“We have to fix that,” President Obama said on Election Night 2012, following widespread reports of long lines at polling stations. In the beginning of 2014, a report from the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA) recommended a number of common sense reforms to improve voting, including increasing opportunities for early voting.
There is a growing, bipartisan consensus that reform is needed. However, pro-voting reforms like early voting continue to meet strong partisan resistance, and many states continue to pass voter ID laws and other restrictions that place hurdles between eligible Americans and the ballot box. Meanwhile, millions of citizens—disproportionately Americans of color—are prevented from voting at all due to strict felony disenfranchisement laws.
Project Vote believes our democracy works best when everyone participates, and we work to implement common-sense reforms that make it easier, not harder, for every eligible American to cast a ballot that counts.
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Voter Suppression is a Monster in the Dark
Here’s a Halloween scare for you: what if they held an election, and no one came? Read more
What Kind of Year Has It Been for Election Laws?
WASHINGTON, DC — With Americans heading to the polls in just four weeks, a new report from voting rights group... Read more
What Kind of Year Has It Been for Election Laws?
With Americans heading to the polls in just four weeks, a new report from voting rights group Project Vote shows that many beneficial election reforms were proposed in 2014, but few voters will find it easier to cast a ballot on November 4. Read more
Study Finds 24,000 Transgender Citizens Could Be Blocked from Voting in November
Battles over voter ID are raising concern across the nation just weeks away from the November 4 election. While Wisconsin implements... Read more
Make Voting EASY
Recently, five forward-looking members of Congress introduced the “Equal Access to Support Youth Voting Act” or “EASY” (H.R. 5144). It... Read more
Village looks to remove polling places from schools
A nonbinding referendum on the November ballot asks residents whether polling places should be removed from elementary schools — a move, which, some say, could lead to voter disenfranchisement. Read more
Opinion: Many founding fathers ‘millennials’ of their day
Much can be gleaned from a report recently released by the nonprofit Project Vote on enfranchising America’s youth. Read more
Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Voting Rights Amendment Act
On June 24, 2014, Project Vote submitted a letter to Senators Patrick Leahy and Chuck Grassley, and members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding the Voting Rights Amendment Act. Read more
Here’s Another Crazy Consequence of Eric Cantor’s Loss
Eric Cantor's loss in the Virginia Republican primary on Tuesday night is terrible news for voting rights. Read more
States Push to Make Voting More Convenient
In 2014, state legislatures considered almost four times as many proposals that eliminate barriers to voting as ones that create them. Read more