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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

Georgia Failing to Offer Voter Registration to Public Assistance Clients

By PV Admin January 25, 2011

Project Vote and partners put Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on notice today for failing to comply with a... Read more

Shifting the Focus to Improving Voter Registration Access, Not Inhibiting It

By Erin Ferns Lee January 13, 2011

In a democracy that can only boast that 71 percent of its citizens are registered and able to exercise their... Read more

Louisiana Defaulting on Federal Obligation to Register Low-Income Residents

By PV Admin January 12, 2011

Today, Project Vote, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and New Orleans attorney Ronald Wilson put Louisiana Secretary... Read more

LWV Joins Forces to Bring Voter Registration Opportunities to Low-Income Arizonans

By Michael Richards September 30, 2010

Earlier this year, the League of Women Voters and Project Vote teamed up to find that, despite intervention from the... Read more

League of Women Voters and Advocates Urge Arizona to Follow Federal Voter Registration Law

By Michael Richards September 16, 2010

In 2008, the Department of Justice found substantial non-compliance with Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act–which requires states... Read more

The Nation: Fight Tea Party Voters with Fresh Voters

By PV Admin August 23, 2010

Until recently, it was a “lonely fight” by voting rights groups to implement the National Voter Registration Act at public... Read more

Celebrating Women’s Suffrage Brings Another Election Issue to Light

By Erin Ferns Lee August 19, 2010

Next week marks the 90th anniversary of the American woman’s right to vote. Since the passage of the 19th amendment,... Read more

NY Times: DOJ Enforcement of Federal Law Could Bring Millions to the Voter Rolls

By Erin Ferns Lee August 10, 2010

Fifteen years ago, Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act, also known as “Motor Voter” law, to help facilitate and... Read more

Voter Registration Among Low-Income Ohioans Increases Ten-Fold

By PV Admin August 6, 2010

Voter registration among low-income Ohio citizens has increased ten-fold, following a court settlement to bring the state into compliance with... Read more

KSFX: NVRA Enforcement Enfranchises a Quarter Million Low Income Missourians

By PV Admin August 3, 2010

Missouri broadcast news source, KSFX – Ozarks Fox, reported on the “skyrocketing” registration rates of the state’s low income citizens.... Read more