The front page of today’s New York Times features an article titled “Influx of Voters Expected to Test New Technology,” which includes some original research conducted by staff here at FairVote. Our researchers are in the process of contacting local election officials to see if they have plans for the expected increase in voter participation [...]

America is very democratic with elections every two years, with municipal elections in the odd years and presidential elections every four years. With this many opportunities to vote, it might lead to voter fatigue and voters rationalsing that it is only worth voting every four years. Therefore arguably the presidential elections cast a long shadow [...]

Be heard; vote! 299 Virginia residents drove, walked and bussed to the polls to vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary only to be silenced by Virginia’s election officials.
According to The Times-Dispatch, many polling places in Chesterfield County ran out of ballots so the Chesterfield County’s election officials thought quickly to solve the problem – allow [...]

Sixth in a series of guest blog posts by FairVote interns.
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has been at the center of the state’s attempt to revise election laws. There are a number of controversial revisions that Blackwell has set forth. In one key revision, Blackwell’s proposed voter registration rules specify that a person [...]