Press Releases

The Board of U.S. Vote Foundation issues this urgent and unequivocal statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Watson v. RNC.

We urge the Supreme Court, along with every state election official, legislator, and stakeholder, to remember that voting options like mail-in and absentee ballots exist because people’s lives do not pause on Election Day. People work, serve, travel, seek medical care, and fulfill duties to their families and communities. Voting must travel with them.

We caution against attempts to frame this case as simply a matter of administrative burden, postal timing, or the number of voters affected. These are distractions. The purpose of this effort is clear: it is to disenfranchise American citizens.

U.S. Vote Foundation and its Overseas Vote initiative respectfully submit this comment in strong opposition to the petition filed by the America First Legal Foundation requesting that the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration.

The petition now before the EAC seeks to impose new documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements on voter registration. This proposal is unnecessary, unsupported by evidence, and would create serious new risks and barriers for UOCAVA voters.

Requiring voters to transmit copies of citizenship documents such as passports introduces major security and logistical problems. There is no secure, standardized, or federally certified system for U.S. voters to upload or transmit these sensitive identification documents, nor for election officials to verify them safely.

Response to Threatened Federal Executive Order to Curtail Voting by Mail

U.S. Vote Foundation and our Overseas Vote and US.VOTE initiatives strongly condemn the recent presidential threats to restrict or eliminate voting by mail through executive order. Such an action would be unconstitutional, unprecedented, and an attack on the rights of millions of American voters, including our military and overseas citizens.

Voting by mail is a well-established, secure, and reliable method of casting a ballot. It is used successfully in every state and territory of the United States, with some states conducting their elections entirely by mail.