{"id":26178,"date":"2026-07-20T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=26178"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T19:40:03","slug":"spotlight-history-and-political-science-student-spends-summer-protecting-voting-tights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/07\/20\/spotlight-history-and-political-science-student-spends-summer-protecting-voting-tights\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: History and Political Science student spends summer protecting voting tights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26179\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/Amelia-Abar-Photo.jpg?resize=193%2C257&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amelia Abar\" width=\"193\" height=\"257\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Amelia Abar, a History and Political Science major<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0is spending the summer as a voting rights organizer with the Michigan League of Conservation Voters\u2019 Democracy for All\u00a0campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In her role, Abar serves communities throughout Macomb County by engaging residents in civic participation, protecting voting rights and expanding access to the democratic process for all Michiganders.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:180}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Michigan League of Conservation Voters is a nonpartisan environmental advocacy organization dedicated to protecting Michigan\u2019s air, land and water. Its Democracy for All campaign is a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting voting rights, expanding access to the ballot and advocating for fair elections across the state. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganlcv.org\/\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her role this summer as a voting rights organizer with the Michigan League of Conservation Voters\u2019 Democracy for All\u00a0campaign, UDM student Amelia Abar is serving communities throughout Macomb County by engaging residents in civic participation, protecting voting rights and expanding access to the democratic process for all Michiganders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":26179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4083],"tags":[7462,6164,6165,6471,7392,93,3203,4223],"class_list":["post-26178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-spotlight","tag-amelia-abar","tag-chass","tag-college-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences","tag-department-of-history","tag-department-of-political-science","tag-history","tag-political-science","tag-student-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/07\/Amelia-Abar-Photo.jpg?fit=150%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6Oe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26182,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions\/26182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}