Our Work
The Voter Protection Corps offers a unique approach focused on early interventions and bringing decades of experience in voter protection to our efforts. We target voter suppression tactics and administrative flaws, and respond to them now, not months down the line. Our voter protection experts, including voter protection directors, Members of Congress and presidential campaign veterans, are relentless in our dedication to preserving and expanding the right to vote.
Our Focus Areas
- Volunteer recruitment: We identify volunteer gaps in voter protection efforts and work with our partners to train and deploy people so that necessary resources are in place.
- State and local advocacy: We provide expert guidance to legislatures, administrations, and county boards so that good policies are implemented that expand the right to vote. We apply pressure to state leaders to take immediate action to ensure voter protection.
- Strategic communications to affected communities: We directly communicate with citizens affected by voter suppression efforts so that they are fully informed of their rights, and know the steps they can take to register and vote.
- Data analysis of polling location and voter turnout issues: We have a unique partnership with Carnegie Mellon University in which we use groundbreaking developments in data science, analytics, and other emerging technologies to understand the most pressing issues in voting procedures and infrastructure, and then efficiently allocate our resources to solve the problem.
- Legal research: We use our network of experts and our expansive pro bono legal capacity to conduct granular research on state and local election administration in dozens of key states in order to flag problems before they happen (or recur) and find openings for pro-voter policy change in advance of the November election.
