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Alabama’s Misinformation is Keeping Citizens from Exercising their Rights

December 8, 2017
Case
Thompson v. Alabama
Issues
Voting Rights

In November, Campaign Legal Center (CLC) voting rights advocates traveled across Alabama to help people with past felony convictions restore their right to vote and train community leaders on rights restoration. 

Supreme Court Must Not Allow Ohio to Purge Inactive Voters

January 12, 2018
Case
Husted v. Randolph Institute
Issues
Voting Rights

But many American choose not to or are unable to vote in each election. Inability to vote in every election should not be disqualifying. But under Ohio’s current system, not voting in two consecutive elections initiates the state’s voter purge procedure and may lead to the removal of the voter from...

Challenge to Alabama’s Felony Disenfranchisement Moves Toward Trial

January 29, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC’s clients’ challenge to Alabama’s law that has stripped up to 280,000 people with convictions of their right to vote, Thompson v. Alabama, will move forward after a ruling from the Middle District of Alabama in late December denying the state’s attempt to dismiss the case. Today, the district...

Victory for Voters! Automatic Voter Registration Signed in Illinois

September 5, 2017
Issues
Voting Rights

Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law SB 1933, a bipartisan bill establishing an automatic voter registration (AVR) system in Illinois. Under the new law, eligible citizens will automatically be registered to vote, or have their registration updated, when they apply for a driver’s license or...

Passing Automatic Voter Registration Would Make Voting More Accessible in Massachusetts

February 13, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

A bill that will enact Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) in Massachusetts is advancing in the state legislature. Evidence from other states with AVR suggests this legislation will improve participation and access to the ballot box while also increasing efficiency and lowering election...

A Toolkit for Activists Helping People With Felony Convictions Vote in Nevada

September 11, 2018
Case
Felony Voting Rights Restoration in Nevada
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC Compels State Compliance to Key Law that Protects Voter Registration

June 14, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC's voting rights team sent letters to six states informing them that their forms may be effectively depriving people with past convictions of the right to vote by failing to provide accurate information about their eligibility. Through legal advocacy and media interviews, CLC has been successful...

Alabama's Silenced Voters Tell Their Stories

June 19, 2018
Case
Thompson v. Alabama
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights

Campaign Legal Center has challenged Alabama's felony disenfranchisement law on behalf of Alabamians with past felony convictions. Read these stories of our plaintiffs.  

A Toolkit for Activists Helping People with Felony Convictions Vote in Arizona

September 11, 2018
Case
Felony Voting Rights Restoration in Arizona
Issues
Voting Rights

You Shouldn't Need a Lawyer to Tell You If You Can Vote

December 12, 2018
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights

For just over a year now, I’ve been working in Alabama to help individuals with felony convictions restore their voting rights.

How RestoreYourVote.org Brought Me Back To The Ballot Box

September 11, 2018
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights

This absence of quality information is voter suppression in its most passive form.

CLC Launches RestoreYourVote.org to Help Millions of Citizens Vote

August 14, 2018
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights

At RestoreYourVote.org, users from all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, will be able to answer key questions about their convictions and determine if they are eligible to vote right now, or eligible to go through the process to restore their right to vote.  

The Long Journey to Get Back the Right to Vote in Alabama

November 6, 2018
Case
Restore Your Vote: Felony Rights Restoration
Issues
Voting Rights

In Alabama, you lose the right to vote if you are convicted of a crime of “moral turpitude.” But, for decades, no one knew which convictions fell into that category. 

Four Priorities for H.R. 1

November 21, 2018
Case
Movement to Establish Citizen-Led Redistricting Commissions in the States
Issues
Campaign Finance
Voting Rights
Redistricting
Ethics

Americans are hungry for a democracy that is more transparent, accessible, and accountable, and there are indications that the next Congress will seriously consider legislation designed to improve our democracy.

CNN Documentary Democracy in Peril Shines Light on Wisconsin Partisan Gerrymandering Fight

November 5, 2018
Case
Movement to Establish Citizen-Led Redistricting Commissions in the States
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights

Democracy in Peril: The War on Voting Rights a CNN documentary on voting rights in America, featured CLC’s Ruth Greenwood and CLC’s work for #FairMaps. 

Democracy on the 2018 Ballot: Voters Take on Reform in Their States and Towns

October 3, 2018
Case
Movement to Establish Citizen-Led Redistricting Commissions in the States
Issues
Redistricting
Voting Rights
Campaign Finance
Ethics

This November voters will have the chance to vote to end extreme partisan gerrymandering, improve the way we fund elections to give every day voters a voice in the political process (not just wealthy donors), expand voting access and improve ethics in government.

Innocent Until Proven Guilty, But Denied the Right to Vote

November 6, 2018
Case
Tommy Ray Mays II, et al. v. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC, Dēmos and the MacArthur Justice Center filed a class action lawsuit challenging Ohio’s policy of disenfranchising eligible voters arrested just prior to the election and held in detention through Election Day. 

Five Decades of Section 5: How This Key Provision of the Voting Rights Act Protected Our Democracy

June 22, 2016
Case
Shelby County, AL v. Holder
Issues
Voting Rights

The calamity of the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder can only fully be understood by looking at the Voting Rights Act’s history and all the harm to voting rights that was successfully prevented because we had Section 5 in place.

Education is Everything for 1.4 Million Floridians Who Stand to Benefit from Rights Restoration Bill

December 14, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

Amendment 4 has the potential to be the largest expansion of voting rights in decades, but absent state action, this important reform could go unrealized. 

CLC Argument Used in Georgia Absentee Ballot Cases

December 19, 2018
Issues
Voting Rights

CLC submitted an amicus brief arguing that the policy of rejecting ballots based on a missing or incorrect birth year violated the “materiality” provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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