The Brennan Center submitted letters to election officials in several Ohio Counties urging them to take steps to ensure that provisional ballots are not rejected due to inflexible and unreliable exact-match verification procedures. Such procedures routinely identify registered voters as unregistered, and can lead to the disenfranchisement of eligible voters because of minor typos by election officials.
Unfair challenges or caging practices may lead to the removal of eligible voters from the voter rolls. To guard against these problems, the Brennan Center provides legal assistance to government officials and advocates seeking to ensure that challenges are non-discriminatory and do not result in the disenfranchisement of eligible voters.
With the polls deadlocked just a few days before Election Day, state recount laws could determine who is elected president. This issue brief looks at the most critical provisions of recount laws in 10 "tipping point" states and what factors could increase the likelihood of bitter recount contests.
The dramatic national effort to restrict Americans' voting rights was met this year with an equally dramatic pushback by courts, citizens, the Department of Justice, and farsighted public officials.
