Report
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What's Wrong with this Picture?: New Photo ID Proposals Part of National Push to Turn Back the Clock on Voting Rights
April 7, 2011
In a new report, Advancement Project sounds the alarm on photo ID proposals pending in states across the nation that could disenfranchise millions of voters in the 2012 elections and beyond. In a reactionary trend that is part of the largest legislative effort to scale back voting rights in a century, nearly two-thirds of the states are considering repressive photo identification requirements for voting. The comprehensive report, “What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Still Haven’t Shut Off the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Evaluating the Impact of Florida’s New Zero-Tolerance Law
March 7, 2011
The ACLU of Florida, Advancement Project, and the Florida State Conference of the NAACP released a report today on their study of the ongoing harmful impacts of Florida schools’ “zero-tolerance” policies. The study, entitled “Still Haven’t Shut Off the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Evaluating the Impact of Florida’s New Zero-Tolerance Law,” shows that although the state took a significant step forward by amending its harsh zero-tolerance law in 2009, meaningful reform has still not reached most of the schools – and students – across the state.
2009 Annual Report
February 21, 2011
Zero Tolerance in Philadelphia: Denying Educational Opportunities and Creating a Pathway to Prison
January 13, 2011
Advancement Project, together with Youth United for Change, a Philadelphia-based youth organization, released Zero Tolerance in Philadelphia: Denying Educational Opportunities and Creating a Pathway to Prison, which criticizes zero tolerance in Philadelphia schools as a failed policy that makes city schools less safe, criminalizes or pushes out of school tens of thousands of students every year, and creates a School-to-Prison Pipeline.
Pennsylvania Voter Protection Laws in a Nutshell
October 26, 2010
Missouri Protection Laws in a Nutshell
October 12, 2010
Florida Voter Protection Laws in a Nutshell
October 8, 2010
PROMOTING A JUST DEMOCRACY THROUGH SENSIBLE VOTING REFORM IN VIRGINIA
September 20, 2010
When the General Assembly next convenes in early 2011, Virginia legislators must enact four sensible reforms promoting equality and justice in voting. First, Virginia must institute early or no-excuse in-person absentee voting, which expands the opportunity to vote in a cost-effective manner. Second, the state must establish uniform, mandatory, minimum standards (in proportion to population) to ensure that all local election officials provide an appropriate number of voting machines, poll workers, and equipment in all polling places.
OHIO VOTER PROTECTION LAWS IN A NUTSHELL
September 16, 2010
These publications are intended to distill complex election law for lawyers, advocates, voter registration campaigns, and “Get Out the Vote” campaigns. They combine state election law with state regulations, rules, attorney general opinions and other election materials to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the law and practices that impact elections. While these publications do not cover every provision of state election law, they highlight those provisions which, in our experience, have most impacted the voting rights of minority voters.
Legislative Reforms to Remove Barriers to Voting in Florida
June 1, 2010
As a result of legislators’ failure to address barriers to voting, serious flaws in Florida’s election code that burden the right to vote persist due to:
- Limitations on Early Voting
- “No-Match, No-Vote” Voter Registration Law
- Extraneous Checkboxes on Voter Registration Applications
- Insufficient Restrictions on Private Challenges to Voters’ Registration
- Rejection of Provisional Ballots Cast in The Wrong Precinct
