Advancement Project's Voter Protection Program addresses a bedrock racial justice issue: expanding the active electorate. Our work focuses on increasing democratic participation in low-income and minority communities by investigating obstacles to voter participation and providing mechanisms for removing those obstacles, generating reform efforts that seek to expand opportunities for democratic participation, building support for a more transformational solution for re-enfranchising formerly incarcerated people, and facilitating alliances among multi-racial groups. In the wake of the blatant and widespread irregularities of the 2000 election, Advancement Project moved to expand its Power and Democracy program.