“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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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
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
What We Know & What We Need to Know: A One-Day Conference on Voter Registration and Turnout
Project Vote is proud to be a co-sponsor of “What We Know and What We Need to Know: Voter Registration... Read more
The Good News, and Bad News, About Voting Rights in America
This post was originally published at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy’s blog, ACS Blog. The year before... Read more
New Project Vote Report Examines Voting Rights Proposals
Since January, Project Vote has closely monitored 315 bills that could affect the way people vote in 2016 and beyond.... Read more
North Carolina Citizens Take Action for Democracy
Thousands of North Carolinians traveled from all over the state to support the lawsuit challenging the 2013 Voter Information Verification Act... Read more
North Carolinians Trigger Legislative Change to Voter Suppression Law
North Carolina citizens express their concerns about the state's voter suppression law, and the legislature responds. Read more