Last January, a Wisconsin judge in Waukesha County ruled in favor of a conservative legal group which had argued that...

As the near-term passage of federal voting rights legislation grows increasingly unlikely, voting rights advocates and state legislators in New...

Defense attorneys have called for a federal judge to dismiss a voting rights case brought against the state of Georgia....

The NAACP has partnered with two other advocacy groups in Colorado to bring a lawsuit against a conservative activist group...

Virginian Democratic Buchanan County Supervisor Trey Adkins has been charged with 82 felony counts, including election fraud. Adkins maintains that...

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling by North Florida’s Chief U.S. District Judge, thus reinstating a...

The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has ordered that congressional election maps be rewritten by a...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is attempting to persuade the Ohio Supreme Court to require the state’s bipartisan redistricting...

Several civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, have filed a suit...

Several voting rights advocacy organizations have filed for a temporary injunction against a portion of Florida’s newly drawn Congressional elections...

After failing to secure the right to solicit unlimited campaign donations in the same manner as her opponent, Stacey Abrams...

A federal judge has decided to permit the advance of a legal attempt to prohibit Republican US Representative Marjorie Taylor...

Democratic US Representative John Larson (CT-1) has introduced a bill that would require all eligible, registered voters to vote in...

The National Urban League, a non-partisan civil rights organization, has released a report claiming that state legislators and extremist groups...

A Tennessee judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the Shelby County Election Commission lacks sufficient evidence of voter suppression...

As part of President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, the White House has conducted and released...

Ohio Republicans have introduced a new bill that would produce stricter voter ID requirements but would also issue free state...

Certain legal arguments being made by lawyers in defense of Texas’s new election maps may hold serious consequences for the...

A Yellowstone County District Court Judge has ordered a preliminary injunction against four voting bills passed in 2021 by the...

A Wisconsin legislative initiative known as the Unlock the Vote Package will have to wait until well after this year’s...

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has signed a law that some lawyers for the Arizona State Legislature believe may be unconstitutional....

Major portions of a 2021 Florida voting rights law have been struck down by the U.S. District Court for the...

While local chapters of voting rights advocacy groups such as the NAACP and the ACLU are calling for the Virginia...

A number of Democrats in Ohio have expressed disappointment and anger with a coalition of voting rights organizations, headed by...

While the US Supreme Court opted not to overturn Wisconsin’s new Congressional district maps in a recent case, it did...

Over a dozen Democrats in the US House of Representatives have signed their names to a letter urging Attorney General...

Tarrant County, Texas suffered a severe shortage of poll workers at its March 1st primary and officials are unsure how...

Anxious that their perceived underperformance may depress voter turnout among liberals this November, congressional Democrats are urging President Biden to...

The Florida Legislature has passed a bill approving 3 million dollars in funding to create a 25-person office to investigate...

After receiving completed surveys from nearly 600 local election officials across the country, the Brennan Center for Justice reports that...

In spite of protests from Republican state lawmakers, the US Supreme Court has decided to uphold electoral maps approved by...

County clerk Tina Peters of Mesa County, Colorado has been indicted by a grand jury for unlawful access of election...

Twenty-seven year-old Elliot Smith has taken on new leadership roles within a multiracial coalition of younger Americans seeking to protect...

On the 57th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Vice President Kamala Harris called, yet again, for passage of voting rights reform...

Claiming an illegal bias in favor of racial minority voters, Wisconsin Republicans have asked the United States Supreme Court to...

Democratic party operatives and voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the potentially dire implications that three 2022 gubernatorial...

In what many are viewing as a dangerous precedent, a federal judge in an Arkansas district court has ruled that...

Kelly Laws, Attorney of San Juan County, Utah has alleged that two of the county’s three commissioners violated the state’s...

A recent report from UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy argues that voter access in California is still imbalanced...

Pamela Moses, the 44 year-old founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter in Memphis, Tennessee, has been found guilty of...

In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court has placed a stay on a lower court’s ruling against the newly...

Senate Bill 8, a voting rights reform bill, has cleared another hurdle through the New Mexico State House (also known...

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, an advocacy group for voting rights, is urging the US Supreme Court to uphold the...

The latest failure of comprehensive voting rights reform on the federal level has prompted renewed flurries of activity from felon...

In a 4-3 decision, the Michigan Supreme Court has dismissed a case brought by the Detroit Legislative Caucus, which charged...

Republican State Senator Kel Seliger has signed his name to a sworn statement that he believes his party unlawfully discriminated...

In the company of a local Missouri election official, US Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) celebrated the Democrats’ most recent failure...

In the wake of yet another defeat for voting rights legislation at the hands of Republicans in the United States...

The U.S. Senators from Maine were sharply divided on the Senate floor as the Democrats failed to advance legislation to...

U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16) was among those arrested near the Capitol building for protesting the defeat of voting rights...

Political observers and elections officials have piled criticism upon Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after he downplayed the need...

Under normal circumstances, a bill that has already passed both the U.S. House of the Representatives and the Senate can...

Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., said that Senator Kyrsten...

After an hour-long, private meeting with recalcitrant Democratic Senators, President Biden told members of the press that he remains unsure...

EX-incarcerated People Organizing (or EXPO), an organization of formerly incarcerated citizens in Wisconsin, is preparing to reintroduce a piece of...

In a much anticipated speech concerning voting rights delivered in Atlanta, Georgia, President Biden called for an end to the...

While Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have been the Senators in their party most vocally opposed to eliminating...

The New York City Council has followed through on their plan to grant voting rights to the vast majority of...

Senator from Arizona Kyrsten Sinema continues to oppose her fellow Democrats’ evolving efforts to modify the filibuster in order to...

The family of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. is calling for a cancellation of the upcoming celebrations of...

Democrat Stacey Abrams has confirmed that she will run, once again, for Governor of Georgia.  Abrams came to national attention...

The voting rights lawsuit brought against the state of Georgia in the wake of the 2018 race for governor is...

New York state legislators are scrambling to extend temporary voting rights policies set to expire in 2022, after an attempt...

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...