EMILYs List Condemns Attacks on Voting Rights on National Voter Registration Day

For Immediate Release
September 28, 2021

EMILYs List Condemns Attacks on Voting Rights on National Voter Registration Day

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, celebrated our democracy on National Voter Registration Day. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:
  
“EMILYs List is proud to stand with the volunteers and organizations today who are raising awareness for the urgent need for Americans to stay engaged in their communities and make sure they are registered to vote. With an unprecedented number of bills designed to strip away our voting rights this year, it is more important than ever to check the voting guidelines in your district and make sure your registration is up to date. Our rights as Americans will be on the ballot, from voting rights to access to abortion services and I encourage everyone to make sure that they are registered to make their voices heard. 

“EMILYs List is proud of our Democratic pro-choice women who are fighting to defend access to the ballot box, particularly for communities of color that are being overtly targeted in state legislatures across the country.”

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 158 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.