Coming Together After Another Election Season
Fair Elections Center President and CEO Robert Brandon has released the following statement: A week ago, many Americans woke up to the results of the 2024 elections. Many of us participated in the most important right we have in our democracy. But millions of Americans did not participate in the election process. For some it […]
Victory! Alabama Voter Purges Put to a Stop
Birmingham, AL — Today, Campaign Legal Center (CLC), Fair Elections Center (FEC), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Alabama voters and civil rights groups successfully defended naturalized Americans who were unfairly purged from Alabama’s voter rolls. A federal judge halted Alabama’s illegal and last-minute purge program, which put the freedom to vote for thousands of Alabamians […]
Voting Rights Advocates Support UNC Students’ Ability to Use Digital ID Cards as Voter ID in 2024 Election
Digital ID Cards Are as Reliable & Secure as Physical ID Cards, Multiple Security Protocols Exist Throughout Issuance and Use of Digital Student ID Cards RALEIGH, N.C. (Sept. 26, 2024) – The North Carolina Court of Appeals should reject a petition filed by the Republican National Committee and the North Carolina Republican Party that seeks […]
Arizona Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge to Availability of Voter Registration Forms and Access to Ballot Drop-Off Sites
Pro-Voter Executive Orders Signed by Governor Hobbs Remain In Effect. PHOENIX, Ariz. – Late last week, the Supreme Court of Arizona dismissed a petition filed by the chair of the Republican Party of Arizona and two individuals, challenging two executive orders signed by Governor Katie Hobbs last November that expanded access to voter registration forms and […]
Voting Rights Groups Defend Alabamians Against Illegal Voter Roll Purge
Washington, D.C. – Today, Campaign Legal Center, Fair Elections Center, and Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of four individual Alabamians who have been unfairly targeted by the state’s illegal voter purge as well as the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, and the League of Women […]
Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Virginia’s Arbitrary Felony Voting Rights Restoration System
In Response, Plaintiff Plans to Appeal to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Today, the United States District Court for the Eastern District Of Virginia ruled against the plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s revival of an arbitrary voting rights restoration system that gives the governor absolute power over restoring […]
Fair Elections Center on Political Violence Following Trump Rally
WASHINGTON — Today, the Fair Elections Center released the following statement on political violence following Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania : “We believe in free and fair elections, the peaceful transition of power, and nonviolent political discourse. Violence has no place in our election process. It is more important now than ever that our country lifts up these hallmarks of democracy if we are to […]
Fair Elections Center Condemns House Passage of Anti-Voter Conspiracy-Driven Legislation
WASHINGTON — Today, Michelle Kanter Cohen, Policy Director and Senior Counsel at the Fair Elections Center released the following statement on House Passage of the so-called “SAVE Act,” which would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote. “The so-called SAVE Act is a cynical attempt fueled by anti-immigrant politicians and conspiracy theorists to […]
In Win for Pennsylvania Voters, Department of State Requires All County Boards of Elections to Print Full Year on Ballot Return Envelopes
Lancaster, Pa. (July 10, 2024) – Today, the Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans (PARA), represented by Fair Elections Center and LeVan Stapleton Segal Cochran LLC, announced a major victory in a lawsuit challenging the rejection of mail-in and absentee ballots that were missing the last two digits of the year from the handwritten date on the […]
Statement on the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
Press statement from Robert Brandon, President and CEO of Fair Elections Center Today, we are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the1964 Civil Rights Act, which was one of the first major mechanisms for enforcing the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and taking on a racist and authoritarian Jim Crow regime. While we are far from […]
