List Maintenance

Voter registration is only the first step: we also have to make sure that registrants get on the rolls, and stay on the rolls.

That’s why Project Vote works to protect eligible voters from wrongful purges, voter caging, “no match, no vote” programs, and other dangerous efforts to “clean-up” the lists.

Additionally, we fight to make sure that voter registration and list maintenance policies are publicly transparent, in order to ensure that states are not using arbitrary, error-prone, or politically-motivated criteria for rejecting applicants or purging voters.

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Legislative Brief: Maintaining Current and Accurate Voter Lists

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Every state is tasked with the duty to maintain current and accurate computerized statewide voter registration rolls, while at the same time ensuring that no eligible voters are wrongfully removed from the rolls. This report discusses some of the challenges inherent in balancing these two goals, and offers recommendations for implementing best practices. Read more

New Project Vote Policy Paper: No Match, No Vote

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Continuing our 2010 Issues in Election Administration series, a suite of materials designed for anyone wanting to know more about key... Read more

Kansas Takes Steps to Ensure Voters Are Not Improperly Purged by Interstate Data-Match

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A seemingly harmless trend in voter list maintenance is to compare voter lists between states and cancel apparent matches. However,... Read more

Lawsuit Filed in Virginia over Access to Rejected Voter Applications

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One of the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) is that state records relating to voter registration and... Read more

Virginia Election Officials Sued for Unlawfully Denying Access to Voter Files

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Today, leading voter protection groups Advancement Project and Project Vote, along with pro bono cooperating attorneys from the law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Norfolk against Elisa Long, general registrar of Norfolk and Nancy Rodrigues, secretary of the State Board of Elections, for denying access to certain voter registration records.  Read more

Project Vote v. Long (Virginia)

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After receiving reports from their local community partners regarding large numbers of rejected voter registration applications—particularly from students at the... Read more

Kansas Secretary of State Issues New Instructions About Interestate Database Matching

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In response to concerns expressed by national voting rights groups Project Vote and the Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN), the Kansas Secretary of State has issued new instructions to county election officials to ensure that eligible voters are not wrongfully removed from the rolls under an ongoing program to update voter registration databases based on interstate matching. Read more

Voters Still Disenfranchised by 120 Year Old Florida Statute

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Last month, our nation celebrated the remembrance of one of America’s greatest heroes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who stands... Read more

Living the Past in the Present: Voter Intimidation Tactics Still Thrive in America

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In observance of Black History month, it is fitting to revisit America’s less than stellar record in the ongoing effort... Read more

Policy Paper: Maintaining Current and Accurate Voter Lists

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This report discusses some of the challenges for election officials inherent in maintaining accurate voter lists while ensuring no eligible voters are wrongfully removed from the rolls, and offers recommendations for implementing best practices. Read more