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. 

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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.  

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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 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.