Fair Elections Center

Programs

1. Campus vote project (cvp): cvp works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students, and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. The program enables campus leadership to institutionalize reforms that empower students with information on how to register and vote. College students face special challenges when attempting to register and vote in their college communities. These students sometimes lack information about voter registration rules and deadlines, lack acceptable forms of id for voter registration or voting purposes, lack transportation to the polls, face confusion about where to vote, or even face unsympathetic election officials. In recent years, some state legislatures around the country pursued laws that seek to limit access to the polls with particularly damaging effects for student voters. Cvp seeks to address these challenges by providing school administrators current voting information that they can offer their students during events like orientation and class registration. Cvp also develops best practices for colleges to disseminate information to all enrolled students through campus-wide communications during voter registration, early…

   $4,714,375 spentof which $64,763 as grants
   81% of program spending

2. Litigation: Fair Elections Center's legal team leverages its expertise to reduce barriers to registration and voting that impact historically marginalized communities as well as other voters who have experienced restricted access to the ballot. These constituencies include students, the youth, the elderly, language minority and immigrant communities, and communities of color. Fair Elections Center's work also challenges registration laws that discriminate gainst naturalized citizens and administrative processes that unconstitutionally deny voting rights to former fellons, those improperly purged from voter lists and other historically disenfranchised groups. In 2024, Fair Elections Center continued its lawsuit in arizona that challenged two laws that inhibit the ability for naturalized citizens to register and remain registered voters. The court sided with fec, striking down laws that would have required election officials to investigate the citizenship of voters. The organization also secured a victory for wisconsin voters, as the wisconsin court of appeals rejected the state legislature's motion to block legal protections for absentee voters given minor defects or emissions in…

   $519,059 spent
   9% of program spending

3. Election law and reform policy: Fair Elections Center works on election law policy in order to expand access to the ballot, support election administrators, and support underrepresented communities. Last year, the organization continued to support various underserved communities with updated state voter guides and voter drive guides for all 50 states, including providing translations of these state voter guides in key election states. The organization worked with advocacy organizations in seventeen states to analyze legislation and provide analysis of its impact on voting or on election administration. In 2024, fec supported pro-voter legislation in michigan and minnesota. The organization also opposed strict voter id legislation in ohio and informed national policy makers by providing key information to the department of education for their "toolkit for the promotion of voter participation for students." Fair Elections Center continued their collaboration with allies to shape the implementation of the biden administration's executive order on voting and voter registration through various federal agencies.

   $249,431 spent
   4% of program spending

4. Poll worker recruitment

   $337,131 spentof which $42,000 as grants
   6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,819,996.