Student Voting
League of Women Voters of Florida v. Browning
The Brennan Center is working with nonpartisan voter registration groups in Florida to mount a constitutional challenge against Florida’s onerous new restrictions on community-based voter registration drives.
An Unjustified Toll on Student Registration In Wisconsin
As Wisconsinites went to the polls for the first election under the state's new voter ID law, the state Senate passed a bill making it harder for students to register to vote.
Know The Truth About Voting in Maine
The Brennan Center urges voters in Maine to inform themselves about their voting rights.
Illustrations by Risko
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.
Study: New Voting Restrictions May Affect More than Five Million
New voting laws could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012, according to the first comprehensive study of the laws’ impact.
Letter to Maine Sec. of State: Please Confirm Commitment to Fair Voting Rights for Students
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law wrote Maine Secretary of State Charles Summers, Jr., today, asking Sec. Summers to publicly reaffirm that out-of-state tuition status is not a bar to registering or voting in Maine.
Letter to Maine Sec. of State on Clarifying Student Residency Status
Recent media reports of an investigation into possible voter fraud or improper voting in Maine have focused on a list of registered voters who were also paying "out-of-state" tuition rates at Maine public universities. The Brennan Center wrote Sec. of State Charles Summers, Jr., asking him to publicly clarify that tuition rates and state residency for voting rights are governed by very different standards and reaffirm the voting rights of students who qualify as Maine residents and register to vote.
Written Testimony on New Hampshire H.B. 176
The Brennan Center submits written testimony to the House Election Law Committee of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, expressing concern about proposed House Bill 176, related to qualifications for voting. House Bill 176 creates unwise and unlawful barriers to full participation by New Hampshire voters, and it would make New Hampshire an outlier among the states in its discriminatory treatment of military personnel and college students.
2012 Summary of Voting Law Changes
As states continue to introduce and consider new restrictive measures, we will be updating this detailed compilation of potentially restrictive laws related to voting that were proposed nationwide in the 2011 and 2012 state legislative sessions, and that have been passed or remain pending.
Voting Rights in 2011: A Legislative Round-Up
As the 2012 election approaches, a massive crackdown on voting rights is unfolding – the most significant such assault in decades. Millions of Americans risk disenfranchisement, blocked from casting ballots or having them count.