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NVRA Enforcement Updates-Virginia and Texas
Thursday, September 2, 2010Newsletter
A core component of Advancement Project’s work is ensuring compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) through advocacy and, if necessary, through litigation. Earlier this year, Advancement Project filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, to force the state to comply with the NVRA by allowing public inspection and copying of voter registration records.
Read moreMissouri
Thursday, September 2, 2010Newsletter
Denise Lieberman, Senior Attorney at Advancement Project, has recently traveled around Missouri, meeting with members of the Elections Boards for Kansas City, Jackson County and St. Louis and with coalition partners in mid-Missouri. The meetings covered substantive topics including how to increase voter registration, persons with felony convictions seeking to vote, the status of qualified voter registration applicants stuck on pending/incomplete lists, poll worker training, and voter education.
Read moreOhio
Thursday, September 2, 2010Newsletter
In Ohio, Advancement Project is working with Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to reduce the number of provisional ballots cast by registered voters that are rejected for a variety of reasons. Secretary Brunner recently issued a directive affirming that provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct or incomplete provisional ballots will no longer be automatically rejected. Now, under the directive, provisional ballots cast in the correct polling place will be counted provided that evidence of any deficiency or error is attributable to poll workers’ failure to follow Ohio law.
Read moreAdvancement Project Co-Director, Penda Hair Explores White Activists and the Racial Justice Movement
Tuesday, August 31, 2010Press Release
Advancement Project, Co-Director, Penda Hair is featured in Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice, a book by leading sociologist, Mark Warner. Fire in the Heart uncovers the dynamic processes through which some white Americans become activists for racial justice. The book details powerful accounts of the development of racial awareness drawn from in-depth interviews with fifty white activists in the fields of community organizing, education, and criminal justice reform.
Read moreOut of Sight, Out of Mind
Monday, August 30, 2010Press Release
It has been five years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and more than four months since the BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Responsible parties would like us to believe that these crises are over, but Out of Sight, Out of Mind tells a different story. Through personal accounts, we hear harrowing accounts of the truth: The decisions of public and private actors following these disasters have caused displacement and long-term devastating affects on individuals and communities.
Read moreVictory for Workers Rights in Prince George’s County
Tuesday, July 13, 2010Press Release
From Advancement Project Regarding CB-36-2010
Read morePartisan Games Means Continue Barriers to the Ballot Box for Ohio Voters
Sunday, July 11, 2010Alert
Today, Advancement Project released an issue brief examining the ramifications if Ohio lawmakers failure to enact comprehensive election reform to correct provisions of the election code that impede the ability of voters to participate in elections.
Read moreUnlawful Voter Purges Stopped in Michigan
Thursday, July 8, 2010Newsletter
Detroit — After more than a year and a half of litigation, the state of Michigan and a coalition of voting rights groups, that includes Advancement Project, have reached a settlement; as a result, the state will end two voter purge programs that unlawfully disfranchised tens of thousands of Michigan voters. One program automatically canceled the voter registration of any Michigan voter who obtained a driver’s licenses in another state, without following the appropriate voter removal procedures required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
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