October 28, 2008

Cincinnati, OH--According to a unanimous federal appeals court decision, the state of Ohio may no longer shirk its responsibility to ensure that low-income citizens are offered the opportunity to register to vote, as required by federal law. The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), more commonly known for its "Motor Voter" component, requires that states provide voter registration services in conjunction with the provision of public assistance benefits. Low-income citizens are less likely to own a car and are among the least likely to register to vote at motor vehicle departments, making the public assistance requirement crucial in reaching these citizens.

October 24, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC – Today Project Vote sent a letter to Gregory Fouratt, U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, to request an investigation of intimidation and voter suppression by the New Mexico Republican Party.

In the letter attorney Donald Wine II, on behalf of Project Vote, requests “an immediate investigation into the attempts by the Republican Party of New Mexico to intimidate minority, first-time voters into not exercising their right to vote.”

Boards refuse to cooperate with efforts to help eligible voters who may have fallen through the cracks

October 28, 2008

ST LOUIS, MO – The voting rights groups Project Vote and the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) are working to make sure every eligible Missourian gets on the voter rolls, but boards of elections may be preventing eligible voters from voting in next week’s elections by hampering the efforts of groups to obtain lists of people who tried to register with the boards but whose applications were rejected.

October 24, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC – An article appeared in the October 24 New York Times that misrepresents comments made by Project Vote about the total number of registrations gathered through the organization’s joint voter registration drive with the community organization ACORN. Today Project Vote issued the following statement in response:

“We are puzzled by today’s New York Times article. It has always been Project Vote’s position that we collected over 1.3 million registration applications, and we have always said that we identified potentially problematic cards. The core responsibility of local boards of elections has been and continues to be to determine which registration cards are duplicates, which are new registrants, and which are people that changed their addresses.