Project Vote and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) sent a pre-litigation notice letter to Secretary of State Todd Rokita calling on him to bring Indiana into compliance with a federal law, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), that requires public assistance agencies offer voter registration services to their clients. Read more
Barack Obama's 8.5 million-vote margin over John McCain was fueled by a more than 20 percent surge in minority voting, a new analysis of exit polling data suggests. Read more
America's electorate may have changed in striking and subtle ways in 2008 compared to 2004, according to a preliminary study by a national voter registration group that found sizeable numbers of white voters did not vote in battleground states this November while record numbers of minorities turned out and voted. Read more
Brian Mellor didn't intend to be a criminal defense lawyer when he went to law school some 28 years ago. Read more
n the 2008 election Americans may once again be seeing law enforcement turned into a tool of voter suppression. Read more
The voting rights groups Project Vote and the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) are working to make sure every eligible Missourian gets on the voter rolls, but boards of elections may be preventing eligible voters from voting in next week’s elections by hampering the efforts of groups to obtain lists of people who tried to register with the boards but whose applications were rejected. Read more
Decision in Harkless v. Brunner, establishing an important precedent that state officials have ultimate responsibility for compliance with the NVRA. Read more
An article appeared in the October 24 New York Times that misrepresents comments made by Project Vote about the total number of registrations gathered through the organization’s joint voter registration drive with the community organization ACORN. Today Project Vote issued the following statement in response: Read more
Today Project Vote sent a letter to Gregory Fouratt, U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, to request an investigation of intimidation and voter suppression by the New Mexico Republican Party. Read more
In 2004, the anticipated surge in voting among traditionally Democratic constituencies--the young, minorities, low-income families--never materialized...But activists are optimistic that 2008 will be different. Read more