The 2008 Community Voters Project, a large-scale, non-partisan voter registration effort, registered over 300,000 African American and Latino voters in ten states -- Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
At its peak the project had over a thousand staff working in 57 cities, including Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Battle Creek, Pontiac, Muskegon, and Benton Harbor, Michigan; Toledo, Canton, Columbus, Hamilton, Mansfield, and Warren, Ohio; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, York, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee, and West Palm Beach, Florida; Falls Church, Richmond, Hampton, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Roanoke, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and Fredericksburg, Virginia; Las Vegas, Nevada; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Portland, Oregon; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Bellevue, Washington.
The inaugural Community Voters Project registered 93,000 new minority voters for the 2004 election and made more than 62,000 get-out-the-vote contacts to registered minority voters, encouraging them to cast their votes.
The project is done in partnership with The Center For Public Interest Research. Non-partisan voter registration projects housed within the Center have registered nearly 700,000 voters and made over 500,000 personalized voter contacts since 2004 in 22 states.
Community Voters Project can be reached by e-mailing alioz@progressivefuture.org or by phone at 303 893-0458.
