By Tom Lopach, President and CEO of Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Allen v. Milligan, declaring what Black Alabamians have long known – that voting power was being suppressed. The court upheld a lower court decision that Alabama’s congressional maps illegally weakened the power of Black voters and ordered them redrawn. After decades of distorted district lines, Alabama now has more representative ...| Center for Voter Information
Today, the non-partisan voter registration organizations Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Center for Voter Information (CVI) announced they are launching the largest nationwide mail-based voter registration effort in their history—reaching eligible voters in every corner of the country. VPC and CVI will send more than 4.7 million voter registration applications to eligible but unregistered Americans in August and September, with additional digital outreach and follow-up mailings plann...| Center for Voter Information
The Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information are expanding their work in an effort to get more eligible but unregistered Americans at the voting booth. (StateScoop)- Two nonprofit, nonpartisan voting-rights organizations are expanding their efforts to register more voters, using data from public and commercial sources to target their work. Over the next two months, the groups, the Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information, said they will send vote...| Center for Voter Information
The Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Center for Voter Information (CVI) are outraged at President Trump’s executive order which outlines an illegal, federal takeover of elections which would potentially disenfranchise millions of eligible Americans, leave voter rolls vulnerable to unelected officials like Elon Musk, and hurt the critical work of organizations like ours that register and turn out eligible Americans from underrepresented communities. President Trump’s executive order ...| Center for Voter Information
On March 1st, Voter Participation Center (VPC) and the Center for Voter Information (CVI) will be leaving X, formerly known as Twitter, in response to Elon Musk’s antisemitism and normalization of violent extremism. We are calling on other organizations to follow suit, and rebuke bigotry and extremist behavior. For more than two decades, VPC and CVI have used high volume digital and direct mail outreach to register eligible Americans to vote and encourage them to turn out, targeting America...| Center for Voter Information
In response to a cease and desist letter issued by Maryland Attorney General, Anthony G. Brown, on Thursday, October 31st, the Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information have issued the following reply: VPC/CVI Statement The Voter Participation Center and Center for Voter Information are non-profit, non-partisan organizations founded in 2003 to help members of the New American Majority – unmarried women, people of color and young people – register and vote. Since th...| Center for Voter Information
In response to a press release issued 10.29.2024 by the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Center for Voter Information issued the following statement: “For two decades, the Center for Voter Information (CVI) has operated as a non-profit organization providing resources and tools to help voting-eligible American citizens register and vote in upcoming elections. The mailers that CVI has been sending out are full of factual information about candidates’ positions, backed up by...| Center for Voter Information
In response to a statement released today by the Mississippi Secretary of State, the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and our partner organization, the Center for Voter Information (CVI), wish to clarify the nature of our work and assure eligible Mississippians that any mail you receive from us can be used to register to vote. This month, VPC and CVI will send more than 100,000 pieces of mail to citizens of Mississippi making it easy for them to register to vote. Eligible Mississipians can...| Center for Voter Information
WASHINGTON, DC – In a press release issued today, the Alabama Secretary of State grossly mischaracterized the essential work that we do to register eligible Americans to vote. The goal of the Voter Participation Center (VPC) and Center for Voter Information (CVI) is to register and turn out eligible voters in Alabama. This is non-partisan work and its aim is one that all election administrators should support. This is about bringing democracy to eligible American’s doorsteps. VPC and CVI...| Center for Voter Information
Yesterday, in a win for the voters of Georgia, a federal district court allowed a lawsuit challenging anti-voter provisions in Georgia’s S.B. 202 to proceed to trial. The U.S. District Court ruled that elements of the S.B. 202 law could violate nonpartisan civic engagement groups’ right to free speech. The case can now head to trial. The Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information filed suit in April 2021 to block enforcement of parts of Georgia’s anti-voter law, S...| Center for Voter Information
