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Restoring Voting Rights
Photo by Jared Rodriguez / Truthout via Creative Commons license. In my experience, most Americans believe in second chances. Yet, in the voting rights world, we have a glaring contradiction. In...
View ArticleVirginia Launches Online Voter Registration Web Site
Virginia’s online voter registration portal went live this week providing many residents the opportunity to register to vote online as well as update their existing voter registration online. Last...
View ArticleFill Out Full Virginia State Voter Registration Form, Advise Voting Rights...
Overlooking box on the form can cause eligible applicants to be rejected, says Project Vote Richmond, VA – A spot check of rejected voter registration applications in the state of Virginia found that a...
View ArticleVirginia Registrar Cautiously Implements New Voter Purge Law
Virginia is one of two states to pass a law that allows it to compare voter rolls with neighboring states in an effort to maintain voter rolls. Cross-checking voter rolls, a potentially unreliable...
View ArticleThe Invisible Barrier to Voting
Tuesday, more than 350,000 Virginians (about 7 percent of the voting population) did not get to choose their new governor. As MSNBC‘s Ari Melber pointed out in an important piece this week, the problem...
View ArticleVa. Governor Announces Support for Voting Rights Restoration
Yesterday, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced that he supports legislation to automatically restore voting rights to people convicted of nonviolent... The post Va. Governor Announces Support for...
View ArticleProposed Rules Would Harm Democracy in Virginia, Say Voting Rights Advocates
Press Statement from League of Women Voters of Virginia and Project Vote: Introduced earlier this month, Virginia House Bill 1747/Senate... The post Proposed Rules Would Harm Democracy in Virginia, Say...
View ArticleVoter Registration Transparency Case Settled in Virginia
After nearly three years in the courts, a precedent-setting case brought by voting rights groups to ensure transparency of voter... The post Voter Registration Transparency Case Settled in Virginia...
View ArticleBill Alert: Noncitizen Voter Purge Bill Advances in Virginia
A Virginia bill to direct the State Board of Elections to compare voter registration rolls to the federal “Systematic Alien... The post Bill Alert: Noncitizen Voter Purge Bill Advances in Virginia...
View ArticleMass. and Va. Adopt Beneficial Voting Policies This Week
Massachusetts and Virginia adopted policies that would make voter registration and voting accessible to more citizens this week. The post Mass. and Va. Adopt Beneficial Voting Policies This Week...
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