{"id":179,"date":"2020-05-19T15:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/advisory-press-conference-11am-tomorrow-wednesday-may-20-on-urgency-of-passing-hd-5075-to-allow-vote-by-mail-in-fall-elections\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:04:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:04:28","slug":"advisory-press-conference-11am-tomorrow-wednesday-may-20-on-urgency-of-passing-hd-5075-to-allow-vote-by-mail-in-fall-elections","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/advisory-press-conference-11am-tomorrow-wednesday-may-20-on-urgency-of-passing-hd-5075-to-allow-vote-by-mail-in-fall-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"ADVISORY: Press Conference 11am TOMORROW\/Wednesday, May 20 on Urgency of Passing HD 5075 to Allow Vote by Mail in Fall Elections"},"template":"","class_list":["post-179","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":"","press_type":146,"authors":[null,null],"related_issues":[98,108,109,462],"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":"\"\"<\/a>\r\nMedia are invited to attend an online press conference with the Election Modernization Coalition and endorsers of HD 5075. The bill will enable safe, accessible and secure voting in the fall elections and is supported by over 100 Massachusetts organizations.\r\n\r\nWHO<\/strong>: Voting rights organizations including Common Cause Massachusetts, MassVOTE, the League of Women Voters, and the ACLU of Massachusetts, and Associate Professor and Chair of the Government Department, Suffolk University.\r\n\r\nWHAT<\/strong>: Press conference on support for vote by mail in Massachusetts and HD 5075, An Act Ensuring Safe and Participatory 2020 State Elections in Response to COVID-19.\r\n\r\nWHEN<\/strong>: Wednesday, May 20th, starting at 11am. Speakers are expected to give five minutes of remarks, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A from the press. May 20 is 104 days before Primary Day.\r\n\r\nWHERE<\/strong>: Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/9258425972\r\n\r\nMeeting ID: 925 842 5972\r\nOne tap mobile\r\n+13126266799,,9258425972# US (Chicago)\r\n+19294362866,,9258425972# US (New York)\r\n\r\nWHY<\/strong>: HD.5075 includes needed reforms for safe and accessible elections and has been endorsed by over 100 organizations since it was filed by Representatives Michael Moran and John Lawn. Lead Senate co-sponsors include Senators Eric Lesser, Adam Hinds, and Harriette Chandler. https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/191\/HD5075\r\nMore on support for the bill is available here:\r\nhttps:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/resource\/sign-on-testimony-in-support-of-hd-5075-an-act-ensuring-safe-and-participatory-2020-state-elections-in-response-to-covid-19\/\r\n\r\nOrganizations endorsing HD 5075 include:<\/strong>\r\nCommon Cause Massachusetts\r\nThe ACLU of Massachusetts\r\nThe League of Women Voters of Massachusetts\r\nMASSPIRG\r\nMassVOTE\r\nMassachusetts Voter Table\r\nLawyers for Civil Rights\r\n1199SEIU Massachusetts\r\nAction for Equity\r\nAlternatives for Community and Environment\r\nAmerican Federation of Teachers-MA\r\nAmerican Promise\r\nArise for Social Justice\r\nBerkshire Democratic Brigades\r\nBlack Boston COVID19 Coalition\r\nBlack Directors' Network\r\nBlack Economic Justistic Institute\r\nBlack Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Inc.\r\nBoston Democratic Socialists of America\r\nBoston Ten Point Coalition\r\nBoston Ujima Project\r\nBridge Action Network for Democracy (BAND)\r\nBurlington Democratic Town Committee\r\nCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.\r\nCambridge Area Stronger Together (CAST)\r\nCharles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice\r\nChelsea Collaborative\r\nChilmark Democratic Town Committee\r\nCity Life Vida Urbana\r\nCity Mission, Inc.\r\nClean Water Action MA\r\nClimate Action Now, Western Mass\r\nCoalition for Social Justice\r\nCodman Square NDC\r\nConservation Law Foundation\r\nCriminal Justice Reform Task Force of Congregation Dorshei Tzedek\r\nDemocratic Policy Center\r\nDudley Street Neighborhood Initiative - DSNI\r\nEnd Mass Incarceration Together\r\nEnvironmental League of Massachusetts\r\nEqual Citizens\r\nForwardMA\r\nFour Freedoms Coalition\r\nFranklin County Continuing the Political Revolution\r\nFreedom House\r\nGarrison Trotter Neighborhood Association\r\nGeneration Citizen Massachusetts\r\nGreater Boston Nazarene Compassionate Center Inc.\r\nGreater Boston Section-National Council of Negro Women\r\nIndivisible Martha's Vineyard\r\nIndivisible Mass Coalition\r\nIndivisible Northampton\r\nIndivisible Outer Cape\r\niVOTE\r\nJetpac\r\nJewish Alliance for Law and Social Action\r\nJewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston\r\nLa Comunidad, Inc\r\nLift+Every+Vote\r\nMA Association of Community Development Corporations\r\nMadison Park Development Corporation\r\nMAPS-Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers\r\nMarch For Our Lives: Massachusetts\r\nMass Alliance of HUD Tenants\r\nMass Communities Action Network\r\nMass Equality\r\nMassachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance\r\nMassachusetts Against Solitary Confinement\r\nMassachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition\r\nMassachusetts Law Reform Institute\r\nMassachusetts Peace Action\r\nMassachusetts Women of Color Coalition\r\nMASSCreative\r\nMental Health Legal Advisors Committee\r\nMITvote\r\nNAACP- New England Area Conference\r\nNAACP-Boston Branch\r\nNational Association of Social Workers, MA Chapter\r\nNeighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts\r\nNew England United for Justice\r\nNext Leadership Development Corporation\r\nNonprofit Vote\r\nPHENOM\r\nPlanned Parenthood\r\nPleasant Hill Baptist Church\r\nPrince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts\r\nProgressive Democrats of Massachusetts\r\nProgressive For Democracy in America\r\nProgressive Massachusetts\r\nProject R.I.G.H.T.\r\nProviders\u2019 Council- CareVote\r\nQuincy Geneva New Vision CDC\r\nRacial Justice Rising\r\nReclaim Our Democracy\r\nRight to the City Boston\r\nRosie's Place\r\nShana Bryant Consulting Services\r\nSierra Club Massachusetts Chapter\r\nSmall Planet Institute\r\nSomerville Democratic City Committee\r\nSunrise Movement Boston\r\nThe Equal Democracy Project at Harvard Law School\r\nThe Real Cost of Prisons Project\r\nThe Women's Pipeline for Change\r\nToxics Action Center\r\nTransformative Culture Project\r\nUnion of Minority Neighborhoods\r\nUnitarian Universalist Mass Action\r\nVoter Choice for Massachusetts 2020\r\nWorcester Interfaith\r\nYoung Democrats of Massachusetts\r\nYWCA Cambridge\r\nYWCA Malden\r\nYWCA Southeastern Massachusetts\r\n\r\n###\r\n\r\nThe Election Modernization Coalition is comprised of the ACLU of Massachusetts, Common Cause Massachusetts, the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, MASSPIRG, MassVOTE, and the Massachusetts Voter Table.<\/em>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Download the Advisory<\/a> "}}]},"yoast_head":"\nADVISORY: Press Conference 11am TOMORROW\/Wednesday, May 20 on Urgency of Passing HD 5075 to Allow Vote by Mail in Fall Elections - 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