A significant portion of the American electorate, concentrated in low-income and minority communities, remains alienated from the electoral process. Project Vote documented these disparities in our 2007 report Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate, which found that:

• Registration and voting rates among African-Americans and Latinos lagged behind White rates by 10-20 percent;
• Americans making over $100,000 were nearly twice as likely to vote as those making $25,000 or less; and
• Only half of the eligible Americans under 30 turned out to vote.

Project Vote works to close these tremendous gaps in participation that skew our national agenda and exclude from major public policy decisions the voices of our least powerful and most vulnerable citizens. Since 1982 Project Vote has helped over six million Americans complete applications to register to vote.

Working with our field partner, the community organization ACORN, Project Vote in 2007-2008 conducted the largest and most comprehensive voter registration drive in the history of our two organizations, a 21-state community-based operation that succeeded in collecting over 1.31 million voter registration applications. We estimate that the majority of our applicants were from low- to moderate-income families, 60-70 percent were African-American or Latino, and over half were under the age of 30.

To read more about the success of Project Vote's Voter Registration program click here.

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