“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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Ohio’s Early Voting Days are Good for Democracy
Today, a federal district court in Ohio in Obama for America v. Husted ordered the state not to enforce a... Read more
Ohio Election Officials Fired for Keeping Early Voting Hours
Last week, two Montgomery County, Ohio election officials made headlines when they voted to keep weekend early voting hours against... Read more
It is Harder to Vote in America than it was in 2008
Voting has become more difficult in the last four years, says a new report from the nonprofit voting rights organization... Read more
Voter Advocates, Medina County Board of Elections Urge Reinstating Weekend Early Voting in Ohio
Voting rights advocates including Common Cause, Northeast Ohio Voter Advocates, and Project Vote (full list below) praise the Medina County... 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
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
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
Republican Officials Acknowledge Voter Suppression Motives
Voting rights advocates have long asserted that restrictive voting laws are only implemented for one reason: suppressing the votes of... Read more
UPDATE: Briefing on Enforcing Federal Election Law, Combatting Barriers to the Ballot
Today, Project Vote, Demos, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law went to Capitol Hill to hold two... Read more