Press Releases
Voting Rights & Elections
Department of Justice Protects Texas Voters
The Brennan Center for Justice released the following statement from Wendy Weiser, Director of the Center’s Democracy Program, in response to the Department of Justice decision denying preclearance for Texas’s voter ID law.
– 03/12/12
Texas NAACP, Mexican American Legislative Caucus Urge Court to Reject Restrictive Photo ID Law
Today, the Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives (MALC) moved to intervene in federal court to stop the state’s restrictive photo ID law and to defend the Voting Rights Act.
– 03/12/12
Pennsylvania Passes Restrictive Voter ID Bill
Pennsylvania’s Senate, in a 26-23 vote, passed a restrictive voter ID bill, one of the first such laws to pass in 2012.
– 03/07/12
Brennan Center Lawsuit: Federal Judge Examines Florida’s Restrictive Voting Law
A federal judge today will hold a hearing on Florida’s controversial election law, which places onerous restrictions on community-based voter registration drives.
– 03/01/12
Pew Study Shows Need for Voter Registration Modernization
The Brennan Center released a statement following the release of a Pew Center on the States report showing 1 in 8 voter registrations contain errors.
– 02/14/12
Brennan Center Submits Testimony Challenging Florida’s Restrictive Election Law
The Brennan Center for Justice submitted written testimony in advance of today’s U.S. Senate hearing examining Florida’s new election law, H.B. 1355, stating that the law’s onerous restrictions on community-based voter registration drives are unconstitutional and offering solutions for modernizing the state’s voter registration system.
– 01/27/12
Department of Justice Decision on Voter ID Law Protects South Carolina Voters
Statement: "The Justice Department has followed the law, nothing more and nothing less."
– 12/27/11
Senate Bill Would Restore Voting Rights for Millions of American Citizens
The Brennan Center for Justice and a coalition of allied civil rights advocates lauded Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) today for introducing the Democracy Restoration Act of 2011.
– 12/16/11
League of Women Voters, Rock the Vote, & Florida PIRG Ask Court to Block Voter Reg. Restrictions
The Brennan Center is representing three nonpartisan groups mounting a constitutional challenge to Florida's onerous new restrictions on community-based voter registration drives.
– 12/15/11
Report: 60,000 New York Votes Lost Due to Poor Design in 2010
A new Brennan Center for Justice analysis of data from the 2010 election indicates more than 20,000 votes for governor in New York were lost because machines read them as “overvotes,” ballots with too many candidates selected. The analysis finds New York voting machines’ confusing and misleading overvote warning message is at fault, as well as the state’s outdated ballot design.
– 12/06/11