“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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Voter Suppression Bill to Be Heard in N.C. Senate
Today, an exhaustingly restrictive election bill is being debated by the North Carolina Senate Rules Committee. Initially a strict voter... Read more
Post-racial and Post-Section 4
At the signing of the 2006 reauthorization of the VRA, after its unanimous approval by the Senate, George W. Bush... Read more
Florida Takes a Step Forward But Misses the Opportunity to Truly Fix Voting Issues
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a law Monday that was a step forward in addressing the state’s broken election system... Read more
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the NVRA, #NVRAat20 Twitter Party
Monday, May 20 is the 20th Anniversary of the signing on the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Let’s celebrate! Join us... Read more
Early Voting Bill Advances in New York
New York may soon join 32 other states in providing its electorate the opportunity to vote early if the Assembly’s... Read more
Poll finds N.C. Voters Favor Alternative to Voter ID
The voter ID debate is typically divided along party lines with one side saying it is needed to prevent voter... Read more
Delaware Bill Gives Voice to New Group of Citizens
Delaware lawmakers took another step forward in helping resolve the “glaring contradiction” that keeps Americans who have already served their... Read more
Montana Voting Bill Would Hurt Reservation Residents
Montana Republicans are fast-tracking a bill to remove the option to register and vote on Election Day. If passed, the... Read more
Group Asks Florida Lawmakers to Fix Voting System
This week, a group of voting rights and civil rights advocates, including Project Vote, wrote to the Florida Senate Community... Read more
Where Voter ID is Required To Cast a Regular Ballot
Map by National Conference of State Legislatures via Washington Post Strict photo voter ID laws are popular in state legislatures.... Read more