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Groups Win Legal Battle to Protect Ohio Five-Day Window: Voters Can Register and Vote on Same Day
Project Vote, working with a legal team led by ACLU Ohio and Ohio State University Professor Dan Tokaji and other voting rights organizations, successfully protected Ohio's five-day Same-Day Registration (SDR) yesterday. Read more
Voting Rights Groups Seek to Protect Same-Day Registration in Ohio
Lawyers for Project Vote and other voting rights organizations are coordinating efforts in a legal battle to protect Ohio’s five-day Same-Day Registration (SDR) period from lawsuits filed by two Republican voters. Read more
Project Vote’s Youth Registration Efforts a Success
A national effort to increase Election Day participation among young voters was a success in Springfield, Mass. this week, according to an abc40 report. Read more
Project Vote to Michigan’s Political Parties: Losing Your Home Doesn’t Mean Losing the Right to Vote
n response to reports Wednesday that the Michigan GOP intended to use lists of home foreclosures as the basis for a “voter caging” operation, Project Vote wrote a letter today to both major political parties explaining why challenging the eligibility of voters on the basis of their presence on a foreclosure list would violate state and federal laws and risk federal criminal penalties. Read more
Project Vote Denounces GOP Plans to Foreclose on the Voting Rights of Low-Income Michigan Residents
The Michigan GOP has announced plans to use a list of housing foreclosures as the basis for a broad voter-caging operation, as reported yesterday by Eartha Jane Melzer in The Michigan Messenger. Read more
New Directive to Increase Protection for Ohio Voters From Partisan Voter Caging
In response to strong concerns expressed by Project Vote about the potential for partisan abuse of Ohio’s vague voter challenger laws, Ohio’s Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner took an important step to clarify the law and protect Ohio voters from partisan voter caging. Read more
Nearly 600,000 Ohio Voters May Be Disenfranchised
Nearly 600,000 eligible Ohio voters may be dropped from the voter rolls if Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner doesn't act to protect these voters, according to findings based on publicly available information discovered by Advancement Project and Project Vote. Read more
Federal Court Orders Mo. Dept. of Social Services to Comply with Federal Voter Registration Law
United States District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey issued an order yesterday, July 15, 2008, directing the Missouri Department of Social Services immediately to comply with a federal law requiring agencies to provide voter registration applications and assistance to their clients. Read more
Project Vote Statement on NVRA Agreement Between the DOJ and the State of Arizona
A pivotal agreement was reached yesterday between the Arizona’s Department of Economic Security (DES) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to implement federal law that requires the state to provide voter registration services at public assistance agencies. Read more
Supreme Court Voter ID Decision Legalizes Voter Disenfranchisement
On Monday, April 28, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to Indiana’s law (Crawford v. Marion County Elections Board) requiring voters to show a government-issued photo identification before they may cast a ballot. Read more