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April 28, 2008 - Project Vote Statement on Supreme Court Ruling in Crawford v. Marion County Elections Board
On Monday, April 28, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Indiana’s law (Crawford v. Marion County Elections Board) requiring voters to show a government-issued photo identification before they may cast a ballot. Crawford plaintiffs argued that Indiana’s strict photo ID requirements disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters. Donna Massey, Project Vote Board Member and a supporter of voting rights, issued this statement:
"The Supreme Court ruling is disappointing fo... Read more here...
April 23, 2008 - Kansas City, MO—The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and St. Louis resident Dionne O’Neal have filed a federal lawsuit today charging that the state of Missouri has failed to provide voter registration services to clients of state public assistance agencies, as required by the federal National Voter Registration Act ("NVRA"). The NVRA is a federal law enacted in 1993 to ensure all Americans have access to voter registration services.
The lawsuit alleges the Missouri Department of Social Services (D... Read more here...
April 06, 2008 - Advancement Project, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and Project Vote are disappointed with a ruling in a Florida voting case issued yesterday from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, but made clear their determination to press forward with the lawsuit. The ruling, in part, reversed a Florida federal trial court’s decision that blocked a Florida state law prohibiting applicants from registering to vote if the state cannot match or otherwise validate the driver’s license or Social Security number on a registration form.
In September 2007, Plaintiffs, the Florida Sta... Read more here...
March 25, 2008 - Project Vote is engaged in a 2008 Voter Participation Program of historic proportions. Designed to address the disproportionately low voting rates among African-Americans Latinos, the poor and young people, the program will help a record-setting 1.2 million people register to vote in underrepresented communities.
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February 26, 2008 - A new bill working its way through the Mississippi State Legislature threatens the hard-won voting rights of elderly, minority, and disabled voters throughout the state. Senate Bill 2910 was proposed as an election reform cure-all, but one of its provisions would likely result in thousands of voters being purged from the voting rolls in violation of federal law.
Filed by State Senator Terry C. Burton and supported by Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, SB 2910 would cancel the registration of any voter if he or she did not “appear to vote” in a single election between Nov. 3, 2008, and Dec.... Read more here...
New Barriers to VotingRead about "New Barriers to Voting" written by Project Vote staff for this month's National Voter, the magazine of the US League of Women Voters.
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