Author: Project Vote

Cross-posted to Project Vote’s Voting Matters Blog The California Legislature approved a bill last week to extend voter registration privileges to 17-year-old citizens. If signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bill...

Cross-posted to Project Vote’s Voting Matters Blog Last month, we reported that citizens are becoming more sympathetic to voting rights restoration as they realize disenfranchisement of released felons does not just...

Cross-posted at Project Vote’s Voting Matters Blog by Michael McDunnah A New York Times story this week reported that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is planning to return the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division...

More than fifteen years after the passage of the National Voter Registration Act, few states are complying with the law’s requirement that voter registration services are provided to those who apply for public assistance....

Cross posted to Project Vote’s Voting Matters Blog A Georgia voter list maintenance procedure that the Department of Justice shut down as “discriminatory” in May is being brought up again by Secretary of State...