This fall, we have been hard at work doing Get Out the Vote drives to ensure that all eligible voters made their voices heard.
Now that the national election is over, we are focused on the Georgia run-off, where our team of canvassers is out knocking on doors to get out the vote for the January 5th senate race.
All the while, we are still collecting and processing data to track voter purges around the country. Stay tuned for reports and more updates about what we learn from our data.
Vice News talked with founder of the Ohio Voter Project and author of the Voter Purge Project’s data cleaning and analysis methodology Steve Tingley-Hock about our work to track wrongful data purges across the country.
“When I ran the initial queries, that was my first indication that there was a serious problem here,” Steve says of the initial Ohio records that showed about 40,000 voters were set to be wrongfully purged. Steve, along with the VPP, now collects and analyzes data for 16 states.
Watch the full video below, and read more about what we are doing with this data in our report.
On October 1, we released Unnecessary Disenfranchisement: Voter Purges Around the Country, a report detailing our work to monitor and organize against wrongful purges across the country.
Read the full report below for background on the project, our methods, and what we are doing to ensure eligible voters are informed of their voter status as November’s elections draw near.
Did you get a text from us? Public election records show that your name has been removed from the state voter list, which may mean that you are not eligible to vote in this November’s presidential election.
But it’s not too late to re-register!
Register again, and join over 130 million Americans in voting this year. Registering takes just two minutes.
About Voter Purge Project:
We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to protecting eligible voters against disenfranchisement. Through our research, we have identified voters who have been removed from their state’s voter lists – and we want to help them get back on before November.
Contact us: info@voterpurgeproject.org.
For more information about these reports and the Voter Purge Project methods, please contact info@voterpurgeproject.org.
For more information about these reports and the Voter Purge Project methods, please contact info@voterpurgeproject.org.
For more information about these reports and the Voter Purge Project methods, please contact info@voterpurgeproject.org.
Spectrum News One, Cleveland, Ohio
Tweeting, Instagramming, protesting —all things that Millennials and Generation Z embrace. But what about voting?
According to the Ohio Voter Project, which analyzes election data, as of July 1, there are approximately 740,000 voters, ages 18-24 registered to vote in the state, compared to 3 million people age 50 and older.
Based on the most recent population data from the state of Ohio published in 2018, only about 70 percent of younger eligible voters are registered for the November election. For eligible voters 50 and older, that figure is nearly 90 percent.