“We have to fix that,” President Obama said on Election Night 2012, following widespread reports of long lines at polling stations. In the beginning of 2014, a report from the bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration (PCEA) recommended a number of common sense reforms to improve voting, including increasing opportunities for early voting.
There is a growing, bipartisan consensus that reform is needed. However, pro-voting reforms like early voting continue to meet strong partisan resistance, and many states continue to pass voter ID laws and other restrictions that place hurdles between eligible Americans and the ballot box. Meanwhile, millions of citizens—disproportionately Americans of color—are prevented from voting at all due to strict felony disenfranchisement laws.
Project Vote believes our democracy works best when everyone participates, and we work to implement common-sense reforms that make it easier, not harder, for every eligible American to cast a ballot that counts.
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Election Legislation Hearings of the Week
Hearings for important election bills are scheduled as follows: Read more
Voter ID Advances in S.C.; Citizen Activist Campaign Quashed in Wis.
The contentious voter ID issue has caused some ruckus in at least two states this week. Read more
Mo.Voter ID Debate is Down to the Wire: Early Voting Provision Rejected by Advocates
The Missouri legislature is once again pushing a controversial measure to combat a mythical problem in the state—registration and voter... Read more
Va. Adjourns with Many Key Bills Expected to Return in 2011
Virginia’s 2010 legislative session began January 13 and continued until March13. Overwhelmingly, the commonwealth’s budget crisis took center stage in... Read more
Voter ID is “a Lot to Have to Go Through for a Constitutional Right,” says Indiana Judge
Although the 2008 presidential election showed unprecedented increases in turnout from underrepresented citizens, their rates of voter registration and participation... Read more
Indiana Voter ID Case to be Heard in State Supreme Court Today
Six months after being struck down as unconstitutional for exempting absentee voters, Indiana’s contentious voter ID law may once again... Read more
Voter ID Initiative May Be on Mississippi Ballot, According to State GOP
Mississippi voters may vote on a voter ID measure in November 2011, said state Republicans this week. According to the... Read more
Voter ID Debate Weathers Storm: Bill Passes in S.C., another Brews in Missouri
After the state Supreme Court shut down Indiana’s contentious photo voter ID law as unconstitutional last September for unfairly exempting... Read more
Living the Past in the Present: Voter Intimidation Tactics Still Thrive in America
In observance of Black History month, it is fitting to revisit America’s less than stellar record in the ongoing effort... Read more
New Brief Discusses Improvements for Counting Provisional Ballots
Although the Help America Vote Act of 2002 provided “fail-safe” provisional voting to prevent the unnecessary disenfranchisement of eligible citizens who show up at the polls to find that they are not on the rolls, there are still thousands of voters whose ballots are not being counted. Read more