Press Releases
Voting Rights & Elections
Memo On EVEREST Report and SEC Brunner’s Recommendations
Key battleground state missing opportunity to correct security flaws; potential to disenfranchise thousands.
– 12/17/07
New Study Finds Certain Voters Least Likely to Have Valid Voter ID At Issue Before Supreme Court
Citing alarming new evidence from a Washington Institute Study that Indiana’s voter identification law is disenfranchising thousands of Indiana voters, lawyers at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and a coalition of voting rights organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to scuttle the Indiana law.
– 11/13/07
Justice Department Withholds Approval of Revised Florida Registration Law
Following comments from the Brennan Center for Justice, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) demanded that the State of Florida justify a newly revised voter registration law. Voting Section Chief John Tanner took the action based on requirements in the Voting Rights Act that subject new voting laws in certain states to approval (or “preclearance”) by the Civil Rights Division before they can be put into effect.
– 11/07/07
Voting Rights Advocates Challenge Florida Registration Law in Federal Court
Voting rights advocates filed suit in a US District Court to strike down a statewide election law that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible citizens from registering and voting in the 2008 elections. The law bars any Florida citizen from registering to vote if the state cannot match or otherwise validate the driver’s license or Social Security number on a registration form, an error-laden practice struck down in 2006 by a federal judge in Washington State.
– 09/17/07
Newly Eligible Voters Register in Baltimore
– 07/02/07