Protecting Eligible Voters
Coinciding with the nation’s tense immigration debate of recent years is a strong belief among certain partisans that undocumented people are somehow undermining the democratic process.
Instances of non-citizens attempting to cast a ballot are extremely rare, but this drummed up fear has real consequences: it excludes legitimate voters who do not have documentary proof of citizenship, such as seniors, students living away from home, or married people who adopt the surname of their spouses.
Further, proof-of-citizenship policies essentially quash community-based voter registration drives, which are responsible for reaching large numbers of potential voters at markets, churches, and other public places where one is unlikely to carry birth certi cates and passports.
Ensuring that eligible Americans are not prevented from registering and voting due to unnecessary and discriminatory bureaucratic hurdles like proof-of-citizenship requirements is one of Project Vote’s key missions.
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More Lawsuits Over Florida Voter Purge
Civil and voting rights organizations filed suit today alleging the purge violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans discrimination in voting practices. Read more
Voting Rights Coalition Files Suit Over Florida Voter Purge
“This lawsuit will protect eligible voters in every county in Florida from walking into a polling place only to find that the state has erroneously decreed they cannot participate in this election,” Catherine M. Flanagan of Project Vote said. Read more
Voter groups file suit against state to stop non-citizen voter purge
Voter groups and two Miami-Dade women who were wrongly targeted in the state’s non-citizen voter purge sued the state today in U.S. District Court in Miami. Read more
Coalition of voting rights groups the latest to sue Rick Scott on voting purge
"Florida has an ugly history of illegally removing eligible voters in election years," said Catherine M. Flanagan of Project Vote. Read more
Florida hit with new lawsuit over voter purge effort
Florida was hit with a new lawsuit on Tuesday over its efforts, under Republican Governor Rick Scott, to purge non-citizens from the state's voter rolls. Read more
Longtime voter’s eligibility questioned in Volusia
Eileen Selis was born in Pennsylvania, and has voted in almost every presidential election since Dwight D. Eisenhower's re-election in 1956. But that hasn't stopped the state of Florida from questioning her right to vote. Read more
New voting purge lawsuit emerges
A coalition of voting groups plan to file a lawsuit tomorrow over Gov. Rick Scott's non-citizen voting purge that has set off a dispute between the state and the Obama administration. Read more
New lawsuit challenges Florida voter purge
The groups -- including Advancement Project, Fair Elections Legal Network, LatinoJustice PRLDEF and Project Vote -- have scheduled a Tuesday afternoon conference call to announce the lawsuit against Secretary of State Ken Detzner. Read more
Florida faces another lawsuit over voter purge
Florida is again being sued over its contentious push to remove potentially ineligible voters from the rolls. Read more
Voter groups will sue Florida over non-citizen ‘purge’
A coalition of national voter advocacy groups will file a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to stop the state of Florida from "purging" the voter rolls of non-citizens. Read more