In advance of the 2008 general election, Executive Director Michael Waldman puts together the various processes by which voters are still being blocked from the polls, and what we can do about it.
Letter from voting rights groups urging the Department of Justice to issue a public statement or letter assuring that the rights of all voters to participate in the election will be free of intimidation or harrassment will be protected.
This report asks, in the face of election system problems, what procedures has each state put in place to ensure the integrity of every citizen's vote? Put another way, in the event of voting machine problems on Election Day, how prepared is each state to ensure that every voter can vote, and that all of those votes will be counted?
Counsel Lawrence Norden testified before the District of Columbia Council on October 3, 2008 regarding irregularities on the tallying of ballots from the September 9, 2008 primary election.
Brennan Center for Justice, AIGA Design for Democracy, Usability Professionals' Association, and Professor David Kimball
On September 17, 2008, the Brennan Center, AIGA Design for Democracy, Usability Professionals' Association, and Professor David Kimball sent a memo to Ohio county boards of elections reminding them of ballot design best practices as they finalized their ballots for the November election.
