YOUTH VOTING RIGHTS ADVOCATES PRAISE INTRODUCTION OF YOUTH VOTING RIGHTS ACT
WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Representative Nikema Williams (GA-05) introduced the Youth Voting Rights Act, which includes major legislative proposals that would significantly expand registration and voting access for college students and other young people. Students today face unique and difficult barriers to registration and voting, due to limited access, opportunities, […]
Voters Have the Right to a Responsive Democracy
WASHINGTON — Today, Fair Elections Center Vice President Rebekah Caruthers, released the following statement: While the Supreme Court says it wants to leave key policy decisions to voters and the democratic process, our institutions and election laws do not yet live up to the promise that all eligible voters can elect a government that truly […]
Citizen Engagement Group Seeks to Stop Unconstitutional Voter Registration Procedures
PHOENIX — Fair Elections Center, the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest and the law firm of Arnold & Porter filed a complaint today on behalf of civic engagement organization Poder Latinx in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, seeking to block a new state law’s arbitrary and vague procedures […]
Power the Polls Returns to Recruit New Wave of Poll Workers Ahead of Primary, Midterm Elections
May 20, 2022 — Today, Power the Polls — a first-of-its-kind, nonpartisan initiative that recruited more than 700,000 potential poll workers ahead of the 2020 election – officially re-launched its program for 2022. The initiative will build on its work from 2020 to recruit a new wave of younger, more diverse poll workers ahead of […]
New Anti-Voter Law Creates Barriers to Voting for Florida Communities
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Caren Short, senior supervising attorney for Voting Rights with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy director and senior counsel with Fair Elections Center, released the following statements on Florida’s SB 524, which was signed into law last night by Governor Ron DeSantis: “The decision in our case makes […]
Campus Vote Project Supports U.S. Department of Education’s Latest “Dear Colleague” Letter
U.S. Department of Education Encourages Colleges & Universities to Promote Civic Engagement Ahead of 2022 Elections As an organization we have high praises for the new Dear Colleague letter from the U.S. Department of Education to colleges and universities, emphasizing their responsibilities to promote students’ participation in the electoral process and sharing resources to help […]
Campus Vote Project Announces Launch of Student Vote Research Network
Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project (CVP), in collaboration with the Students Learn Students Vote (SLSV) Coalition, the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN), and the Scholar Strategy Network, announced the launch of the Student Vote Research Network (SVRN), an inclusive, collaborative space for scholars, students, advocacy organizations and community practitioners to come together […]
Arizona Supreme Court Dismisses Case Seeking to Eliminate Early Voting
PHOENIX — Today the Arizona Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by the Arizona Republican Party that threatened to end all early voting. The case requested that the Court invalidate all early in-person and mail-in voting, which the state has had in some form for more than a century. The Supreme Court declined to hear […]
Florida’s Anti-Voter Law Violates Free Speech, Court Rules
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today a federal court sided with Harriett Tubman Freedom Fighters (HTFF) in HTFF v. Laurel Lee, ruling that Florida’s S.B. 90 infringed on its right to free speech when the state forced the organization to make false claims to potential voters while trying to help them register to vote. U.S. District Court […]
‘Democracy’s Future’ is our roadmap for expanding voting franchise for the next generation of voters
WASHINGTON — Today, the nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization Fair Elections Center released its Democracy’s Future: Proposals to Expand Access to Registration and Voting for a New Generation report, which provides a blueprint for lawmakers to build a stronger democracy by making it easier for younger voters to participate in the electoral process. […]
