To remove legal barriers to voter participation for traditionally under-participating constituencies, including poor, elderly, disabled, student and minority voters, by utilizing a national nonpartisan legal network active at the administrative level to bring about necessary reforms the election procedures.
To register over 100,000 youth voters at music events and concerts across the country and build their commitment to civic engagement.
To support Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project, which will increase civic engagement among young people in 2008 and in the years to come through nonpartisan voter registration and mobilization drives.
To help register low-income voters for the November elections and engage, educate and mobilize new and infrequent voters through nonpartisan get-out-the-vote strategies.
To build an integrated, permanent progressive infrastructure comprised of research, new tools for common use, issue framing and message discipline, and policy and leadership development programs that are of sufficient scale and ability to influence policy outcomes in Maine.
To increase states’ compliance with the National Voter Registration Act that calls for public assistance agencies to provide low-income or disabled citizens with voter registration forms and assistance completing the forms.
To educate middle-income working people nationwide about progressive economic issues relevant to them, their legal rights, and methods of advocacy in order to improve their standard of living.
To increase the number of low-income and disenfranchised individuals registered to vote throughout the country by pressing states to fully implement the National Voter Registration Act.
To research and develop a comprehensive set of legislative options to counteract abuses of federal executive privilege during the last six years. An effective law would define and limit executive privilege, clarify what communications it applies to and specify when…
To train and support nonprofit organizations interested in participating in nonpartisan civic engagement and issue education work.