Delaware Voting Rights Coalition
We are Delaware's first statewide coalition of voting rights organizations and advocates. Under the umbrella of the Delaware Voting Rights Coalition, we encourage voters and policymakers to consider reforms that will improve access to voting.
We empower communities, especially communities of color, people who speak English as a second language, people involved in the justice system, people with disabilities, and young people, to identify and remedy barriers to the ballot box. We are ready to work with legislators, local election officials, and the Department of Elections to make these reform recommendations a reality.
To get in touch with our coalition, please email Andrew Bernstein at [email protected].
What We Support
We want to ensure that everyone who has the right to vote can exercise that right in a meaningful, transparent, safe, and secure manner. We support reforms that broaden access for all eligible voters to register and cast their ballots.
In 2025, we are advocating for reforms that:
- Ensure all registered voters are able to cast a mail ballot;
- Protect early, in-person voting;
- Implement same-day voter registration;
- Educate all eligible voters about the option to vote early or by mail;
- Expand voting options for eligible incarcerated voters and restoring voting rights after felony incarceration; and
- Expand and enhance accessibility of our elections and of public education materials and events for voters with disabilities and voters who do not speak English.
Legislation We Support
Every Vote Counts Campaign
The Delaware Voting Rights Coalition is proud to partner with the ACLU of Delaware's Every Vote Counts Campaign, a multi-year effort to amend Delaware's constitution, bring our state into the 21st century, and ensure Delaware becomes a beacon of democracy and strong voter engagement.
The campaign aims to:
- Restore voting rights after felony incarceration,
- Protect and expand early in-person and vote-by-mail, and
- Implement same-day voter registration.
NEW: Disability Rights Delaware's 2024 General Election Accessibility Report
On June 30, the Disability Rights Delaware (DRD) of Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI) released a new report with findings from its most comprehensive polling place assessment to date, which surveyed over 90% of Delaware’s polling places and found that more than half violated accessible parking laws.
Our Priorities
One thing is at the very core of our democracy: choice. Voters should have options on how we get to exercise that democratic choice.
Coalition partners
- ACLU of Delaware
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. - Epsilon Iota Omega Chapter
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. - Zeta Omega Chapter
- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. - Gamma Theta Lambda Chapter
- Anti-Defamation League
- Central Delaware NAACP Branch
- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Delaware
- Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.
- Delaware Hispanic Commission
- Delaware Laborers — Local 199
- Delaware Poor People's Campaign
- Delaware State AFL-CIO
- Delaware State Association of Letter Carriers
- Delaware Women for Inclusion
- Delaware Working Families Party
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Wilmington (DE) Alumnae Chapter
- Indivisible Highlands and Beyond
- Interdenominational Ministers Action Council (IMAC)
- Latino Initiative on Restorative Justice
- League of Women Voters of Delaware
- Methodist Action Program
- Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League
- NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
- National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Delaware Chapter
- Network Delaware
- Peace and Justice Work Group of Westminster Presbyterian Church
- Progressive Democrats of Sussex County
- Rank the Vote Delaware
- Sierra Club Delaware Chapter
- Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Alpha Nu Sigma Alumnae Chapter
- Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice
- Sussex County Delaware Divine Nine
- Unitarian Universalist Delaware Advocacy Network
- Votamos / We Vote Coalition
- Women’s March Sussex - DE
- YWCA Delaware
- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., State of Delaware
Related Content
Press Release: Delaware's First Statewide Voting Rights Coalition Launches
