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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Young Voter Asks Candidates and Media to “Help Us Help You”
According to Project Vote’s recent poll, only 79.1 percent of voters under the age of 30 plan to vote in... Read more
Cracks in the Media Frame Propping Up the Tea Party?
Three weeks after reviewing (and deciding not to cover) Project Vote’s major new survey documenting how out of step the... Read more
Beneath the Tea Party’s Anti-Government Rallying Cry, Americans Call for Government to Do More
“Can you hear me?” That’s the recurring refrain in a radio promo for this weekend’s “Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention,”... Read more
WSJ: Poll on Tea Party Movement Growth Also Indicates Mobility Among Minority Voters
The “Tea Party” movement continues to garner attention, supporting assumptions that they are “very ticked-off people” who are prepared to... Read more
Poll is a ‘Refreshing Corrective’ to Media Narrative of Tea Party Domination
Project Vote’s new poll, which reveals the “rising electorate” from 2008 has starkly different views about the role of government... Read more
New Poll Shows More Americans Want a Government That Does More, Not Less
Today, Project Vote released What Happened to Hope and Change? A Poll of 2008 Voters, a new report summarizing the... Read more
Election Day Preparations Reach New Heights, but Will Voters Turn Out?
If there is a checklist for Election Day preparations, policy makers, candidates, and voter registration advocates have covered many bases... Read more
WaPo: Interest Groups to Spend Record Amounts in 2010 Elections
For the upcoming 2010 midterm elections, nearly two dozen political advocacy groups are expected to exceed even what they spent... Read more
Wanted: Voters’ Views on Changing Government
What do voters really think about dramatic changes already underway? Today’s political chattering class—television barkers, talk radio hotheads, and even... Read more