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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

Justicia Climática

How the Climate & Community Protection Act will Increase Resiliency for New York’s Latinx Communities
Policy Briefs
Lew Daly
Priya Mulgaonkar

More than 200 Progressive Leaders #StandWithIlhan

We stand in solidarity with Representative Ilhan Omar and firmly against the rise of Islamophobic attacks and attempts to divide us as a people.
Testimony and Public Comment
K. Sabeel Rahman

Judicial Watch v. Logan (Judicial Watch v. Mi Familia Vota)

Our intervention to prevent the adoption of roll-maintenance practices that would result in the removal of qualified voters from Los Angeles County's voter rolls
Case
Updated April 8, 2019
California
Pending

ACORN v. Scott

Challenge to guarantee that public assistance clients in Missouri receive the voter registration services required by Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.
Case
Updated April 8, 2019
Missouri
Decided

Letter in Support for California's ACA 6 and AB 646 — Two Bills to Restore Voting Rights

We strongly support ACA 6, a bill that would place a state constitutional amendment on the ballot to restore voting rights to Californians on parole, and AB 646, which would make corresponding changes to the Elections Code. 
Testimony and Public Comment
Chiraag Bains

Action NC v. Strach

Challenge to North Carolina's failure to offer federally mandated voter registration services through public assistance and motor vehicle agencies.
Case
Updated April 2, 2019
North Carolina
Decided

Establish a Public Credit Registry

As part of an effort to reshape rules around debt and lending to reduce racial wealth inequality, we propose establishing a public credit registry to gradually replace the current for-profit credit reporting system.
Policy Briefs
Amy Traub

League of Women Voters et al v. Reagan

Challenge to Arizona’s failure to provide voter registration services required under federal law when residents interact with the state motor vehicle agency.
Case
Updated April 2, 2019
Arizona
Pending

GA State Conference of the NAACP v. Kemp

A legal suit to guarantee that public assistance clients in Georgia receive the voter registration services required by Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.
Case
Updated April 2, 2019
Georgia
Decided

Delgado v. Galvin

Challenge to guarantee that public assistance clients in Massachusetts receive the voter registration services required by Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act.
Case
Updated April 2, 2019
Massachusetts
Decided