Fernand de Varennes, a human rights expert employed by the United Nations, has informed the press and the US Department...

The New York City Council has put together a veto-proof supermajority in favor of granting municipal voting rights to authorized...

The US Department of Justice has charged two Iranian hackers with stealing the personal information of American voters in the...

Advocates for Latino voting rights in California have expressed concern that the preliminary drafts of California’s new congressional district maps,...

Approximately 200 voters were arrested after protesting for voting rights reform outside the White House. Hundreds of protestors, among them...

A committee in the Utah State Legislature narrowly voted against advancing a proposal that would give municipalities the option of...

In the latest in a long series of legislative disappointments this year for advocates of federal voting rights, Senate Republicans...

In what some observers are calling a failure on the part of New York State Democrats to educate their supporters,...

Three professors who specialize in voting rights law have been denied permission by their employer, the University of Florida, to...

In spite of GOP objections, the US Senate has confirmed voting rights advocate Myrna Perez as a judge on the...

Moments after Republican Governor Greg Abbot signed off on the Texas Legislature’s newly-drawn congressional districts, voting rights advocates filed a...

A judiciary committee within Mississippi’s House has begun to take another look at the state’s policy of disenfranchising citizens convicted...

Jonathan Nez, President of the Navajo Nation, appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to advocate for The Native American Voting...

Donald Kirk Hartle has been charged with casting an illegal vote under the name of his deceased wife. Previously, Mr....

In what may have been an unexpected turn of events for Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the cash bounty he...

Despite adopting compromises proposed by conservative-leaning Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Democrats in the Senate failed to win...

Following Republican Senators’ most recent rejection of a modified voting rights reform proposal, President Joe Biden has told anchor Anderson...

Republican legislatures have adopted a new method for drawing electoral maps that excludes the use of any racial data. Critics...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) has issued an open letter announcing his intention to file for a vote to...

The city of Worcestor and a coalition of its Black and Latino Residents have agreed to a settlement over a...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has held a hearing on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which Senator Patrick Leahy...

The Massachusetts State Senate has approved, 36-3, a bill to make permanent certain expansions of voting rights that were first...

Attorney General Merrick Garland has warned that the Department of Justice is keeping a serious and comprehensive watch on changes...

Following Oregon, Maine has become the second state in the union to approve its new electoral districts in response to...

A Michigan organization known as Secure MI Vote has received approval from the Michigan Board of State Canvassers to begin...

Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott is insisting that his Secretary of State’s decision to audit the 2020 election results in...

Freshman Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) has introduced a new bill known as the Native American Voting Rights Act (NAVRA),...

Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has signed a new elections law after a prolonged battle with Democrats in the...

Legal experts are predicting great difficulties for the Department of Justice as the country enters its first redistricting period in...

Republicans in the Texas Senate have followed the House in passing, along party lines, a bill which voting rights advocates...

A North Carolina state court of appeals has blocked an earlier ruling by a lower court which would have allowed...

Now that Senate Democrats have missed their self-drawn August deadline for advancing voting rights reform, a coalition of more than...

US Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL-07) has officially introduced a bill designed to restore the Department of Justice’s authority to inspect...

Maricopa County’s Board of Election Supervisors is calling for the Arizona Senate to reimburse it for the $2.8 million cost...

Enough Texas Democrats have returned from Washington, D.C. to the Texas State House to end the party’s 38-day stand against...

Legal experts continue to express skepticism that a Congressional restoration of the federal government’s authority to approve or reject state...

Democratic Leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate are scrambling to pull off separate but related legislative gambits...

The Texas State Senate has approved a new Republican-backed voting law after a fifteen-hour filibuster from State Rep. Carol Alvorado...

Civil and voting rights activists are planning a day of marches across the United States on August 28th, in order...

Speaking on the 56th anniversary of the signing of the original Voting Rights Act, House Representative G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) announced...

In a recently published op-ed in the Washington Post, current US Attorney General Merrick Garland has called on Congress to...

While President Biden likened efforts by Republican state lawmakers across the country to restrict voting access to “Jim Crow on...

Having joined roughly 60 fellow Texas Democrats who travelled to Washington, D.C. in protest of Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s call...

Pennsylvania’s Secretary of State Veronica Degraffenreid has decertified Fulton County’s voting systems after the thinly populated county submitted to an...

President Joe Biden will hold a private meeting in the White House, with a number of groups, concerning voting rights....

US District Judge J.P. Boulee has ruled against an attempt to overturn portions of a recent Georgia voting law. The...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbot has called for the state legislature to open a special session, following the US Supreme Court’s...

  The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in favor of two state laws in Arizona, setting a precedent which voting...

  Eric Adams maintains a thin lead in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, trailed closely by Kathryn Garcia and...

  The GOP-led Pennsylvania legislature has passed voting legislation which Gov. Tom Wolf has stated in a memo “is ultimately...

  Now that Republican Senators have rejected the possibility of debating the For the People Act in its current form,...

  The Vermont state legislature has voted to override two vetoes from Governor Phil Scott concerning the municipal voting rights...

  The Democratic primary for New York City’s mayor has instituted a ranked-choice voting system, which may mean that the...

  Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger has announced he will be making public a list of 102,000 names scheduled...

Confident that Republicans will block a vote on an ambitious voting rights bill, analysts of the Senate are predicting another...

Black civil rights leaders conducted a virtual, closed-door meeting with Joe Manchin (D-WV), the Senate’s lone Democratic holdout against the...

Voting rights activist and former gubernatorial candidate Stacie Abrams is launching a campaign to pressure the US Senate to pass...

In what many believe to be a decisive blow to Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation this summer, Senate...

Defiant Texas House Democrats staged a walkout of the state capitol, delaying a vote on Senate Bill 7, which they...

During his speech to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, President Joe Biden announced that he has...

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case to decide whether two Arizona voting regulations violate the Voting Rights Act....

Jacobin reports that major corporations, including ones who publicly promised to defend voting rights, have nonetheless continued their financial contributions...

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) is assembling Democratic state legislators across the country in order to form a “voting...

Minnesota’s Court of Appeals has upheld a law which prohibits citizens convicted of felonies from voting until they have fully...

Due to a lawsuit filed in the US District Court for the District of Maine, a new online absentee voting...

Voting rights advocates are voicing deep concerns about a series of election bills authored by Michigan Republicans. These bills would...

A new lawsuit has been filed against Franklin County, a municipal entity of Washington State, claiming the system employed for...

A number of voting rights and civil rights organizations have joined together to file a new federal lawsuit challenging the...

Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Joe Manhin (D-WV) have sent a bipartisan letter to the top four members of Senate...

The Republican-dominated Election Board of Mariposa County has sent a letter to the Arizona State Senate, urging it to halt...

Republicans in the Ohio House have introduced new legislation to revise state election law. The bill would forbid ballot drop...

New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill to automatically restore voting rights to anyone who has been...

After accepting several amendments offered by the Democratic minority, Republicans of the Texas House have sent a controversial voting bill...

A call from Pennsylvanian Republicans for stricter voter ID requirements has been met with a swift rejection by the office...

The ambitious voting rights bill known as the For the People Act is being taken up by the Senate Rules...

Senate Democrats are struggling to agree on a way forward for the ambitious voting rights package known as the For...

Activists, faith leaders, and other community members in Connecticut are urging state lawmakers to pass two voting rights resolutions. One...

Newsmax has issued a retraction and offered an apology to Ed Coomer, a Dominion Voting Systems employee. The right-wing media...

Florida’s House and Senate have passed a new bill, along party-lines, increasing the legal requirements for elections in the state....

Court documents reveal that Cody Griggers, a former Georgia sheriff’s deputy who has pled guilty to possession of an unregistered...

The Pennsylvania House State Government Committee recently concluded a series of meetings on election oversight. Election workers are hoping for...

Louisiana state senators have advanced a bill that would change the process by which voting machines are evaluated and acquired....

The Mississippi House passed 21 voting rights restorations bills, 19 of which were rejected by the Mississippi Senate. Mississippi’s legislature...

The House of Representatives passed a bill along party lines to make Washington, D.C. the 51st state of the United...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are encouraging the Democrats to redirect their energies from the “For the People” Act,...

The University of Georgia released a poll concerning the state’s controversial new voting law. The poll suggests steep partisan disagreements...

Prominent members of Georgia’s faith-based community have called for a boycott of Home Depot. Community leaders are hoping to enlist...

The Ohio Supreme Court will hear a case concerning Stark County’s continued purchase of voting machines from Dominion Voting Systems....

The New York State Assembly has passed a bill to restore voting rights to parolees immediately upon their release from...

Hours after Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed into law two new bills to increase eligibility requirements for voters, state Democrats...

State lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Arizona House have passed legislation along party-lines to change mail-in voting laws and restrict early...

Since the end of the 2020 election, states have taken wildly divergent approaches to voting reform legislation. While some, including...

The leaders of major Michigan-based companies, including General Motors and Ford, have signed a statement expressing support for “equitable access...

Lawmakers in Missouri are considering a bill which would prohibit the unsolicited mailing of absentee ballot applications to voters. The...

The Arkansas state Senate has passed bills concerning absentee ballots. The bill in question prohibits election officials from sending voters...

Progressives have expressed concern over a provision in the For the People Act which could have devastating consequences for the...

The CEOs and senior leaders of dozens of companies have met to discuss what to do about voting laws being...

A profile of Ronnie Amiyn, one of more than 3,400 St. Louis residents who are unable to vote because they...

Congressional Democrats plan to vote on legislation which would make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. Despite having a population of...

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has issued an executive order designed to reduce the impact of Georgia’s new voting law...