Enforcing Restrictive Voter ID Law

August 2, 2016 | The New York Times

A federal judge barred North Dakota from enforcing the state’s strict voter identification-card law, adding to several recent federal court rulings that such laws may disenfranchise minority voters. The judge issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which he said had made it difficult and sometimes impossible for some Native Americans on rural reservations to cast ballots.

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