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Case Studies

The iVote Impact Across 3 States

Here's a timeline of what happened in Michigan, Nevada and Arizona after iVote got involved.

Michigan

  • 2011–2018: A Republican Secretary of State purged tens of thousands of voters from the voting rolls, closed polling locations, and installed broken voting machines – all targeting people of color

  • April 2018: The Republican nominee for secretary of state, backed by the DeVos family, praised and credited voter purges going into 2016 for handing Michigan to Trump

  • Summer and Fall 2018: iVote ran a $2.5 million independent expenditure campaign supporting Democratic candidate Jocelyn Benson

  • November 2018: Jocelyn Benson won by 9 points, flipping the office blue for the first time since 1995

  • November 2022: iVote ran a multi-million dollar campaign to help reelect Benson, who defeated election-denier Kristina Karamo by nearly 14 points

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Nevada

  • Nov 2018: iVote leads the campaign to pass automatic voter registration in Nevada, succeeding with nearly 60% of the vote

  • Jan 2020: Automatic voter registration takes effect, leading to 750,000 eligible but previously unregistered Nevadans to be automatically registered to vote

  • Oct 2020: Nevada reports a record 1.8 million registered voters

  • Nov 2020: A record 1.3 million Nevada voters cast ballots; President Biden wins Nevada by 33,596 votes

  • Nov 2022: iVote runs a campaign to help elect Cisco Aguilar, who defeats election-denier Jim Marchant and keeps Nevada's elections in trustworthy hands

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Arizona

  • 2015–2018: A Republican Secretary of State purged tens of thousands of voters from the rolls and closed hundreds of polling locations, disproportionately affecting voters of color

  • August 2018: A self-funding Republican candidate spent over $2 million on his primary, running on a platform of English-only ballots and a citizenship test to be eligible to vote

  • Fall 2018: iVote ran a $3.5 million campaign supporting Democratic candidate Katie Hobbs

  • November 2018: Katie Hobbs won by 20,252 votes, flipping the office blue for the first time in 23 years

  • November 2022: iVote spent $5 million to help elect Adrian Fontes, defeating election-denier Mark Finchem and keeping the office blue as Hobbs moved up to governor

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