Media Center

A federal appeals court decision restoring Election Day voter registration in North Carolina is an important victory for voters and voting rights advocates in the Tar Heel State and underscores the need for Congressional action to strengthen voting rights across America, Common Cause said today.

A new tool is available to help overseas voters get and cast their absentee ballots

Partisan politicians are building obstacles to bar blacks and other ethnic minorities from voting. This is hardly new -- historical policies like poll taxes and literacy tests were race neutral but disproportionately targeted Blacks, much like today’s anti-voter laws.