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Fair Elections Center continues that work with its staff of attorneys and advocates, delivers nonpartisan creative solutions to the complex web of barriers that have been erected over time to prevent segments of our citizens from reaching their full American potential. Working alongside other national and state groups, the Center works to make the processes of voter registration, voting, and election administration as accessible as possible for every American, with a special focus on student and underrepresented voters. To this end, Fair Elections Center engages in a wide variety of advocacy efforts, including producing reports, talking points and fact sheets, providing state voter guides, providing testimony to legislatures, conducting trainings and seminars for organizations and their supporters, litigating voting rights cases in state and federal court, and working directly with local election officials and Secretaries of State to ensure that the right to vote is protected and expanded. We provide election law expertise to state-based civic engagement coalitions and direct help to organizations representing various constituencies that need help accessing the ballot as they plan their programs, encounter problems or need help engaging elections officials.
Fair Elections Center was founded to address barriers to voting that disproportionately impact racial minorities, non-native English speakers, young people, returning citizens, low-income people, and naturalized citizens. The ability to vote is at the heart of our democracy. As a society, we should always look for ways to integrate all members of our country into our democracy and encourage every American to become civically engaged.
Recent events have reminded us as an organization that systemic racism and oppression exists and we need to redouble efforts to oppose it wherever it exists. Within voting rights, we have seen a return to Jim Crow era barriers to the ballot box. We will continue to use our resources to engage and educate young people and BIPOC citizens on their right to vote, petition the courts to make sure voting rights are upheld, and advocate for policies to improve the process of how we vote to achieve full participation of all of our citizens.
We will address the fact that we ourselves, members of our work community, others we work with and supporters of our organization have internalized many stereotypes, biases, myths, and conditionings that lead to both conscious and unconscious bias, stereotypes, prejudices and racism. We need to do intentional work to not allow those learned beliefs to cause harm to our co-workers, colleagues and outside partners.
Our mission is to use litigation and advocacy to remove barriers to registration and voting, particularly those disenfranchising underrepresented and marginalized communities, and to improve election administration.
