Protecting Voter Registration Drives
Since the beginning of the Civil Rights movement, voter engagement efforts have played a vital role in our democratic process. While there are other ways to reach the tens of millions of underrepresented Americans, no substitute exists for the patriotic act of canvassing our country’s neighborhoods to help community members register to vote.
However, in recent years voter registration efforts have faced growing resistance and attack from partisan forces opposed to expanding the franchise. States have increasingly imposed severe restrictions on drive activities, threatening to make voter registration efforts prohibitively expensive and risky in many states.
Project Vote is dedicated to protecting this vital legacy of the Civil Rights movement, and ensuring that voter registration drives can continue to operate unimpeded by threat of persecution and unfair administrative restrictions.
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Voter Registration Guidance in 25 States
Project Vote is proud to announce the updating and expanding of its library of state Voter Registration Guides. Covering 25 states,... Read more
Voter Registration Drives: A Thing of the Future
Community driven voter registration drives are still the gateway to democracy to millions of Americans. However, after the overall success... Read more
Legislative Brief: Voter Registration Drives
Community-based voter registration organizations serve as critical intermediaries between states and citizens who are currently alienated from the political process. Such voter registration drives have long been a feature of American politics and have helped countless Americans become registered voters. This tremendous success, however, elicited an organized backlash that came in two parts: claims of voter fraud and the introduction of state bills that were designed to restrict voter registration drives. Read more
Ad agency creates voter registration app
Echo Interaction Group is teaming up with Project Vote to design a mobile canvassing tool for AppleÕs iPad as a way to increase voter registration and reduce canvassing costs. Read more
VR Drives Go Paperless with New Software for iPad & Other Mobile Devices
Project Vote, one of the nation's leading voter engagement organizations, has teamed up with Orlando-based advertising agency Echo Interaction Group to revolutionize how community organizations conduct voter registration drives. Read more
Project Vote and League of Women Voters Announce High School Registration Project
The League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) and Project Vote are pleased to announce a major new initiative to... Read more
What “Liberal” Media? Study Shows How Press is Often Manipulated to Serve Right-Wing Agenda
Media manipulation by the right-wing to influence public perception has been a decade-long tactic to undermine voter registration in America.... Read more
ACORN v. Corbett (Pennsylvania)
ACORN filed suit in the U.S. District Court Western Division of Pennsylvania, against Allegheny County district attorney, Stephen Zappala and... Read more
Project Vote and ACLU File ACORN Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Pennsylvania Voter-Registration Law
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and Project Vote filed a lawsuit today on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), charges that a Pennsylvania law unconstitutionally restricts ACORN’s right to conduct voter-registration drives. Read more
Project Vote Releases New Report Evaluating Fifteen Years of the NVRA
Today Project Vote is proud to release The NVRA at Fifteen: A Report to Congress, the first comprehensive report evaluating the implementation of this landmark law. Read more