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Election Resources
- Voter ID Flyers and Toolkits
Arm yourself with knowledge about voter ID requirements and your voting rights with our voter ID flyers and toolkits. - Voter Residency Requirements for College Students
College students, find out here if you will be able to vote where you go to school. The National Association of Secretaries of State has compiled a state-by-state rundown of residency requirements for college students. - Flyer: What Is EP365?
- Flyer: Overview of EP365 Programs
- Flyer: Election Protection (2006)
Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets: National Network on State Election Reform
- Advantages of Election Day Registration
- Deceptive Practices and Intimidation
- Early Voting
- Election Fraud and Misconduct
- Importance of Universal Absentee Voting
- Increased Accessibility for Voters with Disabilities
- Provisional Ballots
- Public Access Portals
- Removing Voter Barriers for Citizens with Mental Disabilities
- Restrictive or Disenfranchising Voter ID Requirements
- Voter ID Requirements
Memos
- Description of the Democracy Campaign's 2008 Campaign on Voter ID (2008)
From: Ralph G. Neas, President, PFAW Foundation - Election Reform Update (June 12, 2007)
From: Ralph G. Neas, President, PFAW Foundation - U.S. House Task Force Meets Tomorrow on FL-12 (April 16, 2007)
From: Ralph G. Neas, President, PFAW/F, and Michele Lawrence Jawando, PFAW/F Policy and Legislative Council - Why Different Voting Systems Must Be Available to Members of the Minority-Language Community (April 16, 2007)
From: Coalition Representing Minority-Language Voters - The Fraud About 'Voter Fraud' (March 29, 2007)
From: Ralph G. Neas, President, PFAW Foundation - Bush Administration Claims that U.S. Attorneys Were Fired Because of Failure to Prosecute Voter Fraud a Red Herring (March 15, 2007)
From: David Becker, Director, PFAW's Democracy Campaign - Stunning News on the Fiasco Surrounding the November Election in Florida's 13th Congressional District (March 15, 2007)
From: Ralph G. Neas, President, PFAW Foundation - Outline of PFAW/F Voter ID and Proof of Citizenship Work (March 2, 2007)
- Whitewashing the Facts: EAC Report Ignores Key Data (December 2006)
From: Ralph G. Neas, President, PFAW/F - The Bush Administration's Abysmal Civil Rights Record (July 19, 2006)
From: Ralph G. Neas, President, PFAW Foundation - Election Protection Coalition's On-The-Ground Election Day Program (2006)
- The Non-Existence of Voter Fraud
- The History of the Voting Rights Act
National Network on State Election Reform
In 2005, PFAW worked with other national organizations including the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Demos, the NAACP, SEIU and others to help launch the National Network on State Election Reform.
This Network serves as an information sharing and coordinating coalition of national organizations dedicated to working on federal and state electoral reform issues through the year.
In addition to the main Network, PFAW coordinates the Voter ID task force, which helps to monitor state voter ID efforts.
Resources
Fact Sheets
- Advantages of Election Day Registration
- Deceptive Practices and Intimidation
- Early Voting
- Election Fraud and Misconduct
- Importance of Universal Absentee Voting
- Increased Accessibility for Voters with Disabilities
- Provisional Ballots
- Public Access Portals
- Removing Voter Barriers for Citizens with Mental Disabilities
- Restrictive or Disenfranchising Voter ID Requirements
- Voter ID Requirements
Other Resources
- Election Reform Successes in the States in 2007: A National Network for Election Reform Conference Call
- Letter to Members of Congress RE: Opposition to Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006 (9/19/2006)
- Statement of Principles
Reports
- Will Problems in Early Primaries Affect the Buckeye State? (2008)
- Prohibiting Vote Fraud and Intimidation: A Survey of State Statutes (Doug Chapin, 2006)
- The New Face of Jim Crow: Voter Suppression in America (2006)
- The Long Shadow of Jim Crow: Voter Intimidation & Suppression in America (2004)
- Run-Up to Election Exposes Widespread Barriers to Voting (2004)
- Shattering the Myth: An Initial Snapshot of Voter Disenfranchisement in the 2004 Elections (2004)
Statements & Testimony
2008
- Statement of Tanya Clay House, PFAW/F Director of Public Policy, RE: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: "Protecting the Constitutional Right to Vote" (May 20, 2008)
"Instead of focusing on misguided voter ID legislation that fails to address actual, documented voting rights abuses, we encourage lawmakers to support positive election reform initiatives. There is no question that protecting the integrity of the ballot box should be priority, but voter disenfranchisement is not an acceptable consequence." - Statement of Tanya Clay House, PFAW/F Director of Public Policy, RE: Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Hearing: "Is the Myth of In-Person Voter Fraud Leading to Voter Disenfranchimsent?" (March 19, 2008)
"People For the American Way fundamentally rejects the notion that the use of voter ID would remedy the perceived threat of in-person impersonation fraud which, by all reputable accounts, does not pose a serious threat to our electoral process," said Tanya Clay House. - Statement of David Becker, Director of the Democracy Campaign, PFAWF, before the Texas House Elections Committee (Jan. 25, 2008)
Restrictive voter ID laws such as a measure being considered in Texas "effectively deny entrance to the polling booth for significant numbers of eligible voters, disproportionately affecting hte traditionally disenfranchised — blacks, Hispanics, the elderly, students, adn the poor &mdash while doing absolutely nothing to protect the integrity of elections," said Becker.
2007
- Letter from Tanya Clay House, PFAW/F Director of Public Policy, to Senators Regarding Deceptive Practices Legislation (September 6, 2007)
Tanya Clay House wrote a letter to senators regarding PFAW's support of the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Act of 2008 (S.453). "This much needed legislation attempts to address the multitude of voter intimidation and harrassment problems that occurred during the past federal elections and particularly the recent 2006 midterm elections," Clay House wrote. - Testimony of Tanya Clay House, PFAW/F Director of Public Policy, on Election Integrity and Accessibility (March 23, 2007)
Tanya Clay House testified before the Elections Subcommittee of the Committee on House Administration in support of H.R. 811, calling it "a strong effort to change the status quo so that voters will have confidence that their votes will be counted as cast." - Testimony of David J. Becker,
Senior Counsel, PFAW and PFAW Foundation, on Voting Technology (March 7, 2007)
David Becker testified before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on the need to improve voting technology. "Unauditable electronic voting machines have likely left a trail of disenfranchised voters throughout the country, but nowhere have the dangers of these devices been felt more deeply by voters than in Sarasota County, Florida," Becker said. - Testimony of Ralph G. Neas, PFAW/F President, on Election Reform (March 7, 2007)
Ralph G. Neas testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the urgent need for election reform. "In order to give election officials time to implement election reform, Congress must pass the needed legislation in a matter of months — and provide adequate funding to put those reforms in place," Neas said. - Will Your Vote Count? (January 22, 2007)
An expert panel, including People For the American Way’s own Mary Jean Collins, discuss how Election Day 2006 brought to the forefront a variety of voting problems experienced across the country. - Testimony of Tanya Clay House, PFAW/F Director of Public Policy, on the Ballot Integrity Act of 2007
Tanya Clay House testified before the Senate Rules Committee on the Ballot Integrity Act, calling it "a well-intentioned bill that attempts, practically and effectively to address some of the major election problems voters are facing today."
2006
- Statement of Deece Eckstein, PFAW Director of Texas and Southwest Region, RE: Prop 200 Is an Utter Failure (August 3, 2006)
"Proposals like Proposition 200 only serve to disenfranchise eligible voters," Deece Eckstein said. "Voter fraud is not the problem and proponents of these types of measures know that. They're simply trying to capitalize upon repugnant anti-immigrant sentiments and use that to pass measures similar to Proposition 200."
2005
- Testimony of Shaun Tucker, African American Outreach Coordinator, on Effective Election Reform Legislation in Ohio (December 6, 2005)
Shaun Tucker testified in opposition to H.B. 3. "While we applaud election reform efforts," Tucker said, "we do not believe that H.B. 3 effectively meets these goals." - Statement of Rev. Timothy McDonald III on the 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (August 5, 2005)
2004
- Testimony of Ralph G. Neas, PFAW/F President, on 2004 Election Irregularities in Ohio (December 8, 2004)
Ralph G. Neas testified before Congressman John Conyers, Jr.'s Forum on Election Irregularities in Ohio. "In Ohio [in November 2004], a variety of questionable actions by private individuals and governmental officials alike created a suppressive environment for Ohio voters," Neas said. - Testimony of Jorge Mursuli, Mi Familia Vota, on Tactics Used to Prevent Newly Naturalized Citizens from Registering to Vote (October 7, 2004)
Jorge Mursuli, National Director of Mi Familia Vota, testified at the Congressional Black Caucus Hearing in Washington, D.C. on "the insidious tactics recently employed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the City of Miami Beach to prevent the registration of newly naturalized citizens." - Testimony of Tanya Clay House, PFAW/F Director of Public Policy, on Problems Facing Voters and Election Officials (September 30, 2004)
Tanya Clay House testified before the Election Assistance Commission on aspects of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).
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