This Tuesday, activists across the country will be rallying to demand that Congress, and especially the U.S. Senate, take action to “Secure Our Votes.”
“Secure Our Votes” Rally
Tuesday, 9/17
12:30 PM
601 W. Broadway
In Kentucky, the rally will be at 12:30 PM (Eastern) in Louisville at 601 West Broadway, right outside of Senator Mitch McConnell’s office. The call will be for Senator McConnell to take a vote on the bills already passed by the House to provide extra funding for election security.
This event is hosted by Democracy Is For People, a group dedicated to overturning the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and getting money out of politics. Democracy Is For People is part of Public Citizen, a democracy advocacy group that has been working to improve our democracy for over 40 years.
As noted by IndivisibleKY in their call to attend the rally:
The entire national security community agrees that election interference in 2016 was only a preview of what’s to come unless Congress acts. Yet the Senate has failed to move forward with critical election security funding for states.
Mitch McConnell is trying to prevent our nation from taking action on Election Security, but due to popular outcry we have a chance to win $600 million to secure our elections by replacing election machines with paper ballots in the next Congressional appropriations whose deadline is October 1.
The House recently passed HR 3351, which would allocate $600 million to states so that they can update electronic voting equipment with systems that use verifiable paper ballots.
To learn more about the rally on Tuesday, and to sign up, visit the event’s Facebook page.