Voting Rights & Elections

Voting is the foundation of our democracy. The Brennan Center is at the center of the fight to preserve and expand the right to vote for every eligible citizen. Through practical policy proposals, litigation, advocacy, and communications, the Brennan Center works to ensure that voting is free, fair, and accessible for all Americans. The Center’s signature proposal to modernize the voter registration system saves money, increases accuracy and participation — and adds an additional 50 million voters to the rolls permanently.

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National Voter Registration Day helps citizens sort through the complicated registration process. It also brings attention to the urgency to modernize voter registration to ensure that every eligible voter can become and stay a registered voter.

September 24, 2013

While the Board of Elections opted to use decommissioned lever machines to avoid a a paper ballet recount, machine failures caused a slew of voting problems--and an avalanche of paper ballots that now must be hand counted.

September 13, 2013
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