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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

Poll finds N.C. Voters Favor Alternative to Voter ID

By Erin Ferns Lee April 18, 2013

The voter ID debate is typically divided along party lines with one side saying it is needed to prevent voter... Read more

Ballots in Question for Students at Liberal N.C. College

By Erin Ferns Lee November 3, 2012

Update 11/6/12: Attorneys from Project Vote sent a letter to election officials in Buncombe County, as well as to the State Board of... Read more

Charlotte Observer says no photo voter ID for North Carolina

By Sarah Massey March 13, 2012

The Charlotte Observer today offers up hard data on why photo voter IDs will create undue hurdles for citizens to... Read more

Voting Rights Victory in North Carolina

By Erin Ferns Lee December 22, 2011

Today, a D.C. federal court rejected a challenge to an integral part of the Voting Rights Act that protects minorities’... Read more

Voter Registration Laws Scrutinized by Civil Rights Groups

By Erin Ferns Lee September 28, 2011

Voter registration procedures that require proof of citizenship to be enfranchised are being challenged by civil rights and citizen groups... 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

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

Public to Weigh in on North Carolina Voter ID Bill

By Erin Ferns Lee March 15, 2011

Today, North Carolinians will be able to weigh in on the much anticipated voter ID bill in the House Elections... Read more

Voter Fraud Hysteria Leads to Fruitless Investigations, Voter Intimidation in Two States

By Erin Ferns Lee October 27, 2010

The conservative activists’ largely partisan voter fraud debate, as Ian Urbina at the New York Times wrote this morning, “is... Read more

The Proof is in the Numbers: Surge in Low-Income VR Applications follows Successful NVRA Lawsuits

By Michael Slater July 30, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans—mostly women—are registering to vote at public assistance agencies in a handful of states as... Read more