“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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More Than 15,000 New Mexicans May Need to Register On Election Day, Vote A Provisional Ballot
Thousands of people who conducted business at a New Mexico motor vehicles office between January 1 to June 1, 2014 and... Read more
Voter Suppression is a Monster in the Dark
Here’s a Halloween scare for you: what if they held an election, and no one came? Read more
What Kind of Year Has It Been for Election Laws?
WASHINGTON, DC — With Americans heading to the polls in just four weeks, a new report from voting rights group... Read more
Study Finds 24,000 Transgender Citizens Could Be Blocked from Voting in November
Battles over voter ID are raising concern across the nation just weeks away from the November 4 election. While Wisconsin implements... Read more
Make Voting EASY
Recently, five forward-looking members of Congress introduced the “Equal Access to Support Youth Voting Act” or “EASY” (H.R. 5144). It... Read more
New Report on Restoring Voting Rights for Former Felons
Today, Project Vote is pleased to release the latest policy paper in our Issues in Election Administration series, Restoring Voting... Read more
Project Vote Calls on Ohio Governor to Veto Harmful Election Bills
Today, Project Vote sent a letter to Ohio Governor John Kasich, calling on him to veto SB 205 and SB... Read more
Study: Voter Suppression Law Most Affects Black Voters
North Carolina’s monster voter suppression law disproportionately affects Black voters’ access to the ballot, according to a new study by... Read more
Put Felon Disenfranchisement on the Front Burner
They tell us that there are no coincidences in life, and similarly, there are no coincidences in politics. On Tuesday,... Read more