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Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote

Jonathan Brater, Kevin Morris, Myrna Pérez, Christopher Deluzio

Voter purges are an often-flawed process of cleaning up voter rolls by deleting names from registration lists. Done badly, they can prevent eligible people from casting a ballot that counts. This report examines the growing threat, and outlines steps every state can take to protect voters in November and beyond.

July 20, 2018

Voting Rights & Elections

Voting Reform Agenda

Restricting the Vote

Myth of Voter Fraud

Disbanded: Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission

The Voting Rights Act

Voting Machines & Ballot Design

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Brennan Center Urges State Department to Abandon the Collection of Social Media and Other Data from Visa Applicants
The Brennan Center, joined by 56 other civil and human rights organizations, today submitted comments to the U.S. Department of State on its plan to collect additional information, such as social media identifiers, telephone numbers, and email addresses used in the past five years from U.S. visa applicants

May 30, 2018
Liberty & National Security
Privacy & Profiling
Transparency & Accountability
Comment to FEC on Internet Communications Disclaimers
Ian Vandewalker
The Brennan Center submitted a comment to the Federal Elections Commission urging the Commission to improve transparency in election advertisement spending by strengthening the rules for disclaimers on political ads online.

May 29, 2018
Money in Politics
Election Spending
Disclosure
Testimony Supporting Secure Election Systems in New Jersey
Edgardo Cortés
The Brennan Center submitted testimony before the New Jersey Assembly's State and Local Government Committee in support of replacing the state's paperless voting equipment, implementing secure paper-based systems, and instituting post-election audits.

May 23, 2018
Voting Machines & Ballot Design
Letter to Congress on the FIRST STEP Act
The new prison reform bill being considered by the House Judiciary Committee, the FIRST STEP Act, includes several important reforms and improves on prior legislation. But any true reform effort must take steps to reduce the number of people entering prison in the first place, which this bill does not do.

May 8, 2018
Justice for All
Reducing Mass Incarceration
Closing the Justice Gap
Racial Justice
Democracy: An Election Agenda for Candidates, Activists, and Legislators
Wendy R. Weiser, Alicia Bannon
In fundamental ways, our democratic systems urgently need repair. This volume sets out slate of bold policy proposal to move democracy reform to the center of our politics, where it belongs

May 4, 2018
Voting Rights & Elections
Voting Reform Agenda
Voter Registration Modernization
Restricting the Vote
Myth of Voter Fraud
Disbanded: Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission
Restoring Voting Rights
Voting Machines & Ballot Design
Redistricting
2020 CENSUS
Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court
Other Voting Issues
Securing American Elections From Foreign Interference
Money in Politics
A New Constitutional Vision
Election Spending
Disclosure
Public Financing
Government & Court Reform
Fair Courts
Government Dysfunction
Checks & Balances

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