Analysis & Commentary
Voting Rights & Elections
Voting Challenges 2010
Brennan Center presentation on expected challenges to the vote during the 2010 election season.
Authored by: Voting Rights and Elections Team
– 10/13/10
Letter to Voting Sytem Vendors Regarding Voluntary Database
The Brennan Center for Justice urges major voting system vendors to create a voluntary database of known equipment malfunctions for election officials prior to this fall’s elections.
– 09/27/10
Voter Registration for the 21st Century
2010 presentation on how many states have begun modernizing their voter registration processes.
Authored by: Voting Rights and Elections Team
– 07/20/10
New Yorkers Call on City and State Boards of Elections to Prevent Disenfranchisement
Here's what public officials, civic groups, computer scientists, and others have to say about the need to change New York's procedure for handling overvoted ballots.
Authored by: Larry Norden
– 07/08/10
Erika Wood and Glenn Martin on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show
Erika Wood and Fortune Society’s Glenn Martin talk about Brennan Center’s new report, Jim Crow in New York.
– 03/30/10
Jim Crow haunts N.Y. blacks
A law enacted nearly 140 years ago—intended to disenfranchise African-Americans—is still in effect here today in New York.
Authored by: Erika Wood
– 03/12/10
It Isn’t Complicated: Restore the Vote to 300,000 Americans
A call to Governor Tim Kaine to use the last few days in his tenure to restore to a huge number of citizens their right to vote.
Authored by: Erika Wood
– 01/13/10
BC work highlighted in Carnegie’s Electoral Reform Report
The newest Carnegie Review focuses on Electoral Reform in the U.S., chronicling advancements in this area over the past year, and highlights much of our work.
Authored by: Brennan Center
– 12/11/09
Proof of Citizenship Requirements; Chart of State Legislation
In the current session (2009–2010), legislators across the country have begun to propose proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration. The chart here, last updated on 12/2/2009, sets forth the known bills and their current status.
Authored by: Myrna Pérez
– 11/05/09
MOVE Act Support Letter
This letter was sent to members of the House and Senate Armed Forces Committees, in support of the MOVE Act provisions in the defense authorization bill.
Authored by: Wendy Weiser and Adam Skaggs
– 10/08/09