Two meaningful events that will raise awareness of the Democracy Restoration Act will take place in Washington, D.C. on Friday, September 17: the CBC’s Judiciary Braintrust, and the National Black Law Students Association’s Social Action Rally.

Summer conference season is upon us. Every summer (even in election years), our nation’s busy election officials take a “break” from the day-to-day business of running elections and get together to share information and discuss how to improve election administration. A consistent point of discussion among state election officials at these gatherings has been how to save money yet improve the voter registration system.

From the new D.C. Board of Elections report: “The current paper-based, voter-initiated voter registration system in the District and elsewhere in the nation is cumbersome, inefficient and rife with opportunities for error. It is estimated that as many as 10 percent of voter registration records throughout the nation contain an erroneous name, address or birth date.” We respond to their plan....

A partisan battle has erupted in Tennessee about the rules for purging the voter rolls. It’s time to take the politics—and the errors—out of the voter registration system.