Shanna Singh Hughey

Shanna Singh Hughey is an Emerson Collective fellow who founded a voting rights think tank in Tennessee, which she then ran for six years.

To Protect Democracy in Red States, Look To Underutilized Tools

Many of the states that make it hardest to vote are home to the legislatures that are the least likely to make improvements.

By Shanna Singh Hughey

March 27, 2023

Dark blue background featuring three red states and the blue cities within them from left to right: the Georgia state shape toned in red with a blue sign pointing to Atlanta, a ferris wheel and a card with polling location; the Texas state shape toned in red with a blue sign pointing to Houston, a sign that reads "VOTE AQUI HERE," and two people holding their mail-in envelopes and the Tennessee state shape toned in red with a blue sign pointing to Nashville, someone holding a sign that reads "REGISTER HERE TO VOTE" and others sitting around a table outside a building.

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