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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

New Policy Paper Examines Same Day Registration

By Michael Slater June 21, 2013

Project Vote is pleased to release the next installment in our Issues in Election Administration policy-paper series, Same Day Registration.... Read more

Fight Voter Suppression: Tell Congress to Pass Same Day Registration

By Project Vote May 31, 2013

While state lawmakers have been busy finding ways to undermine democracy by proposing laws to block the vote, federal lawmakers... Read more

Motor Voter Law Turns 20 Today: Join the Twitter Party #NVRAat20

By Erin Ferns Lee May 20, 2013

Today, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the landmark National Voter Registration Act that helped an estimated 141 million Americans... Read more

Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the NVRA, #NVRAat20 Twitter Party

By Sarah Massey May 15, 2013

Monday, May 20 is the 20th Anniversary of the signing on the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Let’s celebrate! Join us... Read more

Montana Voting Bill Would Hurt Reservation Residents

By Erin Ferns Lee April 11, 2013

Montana Republicans are fast-tracking a bill to remove the option to register and vote on Election Day. If passed, the... Read more

Bill Alert: N.M. and Montana Propose Bills to Impede Voter Registration Efforts

By Erin Ferns Lee February 8, 2013

Lawmakers in New Mexico and Montana introduced bills this week to impose further restrictions on community voter registration drives. Read more

Project Vote Applauds Congressional Leadership on Election Reform

By Erin Ferns Lee November 16, 2012

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) and U.S. Representative George Miller (D-Calif.) both introduced federal legislation designed to... Read more

New Census Report Shows Voter Participation Trends in U.S.

By Estelle Rogers June 7, 2012

Recent U.S. census data, culled from a survey of 50,000 households, underscores a lot of the patterns that election-watchers have... Read more

Election Day registration works for our most important primaries, Iowa and New Hampshire, so why not for every election?

By Sarah Massey January 12, 2012

Our nation’s first two primaries make it easy for citizens to come to the polls and vote via Election Day... Read more

Iowa GOP Doesn’t Think Voter ID is Necessary

By Sarah Massey January 3, 2012

Iowa Caucus Won’t Require Voter ID, and Will Allow Election Day Registration, in Order to Encourage Participation  All across the... Read more