Public Advocacy for Voter Protection Project
The League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) Public Advocacy for
Voter Protection Project has been created to help to bolster its
capacity for continuing and
expanding its critical state-based advocacy to prevent the
disenfranchisement
of eligible citizens, particularly underserved populations.
Background:
In 2002, in the wake of the tumultuous 2000 election, Congress passed
the Help
America Vote Act (“HAVA”) to modernize the nation’s
election
processes and to help ensure that eligible voters are no longer
deprived of
the franchise due to administrative errors.
Unfortunately, in many states, politicians have seized on this
opportunity
as a means of disenfranchising targeted voters through changes in
election laws.
These new measures have the potential of disenfranchising more
Americans than
any Election Day problems we have seen in the past.
In an effort to fight back, the League of Women Voters is focusing on
five specific
issues:
- Oppose ID and documentary proof of citizenship
- Improve administration of statewide database systems
- Guard against undue restrictions on voter registration
- Improve polling place management
- Improve poll worker training and strengthening poll workers
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