ATLANTA, Ga. — It has been an unprecedented year for new voting laws. Some make it easier to cast a ballot, but others make voting more difficult. Eliza Sweren-Becker is the voting rights and election ...
As the country prepares to ring in the new year, new state laws will take effect around the country on a host of issues, ...
In their Government and Election Law column, Jerry H. Goldfeder and Myrna Pérez write: Thousands of eligible voters are at risk of having a more difficult time casting their ballots this November than ...
Are Republicans the new infrequent voters? In a new Catalist study, researchers say yes. Big shifts may be coming in both political campaigning and election laws. Unlike mis-reported “horse race” ...
Conventional political wisdom holds that Democrats typically benefit from high voter turnout and are harmed by voter restrictions, but recent presidential election data may challenge this view. Many ...
A coalition of 19 Democratic state attorneys general sued the Trump administration on Thursday seeking to block President Donald Trump’s effort to impose new voting restrictions across the country, ...
Arlington County Democratic Committee chair Steve Baker (staff photo by Scott McCaffrey) The Arlington County Democratic Committee has abandoned a proposal to place major restrictions on who can vote ...
State Republicans spent 2021 hunting for the widespread voter fraud that former President Donald Trump told his supporters cost him the election. They never found it. Still, the year was characterized ...
In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil rights law, “Today we strike away the last major shackle…the Negro story and ...
Last year, we wrote extensively about photo ID laws and the Supreme Court’s decision to strike a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Now, with gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and ...