Press Releases
Democracy
Mississippi Ballot Will Disenfranchise Hundreds of Thousands of Voters
Letter sent to officials in Mississippi sharply criticizes the design of a ballot for the 2008 election.
– 09/12/08
Buying Time—2008
Analysis of judicial races earlier this year shows that interest group targeting and big money court-campaigns remain deeply entrenched, despite the fact that campaigns may not be flooded with excessive spending.
– 09/11/08
New Voter Guide Explains Rights of Student Voters
With thousands of young and new voters expected to participate in the 2008 election, the Center launches an online legal guide to student voting to arm student with the information they need to navigate voting and registration.
– 09/10/08
Ad Campaign Launched to Help NYers with Criminal Records Vote in ‘08
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx buses to feature posters from voting rights groups.
– 09/10/08
Ad Campaign Launch to Help NYers with Criminal Records Vote in ‘08
Campaign will feature nearly 1,000 ads in public buses in New York City, as well as train advertisements, radio PSAs, a voting rights toolkit, a comprehensive web site, and a series of web videos.
– 09/10/08
Florida To Enforce Restrictive No-Match No-Vote
Today voting rights advocates expressed alarm over the Secretary of State’s September 8th decision to enforce the state’s “no-match, no-vote” law, a voter registration law that previously blocked more than 16,000 eligible Florida citizens from registering to vote, through no fault of their own, and could disenfranchise tens of thousands more voters in November.
– 09/09/08
Advocates Urge Wisconsin to Avoid Error-laden Matching Practice in Voter Registration Law
The Brennan Center sent the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board a letter urging the state not to adopt a “no match, no vote” policy that would prevent eligible voters from casting regular ballots if the state cannot match their applications with other government databases.
– 08/25/08
League of Women Voters and AFL-CIO Announce Intention to Continue Voter Registration After Ruling
Nonpartisan civic groups urge Florida Secretary of State to adhere to Court’s limits on prohibitive fines and penalties.
– 08/21/08
Study: Recent Attacks on NJ’s Clean Elections Program are Unfounded & False
Brennan Center releases exhaustive analysis debunking a survey by the Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), an organization ideologically opposed to campaign finance reform, which claimed that New Jersey’s Clean Elections public funding program is unsuccessful.
– 08/18/08
Coalition Urges Supreme Court to Review West Virginia Case
The Center for Justice, along with the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and the Reform Institute, filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in a case with national ramifications regarding one of the most basic rights in any system of law: the right to a fair hearing before an impartial arbiter.
– 08/04/08