The Election Administration (EA) program was created to respond to ongoing problems that restrict Americans’ access to the democratic process. Project Vote’s team of experts works through research, litigation, advocacy, and field efforts to ensure that voter registration is accessible, effective, and enduring.
Right now, across the country and in all three branches of government, partisan battles are being fought over voter registration policies, voter list maintenance procedures, Election Day and early voting procedures, and other vital election administration issues that will shape the electorate in 2016 and beyond.
Project Vote’s Election Administration Program works to promote and protect policies that ensure that every eligible American can register, vote, and cast a ballot that counts. Our primary focuses are is on protecting registration drives from unnecessary restrictions; advocating for laws, policies, and procedures that remove barriers to registration and voting; and ensuring that list maintenance activities do not wrongly disenfranchise voters.
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States Push to Make Voting More Convenient
In 2014, state legislatures considered almost four times as many proposals that eliminate barriers to voting as ones that create them. Read more
In Election Legislation, Many Proposals but Few Solutions
Today, Project Vote released a new report analyzing the legislative landscape in 2014, and assessing the ground gained and lost so far in the war over voting rights. Read more
U.S. Court of Appeals Orders Stay in Proof of Citizenship Case
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a stay in Kris W. Kobach et al v. United States, meaning that, while the Court considers the appeal, residents of Kansas and Arizona applying to register to vote using the federal registration form will not be required to provide proof of citizenship. Read more
Kris W. Kobach et al. v. United States Election Assistance Commission: U.S. District Court of Appeals Order
District court of appeals order Read more
Court issues temporary stay over voter citizenship
Kansas and Arizona residents can continue to register to vote for now using a federal form without having to provide proof of citizenship… Read more
Battleground Texas: Inside the fight to turn the state blue
The massive growth of Texas’s Hispanic population is set to fundamentally reshape the state’s politics in the coming decades… Read more
In Florida, Bid to Cut Voter Rolls Is Set Back
Gov. Rick Scott’s effort to remove voters who are not American citizens from voter registration rolls has suffered a one-two punch in the past week. Read more
Rick Scott’s voter purge was illegal: Court
Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott’s badly flawed purge of the voter rolls before the 2012 election was illegal, a federal court ruled Tuesday. Read more
Florida Purge Program Was Illegal, Rules Federal Court
Marking a major victory for Florida voters, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled on Tuesday that Florida’s 2012 voter purge program violated federal law. Read more