The Dangers of Playing with Matches
Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002 to impose fair and more uniform standards for state election administration, including provisions to establish and maintain statewide voter registration databases.
However, some states have misinterpreted the intent of database maintenance prodcedures outlined in HAVA and passed onerous “No Match, No Vote” laws. Under such statutes, if a state is unable to match the information on a voter’s registration application with information in an existing government database, the application is denied outright.
Research shows that matching voter data with other government databases is an unreliable, error-laden process, and that conditioning the right to vote on such a flawed system will inevitably disenfranchise eligible citizens.
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Georgia NAACP v. Kemp (2016)
Project Vote and partners filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Georgia’s exact-match voter registration verification scheme violates the VRA and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Read more
Florida NAACP v. Browning (Florida)
In 2007, Florida law stated that a voter application would be considered invalid unless the state performed a successful database... Read more