“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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Letter to Congress on Obstructing Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
Project Vote is proud to join our colleagues in calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to do its constitutional duty and give fair consideration to any nominee President Obama names to the Supreme Court. Read more
Infographic: State Partisan Control: 2016
An infographic showing the partisan affiliation of officials who control election laws in each state, including governor's offices, legislatures, and secretary of state offices in 2016. Read more
Project Vote Letter on New Mexico Voter ID bill HB 312
Project Vote wrote a letter in opposition of New Mexico voter ID bill, HB 312. Read more
New Study Confirms Worst Fear About Voter ID Laws
Project Vote has monitored voter ID legislation since 2007. At the time, there was little information on the impact of voter... Read more
Legislative Threats and Opportunities Update
Last week, in his final State of the Union Address, President Obama indicated his interest in modernizing our election system... Read more
Advocates Call on Maryland General Assembly to Restore the Vote for 40,000 People
Last year, lawmakers, community organizations, and religious, civil rights, and racial justice leaders undertook an important effort to restore voting... Read more
What We Know, What We Can Do
This is what we know. And, with your help, this is what we can do. Read more
Last-Minute Restrictions on Voting Pushed by Michigan Lawmakers
As this year’s session comes to an end, Michigan lawmakers are undertaking a last-minute to push a set of restrictive... Read more
Opinion: Reforming election process can improve voter turnout
Project Vote and partners illustrate why Pennsylvania, where fewer than a quarter of registered voters turned out to vote in November, needs to update its voting system. Read more
How Electronic Poll Books Improve Elections
Modernizing our election procedures is a win-win for election officials and voters alike. One such commonsense reform is the adoption... Read more