Voting Rights Act
From Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
passed in 1965, the Voting Rights Act (VRA) protects the voting rights of all voters, no matter your race, gender, or ethnicity. There are sections of the VRA that are permanent such as Section 2 which prohibits racial discrimination in voting. But others, like Section 5 and 203 must be renewed by Congress every 10 years. Section 5 and 203 are particularly important for immigrant communities. Firstly, Section 5 requires jurisdictions to get approval from federal government before implementing any changes in voting laws. Section 5 is applied to specific jurisdictions in the U.S., most in the southern states that have had a history of voter discrimination and intimidation. Section 203 requires eligible jurisdictions to provide language assistance to voters.
Movement-Building Electoral Organizing: Dictionary of Terms
- Electoral organizing, Movement-building electoral organizing, Immigrant-focused electoral campaign, Traditional electoral campaign, Work plans
- Issue advocacy, Issue, Direct-action organizing, Lobbying, Constituency target, Decision-maker target
- Media campaign, Media hits
- Voter advocacy, Voting Rights Act, Poll monitoring, Election day activities
- GOTV, Contact, GOTV target list, Phone banking, Precinct, Precinct walking, Raps or scripts, Robo calls
- Science of numbers, Voter turnout, Win number, Consistent voters, Infrequent voters, Swing voters, Expected voters, Base voters
- Evaluation, Tracking, Voter matching, Treatment and control, Exit polling
- Voter files or lists, Universe, Voter targeting, Voter modeling, Voter identification
- Voter technology, Voter Activation Network (VAN), Catalist
- Census, Naturalization, Political education, Training, Volunteer/member recruitment
- Absentee ballot, Poll
