“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 Governor of GA on Voter Intimidation
Project Vote requests that Gov. Deal speak out against voter intimidation and develop plans to deal with illegal poll monitoring and other intimidation tactics. Read more
Letter to Governor of FL on Voter Intimidation
Project Vote requests that Gov. Scott speak out against voter intimidation and develop plans to deal with illegal poll monitoring and other intimidation tactics. Read more
Letter to Governor of AZ on Voter Intimidation
Project Vote requests that Gov. Ducey speak out against voter intimidation and develop plans to deal with illegal poll monitoring and other intimidation tactics. Read more
Election Protection Coalition Letter to Party Leadership
Project Vote joins 75 other voting rights organizations in calling on party leadership to denounce recent appeals to deploy observers and law enforcement against imagined voter fraud. Read more
Letter to Calif. Gov. in Support of AB 2466
Project Vote's letter to Gov. Brown in support of a bill to eliminate confusion around felony disenfranchisement. Read more
Project Vote Letter to Calif. Assembly Committee on Voting Rights Restoration Bill AB 2466
Project Vote submitted testimony to California’s Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting in support of AB 2466, a bill to clarify voter eligibility rules. Read more
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
Legislative Threats and Opportunities: Fall 2015
In latest edition of our Threats and Opportunities series, Erin Ferns Lee examines the status of important election bills—harmful and helpful—that were introduced in 2015. Read more