Leading National Voter Registration Group Refutes Claims by South Dakota Secretary of State

May 14th, 2008

WVWV’s mailing to 24,769 likely unregistered voters in South Dakota meets all legal requirements and provides accurate information to assist those wishing to register for the general election in November. So far this year, WVWV has registered 1,268 voters in South Dakota.

Statement of Maude Hurd, ACORN National President

May 6th, 2008

ACORN Statement

Women’s Voices, Women Vote, an organization that does first-rate work to register unmarried women and African American  voters,  has recently been wrongly accused of engaging in voter suppression.

The reality is the opposite.   In just the past six months, WVWV has submitted 400,000 voter registration applications.  About 1/3 of these are minority voters.  In North Carolina, from February until the primary registration deadline it helped 26,000 people register to vote.  The majority of these voters are African American.  It is because of WVWV’s work that they are able to vote in the primary.