{"id":230,"date":"2022-06-08T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/votes-act-released-from-conference-committee\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T14:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:00:28","slug":"votes-act-released-from-conference-committee","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/pt\/press\/votos-ato-liberado-do-comite-de-conferencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lei VOTES liberada pelo Comit\u00ea de Confer\u00eancia"},"template":"","class_list":["post-230","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"The Massachusetts VOTES Act Conference Committee today released its version of the comprehensive election reform bill, which will now head to the House and Senate for final procedural votes before being sent to Governor Baker\u2019s desk.","featured_image":6117,"press_type":146,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":7814}"],"related_issues":[98,99,100,107,109,462],"related_work":false,"location":24},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><b><i>Defensores dos direitos de voto aplaudem o progresso no projeto de lei de vota\u00e7\u00e3o abrangente<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boston, MA \u2014 O Comit\u00ea de Confer\u00eancia do Massachusetts VOTES Act divulgou hoje <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/S2924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sua vers\u00e3o<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> do projeto de lei abrangente de reforma eleitoral, que agora seguir\u00e1 para a C\u00e2mara e o Senado para vota\u00e7\u00f5es processuais finais antes de ser enviado \u00e0 mesa do governador Baker.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defensores dos direitos de voto, grupos de interesse p\u00fablico e uma rede de organiza\u00e7\u00f5es estaduais e locais elogiaram a legisla\u00e7\u00e3o avan\u00e7ada pelos conferencistas da C\u00e2mara e do Senado hoje. O projeto de lei, An Act Fostering Voting Opportunities, Trust, Equity, and Security ou VOTES Act, \u00e9 a maior expans\u00e3o do acesso ao voto na Comunidade de Massachusetts em anos.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Lei VOTES far\u00e1 v\u00e1rias mudan\u00e7as permanentes nas leis eleitorais de Massachusetts, incluindo: permitir que os eleitores votem pelo correio sem uma desculpa; expandir as op\u00e7\u00f5es de vota\u00e7\u00e3o antecipada; garantir que os eleitores qualificados que est\u00e3o presos possam solicitar uma c\u00e9dula de vota\u00e7\u00e3o pelo correio e votar; e garantir que a Comunidade se junte aos 30 estados <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ericstates.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Centro de Informa\u00e7\u00f5es de Registro Eletr\u00f4nico<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (ERIC) para manter os registros de eleitores atualizados; e mais. O projeto de lei tamb\u00e9m reduz o per\u00edodo de bloqueio de registro de eleitores antes de uma elei\u00e7\u00e3o de vinte para dez dias.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Os conferencistas retiraram do projeto de lei final uma reforma popular aprovada pelo Senado que permitiria aos eleitores se registrar e votar no dia da elei\u00e7\u00e3o e nos dias de vota\u00e7\u00e3o antecipada.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Lei VOTES, patrocinada pelo Representante Estadual John Lawn e pela Senadora Cindy Creem, \u00e9 fortemente apoiada pela Coaliz\u00e3o de Moderniza\u00e7\u00e3o Eleitoral de Massachusetts, uma coaliz\u00e3o de organiza\u00e7\u00f5es de defesa que trabalham para modernizar as leis eleitorais da Comunidade.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEstamos animados que o VOTES Act est\u00e1 a um passo de se tornar lei. Gostar\u00edamos de agradecer ao Presidente do Senado Spilka e ao Presidente Mariano por fazerem dos direitos de voto uma prioridade nesta sess\u00e3o legislativa e ao Presidente John Lawn e ao L\u00edder da Maioria do Senado Creem por sua lideran\u00e7a como patrocinadores\u201d, disse <\/span><b>Geoff Foster, Diretor Executivo da Common Cause Massachusetts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cEstamos ansiosos para ver o governador sancionar o projeto de lei.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&quot;O voto por correio e o voto antecipado presencial tornaram o processo eleitoral mais f\u00e1cil e seguro durante a pandemia e devem continuar a melhorar a participa\u00e7\u00e3o nas nossas elei\u00e7\u00f5es. A Liga aplaude a Assembleia Legislativa por tornar estas reformas permanentes e encoraja os legisladores a continuarem a melhorar o acesso \u00e0s urnas, abordando o registo de eleitores no mesmo dia da vota\u00e7\u00e3o na pr\u00f3xima sess\u00e3o&quot;, afirmou. <\/span><b>Patricia Comfort, Diretora Executiva, Liga das Eleitoras de Massachusetts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCom a aprova\u00e7\u00e3o do VOTES Act, agora \u00e9 a hora de dobrar nosso compromisso com a equidade. Isso significa garantir que pessoas de cor, trabalhadores horistas, cidad\u00e3os naturalizados e locat\u00e1rios possam usar a vota\u00e7\u00e3o pelo correio e a vota\u00e7\u00e3o antecipada neste outono. \u00c9 por isso que estamos lan\u00e7ando iniciativas de educa\u00e7\u00e3o eleitoral em comunidades de cor e bairros de classe trabalhadora em toda a Comunidade\u201d, disse <\/span><b>Beth Huang, Diretora Executiva da Mesa de Eleitores de Massachusetts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, uma coaliz\u00e3o de organiza\u00e7\u00f5es comunit\u00e1rias. \u201cDobrar nosso compromisso com a equidade tamb\u00e9m significa que continuaremos nossos esfor\u00e7os para aprovar o registro no mesmo dia em 2023. O registro no mesmo dia reduziria as barreiras ao registro para locat\u00e1rios, que s\u00e3o desproporcionalmente pessoas de cor em um estado com uma lacuna racial crescente na propriedade de im\u00f3veis.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cO voto \u00e9 a pedra angular da nossa democracia e o direito fundamental sobre o qual assentam todas as nossas liberdades civis\u201d, afirmou <\/span><b>Carol Rose, Diretora Executiva da ACLU de Massachusetts.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cEm um momento em que tantos outros direitos est\u00e3o sob ataque em todo o pa\u00eds, Massachusetts deve fazer tudo o que puder para fortalecer nossa democracia e melhorar o acesso \u00e0s urnas. Somos gratos que a lideran\u00e7a legislativa tenha feito disso uma prioridade para avan\u00e7ar essas reformas de vota\u00e7\u00e3o nesta sess\u00e3o, e esperamos continuar a parceria em Beacon Hill para garantir que todos os Bay Staters eleg\u00edveis que queiram votar possam faz\u00ea-lo.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cComo todos aprendemos nos \u00faltimos anos, a vota\u00e7\u00e3o pode ter um aspecto diferente em diferentes estados\u201d, observou <\/span><b>Janet Domenitz, Diretora Executiva da MASSPIRG<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cNossa coaliz\u00e3o quer que Massachusetts esteja no topo \u2013 com acesso, efici\u00eancia e sistemas modernos. Com este projeto de lei, damos um passo mais perto.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&quot;H\u00e1 tr\u00eas anos, antes da pandemia de COVID-19, nenhum de n\u00f3s imaginava que o voto por correio e a amplia\u00e7\u00e3o da vota\u00e7\u00e3o presencial antecipada seriam uma realidade em Massachusetts&quot;, disse<\/span><b> Vanessa Snow, Diretora de Pol\u00edticas e Organiza\u00e7\u00e3o da MassVOTE<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&quot;Mas tr\u00eas anos depois, ap\u00f3s ambas as pol\u00edticas se mostrarem imensamente populares durante a pandemia, estamos entusiasmados em ver a legislatura dar mais um passo rumo \u00e0 implementa\u00e7\u00e3o permanente dessas reformas. Lamentamos que o Registro Eleitoral no Dia da Elei\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o esteja inclu\u00eddo na vers\u00e3o final do projeto, mas lutaremos incansavelmente por essa reforma nos pr\u00f3ximos anos, pois sabemos que ela \u00e9 uma das ferramentas mais eficazes para aumentar a participa\u00e7\u00e3o eleitoral entre as comunidades negras e pardas, de baixa renda e imigrantes.&quot;<\/span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">----------<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Coaliz\u00e3o para Moderniza\u00e7\u00e3o Eleitoral \u00e9 composta pela Common Cause Massachusetts, ACLU de Massachusetts, Liga das Mulheres Eleitoras de Massachusetts, MassVOTE, Mesa de Eleitores de Massachusetts, MASSPIRG e Advogados pelos Direitos Civis.<\/span><\/i><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VOTES Act Released from Conference Committee - 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