U.S.
Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
Voting Section Home Page
Recent Notices of Section 5 Submission Activity
Redistricting submissions currently pending before the Attorney General
FairPlan
Interactive Maps
FairData Contrast Charts
FairVote2020
Resources
ACLU Redistricting Guide
(ACLU Voting Rights Project)
"The right to vote freely for the candidate
of one's choice is of the essence of a democratic society, and any
restrictions on that right strike at the heart of representative
government."
-- Chief Justice Earl Warren, Reynolds
v. Sims (1964)
Advancement Project
(racial and social justice issues)
AdvocacyInc
(GOTV tools -- email, phone banks, social networking)
American FactFinder (U.S. Census Bureau
data resource site)
BatchGeocoder
(map
multiple locations and retrieve coordinates instantly with your browser)
Black
Elected Officials:
A
Statistical Summary, 2000
(Joint
Center for Political and Economic Studies)
Blog on Voting Issues (VoteLaw
by Edward Still, voting rights attorney)
Brennan Center for
Justice (NYU School
of Law)
Census Information
Center Participants (non-profit data resources for underserved communities)
Census State Data Centers
(state government data resources)
Center for
Community Change
(community voting project)
Center for Voting and
Democracy
(election reform information and resources)
DemocracyMaps
(GIS and non-partisan GOTV)
EasyToVote.org
(nationwide voter registration info)
Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) (track
voting problems)
ElectionLine.org
(election reform news)
Electoral Vote Predictor (state by state, poll by
poll)
e-Merges
(registered voter lists nationwide -- fast turnaround)
FairData
(census resources and mapping solutions)
FairVote2020
(GIS and GOTV)
GovTrack (innovative site with info on Congress)
The Green Papers (state
and federal campaign and election info)
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
(Voting Rights Project)
Map the Vote (GIS
and GOTV)
NAACP National Voter Fund
(get-out-the-vote)
National Coalition on Black Civic
Participation (get-out-the-vote)
National Low Income Housing
Coalition (Voter
Registration, Education and Mobilization project)
National Voice
Listserve (voting news from Center for
Civic Participation)
National Voting Rights Institute
(campaign finance reform)
NewspapersLink.com
(comprehensive gateway to newspapers)
New Voters Project
(get-out-the-vote ages 18-24)
PrisonersoftheCensus.org (research on the impact
of miscounting the inmate population)
Progressive Punch
(info on congressional voting
records)
Project Vote
(get-out-the-vote)
Project Vote Smart
(nationwide voter registration info)
Psephos
(international election results and constituency-level
maps)
Redistricting Cases: the 1990s (National
Conference of State Legislatures)
Redistricting Cases: the 2000s (National
Conference of State Legislatures)
(Southern Regional Council)
Southwest Voter
Registration Education Project (get-out-the-vote)
State
redistricting sites (National
Conference of State Legislatures)
Techpolitics.org
(detailed voting and demographic information on
Congress)
2000 Election Data By State
(Federal Elections Project
-American U and U. of KY)
2004 US Presidential Election Interactive Map (Caliper
Corporation)
Ubikcan
(blog about mapping and politics)
US Election Atlas
(data and maps with historical election information)
US Elections.com
(click
on your state to see who is running for office)
(US
Hispanic Leadership Institute)
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