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.
In conjunction with the ACLU, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the League of Women Voters of South Carolina, we submitted this joint letter to the Department of Justice pointing out how voter ID provisions in a recently passed South Carolina law are racially discriminatory. Our letter urges the Department of Justice not to approve the new law under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
Co-Counsel for Proposed Intervenor-Defendants in Little v. LATFOR
The Brennan Center and co-counsel for the parties seeking to intervene and defend the law ending prison-based gerrymandering in New York sent this letter to the Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment (LATFOR), prompted by reports that LATFOR may not be complying with the law.
In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, civil rights advocates called on Congress to investigate the reported changes to the FBI’s guidelines for domestic investigations.
The Brennan Center for Justice sent a letter to the New York State Special Commission on Judicial Compensation urging it to recognize that the annual salaries for judges and justices of New York warrant adjustment — and should be increased to a fair level.
The Brennan Center for Justice, Democracia USA, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the League of Women Voters of Florida
The League of Women Voters of Florida, Democracia USA, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law write the Deptartment of Justice to oppose preclearance of three sets of provisions of a new Florida law, H.B. 1355 (2011), which dramatically impact the State’s voter registration and voting processes. All four organizations are non-partisan, non-profit entities that work to expand and protect voting rights in Florida and across the United States.
Minnesota's Campaign Finance and Disclosure Board adopted a resolution to require robust disclosure of political spending by corporations and political committees in ballot question campaigns. Prior to the vote, the Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause Minnesota, and the League of Women Voters Minnesota wrote a letter urging the Board to adopt the resolution.
The Brennan Center for Justice wrote to the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board urging the Board to revoke Advisory Opinion 257, which concluded that disclosure requirements that apply to unregistered associations under Minnesota law do not apply to corporations.
