Category: Project Vote News

Citizens Are Wrongfully Targeted in Florida Voter Purge Effort

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Florida continues with their voter purging plan, despite our warning that eligible citizens could be wrongfully removed from the voter rolls... Read more

UPDATE: Mich. Voter Suppression Bills Approved by Committee; Headed to House

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Voter suppression bills SB 751, 754, and 803—which place new regulatory requirements on community-based voter registration drives and expand the... Read more

Michigan Election Bills Miss the Mark

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Voting rights groups warn Michigan lawmakers that a suite of new election law proposals avoids existing problems while creating further confusion... Read more

Groups Sue Mass. for Failing to Offer Voter Registration to Low-Income Residents

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Yesterday, voting rights groups filed suit against the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance for... Read more

Federal Judge Rules that Louisiana Must Offer Voter Registration to Public Agency Clients

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Voting rights advocates won an important legal victory that will ensure that Louisiana’s public assistance agency clients—the state’s poorest and... Read more

Penn. Put on Notice for Failing to Provide Voter Registration to Low-Income Citizens

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Attorneys from Demos, Project Vote, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sent a pre-litigation notice letter on Monday to... Read more

Georgia Settles Voter Registration Lawsuit, Agrees to Provide Registration Services to Low-Income Citizens

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An important victory that brings us a step closer to modernizing our voter registration system at public assistance agencies was... Read more

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

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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 Montana’s Take on Citizens United Decision

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Project Vote board member Frank Askin–Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic at Rutgers School... Read more

Federal Court Rules That N.M. Violated Voter Registration Law

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The federal Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that the State of New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) violated... Read more