Arizona and Texas are both voter-suppression states.
Arizona is really weird because your driver's license doesn't expire until age 65, but if you use your license as your photo ID to vote at the polls, and your address differs from what your license shows (even if what's online is correct), you need 2 other pieces of mail with your name on them as proof of residency in order to vote.
Super complicated. The other pieces of mail have to be bills or bank statements. If you aren't the person in the household getting the bills, and if your bank convinced you to switch to electronic statements, you're basically hosed.
That experience has made me paranoid about always ensuring I receive paper bills with my name on them, everywhere else I've lived.
In Texas there seems to be a strategy of not talking about election dates, and obscuring information about where to go to vote, and obscuring information about candidates and other measures to reduce confidence about voting.
Also, super terrible information about what to bring with you to the DMV, and exceptionally long lines once you're there.
Here's a list of groups that have partnered with Pizza to the Polls, which might be a starting point for organizations to work with: https://polls.pizza/partners
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Date: 2025-04-06 06:36 pm (UTC)Arizona is really weird because your driver's license doesn't expire until age 65, but if you use your license as your photo ID to vote at the polls, and your address differs from what your license shows (even if what's online is correct), you need 2 other pieces of mail with your name on them as proof of residency in order to vote.
Super complicated. The other pieces of mail have to be bills or bank statements. If you aren't the person in the household getting the bills, and if your bank convinced you to switch to electronic statements, you're basically hosed.
That experience has made me paranoid about always ensuring I receive paper bills with my name on them, everywhere else I've lived.
In Texas there seems to be a strategy of not talking about election dates, and obscuring information about where to go to vote, and obscuring information about candidates and other measures to reduce confidence about voting.
Also, super terrible information about what to bring with you to the DMV, and exceptionally long lines once you're there.
Here's a list of groups that have partnered with Pizza to the Polls, which might be a starting point for organizations to work with:
https://polls.pizza/partners