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Ensuring All Votes Are Counted May Take Time

This year, as we attempt to keep our loved ones safe during a deadly pandemic, more people in our communities will be voting by mail (absentee) than ever before. Counting those votes will take time.
Policy Briefs
People of Color Voting With Face Masks On

Democracy Means All of Us: How to End the Chronic Silencing of Black and Brown Voters in New Mexico

New Mexico is failing to enable Black and Brown communities to access their fundamental right to vote.
Policy Briefs
Andrea J. Serrano
Miles Tokunow
Laura Williamson
Amshula K. Jayaram
Black woman wearing a surgical face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic

How States and the Trump Administration Are Working to Exclude Millions from Political Representation and Reduce Black and Brown Political Power

Efforts to change the long-standing practice of counting every individual in the country for the purposes of drawing legislative districts would reduce the political power of—and the resources provided to—Black and brown people.
Research
Shruti Banerjee
Naila Awan

Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Voye, et al.

We're defending the rights of Allegheny County voters against a lawsuit that seeks to purge thousands from the voter roll.
Case
Updated March 2, 2020
Pennsylvania
Pending

Why America Needs a Right-to-Vote Amendment

This forthcoming paper makes the case for why we need a new constitutional amendment—a Right-to-Vote Amendment for a 21st Century Democracy
Policy Briefs

Rebuilding Democratic Infrastructure

An Analytical Framework
Research
Hollie Russon Gilman
K. Sabeel Rahman

We Vote, We Count: The Need for Congressional Action to Secure the Right to Vote for All Citizens

This report elevates the voices of affected communities across the country and provides important insights on the quest to vote.
Research
Gilda Daniels
Tyson D. King-Meadows
Loren M. Henderson

League of Women Voters of Missouri v. Ashcroft

Challenge to Missouri's failure to provide voter registration services required under federal law when residents interact with the state motor vehicle agency.
Case
Updated November 22, 2019
Missouri
Pending

Challenging Misleading Claims of Illegal Voting in Palm Beach County

The Public Interest Law Foundation has made such misleading and irresponsible claims before, and, when tested, they have uniformly proven to be unreliable and misleading.
Litigation
Stuart Naifeh

Beyond Kings and Queens: Gender and Politics in the Black Census

Fully engaging and including Black people of all genders will strengthen the political power of Black communities.
Research
Black Futures Lab
Demos
Color Of Change
SocioAnalitica Research

Excerpt of Civic Power

Rebuilding American Democracy in an Era of Crisis
Research
K. Sabeel Rahman
Hollie Russon Gilman

Why D.C. Should Pass the Restore the Vote Amendment Act of 2019

The Restore the Vote Amendment Act of 2019 would expand voting rights to eligible incarcerated residents with felony convictions. 
Testimony and Public Comment
Rodney McKenzie, Jr.

Why the Department of Housing and Urban Development Should Not Make Proposed Change to Disparate Impact Rule

The Disparate Impact standard is critical to continued and enhanced opportunity to access fair credit, housing, and homeownership. Demos strongly opposes efforts to undermine this longstanding enforcement tool.
Testimony and Public Comment
Amy Traub