“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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Voter ID Bill Advances in South Carolina
The South Carolina House advanced a bill to require voters to show photo ID before voting at the polls. According... Read more
Fear Tactics Used to Promote Voter Suppression in 2011
This week, newly elected Republicans took office in several states, many of whom have big plans for the future of... Read more
Voter Fraud Myth Drives Voter ID Issue Into 2011
“There’s this idea that dozens of people are coming to polling places every hour claiming to be someone else,” said... Read more
The Silent Majority: How False Mandates May Lead to Regressive Laws
The people spoke on November 2, say conservatives who made gains in the House and Senate. However, all this talk... Read more
Voter Suppression and Intimidation in 2010: Where’s the Outrage?
It has been three days since the midterm elections, and in those three days there have been dozens of reports... Read more
Voter ID Adopted in Oklahoma, Debuted in Idaho on Tuesday
Oklahoma voters will soon be required to show ID when heading to the polls after July 2011, thanks to a... Read more
Latino Voter Suppression: Past and Present
A century ago, voter suppression took the form of Jim Crow laws that openly attempted to prevent African-Americans from voting.... Read more
Voter Fraud Hysteria Leads to Fruitless Investigations, Voter Intimidation in Two States
The conservative activists’ largely partisan voter fraud debate, as Ian Urbina at the New York Times wrote this morning, “is... Read more
Early Voting Reduces Turnout, Unless Combined with Same-Day Registration
Rising early voting participation in recent election cycles has decreased voter turnout in general, putting Election Day on the fast... Read more
Misinformation from Registrar Could Disenfranchise Voters in San Diego
Just two weeks before Election Day, a potentially detrimental (and ultimately unlawful) voter registration procedure was uncovered in San Diego,... Read more