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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

Project Vote Files to Intervene in Voter Registration Case

By Project Vote November 14, 2013

Seeking to protect the rights of eligible voters in Arizona and Kansas, the voting rights organization Project Vote yesterday moved... Read more

SCOTUS Sides with Landmark Voter Registration Law

By Project Vote June 17, 2013

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its ruling in the case of Arizona v. The Inter Tribal... Read more

Bill Alert: SCOTUS Deliberates Over Arizona Voter Registration Law; Two States Introduce Similar Measures

By Erin Ferns Lee March 21, 2013

On Monday, the United States Supreme Court “heard arguments about whether states have the power under the federal law to... Read more

Congress Holds Hearing on State of Voting Rights

By Michelle Rupp December 19, 2012

Today, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing to address The State of the Right to Vote After... Read more

Court Rejects Arizona’s Proof of Citizenship Requirement for Voter Registration

By Project Vote April 17, 2012

Today, an 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Arizona’s restrictive election law that required voter applicants... Read more

Project Vote Board Member Discusses Ariz. Campaign Finance Case

By PV Admin July 1, 2011

In today’s Star-Ledger (NJ), Project Vote board member Frank Askin, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Constitutional... Read more

Federal Court Revisits Restrictive Arizona Voter Registration Law

By Project Vote June 21, 2011

Arizona’s “proof-of-citizenship” voter registration law is being revisited in a federal court. An 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit... Read more

Vote Centers: More Convenient for Voters or the State?

By Estelle Rogers February 9, 2011

There’s a bill that was passed by the Indiana legislature this week that would allow counties to establish “vote centers,”... Read more

Three States Propose Laws to Improve Youth Voter Registration Access

By PV Admin February 3, 2011

In recent years, six states have adopted measures to help ingrain the democratic process in the nation’s young people earlier... Read more

Latino Voter Suppression: Past and Present

By Anthony Balady October 29, 2010

A century ago, voter suppression took the form of Jim Crow laws that openly attempted to prevent African-Americans from voting.... Read more