{"id":371,"date":"2023-07-06T13:53:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T17:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/as-states-hunt-for-new-voters-massachusetts-adds-thousands-via-medicaid-applications\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T17:53:31","slug":"as-states-hunt-for-new-voters-massachusetts-adds-thousands-via-medicaid-applications","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/as-states-hunt-for-new-voters-massachusetts-adds-thousands-via-medicaid-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"As states hunt for new voters, Massachusetts adds thousands via Medicaid applications"},"template":"","class_list":["post-371","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-news-clip"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Executive director Geoff Foster talks about the benefits of Massachusetts's automatic voter registration system.","featured_image":"","press_type":155,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"56\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":372}"],"related_issues":[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":"This article <\/span>originally appeared<\/span><\/a> in News from the States on July 6, 2023 and was written by Zachary Roth. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nBelow is executive director Geoff Foster's quote included in the article on Massachusetts's new automatic voter registration system<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u201cWe know there are folks engaging with these state agencies who otherwise aren\u2019t registered to vote, so this is a great way to ensure they\u2019re getting on the voter rolls,\u201d said Geoff Foster, the executive director of Common Cause Massachusetts, which played a key role in getting the state\u2019s Medicaid AVR system passed.\r\n\r\n\u201cAVR was a huge win to address \u2026 the disconnect keeping a certain part of our population who are otherwise eligible to vote from getting on the voter rolls. 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