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While Florida’s purges of felons from voter rolls in 2000 have received national attention, little is known about the procedures other states use. To shed some light on these procedures, we surveyed the purge processes of 15 states.

Election Day Registration (EDR), which allows eligible voters to register and cast a ballot on Election Day, is a reform that reduces the unnecessary disfranchisement of eligible voters that may be caused by arbitrary registration deadlines.

In 2010 and 2011, Maryland and New York took bold steps to correct the problem known as prison gerrymandering, a problem resulting from the United States Census Bureau’s practice of counting incarcerated individuals as residents of their prison cells rather than their home communities.

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.

Demos’ Race-Class Narrative (RCN) project developed an empirically-tested narrative on race and class that resonates with all working people and offers an alternative to—and neutralizes the use of—dog-whistle racism.

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

About the event series for black and brown millennials

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

A look at the policies of the Inclusive Democracy Agenda, why they are needed, and how we went about developing them.

If we truly want to build inclusive democracy, we must articulate an affirmative vision of voting rights in the Constitution itself.

Our racist criminal legal system denies voting rights to millions. We must end this practice of disenfranchisement in all its forms.

Voter registration has long been weaponized to silence voters. And it’s not by accident.

Removing unnecessary hurdles to small donor participation will help fix a system that currently prioritizes wealthy, white, male donors over communities of color and working-class people.

It is time for us to recognize the right of sovereignty and self-determination for the over 4 million combined residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Washington, D.C.

Ensuring just and equitable access to and ownership of one our most vital natural resources—energy—is vital to building a vibrant, inclusive democracy.

The specter of voter fraud is a talking point deployed to silence the voices of Black and brown voters across the country.

A toolkit to help local leaders and communities identify and act on the warning signs of a wrongful purge and to understand how federal law restricts  such purges.

An overview of the bureaucratic barriers to becoming—and remaining—registered to vote.

The Supreme Court got it supremely wrong when it held that corporations had the same rights as people to spend money in elections.