About
Who we are
Our mission is to secure voting rights for all Americans.
We believe the biggest barriers to voting are built into the system, not the voter. So that's where we work. We increase public awareness of secretaries of state, the officials who implement voting laws and oversee elections. We run nonpartisan get-out-the-vote campaigns that give voters practical information about how and when to vote. And we make the case for Automatic Voter Registration, which shifts the burden of registration off individual voters and onto the government agencies that already have their information.
iVote Civic Education Fund is the 501(c)(3) education arm of this work. Its affiliated political organization is iVote, at ivoteforamerica.org.
How we work
Three programs
Secretaries of State
Legislatures write election laws. Secretaries of state decide how they work in practice. Most voters have never been told that.
Read more →Nonpartisan GOTV
We put facts in front of voters at scale, including a $20 million voter education campaign in 2020.
Read more → See our campaigns →Automatic Voter Registration
Nearly 88 million eligible Americans didn't vote in 2024. For millions of them, the reason was a registration system that puts the burden on the voter. It doesn't have to.
Read more →Advisory Board
Campaign and policy veterans
Ellen Kurz (President), Hari Sevugan, Addisu Demissie, Charles Baker, Mark Ritchie, Rebecca Pearcey, Betsy Hoover, Tim Miller, and Mayra Macías.
Voting rights didn't arrive all at once.
Two centuries of expansion, and a contested last decade.
See the Voting Rights Timeline