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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

New Guides to Helping Citizens Register to Vote

By Erin Ferns Lee March 21, 2014

Project Vote has released new guides to voter registration laws for several states. Project Vote developed these guides on behalf of our... Read more

When Election Officers Create Hurdles to Voting

By Sarah Massey January 6, 2012

What do the Secretaries of State from Colorado, Kansas, Maine and New Mexico have in common? They have all tried... Read more

Lawmakers Fight Back Against Maine Voters

By Erin Ferns Lee November 14, 2011

Last Tuesday, three out of five Mainers voted against the state Legislature’s move to restrict access to the ballot. In... Read more

Voters Speak Up on Voting Rights Restrictions

By Erin Ferns Lee November 9, 2011

The battle over voting rights reached a new peak yesterday, when voters in Maine and Mississippi voted on controversial measures... Read more

Weekly Voting Rights News Roundup

By Erin Ferns Lee September 24, 2011

Voting rights victories abound this week! On a national level, the cornerstone Voting Rights Act of 1965 was upheld by... Read more

Student Voter Fraud Probe Finds No Evidence of Illegal Voting

By Erin Ferns Lee September 22, 2011

A two-month long voter fraud investigation in Maine concludes with no evidence of illegal voting by the 206 students that... Read more

Voting Rights News Roundup

By Erin Ferns Lee September 9, 2011

Election season is already underway with the nation talking about the state of voting rights. The War on Voting that... Read more

Younger Teens Can Register to Vote in Some States Too

By Erin Ferns Lee August 31, 2011

The 2012 election season is already beginning to heat up and with that, we can expect more citizens to register to... Read more

Thousands of Mainers Support Election Day Registration

By Project Vote August 15, 2011

About 68,000 Mainers signed a petition to reinstate a 38-year-old election policy that has been credited for putting Maine on... Read more

Election Reform Used to Attack Access to the Ballot

By Erin Ferns Lee June 13, 2011

Georgia Logothetis at Daily Kos writes how state lawmakers are “Using Election Reform to Decrease Turnout,” including laws to tighten... Read more