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Failing the Grade: Young People Face Strong Barriers at the Polls

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Visit the websites of Sens. Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton for more information on their voter reform plans.

Click here for contact information of Sens. Obama and Clinton.

Reports

"Representational Bias in the 2006 Election." Project Vote. October 2007.

"Polling Young Voters, Volume VI." Rock the Vote. Sept. 2007.

Websites

National Campaign for Fair Elections at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

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Rock the Vote

Young Voter Strategies

In Other News:

National Public Radio's Pam Fessler interviews Brian Mellor, Project Vote Senior Counsel, for this story on allegations that "the Justice Department pursued a partisan effort to limit the number of voters, while ignoring measures designed to get more voters on the rolls." Read more of this NPR report here.

"Elections supervisors in five Florida counties have agreed to a preliminary settlement as part of a federal court challenge to a state law that prohibits people from registering to vote in some cases, a civil rights group said Monday." Read more of this Miami Herald story here.



Erin Ferns is a Research and Policy Analyst with Project Vote's Strategic Writing and Research Department(SWORD).

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