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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

A Call to Arms – For All of Us

By Jennifer Jacquot-DeVries October 4, 2012

By now you may have seen the following “call to arms,” which was published this week as an advertisement in... Read more

Are You Ready to Vote?

By Erin Ferns Lee October 3, 2012

Election Day is just over a month away and several states will begin closing registration in the coming weeks, starting... Read more

Pennsylvania Puts Voter Suppression Law on Hold

By Project Vote October 2, 2012

Pennsylvania’s controversial voter ID requirement was blocked Tuesday by the same judge who initially upheld the law this summer. This... Read more

New Election Law Strengthens Voter Registration Requirement in California

By Estelle Rogers October 1, 2012

Bucking the overwhelming tide of state voter suppression legislation over the last couple of years, California has done something positive!... Read more

Ohio Group Challenges Legitimate Student Voters

By Project Vote September 28, 2012

Politicians and so-called grassroots groups are challenging voter rolls across the country with the purported purpose of finding voter fraud.... Read more

Project Vote Continues to Fight for Texas Voters

By PV Admin September 26, 2012

Earlier this month, Project Vote filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to intervene and... Read more

Raise Your Voice, Register to Vote

By Erin Ferns Lee September 25, 2012

Across the country, volunteers and nonpartisan organizations are spreading the word about the ticket to voting: voter registration. As many... Read more

Project Vote Appeals Texas Voter Registration Case to U.S. Supreme Court

By Project Vote September 14, 2012

Today, with little over three weeks left before the close of voter registration in Texas, attorneys for Project Vote filed... Read more

Voter Purge Settlement Protects Right to Vote for Florida Voters

By Project Vote September 12, 2012

Today, a settlement was announced in the lawsuit initiated by Advancement Project, Fair Elections Legal Network, Project Vote, SEIU Local... Read more

Voter Purge Efforts in Texas and Colo. Found to Wrongfully Target Legitimate Voters

By Erin Ferns Lee September 11, 2012

Hysterical efforts to rid state voter rolls of “dead” or “noncitizen” voters before the November election has raised more red... Read more