HOW TO USE THE IMMIGRANTVOTING.ORG WEBSITE

ABOUT US
Find information about the Immigrant Voting Project's objectives, directors, and work at the about us link.

BACKGROUND READING
References and links to articles are organized in several ways:

In the bibliography, you will find scholarly, legal, and other long-format articles and books. For references to and excerpts from the latest articles from around the country, use the articles link. In addition, each city or state page has a section drawing attention to relevant articles (the very latest articles may take a little bit longer to get to these pages.)

We have also developed background information articles on relevant topics, such as misconceptions about immigrant voting rights, the relationship of immigrant voting rights to the women's suffrage movement, efforts to combat disenfranchisement, quotes from historical thinkers of relevance to immigrant voting rights. Soon we will add articles on the path to citizenship and on the impact of immigrant voters. Like the existing articles, these will be highlighted on the home page. If you have a topic you'd like to see added, please contact us.   

Finally, we have compiled a page of links to organizations whose work focuses on issues closely related to ours. If you would like to propose a links exchange, please contact us.

INFORMATION ON IMMIGRANT VOTING INITIATIVES
The Immigrant Voting Project has compiled information on non-citizen voting initiatives across the United States and around the world. Many states have their own pages, and we are adding more as new initiatives come up. Each state page includes a summary of its initiative, a list of relevant reading, and a list of and links to relevant legislation. We are in the process of adding histories of non-citizen voting for all 50 states, as well as a comparison chart. A few cities, such as San Francisco, Newton, New York City, and Washington DC, have their own pages.

We have included a summary page for initiatives around the world and will add more information on global immigrant voting.  

LEGISLATION
A list of legislation from all relevant states appears on the legislation page, which includes links to the full legislation passed or proposed in each jurisdiction. Each state (and/or city) page also includes links to relevant legislation pages.

DISCUSS IMMIGRANT VOTING RIGHTS
The Immigrant Voting Project is developing a forum which will appear soon on these pages. In the meantime, we have included links to our yahoogroups listserv, which you are invited to join if you'd like to discuss immigrant voting rights with a group of supporters from across the United States. There is a link to a subscription form on the forums link, which also includes links to other forums, pro and con, for discussing immigrant voting rights.

THE NEW YORK COALITION TO EXPAND VOTING RIGHTS
The Immigrant Voting Project is a founding member of and an active participant in the New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights. There are lots of ways to get involved with the Coalition: you can endorse the Coalition's work; educate yourself about and help spread the word about the Coalition via the Coalition's page on the Immigrant Voting Project website and an article explaining the initiative's rationale.

KEEP TABS ON EVENTS
The events page lists upcoming events sponsored by the Immigrant Voting Project as well as events sponsored by other organizations on relevant topics.

SUPPORT THE IMMIGRANT VOTING PROJECT
The Immigrant Voting Project can use your help, either in funding our work or in helping us keep up with the growing efforts across the United States.

Funds will help us to create a more interactive website, to obtain permissions to articles so that we can post full text instead of just excerpts, to fund travel and other costs related to events, and to fund research.  Donations to the Immigrant Voting Project are fully tax-deductible under IRS code 501(c)3. If you can help, click on the donate link for information on how to send us funds.

To send updates on the latest news in your community, contact us.