“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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Project Vote and ACLU Sue to Block Suppresive Florida Bill
Today Project Vote is pleased to join the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLUFL) in filing a lawsuit in federal court in Miami to block implementation of damaging new changes to Florida's election law until those changes can be reviewed and examined by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) or the U. S District Court for the District of Columbia, as required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Read more
Texas Gov. Signs Voter ID into Law
This morning, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed SB 14, which will institute strict photo-ID requirements for anyone wishing to vote... Read more
Project Vote Issues Statement on TX Voter ID Law
This morning, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed SB 14, which will institute strict photo-ID requirements for anyone wishing to vote in the state. Project Vote Executive Director Michael Slater issued the following statement in response: Read more
Wisconsin Governor Signs Voter ID Law
Today, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed into law a Republican-sponsored bill that requires voters to show photo ID at the... Read more
RI Senate Passes Voter ID
The Rhode Island senate has passed a bill that would require all voters to show photo ID at the polls,... Read more
American Prospect: Voting Rights Experts Assess Wis. Election Bill
In his article on The American Prospect’s website today, Alexander Zaitchik quotes Project Vote Research Director Lorraine Minnite and other... Read more
St. Petersburg Times: Florida Legislature Cracking Down on Voting?
In today’s St. Petersburg Times, columnist Howard Troxler writes about how the Florida legislature is considering bills that seem to... Read more
Miami Herald: Republican-Sponsored Elections Bill “Reeks of Partisanship”
Today in Florida, the House State Affairs Committee is taking up HB 1355, an omnibus election administration bill drafted by... Read more
Washington Post Looks at “GOP’s Voter ID Gambit”
In today’s Washington Post, Aaron Blake looks at the GOP-driven move in many states to implement stringent voter ID requirements, ... Read more
The GOP’s Voter ID gambit
The GOP in many states is quietly encouraging another controversial measure: Voter ID. Read more