By Tom Lopach, President and CEO of Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Allen v. Milligan, declaring what Black Alabamians have long known – that voting power was being…
The Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information are expanding their work in an effort to get more eligible but unregistered Americans at the voting booth. (StateScoop)- Two nonprofit, nonpartisan voting-rights organizations are expanding their efforts to register more…
We are living through what seem to be unprecedented attacks on our democracy. So far in 2023, 11 states have enacted restrictive voting laws, and an additional 322 bills have been introduced around the country that could greatly hamper voting. Enabled…
In a recent commentary for RealClearPolitics, conservative pundit Hayden Ludwig called for a radical solution to “save free elections in America.” He proposed statewide “bans on nonprofit voter registrations and mail-in ballots” across the nation. In Ludwig’s extreme view, nonprofit…
Hall is executive director at the Alliance for Youth Action. Lopach is the president and CEO of the Voter Participation Center. During the 2018 midterm election, young people turned out and shattered records to make their voices heard, demonstrating the highest turnout in a midterm…
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) attorneys are headed to Georgia this week to challenge restrictive measures in S.B. 202, which was signed into law in March 2021 and made significant changes to Georgia’s election system. CLC is specifically challenging three provisions…
CNN — Demographic change continues to steadily reshape the American electorate, but the barriers to emerging groups gaining political power commensurate with their growing numbers may be even greater than previously understood, according to a new analysis of population and…
There is an emerging demographic group slowly changing the way we view politics and the future of political elections. And according to research conducted by the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and the Center for Voter Information (CVI), there are opportunities to increase voter registration…
Guest Opinion — Growing up in Montana on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, I learned firsthand the importance of voting through my parents, who never missed an Election Day and even ran voter registration drives for our community. My parents always said…
Across the country, elections officials face unprecedented attacks. In Fulton County, Ga., the elections director received a voicemail that said he’d “better run,” with a threat to execute him. In Arizona, the secretary of state received terrifying threats to her safety. One…
