Wisconsin voters with disabilities say their right to vote is at risk
Last January, a Wisconsin judge in Waukesha County ruled in favor of a conservative legal group which had argued that...
New York eyes its own voting rights act after failure at the
As the near-term passage of federal voting rights legislation grows increasingly unlikely, voting rights advocates and state legislators in New...
Georgia seeks dismissal of Fair Fight voting rights case
Defense attorneys have called for a federal judge to dismiss a voting rights case brought against the state of Georgia....
Groups perpetuating Trump’s 2020 election lie face scrutiny and lawsuits
The NAACP has partnered with two other advocacy groups in Colorado to bring a lawsuit against a conservative activist group...
Grand jury report accuses Adkins of forging voters’ signatures
Virginian Democratic Buchanan County Supervisor Trey Adkins has been charged with 82 felony counts, including election fraud. Adkins maintains that...
Appeals court reinstates Florida election law criticized as Black voter suppression
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a ruling by North Florida’s Chief U.S. District Judge, thus reinstating a...
New York’s top court rejects congressional maps drawn by Democrats
The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, has ordered that congressional election maps be rewritten by a...
ACLU, voting-rights groups ask Ohio Supreme court to force redistricting commission to
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is attempting to persuade the Ohio Supreme Court to require the state’s bipartisan redistricting...
Suit: Mississippi high court districts dilute Black voter strength
Several civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center, have filed a suit...
Voting rights groups seek injunction against Florida congressional redistricting plan
Several voting rights advocacy organizations have filed for a temporary injunction against a portion of Florida’s newly drawn Congressional elections...
Abrams seeks to end unlimited donations to Georgia’s Kemp
After failing to secure the right to solicit unlimited campaign donations in the same manner as her opponent, Stacey Abrams...
Effort to boot Greene from ballot could open new avenue of attack
A federal judge has decided to permit the advance of a legal attempt to prohibit Republican US Representative Marjorie Taylor...
Proposed bill requires Americans to vote in elections or face penalty
Democratic US Representative John Larson (CT-1) has introduced a bill that would require all eligible, registered voters to vote in...
‘A plot to destroy democracy’: civil rights group raises alarm at threats
The National Urban League, a non-partisan civil rights organization, has released a report claiming that state legislators and extremist groups...
Judge halts lawsuit against Shelby County Election Commission
A Tennessee judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the Shelby County Election Commission lacks sufficient evidence of voter suppression...
White House report highlights voting barriers for Native American voters
As part of President Biden’s recent Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, the White House has conducted and released...
Ohio would require photo ID for voters, provide free state IDs under
Ohio Republicans have introduced a new bill that would produce stricter voter ID requirements but would also issue free state...
Texas quietly uses redistricting lawsuits to launch war against federal voting rights
Certain legal arguments being made by lawyers in defense of Texas’s new election maps may hold serious consequences for the...
Judge temporarily halts several new Montana voting laws ahead of statewide election
A Yellowstone County District Court Judge has ordered a preliminary injunction against four voting bills passed in 2021 by the...
WI Groups Push for Voting Rights for Formerly Incarcerated
A Wisconsin legislative initiative known as the Unlock the Vote Package will have to wait until well after this year’s...
Arizona governor signs law requiring proof of citizenship to vote for president
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has signed a law that some lawyers for the Arizona State Legislature believe may be unconstitutional....
Voting Rights ‘Under Siege,’ Judge Says in Tossing Parts of Florida Law
Major portions of a 2021 Florida voting rights law have been struck down by the U.S. District Court for the...
‘Radio silence’: Voting rights advocates push for 2022 Virginia House elections as
While local chapters of voting rights advocacy groups such as the NAACP and the ACLU are calling for the Virginia...
Ohio’s anti-gerrymandering coalition splits after voting-rights groups delay congressional map challenge
A number of Democrats in Ohio have expressed disappointment and anger with a coalition of voting rights organizations, headed by...
US supreme court blocks new Wisconsin voting maps in boost for Republicans
While the US Supreme Court opted not to overturn Wisconsin’s new Congressional district maps in a recent case, it did...
House Democrats call on Justice Department to address ‘insider threats’ posed by
Over a dozen Democrats in the US House of Representatives have signed their names to a letter urging Attorney General...
TEXAS VOTING RESTRICTIONS TAKE THEIR TOLL: “SORRY — NO DEMOCRAT VOTING”
Tarrant County, Texas suffered a severe shortage of poll workers at its March 1st primary and officials are unsure how...
Agenda languishing, Democrats press Biden to go it alone
Anxious that their perceived underperformance may depress voter turnout among liberals this November, congressional Democrats are urging President Biden to...
Voting rights advocates decry Florida’s new office for election crimes
The Florida Legislature has passed a bill approving 3 million dollars in funding to create a 25-person office to investigate...
Poll of Local Election Officials Finds Safety Fears for Colleagues — and
After receiving completed surveys from nearly 600 local election officials across the country, the Brennan Center for Justice reports that...
US Supreme Court allows court-imposed voting maps in North Carolina and Pennsylvania
In spite of protests from Republican state lawmakers, the US Supreme Court has decided to uphold electoral maps approved by...
Colorado clerk is indicted for election tampering and misconduct
County clerk Tina Peters of Mesa County, Colorado has been indicted by a grand jury for unlawful access of election...
In Selma, foot soldier’s kin boosts youth voting rights role
Twenty-seven year-old Elliot Smith has taken on new leadership roles within a multiracial coalition of younger Americans seeking to protect...
Harris calls for voting rights legislation before walking across Edmund Pettus Bridge
On the 57th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” Vice President Kamala Harris called, yet again, for passage of voting rights reform...
Wisconsin Republicans take redistricting fight to high court
Claiming an illegal bias in favor of racial minority voters, Wisconsin Republicans have asked the United States Supreme Court to...
Governors’ races in ‘blue wall’ states carry high stakes for voting rights
Democratic party operatives and voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm about the potentially dire implications that three 2022 gubernatorial...
Judge to dismiss challenge to Arkansas legislative maps unless DOJ joins case
In what many are viewing as a dangerous precedent, a federal judge in an Arkansas district court has ruled that...
Voting rights tensions erupt again after San Juan County attorney alleges commissioners
Kelly Laws, Attorney of San Juan County, Utah has alleged that two of the county’s three commissioners violated the state’s...
California’s voters still do not reflect the diversity of its people, report
A recent report from UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy argues that voter access in California is still imbalanced...
Memphis BLM founder Pamela Moses sentenced to 6 years for illegally voting
Pamela Moses, the 44 year-old founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter in Memphis, Tennessee, has been found guilty of...
Supreme Court allows Alabama voting maps that advocates say disenfranchise Black voters
In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court has placed a stay on a lower court’s ruling against the newly...
Voting rights bill moves forward in Legislature
Senate Bill 8, a voting rights reform bill, has cleared another hurdle through the New Mexico State House (also known...
Voting rights groups urge Supreme Court to let order for redrawn Alabama
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, an advocacy group for voting rights, is urging the US Supreme Court to uphold the...
States moving fast after Congress failed to expand felon voting rights
The latest failure of comprehensive voting rights reform on the federal level has prompted renewed flurries of activity from felon...
Michigan Supreme Court dismisses Voting Rights Act challenge of redistricting maps
In a 4-3 decision, the Michigan Supreme Court has dismissed a case brought by the Detroit Legislative Caucus, which charged...
Texas violated voting rights law during redistricting, retiring state GOP senator says
Republican State Senator Kel Seliger has signed his name to a sworn statement that he believes his party unlawfully discriminated...
Sen. Roy Blunt praises failure of new Voting Rights Act, says 2020
In the company of a local Missouri election official, US Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) celebrated the Democrats’ most recent failure...
Clyburn calls for full-court press on voting rights
In the wake of yet another defeat for voting rights legislation at the hands of Republicans in the United States...
Collins helps block voting rights bill as King says U.S. democracy could
The U.S. Senators from Maine were sharply divided on the Senate floor as the Democrats failed to advance legislation to...
Lawmaker arrested amid voting rights protest says he’d ‘do it again’
U.S. Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16) was among those arrested near the Capitol building for protesting the defeat of voting rights...
Mitch McConnell said Black people show up to vote just as much
Political observers and elections officials have piled criticism upon Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) after he downplayed the need...
NASA leasing bill transformed into voting rights legislation
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 says history will remember Sen. Kyrsten Sinema ‘unkindly’
Martin Luther King III, the eldest son of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr., said that Senator Kyrsten...
Biden all but concedes defeat on voting, election bills
After an hour-long, private meeting with recalcitrant Democratic Senators, President Biden told members of the press that he remains unsure...
Wisconsin felony disenfranchisement laws deny voting rights long after individuals leave prison
EX-incarcerated People Organizing (or EXPO), an organization of formerly incarcerated citizens in Wisconsin, is preparing to reintroduce a piece of...
Biden calls for end to filibuster to pass voting rights legislation
In a much anticipated speech concerning voting rights delivered in Atlanta, Georgia, President Biden called for an end to the...
Dems’ filibuster conundrum: It’s not just Manchin and Sinema
While Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have been the Senators in their party most vocally opposed to eliminating...
NYC City Council gives noncitizens voting rights
The New York City Council has followed through on their plan to grant voting rights to the vast majority of...
Sinema pops Democrats’ filibuster trial balloon on voting rights
Senator from Arizona Kyrsten Sinema continues to oppose her fellow Democrats’ evolving efforts to modify the filibuster in order to...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s family calls for ‘no celebration’ of MLK Day
The family of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. is calling for a cancellation of the upcoming celebrations of...
Stacey Abrams announces she’s running for governor in Georgia
Democrat Stacey Abrams has confirmed that she will run, once again, for Governor of Georgia. Abrams came to national attention...
Georgia voting rights lawsuit planned to go to trial in February
The voting rights lawsuit brought against the state of Georgia in the wake of the 2018 race for governor is...
After Ballot Measure Bust, State Lawmakers Make New Push For Voting Rights
New York state legislators are scrambling to extend temporary voting rights policies set to expire in 2022, after an attempt...
Voting rights of minorities denied in parts of US: UN expert
Fernand de Varennes, a human rights expert employed by the United Nations, has informed the press and the US Department...
City Council set to approve voting rights for over 650K NYC green
The New York City Council has put together a veto-proof supermajority in favor of granting municipal voting rights to authorized...
2 suspected Iranian hackers are charged with trying to intimidate U.S. voters
The US Department of Justice has charged two Iranian hackers with stealing the personal information of American voters in the...
Latino voting rights groups say proposed district maps don’t reflect California
Advocates for Latino voting rights in California have expressed concern that the preliminary drafts of California’s new congressional district maps,...
Hundreds arrested outside White House during second day of voting rights protests
Approximately 200 voters were arrested after protesting for voting rights reform outside the White House. Hundreds of protestors, among them...
Utah lawmakers slam the brakes on a plan to expand alternative voting
A committee in the Utah State Legislature narrowly voted against advancing a proposal that would give municipalities the option of...
Senate Republicans again block key voting rights bill
In the latest in a long series of legislative disappointments this year for advocates of federal voting rights, Senate Republicans...
New York voters reject 3 ballot propositions backed by Democrats
In what some observers are calling a failure on the part of New York State Democrats to educate their supporters,...
The University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting rights
Three professors who specialize in voting rights law have been denied permission by their employer, the University of Florida, to...
U.S. Senate confirms voting rights advocate Perez to 2nd Circuit
In spite of GOP objections, the US Senate has confirmed voting rights advocate Myrna Perez as a judge on the...
Voting rights advocates sue Texas again over GOP-drawn maps
Moments after Republican Governor Greg Abbot signed off on the Texas Legislature’s newly-drawn congressional districts, voting rights advocates filed a...
Lawmakers will explore restoring voting rights for people convicted of felonies
A judiciary committee within Mississippi’s House has begun to take another look at the state’s policy of disenfranchising citizens convicted...
Navajo president backs bill to protect Native American voting rights
Jonathan Nez, President of the Navajo Nation, appeared before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee to advocate for The Native American Voting...
Nevada Man Who Claimed Someone Voted As His Dead Wife Charged With
Donald Kirk Hartle has been charged with casting an illegal vote under the name of his deceased wife. Previously, Mr....
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s First Voter Fraud Bounty Goes to a
In what may have been an unexpected turn of events for Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the cash bounty he...
Democrats’ biggest push for voting rights fails with no Republicans on board
Despite adopting compromises proposed by conservative-leaning Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Democrats in the Senate failed to win...
Biden says he’s open to eliminating filibuster to pass voting-rights ‘and maybe
Following Republican Senators’ most recent rejection of a modified voting rights reform proposal, President Joe Biden has told anchor Anderson...
GOP ‘Colorblind’ Map Drawing Tactic Tests Voting Rights Act
Republican legislatures have adopted a new method for drawing electoral maps that excludes the use of any racial data. Critics...
Schumer, McConnell headed for another collision over voting rights
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) has issued an open letter announcing his intention to file for a vote to...
Worcester, minority residents settle voting rights lawsuit
The city of Worcestor and a coalition of its Black and Latino Residents have agreed to a settlement over a...
Senate Judiciary squares off over John Lewis voting rights bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee has held a hearing on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which Senator Patrick Leahy...
Massachusetts Senate approves bill to expand voting rights
The Massachusetts State Senate has approved, 36-3, a bill to make permanent certain expansions of voting rights that were first...
DOJ is probing attacks on voting rights, says U.S. attorney general
Attorney General Merrick Garland has warned that the Department of Justice is keeping a serious and comprehensive watch on changes...
Legislature and governor approve Maine’s new voting districts
Following Oregon, Maine has become the second state in the union to approve its new electoral districts in response to...
Initiative changing state voting rules to begin gathering signatures after canvassers’ OK
A Michigan organization known as Secure MI Vote has received approval from the Michigan Board of State Canvassers to begin...
Abbott says Texas vote audits aren’t all about Trump
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott is insisting that his Secretary of State’s decision to audit the 2020 election results in...
Native American Voting Rights acts introduced in Congress
Freshman Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) has introduced a new bill known as the Native American Voting Rights Act (NAVRA),...
Texas governor signs new GOP voting restrictions into law
Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has signed a new elections law after a prolonged battle with Democrats in the...
Shelby County ruling could make it easier for states to get away
Legal experts are predicting great difficulties for the Department of Justice as the country enters its first redistricting period in...
Texas Lawmakers Pass Bill Restricting Voting Rights
Republicans in the Texas Senate have followed the House in passing, along party lines, a bill which voting rights advocates...
Appeals Court blocks ruling that briefly expanded NC felon voting rights
A North Carolina state court of appeals has blocked an earlier ruling by a lower court which would have allowed...
Progressives push Senate Democrats to nix filibuster ahead of voting rights fight
Now that Senate Democrats have missed their self-drawn August deadline for advancing voting rights reform, a coalition of more than...
Democrats unveil plan to update landmark voting law
US Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL-07) has officially introduced a bill designed to restore the Department of Justice’s authority to inspect...
Arizona County seeks reimbursement for new voting machines
Maricopa County’s Board of Election Supervisors is calling for the Arizona Senate to reimburse it for the $2.8 million cost...
Texas Democrats return, end 38-day holdout over voting bill
Enough Texas Democrats have returned from Washington, D.C. to the Texas State House to end the party’s 38-day stand against...
John Roberts and the Supreme Court might block anything Democrats do on
Legal experts continue to express skepticism that a Congressional restoration of the federal government’s authority to approve or reject state...
Dems plot last-ditch voting rights push as midterm clock ticks
Democratic Leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate are scrambling to pull off separate but related legislative gambits...