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Public assistance offices have received nearly 2 million voter registration forms nationwide since the passage of the National Voter Registration Act.

Our current voter registration system, which is designed as a voter-initiated or “self-registration” system, creates barriers to registration that do not serve any significant purpose in a democracy. Automatic voter registration is the answer.

Are States Complying with the Motor Voter Requirements of the National Voter Registration Act?

In November 2014, voters in Montana will face a very important choice: to repeal or to continue SDR. They should keep it.

Voter registration operates as a tool of racist voter suppression and has long been weaponized to silence communities of color.  

Today, we have the opportunity to change this by providing voter registration at federal agencies.

Dear Mr. President:

This report analyzes new voter turnout data to understand how Same-Day Registration (SDR) is reducing barriers to voting and boosting turnout for Black and Latinx Americans.

How our work to enforce Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act has resulted in over 3 million new voter registration applications through public assistance agencies.

This report elevates the voices of affected communities across the country and provides important insights on the quest to vote.

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.

Every year, millions of eligible voters fall through the cracks of our antiquated voter registration system because they have moved sometime in the last year.

We urge Ohio to take immediate action to ease and modify absentee ballot
laws so that thousands of voters are not disenfranchised during Ohio’s March 17, 2020 primary.

The three sets of steps policymakers and election officials must take to ensure that Black and brown Americans—and all Americans—can exercise their fundamental right to vote in 2020 and beyond.

Early voting provides a means for eligible voters to cast their ballots at a time and location other than in person on Election Day.

The case for mandatory participation in U.S. elections.

This brief describes the challenges currently facing Black and brown people when voting by mail and presents policy recommendations at each step of the vote-by-mail process to mitigate those problems.

FRRC offers this brief to make three points informed by its experience working with formerly convicted persons struggling to participate in Florida’s democracy under the strictures of SB7066.

An overview of the vote-by-mail eligibility criteria in Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada, and California and the hurdles Black voters may face. 

New Mexico is failing to enable Black and Brown communities to access their fundamental right to vote.

Same Day Registration (SDR) allows eligible voters to register to vote and cast their ballots on the same day, at the same time.