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Voter Protection and Election Integrity

Texas Election Protection 2018: How Election Administration Issues Impacted Hundreds of Thousands of Voters, Texas Civil Rights Project, March 2019

Modern Attacks on Voting Rights Act Resource Page. The Voting Rights Act is at the heart of modern American democracy. However, the historic civil rights legislation has faced unprecedented attacks. The Brennan Center has worked to track these efforts to undercut voting rights and has engaged in litigation to protect every American's voting rights. The Brennan Center for Justice tracks legislation, assists in litigation, and creates original research to protect the Voting Rights Act. This site offers a compiled list of resources and history on the Voting Rights Act. Published: August 6, 2018

Not a Typo: States made 2019 a Historic Year for Election Reform: Campaigns to democratize the ballot box saw significant victories, The American Prospect, January 14, 2020

What if Democrats Tried Real Outreach?: We focused on nonvoters and infrequent ones before the 2018 midterm elections and saw astonishing results, New York Times, January 9, 2020.

The Myth of Voter Fraud—and the Truth About What’s Threatening Our Elections: Congress needs to update the Voting Rights Act to prevent states from suppressing votes, The American Prospect, November 28, 2019.

The Downstream Consequences of Long Waits: How Lines at the Precinct Depress Future Turnout, January 4, 2017. This statistical analysis demonstrates that for every additional hour a voter waits in line to vote, their probability ofvoting in the subsequent election drops by 1 percentage point. As a result, nearly 200,000 people did not vote in November 2014 because waiting in a long line in 2012 turned them off from the process.

An Investigation Into Foreign Entities Who Are Targeting Servicemembers and Veterans Online: Vietnam Veterans of America’s (VVA) two-year investigation, beginning in August 2017, has documented persistent, pervasive, and coordinated online targeting of American servicemembers, veterans, and their families by foreign entities who seek to disrupt American democracy. American veterans and the social-media followers of several congressionally chartered veterans service organizations were specifically targeted by the Russian Internet Research Agency with at least 113 ads during and after the 2016 election. However, this represents but a tiny fraction of the Russian activity that targeted this community with divisive propaganda. Vietnam Veterans of America, 2019.