Groups Sue Mass. for Failing to Offer Voter Registration to Low-Income Residents
Yesterday, voting rights groups filed suit against the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance for... Read more
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Voting Rights Act Co-Author, Nicholas Katzenbach Dies
The civil rights movement lost a hero yesterday: Nicholas Katzenbach, whom I was privileged to know for over 20 years.... Read more
Voter List Maintenance Procedure Could Hurt More Than It Helps
Florida’s list-matching procedure that compares the voter rolls with the motor vehicle’s records to vet out “potential non-citizens” may hurt... Read more
Federal Judge Rules that Louisiana Must Offer Voter Registration to Public Agency Clients
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
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
Ohio House Speaker Says No More Voting Law Changes Until After Election
The “pre-emptive” repeal of HB 194—a law that severely limits early voting in Ohio—has the support of the House, according to House... Read more
Georgia Settles Voter Registration Lawsuit, Agrees to Provide Registration Services to Low-Income Citizens
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
Today, an 11-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Arizona’s restrictive election law that required voter applicants... Read more
ALEC Announces End of Voter Suppression Task Force
The organization that has been exposed for pushing voter ID legislation across the country has announced today that they will... Read more
Strict Voter ID Laws May Disenfranchise 25,000 Transgender Voters, Study Finds
Requiring photo ID to vote has become a contentious issue across the nation as more states—entrenched in partisan battles—pass these... Read more