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Through the Jeffrey Golan & Frances Vilella-Vélez Voting Justice Project, we protect every citizen’s right to vote by modernizing Pennsylvania’s election system and challenging discriminatory barriers to the ballot box

Viviette Applewhite, a client from our Voter ID case, which successfully stopped a law that could have disenfranchised hundreds of thousands of citizens in Pennsylvania.

News

  • Our statement on the PA Supreme Court decision upholding the LRC state legislative redistricting plan
  • Taking on prison gerrymandering, formerly incarcerated voters and the NAACP-PA file an amicus brief supporting PA state house and senate maps
  • Pennsylvania voters and Disability Rights PA file an amicus brief defending the right to vote by mail
  • Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Selects Congressional District Map–Our Statement with Common Cause PA
  • Pennsylvania Voters Committed to Free and Equal Elections Submit Proposed Congressional District Plan
  • Pennsylvania voters file application to intervene in congressional redistricting case, seeking to ensure a fair map
  • Our statement on the Legislative Reapportionment Commission’s decision to count inmates in their hometowns
  • Voting rights advocates’ statement in response to appeals court ruling in Trump v. Boockvar
  • More News

Current Cases & Projects

  • Protecting Our Right to Vote in 2020
  • Ending Prison Gerrymandering
  • A Fair Absentee Ballot System: Adams Jones et al. v. Boockvar
  • Pennsylvania Redistricting Lawsuit
  • Keystone Votes: The Coalition for Modern Elections

Past Cases & Projects

  • Banfield v. Cortes
  • Ensuring Accountability in Philadelphia Elections
  • Voter ID: Applewhite v. Commonwealth
  • Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission
  • Voting Access in Chester County
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