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Low-Income Ohio Voters Registering In Droves: Registration Now Permitted At Public Assistance Offices
Voter right advocates said more than 100,000 low-income Ohio residents have applied to register to vote at public-assistance offices in the months after a federal court settlement on the issue. Read more
Voter registration surge reported: Agencies were ordered to help low-income applicants
Ten times as many poor people are filling out voter registration applications at public assistance offices in Ohio now than had been doing so before a voting rights advocacy group won a legal settlement. Read more
NM settles lawsuit over voter registration law
New Mexico has settled a lawsuit filed by advocacy groups last year over compliance with a law that lets people register to vote at various state agencies, including the Motor Vehicle Division when they get a driver's license. Read more
Will Touchscreen Devices Transform Voter Registration Systems?
Santa Clara County made a strategic move last Friday, May 14, when its Registrar of Voters became the first in the nation to accept electronic signatures for voter registrations. 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
Groups file suit over denial of access to voter-registration records
On Tuesday, leading voter protection groups Advancement Project and Project Vote filed a lawsuit in Virginia over access to certain voter registration records. Read more
GOP Pushes Voter ID Bills in the South
Passing voter ID legislation is quickly becoming one of the GOP's top issues for the 2009 legislative session. Read more
Virginia Senate approves voting rights restoration amendment
The Virginia Senate passed one measure, and defeated another, that would give the legislature constitutional power to restore voting rights to non-violent felons who lost them due to criminal convictions. Read more
Groups press FSSA to let clients register to vote
When low-income Hoosiers turn to state social-services offices for help, they're supposed to get something more than financial assistance. They're also supposed to be able to register to vote. Read more
BLOG: Missouri Voter ID Law Back on the Table?
Two Republicans in the state legislature are reigniting a failed effort to institute a constitutionally-mandated, highly-restrictive voter ID law. Read more