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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GOP Pushes Voter ID Bills in the South
Passing voter ID legislation is quickly becoming one of the GOP's top issues for the 2009 legislative session. Read more
Virginia Senate approves voting rights restoration amendment
The Virginia Senate passed one measure, and defeated another, that would give the legislature constitutional power to restore voting rights to non-violent felons who lost them due to criminal convictions. Read more
ACORN v. Maryland Transit Authority (Maryland)
ACORN and Project Vote filed suit against the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), challenging the restrictions on ACORN’s right to register... Read more
Brown v. Rokita: Order of Dismissal Without Prejudice
Order of dismissal in Brown v. Rokita Read more
BLOG: Missouri Voter ID Law Back on the Table?
Two Republicans in the state legislature are reigniting a failed effort to institute a constitutionally-mandated, highly-restrictive voter ID law. Read more
Near Universal Agreement on the Need for Universal Registration
In the wake of historic interest in voting, and after months of controversy surrounding nonprofit registration drives, America’s leaders, journalists, and voting rights experts are calling for a new registration system that reduces the need for third-party registration drives and shifts responsibility from the individual to government. Read more
Project Vote v. Rokita (Indiana)
The day before the 2008 general election Project Vote filed an emergency lawsuit against Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita... Read more
Election Watchdogs Gird for Problems Tuesday
Although state election officials say they’ve got it covered, election watchdogs are warning that a potentially volatile concoction of new voters, wayward poll workers, fickle voting equipment and Mother Nature could boil over Tuesday and threaten the integrity of the results across the country. Read more
Voting Rights Groups Demand Suspension of Ohio Prosecutor’s Investigation” of Lawful Voters”””
A coalition of voting and civil rights groups sent a letter to Hamilton County special prosecutor Michael O’Neill today, urging him to suspend his “troubling” investigation into hundreds of county voters who lawfully registered and cast absentee ballots during Ohio’s five-day window of same day registration and voting. Read more
Project Vote Calls on Political Parties, Election Officials to Protect Voters Facing Foreclosure
Today the voting rights group Project Vote sent letters to both major political parties in 10 states—AZ, CO, FL, GA, MO, NC, NM, NV, PA, and VA—urging them to "oppose and refrain from" using lists of home foreclosures as the basis for "voter caging" operations. Read more