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Florida’s Latest Voter Suppression Scheme Thwarted
Today, Advancement Project, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and Project Vote won a preliminary injunction that blocks a Florida state law prohibiting applicants from registering to vote if the state cannot match or otherwise validate the driver’s license or Social Security number on a registration form. Read more
Justice Department Continues Pattern of Disenfranchisement
The Justice Department has again gone on record supporting strict documentary identification requirements for voters, despite the fact that such laws disenfranchise voters. Read more
New Project Vote Report Shows that Minorities in Kentucky are Closing the Voting Gap
How elections are won and lost begin with which eligible Americans are engaged in the process. A new report released today by Project Vote highlights the importance of voter registration programs in lower income, youth, and minority communities. Read more
Fewer Than Half of Eligible Minority and Low-Income Americans Voted in 2006, New Report Shows
Project Vote releases a report today, “Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate,” that finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall U.S. population eligible to vote. Read more
New Report: Partisans Targeted More Than 500,000 Mostly Minority Voters in 2004 Caging Schemes
In 2004, political operatives associated with the Republican party targeted more than half a million voters in “voter caging” campaigns in nine states, according to a report released today by Project Vote. Read more
Project Vote Challenges FL Voter Suppression Law That Keeps Thousands of Voters Off The Rolls
Today voting rights advocates filed suit in a US District Court to strike down a statewide election law that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible citizens from registering and voting in the 2008 elections. Read more
Arizona Proposition 200 Decision, Another Strike Against the NVRA and Voter Participation
The federal district court in Arizona has just granted partial summary judgment to Arizona in Gonzalez v Arizona. The disappointing decision upholds the part of Proposition 200, a 2004 anti-voter and immigrant rights initiative which requires voter registration applicants to provide proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Read more
Project Vote and Demos Notify Missouri Department of Social Services of Voting Rights Violations
Today, Project Vote and Demos, representing the community group ACORN, sent a letter of intent to sue the Missouri Department of Social Services if the state doesn’t comply with a requirement of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to provide voter registration opportunities in public assistance offices. Read more
WA Governor Gregoire Signs Executive Order to Better Implement National Voter Registration Act
On July 4, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire signed an executive order to better implement the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), a move which should help thousands of low-income Washingtonians become registered voters. Read more
Justice Department’s Failure to Enforce National Voter Registration Act Underscored by New Report
Late last week, the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) published its biennial report (PDF) to Congress on the impact of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). Read more