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Our Mission

Our goal is simple: to build an electorate that accurately represents the diversity of America’s citizenry. Through advocacy, litigation, and technical assistance, Project Vote is fighting to make sure that every eligible citizen is able to register, vote, and cast a ballot that counts.

Voter Registration Policy

We know that most Americans will vote, once they get registered. That’s why Project Vote’s work is focused on promoting sensible laws, rules, and procedures that make it easier, not harder, for eligible citizens to become registered voters. Read more

Voting Policy

The way Americans vote is changing, and Project Vote works to make sure we're making the polls more, not less, accessible. Read more

List Maintenance

Voter registration is only the first step: we also have to make sure that registrants get on the rolls, and stay on the rolls. That’s why Project Vote works to protect eligible voters from wrongful purges, voter caging, and other dangerous efforts to “clean-up” the lists. Read more

Government Agency Registration

Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to ensure that state governments played a leading role in providing our most vulnerable citizens a chance to participate in American democracy. Project Vote and our partners are working to make sure they do, and to realize the full potential of this landmark law. Read more

Civic Engagement

Since the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, voter engagement efforts have played a vital role in our democratic process. Project Vote brings our 20 years of field experience to help community-organizations run efficient, effective voter registration drives and Get Out the Vote programs. Read more

Bill Tracking

Project Vote's bill tracking service provides up-to-the-minute information on election legislation—good and bad—that has been proposed in state legislatures and the U.S. Congress. Read more

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Fight Tea Party Voters with Fresh Voters

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Project Vote, Demos, The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the local civil rights groups who sued these states and won (forcing turnarounds at state public assistance agencies) have been waging a lonely fight to implement the National Voter Registration Act. Read more

Labor Seeks to Mobilize Jobless, Progressive Base

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The importance of labor, youth, and minority voters in the upcoming midterm election was underscored in an important briefing paper by Project Vote's Lorraine Minnite… Read more

More Richland County low-income residents registering to vote

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Job and Family Services offices in Ohio were taken to task in a 2006 lawsuit contending they failed to go far enough to register low-income voters, but voter registration at those locations skyrocketed after a court settlement went into effect in January. Read more

A Welfare Check and a Voting Card

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After years of deliberate neglect, the Justice Department is finally beginning to enforce the federal law requiring states to provide voter registration at welfare and food stamp offices. Read more

Voter registration surge reported: Agencies were ordered to help low-income applicants

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Ten times as many poor people are filling out voter registration applications at public assistance offices in Ohio now than had been doing so before a voting rights advocacy group won a legal settlement. Read more

Low-Income Ohio Voters Registering In Droves: Registration Now Permitted At Public Assistance Offices

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Voter right advocates said more than 100,000 low-income Ohio residents have applied to register to vote at public-assistance offices in the months after a federal court settlement on the issue. Read more

NM settles lawsuit over voter registration law

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New Mexico has settled a lawsuit filed by advocacy groups last year over compliance with a law that lets people register to vote at various state agencies, including the Motor Vehicle Division when they get a driver's license. Read more

Will Touchscreen Devices Transform Voter Registration Systems?

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Santa Clara County made a strategic move last Friday, May 14, when its Registrar of Voters became the first in the nation to accept electronic signatures for voter registrations. Read more

Ad agency creates voter registration app

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Echo Interaction Group is teaming up with Project Vote to design a mobile canvassing tool for AppleÕs iPad as a way to increase voter registration and reduce canvassing costs. Read more

Groups file suit over denial of access to voter-registration records

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On Tuesday, leading voter protection groups Advancement Project and Project Vote filed a lawsuit in Virginia over access to certain voter registration records. Read more