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iVote is an American voting rights organization. The New York Times described iVote's efforts as "the first major push to counter the Republican moves with a legislative strategy to expand voter rights." [1] In 2022, Axios called iVote "one of the biggest winners of election night." [2]

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The group was founded in 2014 by former aides to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. [3] Ellen Kurz, who has been called "a one-person Paul Revere, warning of the dangers of vote-suppression efforts," [4] is the president of iVote. [5]

iVote led the campaign [6] to pass automatic voter registration in Nevada, and has run additional electoral and legislative campaigns [1] in 11 states to pass automatic voter registration. [7]

In 2018, iVote raised over $14 million to run successful campaigns in U.S. swing states, including Michigan (Jocelyn Benson), [8] Arizona (Katie Hobbs), [9] Colorado (Jena Griswold), [10] and Nevada (Automatic Voter Registration ballot initiative). [6]

In Arizona, iVote's investment led to pro-Hobbs' efforts outspending the Republican opponent "two-to-one on television." [9] In Michigan, iVote's "spending amounted to more than the Republican candidate, Mary Treder Lange of Gross Pointe Farms, raised for her campaign." [8] In Nevada, iVote led the more than $10 million campaign [6] to pass an automatic voter registration ballot initiative with 59.57% of the vote. [6]

In 2020, iVote raised $18 million for a voter education effort in swing states that reached more than 15 million voters. [7]

Then in 2022, iVote "invested $15 million in secretary of state races that typically fly under the radar." [11] The organization ran ads targeting four states with Republican nominees "who didn't accept the validity of the 2020 election outcome," and all four were defeated: Kim Crockett (Minnesota), Mark Finchem (Arizona), Kristina Karamo (Michigan), and Jim Marchant (Nevada). [12] iVote's investment in Arizona was an historic [13] amount of money spent on a secretary of state's race.

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  3. ↑ "The exciting war to make secretaries of state more boring". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  4. ↑ "Voter-Suppression Tricks Are on the Ballot, Too". Bloomberg.com. 2018-10-24. Retrieved 2022-06-16.
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