Want to learn more about voting rights? Members of the Equal Democracy Project have compiled some of our favorite resources – from podcasts to books and reports – and organizations doing meaningful advocacy work in this space. The following links are just a survey of the incredible resources available, and are not affiliated with nor are they endorsed by EDP.
Register to Vote
- National Association of Secretaries of State – Can I Vote?
- Register2vote.org (first-time registrants)
- TurboVote
- Vote.org (registering and requesting absentee ballots)
- Vote411
Candidate Research
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Andrew Goodman Foundation
- ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge
- All Voting is Local
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice
- Black Voters Matter Fund
- Brennan Center for Justice
- Campaign Legal Center
- Campus Vote Project
- Common Cause
- Demos
- Election Administration Resource Center (@ UC Berkeley School of Law)
- Election Protection
- Fair Elections Center
- FairVote
- Harvard Votes Challenge
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- League of Women Voters
- Let America Vote
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Massachusetts Safe Elections Network
- MassVote
- MIT Election Data and Science Lab
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- NALEO Educational Fund
- National Vote at Home Institute
- Our Common Purpose Project (American Academy of Arts & Sciences)
- Power the Polls
- Represent Us
- Rock the Vote
- Sentencing Project (Felony Disenfranchisement)
- Spread the Vote
- Voting Rights Lab
- Voting While Black
- Voto Latino
Reports
- “2000s Redistricting Case Summaries” – National Conference of State Legislatures
- “10 Voter Fraud Lies Debunked” – Brennan Center
- Massachusetts Ranked Choice Voting Fact Sheet – Common Cause
- Report on the Voting Rights Act – ACLU
- Report: “Automatic Voter Registration, A Summary” – Brennan Center
- Report: “New Tools Are Needed to Protect Communities of Color in Redistricting” – Brennan Center
- Report: “Voter Suppression” – Brennan Center
- Report: “Waiting to Vote” – Brennan Center
Podcasts
- 5-4 “Shelby County v. Holder”
- FairVote’s several episodes on ranked choice voting
- FiveThirtyEight’s “The Gerrymandering Project”
- “Free and Fair with Franita and Foley” series
- “How to Fix Democracy” series
- NPR’s Consider This: “Voting By Mail Will Increase Dramatically This Year – And It Could Get Messy”
- Strict Scrutiny’s Magical Moment, interview with Sherrilyn Ifill, President of NAACP-LDF, discussing voting rights issues during the Supreme Court October 2019 Term
- The Appeal’s “The Backlash Against Expanding Voting Rights”
- Vote! The Podcast
- Wake Up to Politics’ “Gerrymandering in the 21st Century”
- WNYC Studios’ “How to Vote in America” series
- NPR Throughline’s mini-series on (mis)Representative Democracy
- Amicus with Dahlia Lithwick
- Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig
Books
- Election Meltdown (and a recorded book talk from the Harvard Kennedy School)
- Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
- On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy
- The Fight to Vote
- The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States
Law Review Articles and Legal Academic Resources
- Election Law Journal
- Election Litigation in the Time of the Pandemic by Nicholas Stephanopoulos (2020 University of Chicago Law Review Online)
- Pandemic Elections Series (2020 University of Chicago Law Review Online)
- The Degradation of American Democracy — And the Court by Professor Michael Klarman (Harvard Law Review 2020)
Blogs and Newsletters
- Ballot Access News (monthly newsletter and blog posts by Richard Winger, an expert on ballot access legal issues, focused on including independent candidates and minor U.S. political parties on ballots)
- Daily Kos Voting Rights RoundUp (weekly newsletter providing a summary of voting rights-related news)
- Election Academy (Prof. Doug Chapin, of the University of Minnesota’s Program for Excellence in Election Administration, provides daily news and reports on all things election administration)
- Election Law Blog (Prof. Rick Hasen, of the UC Irvine School of Law, provides daily links to news and reports on all things election law)