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From CREDO of Working Assets:

Sign our petition for election reform in Massachusetts

Help young and lower-income citizens vote. Stand up and be counted in the petition to Senator Murray.

This year’s most progressive voting reform has almost made it through the Massachusetts legislature. Thanks in large part to pressure from Citizen Activists like you, the Election Day Registration bill may soon become law. But one more hurdle stands in its way.

If you believe in helping young and lower-income citizens vote, stand up and be counted with the Election Day Registration petition.

Election Day Registration would allow an estimated 225,000 more people to vote in Massachusetts elections—a 5% increase. It does this by letting eligible citizens register and vote on Election Day, instead of losing their right to vote if they miss the registration cutoff. Young and lower-income citizens benefit most, since they are often new to the political process or more likely to move around and miss registration deadlines. We always talk about encouraging civic participation among these groups; this is a chance to do something positive about it!

Sen. Therese Murray, the president of the State Senate, now controls the fate of the Election Day Registration bill. She can call for a vote on the bill, or she can effectively kill it by doing nothing. The Governor says he’ll sign the bill, and grassroots lobbying by folks like you has already won over House leadership. Now we need to get over the last hump, by convincing Sen. Murray that she should allow an up-or-down vote on Election Day Registration.

If you want to be counted as a supporter of progressive election reform, sign the petition to Sen. Murray today.

A citizen delegation, organized by our allies at MassVOTE, will hand-deliver this petition to Sen. Murray next week. If you feel strongly about election reform, you are warmly invited to join the delegation. Email or call Luisa Peña at MassVOTE, lpena@massvote.org, 617-542-8683 x205.