The Secretary of State agreed to take additional steps to ensure that eligible Native American voters are not disenfranchised due to the restrictive voter ID law.

For the first time, the State of Maine joins numerous municipal jurisdictions across the U.S. in using ranked choice voting all of its primary and general elections.

Fair Fight Action and CLC filed an emergency court motion asking for a temporary restraining order that would prevent Secretary Raffensperger from moving forward with the state’s plans to illegally purge Georgia voters from the rolls.

Lang appeared before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to highlight the injustice of using wealth-based discrimination to stop people from voting.

Florida's Amendment 4 was a transformative legal change that elevated a class of citizens with felony convictions and promised to restore voting rights to approximately 1.5 million people through a new provision in the state constitution.

We do have programs in place now that’s helping us restore our rights so we can make a difference.

I thought getting my voting rights back was going to be a breeze, but it was lots of hurdles and roadblocks.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would honor the legacy of the VRA—so how did we get here?

Arguing for the right to vote on Election Day in federal court was an invigorating experience—worth the all nighters—and now our case will proceed to final judgment so all eligible Ohio voters can vote in future elections.

Harris County has a Constitutional obligation to enfranchise the eligible voters in its jails.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has said he will sign an executive order that automatically restores voting rights for Kentuckians who complete their sentences after being convicted of a nonviolent felony.

I feel that I need to get out and vote just like everyone else. That’s my right.

It’s been really rough not being able to get my voting rights back. It’s been a long journey. It’ll be four years this year that I’ve started working on it, so it’s been a long time. 

We have grave concerns regarding the planned purge of many Georgia voters from the voter registration list.

CLC and partner groups successfully demonstrated that Ohio’s system was denying eligible voters their First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

It is with great sadness that we at CLC mourn the loss of Congressman Elijah Cummings, a civil rights hero and fervent defender of democracy.

CLC submitted a letter to Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill expressing disappointment in the erroneous and misleading description of Alabama’s felony disenfranchisement laws.

New York City voters will have the opportunity to approve ranked choice voting on their November 2019 ballot via Ballot Question 1.