Election Officials to Attend Voting Rights History Tour

For Immediate Release — May 6, 2019 —

Washington, D.C. — 19 Secretaries of State and one Lt. Governor are participating in a voting rights history tour in Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery, Alabama May 9-11. The event is organized by Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, with logistical and organizational support from the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS).

During the tour participants will learn first-hand from civil rights era activists and surviving family members, survey historic voting landmarks like the 16th Street Baptist Church, and cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Attendees include:

*John Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State

*Kevin Meyer, Alaska Lt. Governor

*Katie Hobbs, Arizona Secretary of State

*Denise Merrill, Connecticut Secretary of State

*Brad Raffensperger, Georgia Secretary of State

*Connie Lawson, Indiana Secretary of State

*Paul Pate, Iowa Secretary of State

*Scott Schwab, Kansas Secretary of State

*Alison Lundergan Grimes, Kentucky Secretary of State

*Kyle Ardoin, Louisiana Secretary of State

*Matt Dunlap, Maine Secretary of State

*Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

*Barbara Cegavske, Nevada Secretary of State

*Bill Gardner, New Hampshire Secretary of State

*Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State

*Kathryn Boockvar, Pennsylvania Secretary of State

*Nellie Gorbea, Rhode Island Secretary of State

*Steve Barnett, South Dakota Secretary of State

*David Whitely, Texas Secretary of State

*Kim Wyman, Washington Secretary of State

For more information regarding the tour, please contact John Bennett (John.Bennett@sos.Alabama.gov) with the Alabama Department of State and/or Shawn Starkey (StarkeyS@Michigan.gov) with the Michigan Department of State. You can also view their joint press release here.

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Media Contact:
Maria (Dill) Benson, Director of Communications
mbenson@sso.org | 202-624-3528 | www.nass.org