“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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Michigan House Approves Voter Suppression Bills
Tuesday, the Michigan House passed several voter suppression measures that may affect Michiganders’ access to the ballot in November. The... Read more
Mich. House approves bills to tighten voting laws
The Republican-led Michigan House passed several measures Tuesday aimed at tightening state election laws that backers say would protect against voter fraud and critics counter would create obstacles to voting. Read more
New Census Report Shows Voter Participation Trends in U.S.
Recent U.S. census data, culled from a survey of 50,000 households, underscores a lot of the patterns that election-watchers have... Read more
Voter ID Myths: When Are You Required to Show ID In Your Daily Life?
Voter ID proponents often claim that requiring citizens to present government-issued photo ID to vote is not a burden to... Read more
OPINION: Legislators suppressed vote without evidence of fraud
Florida is the voter-suppression capital of the United States. Read more
Ohio House Speaker Says No More Voting Law Changes Until After Election
The “pre-emptive” repeal of HB 194—a law that severely limits early voting in Ohio—has the support of the House, according to House... Read more
9th Circuit Nixes Arizona’s Proof of Citizenship Requirement, Upholds Voter ID
Michael Slater, executive director of Project Vote, called the ruling “a major victory for voting rights in the state of Arizona.” Read more
ALEC Announces End of Voter Suppression Task Force
The organization that has been exposed for pushing voter ID legislation across the country has announced today that they will... Read more
Testimony on Michigan Election Reform Bills, SB 751, SB 754, SB 803 to the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights
Project Vote submitted testimony to the Michigan House on Redistricting and Elections Committee regarding 2012 bills SB 751, SB 754, and SB 803 relating to voter ID. Read more
Strict Voter ID Laws May Disenfranchise 25,000 Transgender Voters, Study Finds
Requiring photo ID to vote has become a contentious issue across the nation as more states—entrenched in partisan battles—pass these... Read more