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Voting Rights Advocates Settle Voter Registration Suit
Today, voting rights advocates announced a settlement with the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) that will ensure that hundreds of thousands of eligible Massachusetts citizens are provided opportunities to register to vote... Read more
Voter Empowerment Act would Improve Elections for Both Voters and Officials
Today, the Voter Empowerment Act (VEA) was introduced in the House of Representatives. Estelle Rogers, legislative director for Project Vote, issued the following statement in support of this important legislation. Read more
Voter ID bills killed in House committee on party-line vote
“There was a recent analysis done by Project Vote ... that found that low income citizens, young people and communities of color are most likely to not have a state-used ID,” Elena Nunez, executive director of Colorado Common Cause, told the committee. Read more
California DMV target of a suit over voter registration
Voting-rights advocates are threatening to sue California — which has one of the nation’s lowest voter-registration rates — unless the state starts complying with a 20-year-old federal law... Read more
California violates Motor Voter Act, activists say; lawsuit threatened
Voting-rights advocates warned Thursday that they may sue California based on claims that the state is not complying with the so-called Motor Voter Act.... Read more
Voting Rights Groups Move to Enforce ‘Motor Voter’ in California
Attorneys from Project Vote and partners move to jump-start voter registration at California DMVs. Read more
Perspective On Clinton-Kasich Q-Poll Match-Up
The best news for Democrats...wasn’t in the Q-Poll match-up with Kasich today, it was found in the release by Project Vote of an analysis of the 2012 presidential vote. Read more
New Report Identifies Gaps in the American Electorate
As the 2015-2016 election cycle gets underway, nonprofit voting rights group Project Vote has released a major new report that presents a comprehensive picture of disparities in the changing American electorate. Read more
Appeals Court Overturns March Ruling in Kobach v. EAC
In a major victory for voting rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has unanimously ruled that Arizona and Kansas cannot force the Election Assistance Commission to alter the federal voter registration form to require documentary proof-of-citizenship. Read more
Appeals court overturns state’s proof-of-citizenship requirements on federal voting forms
A federal appeals court has ruled that Kansas cannot require proof-of-citizenship documents from prospective voters who register using a federal voter-registration form… Read more