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In Response to Pressure, GOP Backs Off Its Plans to Challenge Montana Voters
Yesterday the Republican Party of Montana announced that it was abandoning its plans to challenge the voting eligibility of at least 6,000 residents of that state-mostly in democratic strongholds-who had filed change-of-address cards with the U.S. Postal Service. Read more
Project Vote and ACORN Announce Completion of Historic Voter Registration Drive
Yesterday, as voter registration deadlines passed in most states, Project Vote, the nation’s leading nonpartisan voter participation organization, and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the country’s largest community organization, announced the completion of a joint nonpartisan voter registration drive, which has succeeded in collecting over 1.3 million voter registration applications. Read more
Project Vote Denounces Republican Attack on Montana Voters
As reported yesterday in the online news outlet The Missoulian, the Republican Party of Montana is challenging the eligibility to vote of at least 6,000 residents of that state—mostly in key Democratic strongholds—based solely on the fact that the residents have filed change-of-address cards with the U.S. Postal Service. Read more
Groups Win Legal Battle to Protect Ohio Five-Day Window: Voters Can Register and Vote on Same Day
Project Vote, working with a legal team led by ACLU Ohio and Ohio State University Professor Dan Tokaji and other voting rights organizations, successfully protected Ohio's five-day Same-Day Registration (SDR) yesterday. Read more
Voting Rights Groups Seek to Protect Same-Day Registration in Ohio
Lawyers for Project Vote and other voting rights organizations are coordinating efforts in a legal battle to protect Ohio’s five-day Same-Day Registration (SDR) period from lawsuits filed by two Republican voters. Read more
Project Vote’s Youth Registration Efforts a Success
A national effort to increase Election Day participation among young voters was a success in Springfield, Mass. this week, according to an abc40 report. Read more
Project Vote to Michigan’s Political Parties: Losing Your Home Doesn’t Mean Losing the Right to Vote
n response to reports Wednesday that the Michigan GOP intended to use lists of home foreclosures as the basis for a “voter caging” operation, Project Vote wrote a letter today to both major political parties explaining why challenging the eligibility of voters on the basis of their presence on a foreclosure list would violate state and federal laws and risk federal criminal penalties. Read more
Project Vote Denounces GOP Plans to Foreclose on the Voting Rights of Low-Income Michigan Residents
The Michigan GOP has announced plans to use a list of housing foreclosures as the basis for a broad voter-caging operation, as reported yesterday by Eartha Jane Melzer in The Michigan Messenger. Read more
New Directive to Increase Protection for Ohio Voters From Partisan Voter Caging
In response to strong concerns expressed by Project Vote about the potential for partisan abuse of Ohio’s vague voter challenger laws, Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner took an important step to clarify the law and protect Ohio voters from partisan voter caging. Read more
Nearly 600,000 Ohio Voters May Be Disenfranchised
Nearly 600,000 eligible Ohio voters may be dropped from the voter rolls if Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner doesn't act to protect these voters, according to findings based on publicly available information discovered by Advancement Project and Project Vote. Read more