Month: August 2017

Want to make sure you don’t miss the month’s best opinion pieces, deep dives, and analysis? Here’s your monthly round-up of must-read articles on voting rights from around the web:… Read More August Round-up: 4 Must-Read Articles

Six years ago, the Wisconsin legislature and Governor Scott Walker launched a campaign to enact a comprehensive voter suppression scheme that transformed virtually every element of Wisconsin’s election system.  This… Read More Wisconsin Spotlight: Legislation, Litigation, and Confusion

The purest form of participation in democracy is voting. It is a right given to every citizen by our Constitution, both naturalized and natural-born. To protect this right, courts have… Read More Why Laws Requiring Language Assistance in Elections Are Crucial to Democracy…and Why We Should Fight Like Hell to Protect Them

In the United States, each citizen gets one vote—down from the local county clerk up to the President of the United States. But for the highest offices in the land… Read More The Good, the Bad, and the Electoral College: a Q&A about the Electoral College

Last weekend, Charlottesville, Virginia saw violence borne out of a resurgence of white supremacism. The events in Charlottesville recall Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s acute dissent in the Supreme Court case… Read More The Past is Prologue

By Sameer Jaywant This is the first in a series of spotlights on individual states.  As one of the largest states in the Union, Florida leads the country in many… Read More Florida Spotlight: How a Florida Coalition Could Enfranchise Over 1 Million Americans

52 years ago today marks the signing of the Voting Rights Act (the VRA), a federal act that fundamentally changed American elections for the better. When President Johnson signed the… Read More Why We’re Still Fighting 52 Years Later

What it is: In May, Trump launched his so-called “voter fraud” commission. The commission’s unstated goal is to uncover “evidence” for his unfounded claim that millions of people somehow voted… Read More 3 Ways You Can Help Stop Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Commission

Check out this new Mic article about the Franchise Project: New Franchise Project voting group offers state scorecards - and scorn for Trump fraud panel