Voting Matters Blog

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 Attempts to Restrict Voting Rights

By PV Admin March 8, 2011

According to the ACLU, about one million Floridians are barred from voting because of felony convictions. But Florida Attorney General... Read more

Voter ID Bill to be Heard in Missouri House Committee Tuesday

By Erin Ferns Lee March 7, 2011

Today, Project Vote submitted testimony to House Elections Committee members in opposition to Missouri’s latest restrict photo voter ID bill.... Read more

Paperless Registration Could Fix Maryland’s ‘Broken’ System

By PV Admin March 3, 2011

In a recent Baltimore Sun opinion piece, former chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section, John Tanner offers a solution to... Read more

Mo. Legislature Pushes Voter ID forward, Silences Opposing Voter Testimony

By Erin Ferns Lee February 14, 2011

When a diverse array of voters and advocates showed up on February 7 to a Missouri House Elections Committee hearing... Read more

Texas Public Assistance Agencies Failing to Offer Voter Registration

By PV Admin February 11, 2011

Project Vote and our partners have been working for several years to ensure that public assistance agencies around the country... Read more

Officials Dispute Need for Voter ID in Their States

By Erin Ferns Lee February 9, 2011

Since the 2010 midterm elections and the Republican takeover of several state houses, the fight to enact controversial photo voter... Read more

Vote Centers: More Convenient for Voters or the State?

By Estelle Rogers February 9, 2011

There’s a bill that was passed by the Indiana legislature this week that would allow counties to establish “vote centers,”... Read more

Virginia Senate Members to Deliberate Over Unnecessary Voter Verification Bill

By Daniel Charlton February 8, 2011

The Virginia House of Delegates recently approved House Bill 1560. The changes proposed in this bill are subtle and come... Read more

Missouri Attempts to Revive Unconstitutional Voter ID Law

By PV Admin February 7, 2011

The saga began five years ago when the Missouri legislature passed a photo ID bill that the Missouri Supreme Court... Read more

Three States Propose Laws to Improve Youth Voter Registration Access

By PV Admin February 3, 2011

In recent years, six states have adopted measures to help ingrain the democratic process in the nation’s young people earlier... Read more