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Advocacy

Project Vote Testifies Against Call for Potentially Illegal Voter Purge
By Project Vote April 24, 2017

A “conservative legal watchdog group” has targeted Maryland’s largest county in its latest effort to force election officials to purge... Read more

Staff Posts

Matt Masterson is 50 Percent Correct
By Michael Slater April 14, 2017

The EAC chair is right: There is very little voter fraud in America, but he’s far off base in claiming that evidence of voter suppression is “virtually non-existent.” Read more

In the States

The Responsible Way to Increase Voter Access: Same Day Registration
By Brian McWalters April 13, 2017

Same day registration is known to boost voter turnout and keep voter rolls clean. Why aren't more states passing and implementing SDR laws? Read more

Blog Filters

What Kind of Year Has It Been for Election Laws?

By Project Vote October 6, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC — With Americans heading to the polls in just four weeks, a new report from voting rights group... Read more

Project Vote Releases New Policy Paper on Voter Registration Transparency

By Michael Slater August 15, 2014

Today, Project Vote is pleased to release the latest policy paper in our Issues in Election Administration series, Voter Registration... Read more

Officials Examine Bipartisan Voting Recommendations

By Emily Rouleau July 25, 2014

At a time when voting rights is an issue of national concern, and the problems faced by voters in 2012... Read more

Voting Rights Victory in Florida

By Michael Slater April 2, 2014

Yesterday, in a major victory for Florida voters, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that Florida’s... Read more

Balancing Voter Purge Efforts with Voter Outreach

By Erin Ferns Lee November 8, 2013

“Voter rolls are messy, and someone has to clean them up,” wrote Reid Wilson at Washington Posts‘ blog, GovBeat. It’s... Read more

Voter Suppression Schemes Under the Radar After Shelby County Decision

By Estelle Rogers November 6, 2013

In one of the best analogies ever found in a Supreme Court opinion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likened the Voting... Read more

Florida Voter Purge Lawsuit Heads Back to Court

By Project Vote October 9, 2013

Civil Rights Groups to Argue that Statewide Purge Program Violates Federal Law Miami – Florida’s 2012 voter purge program goes... Read more

Gov. Scott’s Voter Purge Tour Ends – Many Questions Remain

By Project Vote October 9, 2013

Today Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner concluded the last of five meetings across the state, meetings supposedly designed to... Read more

Virginia Registrar Cautiously Implements New Voter Purge Law

By Erin Ferns Lee September 25, 2013

Virginia is one of two states to pass a law that allows it to compare voter rolls with neighboring states... Read more

True the Vote Allegations Prove Untrue in Pasco Co., FL

By Michelle Kanter Cohen September 13, 2013

Recently, the Tea-Party affiliated group True the Vote announced that they had identified a number of  voters who had “double-voted,”... Read more