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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

Florida Voter Purge Lawsuit Heads Back to Court

By Project Vote October 9, 2013

Civil Rights Groups to Argue that Statewide Purge Program Violates Federal Law Miami – Florida’s 2012 voter purge program goes... Read more

Gov. Scott’s Voter Purge Tour Ends – Many Questions Remain

By Project Vote October 9, 2013

Today Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner concluded the last of five meetings across the state, meetings supposedly designed to... Read more

New Jersey Failing to Offer Voter Registration to Low-Income Residents

By Project Vote October 1, 2013

National Voting Rights Groups Put Lt. Gov. Guadagno and DHS on Notice for Violations of Federal Law Trenton, N.J. –... Read more

Online Voter Registration Rule is a Real Breakthrough

By Estelle Rogers September 30, 2013

Minnesota’s innovative secretary of state, Mark Ritchie has developed an online voter registration tool that is now available on the... Read more

Minnesota Launches Online Voter Registration Site

By Erin Ferns Lee September 26, 2013

Citizens in Minnesota now may register to vote or update their registration status online, says Secretary of State Mark Ritchie. Read more

Virginia Registrar Cautiously Implements New Voter Purge Law

By Erin Ferns Lee September 25, 2013

Virginia is one of two states to pass a law that allows it to compare voter rolls with neighboring states... Read more

True the Vote Allegations Prove Untrue in Pasco Co., FL

By Michelle Kanter Cohen September 13, 2013

Recently, the Tea-Party affiliated group True the Vote announced that they had identified a number of  voters who had “double-voted,”... Read more

Voting Rights Struggles Face Legislative Hurdles

By Project Vote September 12, 2013

New Project Vote Report Examines States’ Records in 2013 Washington, DC – In a report released today, voting rights organization... Read more

States Designate New Voter Registration Agencies

By Erin Ferns Lee August 30, 2013

Millions of Americans in five states will have the opportunity to register to vote when applying for health insurance through... Read more

Project Vote Staff Reflects on March on Washington Anniversary

By Sarah Brannon August 29, 2013

On August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream Speech” at the... Read more