Projects
PFAWF's work, as part of The Democracy Campaign, includes special nonpartisan projects that promote fair and equal access to the polls: Election Protection, the Election Incident Reporting System, and Restore My Vote.
Election Protection
The nonpartisan Election Protection 365 program is committed to protecting the right to vote and ensuring fair elections. Focusing on historically disenfranchised communities, the Election Protection coalition, led by PFAW Foundation, the NAACP, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is working to make sure every eligible voter is able to cast a vote that will count. Our nation’s patchwork electoral system too often resembles an obstacle course. Whatever the cause &mdash be it bad technology, negligence, insufficient resources, or cynical maneuvering by elections officials and partisans &mdash these obstacles must be removed. That requires more than just a strong defense on Election Day. It means playing offense all year round, and that is the idea behind Election Protection 365.
Learn more
- Visit the Election Protection website
- Sign up to volunteer to protect the vote this Election Day
Election Incident Reporting System
The Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) is a web-based database capturing real-time information on voter problems at the polls. EIRS enables immediate Election Day interventions at the polls — and, if necessary, in the courts and with the news media — to solve voter problems. It also creates a database to assist in advocacy prior to the 2008 elections and afterwards.
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Restore My Vote
People For the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) has obtained a list of more than 250,000 ex-offenders in Florida whose right to vote was restored by Governor Crist and the Executive Clemency Board in October. While the clemency board attempts to notify ex-offenders that their rights have been restored, election officials throughout the state are not making a concerted effort to add all persons back to the voter registration rolls. PFAWF is attempting to reach these eligible voters, let them know they have the right to vote, give them guidance on how to exercise that right, and work with election officials to supporting their re-enfranchisement. PFAWF is enlisting the help of the media, election officials, the general public, and anyone else who can help us to find the people on this list and help them register to vote.
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