Voting - Use It or Lose It!

The National Coalition for Voter Rights serves as a central research and information consultancy with three primary objectives:

1. Conduct research on voter laws and proposed legislation: Focus on assessing how Texas existing voter rights laws and proposed legislation affects voters. Texas is a key state to pilot this type of research for expansion into other states. This research will help inform public policy and support advocacy efforts to protect and enhance voter rights across the state.
2. Manage an informative website: This platform provides crucial information on the role of voters in voter list maintenance to support them to stay active participants in voting. And will communicate to Texans the impacts to voters and their voting rights from current Texas law and proposed Texas legislation.
3. Work with organizations to enhance their voter education programs by using the insights from the voter research.

Three reasons for this work:

1. Improve understanding of the election system: When 95,000 voter applications in Texas are rejected, it highlights critical flaws that need to be addressed. The research work aims to uncover and resolve such systemic issues.
2. Identify affected communities: Identify the districts where Texans live that are most impacted by Texas election law and proposed election bills. Create targeted voter education programs with organizations.
3. Reinstate oversight on voter legislation: Hold elected officials accountable for how election bills could affect constituent voter participation. Revive historical preclearance oversight through analysis of legislation and communicate the impacts broadly.

Who are we? A collective group of experts passionate about voting:

• Dr. Andrea Barreiro, SMU Associate Professor of Math
• Don Campbell, former US Senate Staff Director
• Alexis Kosloski, Common Cause Texas Advisory Board
• Robin Lederer, UniBeacon Group, Marketing Consultant
• Michelle Marek, CPA, AT&T
• The Honorable Melissa Noriega, three-term former Houston Council Member at-large and former State Representative District 145
• Haley Smith, Common Cause Texas Advisory Board
• Michael Veale, former CTO for Citigroup

With sincere gratitude to the following experts who provided invaluable guidance on the study of voter list maintenance:

• Kevin Morris, Brennan Center, Senior Research Fellow, Voting Policy Scholar with the Democracy Program
• Coryn Grange, Brennan Center, Research Associate with the Voting Rights Program
• The Election Assistance Commission Research Department
• Dallas County Elections