The mission of the Voter Participation Program is to increase voter participation among historically disenfranchised communities. For over 20 years, Project Vote has developed and run large-scale voter registration drives and Get Out the Vote programs that placed paid canvassers—occasionally volunteers—of local community organizations in high traffic sites in neighborhoods of color.
Currently, Project Vote fulfills this mission by providing specialized technical help to partner organizations and nonprofit service providers who want to run voter engagement efforts within their constituencies, and by contributing leadership, knowledge, and critical infrastructure to the civic engagement sector.
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Voter Fraud Experts: Trump’s “Bizarre” Claim Of Illegal Votes Could Lead To Severe Voter Restrictions
President Donald Trump’s continued bogus claims that between three and five million illegal votes were cast in the 2016 presidential election have drawn concern and criticism from voter fraud experts who say the allegation hurts the new administration’s credibility and paves the way for severe voter restrictions. Read more
All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None
The overwhelming consensus from election officials across the country is that there is virtually no voter fraud in America. 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
Atkins: Lower courts striking down voter ID laws
In a series of rulings over the last two weeks, appellate courts across the country have been filling in the hole blown out of the Voting Rights Act of 1964 three years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court... Read more
Philly Barbers Aim to Boost Voter Turnout
Through the Sharp Insight program, up to 50 barbers across Philadelphia will receive paid training to distribute basic information around elections and voting. 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
OPINION: The Latino Vote: The Way Forward
Many factors contributed to President Obama’s re-election. But few are as important as the Latino vote. Read more
Has The Tea Party Lost The Messaging Battle?
Project Vote's Viviana Hurtado joins Michel Martin for a post-election roundtable Read more
OPINION: Election 2012: On Tuesday, the Latina Vote Can Make History
More than 12 million Latinos are expected to vote in this election, which is a record. Read more
Was The Storm a Political Trick or Treat?
Project Vote spokesperson Viviana Hurtado joins a discussion of how Hurricane Sandy will effect the election. Read more