“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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“A Lot Is At Stake:” Voting Rights Advocates Gear Up For Huge 2012 Battle
Voting rights advocates are fighting on the front line of the voting wars. Read more
Ohio Early Voting Fight Continues
On Friday, two Montgomery County, Ohio election board officials bucked Secretary of State Jon Husted’s statewide directive to ban early... Read more
Early Voting Days are Good for Democracy
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Florida failed to prove that its reduction in... Read more
Secretary of State calls county BOE back to vote again after meeting turns angry over early voting
Friday’s Board of Elections meeting featured shouts and cursing, as Democrat and Republican board members argued over new early-voting hours. Read more
Voter advocates call on Secretary of State Husted to restore two weekends of early in-person voting in order to have reasonable and uniform voting hours
Voting rights advocates praise the Medina County Board of Elections decision calling for the Ohio Secretary of State to modify his directive banning early voting on weekends. Read more
Early Voting Days are Good for Democracy
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Florida failed to prove that its reduction in early voting days would not negatively impact minority voters. As a result, Florida must reinstate the early voting days in five Florida counties covered by federal voting laws. Read more
How early voting changes in Ohio will hurt Democratic, black voters
Civil rights groups, voting rights advocates, clergy and the state NAACP are among those protesting the restriction of early voting hours in the battleground state of Ohio. Read more
Advocates Ask Secretary Husted and Board of Elections Officials to Support Early Voting Hours
Yesterday, Secretary of State Jon Husted took a step towards improving voter access by announcing the availability of an online... Read more
Advocates Ask Secretary Husted and Board of Elections Officials to Support Early Voting Hours
Today, Secretary of State Husted took a step towards improving voter access by announcing the availability of an online change of address system for existing voter registrations. Read more
Michigan voters confused by unlawful citizenship checkbox on primary ballot
Voting rights supporters applauded Michigan Governor Rick Snyder for vetoing three voter suppression bills the Legislature passed in June. Unfortunately,... Read more