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Advocacy

Project Vote Testifies Against Call for Potentially Illegal Voter Purge
By Project Vote April 24, 2017

A “conservative legal watchdog group” has targeted Maryland’s largest county in its latest effort to force election officials to purge... Read more

Staff Posts

Matt Masterson is 50 Percent Correct
By Michael Slater April 14, 2017

The EAC chair is right: There is very little voter fraud in America, but he’s far off base in claiming that evidence of voter suppression is “virtually non-existent.” Read more

In the States

The Responsible Way to Increase Voter Access: Same Day Registration
By Brian McWalters April 13, 2017

Same day registration is known to boost voter turnout and keep voter rolls clean. Why aren't more states passing and implementing SDR laws? Read more

Blog Filters

Partisans Attack Early Voting for “No Good Reason”

By Erin Ferns Lee November 21, 2013

“The idea that Election Day can only be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November seems to be... Read more

Project Vote Files to Intervene in Voter Registration Case

By Project Vote November 14, 2013

Seeking to protect the rights of eligible voters in Arizona and Kansas, the voting rights organization Project Vote yesterday moved... Read more

Balancing Voter Purge Efforts with Voter Outreach

By Erin Ferns Lee November 8, 2013

“Voter rolls are messy, and someone has to clean them up,” wrote Reid Wilson at Washington Posts‘ blog, GovBeat. It’s... Read more

New Policy Paper on Early Voting

By Michael Slater November 7, 2013

Continuing in our Issues in Election Administration series, today Project Vote is releasing a new policy paper on Early Voting. Read more

The Invisible Barrier to Voting

By Erin Ferns Lee November 7, 2013

Tuesday, more than 350,000 Virginians (about 7 percent of the voting population) did not get to choose their new governor.... Read more

Voter Suppression Schemes Under the Radar After Shelby County Decision

By Estelle Rogers November 6, 2013

In one of the best analogies ever found in a Supreme Court opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likened the Voting... Read more

Wisconsin Considers Cutting Early Voting

By Erin Ferns Lee October 31, 2013

A Wisconsin election bill that would change early voting opportunities for Wisconsin voters “for the worse” was heard today by... Read more

Texas Voters Endure Hurdles to Obtain ID, Vote

By Project Vote October 23, 2013

Texas’ controversial voter ID law went into effect on Monday and has already raised some hackles about its discriminatory impact... Read more

Project Vote Pursues En Banc Hearing for Texas Voter Registration Case

By Project Vote October 17, 2013

Today, attorneys for Project Vote filed a petition for rehearing en banc in the case of Voting for America (a... Read more

Voter ID and Same-Day Registration Laws Affect Youth Participation, Says Report

By Erin Ferns Lee October 10, 2013

A new report by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement examines challenges to youth voter... Read more