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Over 200 Organizations Ask Census Bureau to Develop Solution to “Prison Gerrymandering”
Last week, Project Vote joined more than 200 civil rights, voting rights and criminal justice organizations in sending a letter calling... Read more
New Census Report Shows Voter Participation Trends in U.S.
Recent U.S. census data, culled from a survey of 50,000 households, underscores a lot of the patterns that election-watchers have... Read more
Killing Census Survey Creates More Harm Than Savings
The House of Representatives voted 232-190 to defund the American Community Survey this month, supposedly on the grounds of budgetary... Read more
Montgomery County Board of Elections to review registration practices
Montgomery County elections officials said they will review registration procedures in response to allegations from a conservative watchdog group that the county’s rolls are packed with ineligible voters — even as advocates and county Elections Board staff raised questions about the group’s claims. Read more
Throw Sand in the Gears of Everything
Project Vote board member, Frances Fox Piven writes about the history of mass resistance and how it may relate to the "political dangers of a Trump administration" today. Read more
Who benefited from same-day voter registration in Chicago?
Same-day registration, an initiative designed to improve ballot access, caught on in white areas of Chicago more so than black and Latino communities during last spring’s primaries. Read more
Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook
Ari Berman discusses how "Texas treats voter registration like a criminal offense and makes it as difficult as possible to do." Read more
Will the Latino ‘sleeping giant’ wake and vote this November?
During the past few presidential elections, national media began to speculate on the effect of the Latino electorate and even gave it the moniker “the sleeping giant.” But every year, despite increased potential, it seemed that giant hadn’t yet awakened. Indicators suggest this could be the year... Read more
Representational Bias in the 2014 Electorate
Analyzing data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, Representational Bias reviews the story of who was eligible to vote, who was registered to vote, and who did vote in the 2014 general election. Read more
Representational Bias in the 2014 Electorate
A major new report identifies where participatory gaps still exist in the American electorate Read more