“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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In Election Legislation, Many Proposals but Few Solutions
Today, Project Vote released a new report analyzing the legislative landscape in 2014, and assessing the ground gained and lost so far in the war over voting rights. Read more
New Report on Restoring Voting Rights for Former Felons
Today, Project Vote is pleased to release the latest policy paper in our Issues in Election Administration series, Restoring Voting... Read more
A Sad Day for Voting Rights: Senate Rejects Nominee for Top Civil Rights Lawyer
This afternoon, the Senate voted to block the nomination of Debo P. Adegbile to be Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Project Vote Legislative Director Estelle Rogers issued the following statement in response. Read more
Project Vote Calls on Ohio Governor to Veto Harmful Election Bills
Today, Project Vote sent a letter to Ohio Governor John Kasich, calling on him to veto SB 205 and SB... Read more
Letter to Ohio Governor John Kasich Regarding SB 238 and SB 205
On February 20, 2014, Project Vote wrote Ohio Governor John Kasich, urging him to veto election bills SB 205 and SB 238, which would affect early voting in the state. Read more
New PACs try to elect state election officials
Thirty-nine states elect their secretary of State, and because the job includes overseeing the administration of elections, Republican and Democratic PACs have emerged to fight for control of the position. Read more
Study: Voter Suppression Law Most Affects Black Voters
North Carolina’s monster voter suppression law disproportionately affects Black voters’ access to the ballot, according to a new study by... Read more
Put Felon Disenfranchisement on the Front Burner
They tell us that there are no coincidences in life, and similarly, there are no coincidences in politics. On Tuesday,... Read more
Senate Panel Reviews Bipartisan Report on Best Voting Practices
The United States Senate Committee on Rules & Administration held a hearing today entitled “An Overview from the Presidential Commission... Read more
WaPo: Politicians Have to Stop Making Voting Harder
Pro-voting recommendations from the President’s election commission are getting a lot of attention and for good reason. The commission was... Read more