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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

Voting Rights and Election Administration in America

Testimony to Congress on current voter suppression tactics including voter purges, registration barriers, felony disenfranchisement, and prison gerrymandering.
Testimony and Public Comment
Brenda Wright

Big Money Influence in Albuquerque Elections

How Albuquerque Campaign Donors Do Not Reflect the City’s Diverse Population and Needs
Research
Laura Friedenbach
Isaac J. de Luna Navarro

FRRC's Amicus Curiae Brief in Jones v. DeSantis

Florida’s returning citizen leaders filed the brief to ensure full protection of Amendment 4 in their continued efforts to engage, empower and protect returning citizens and their right to vote. 
Litigation
Chiraag Bains
Naila Awan
Emerson Gordon-Marvin
Dante Trevisani
Daryl Atkinson
Whitley Carpenter

Letter to Florida Department of State Regarding Voter Registration Form Changes

Why amended versions of Florida's English-language, Spanish-language, and online voter registration forms are in clear violation of the Florida Administrative Procedure Act.
Testimony and Public Comment

Letter Urging Harris County, Texas, to Move Forward with Plan For In-Person Voting Inside Harris County Jail

Harris County should place voting machines inside of the Harris County Jail and ensure jailed, eligible voters are not disenfranchised.
Testimony and Public Comment
Naila Awan
Danielle M. Lang

Bridging Progressive Policy Debates: How Student Debt and the Racial Wealth Gap Reinforce Each Other

To fairly evaluate any higher education reform proposal, we must understand the ways that these dual burdens—less wealth and more debt—lead to worse outcomes for Black students than white students.
Research
Suzanne Kahn
Mark Huelsman
Jen Mishory

Albuquerque Donors Do Not Match the City's Diversity

Democracy Dollars Can Make Every Voice Matter in Albuquerque’s Elections
Policy Briefs

ACRU v. Snipes

Intervention on behalf of SEIU 1199 United Healthcare Workers East to defend Broward County, Florida from a right-wing group's attempt to bully it into aggressively purging voters.
Case
Updated August 23, 2019
Pending

Keep That Same Energy

About the event series for black and brown millennials
Campaign
Shanaé Bass
David Perrin
Lesley Williams

Notice Letter to Rensselaer County Board of Elections

Re: Announced Policy's Violation of Sections 5 and 8 of the National Voter Registration Act
Litigation
Chiraag Bains
Ben Berwick