In Pennsylvania, the state supreme court has issued a new congressional districting map, after the legislature and governor failed to agree on one. The court’s map, adjusting for a previous Republican gerrymander, does benefit Democrats, but it also increases the importance of the state’s mid-sized cities.
More than two million have been cut from Ohio’s voter rolls since 2011, many for “failing to vote” in previous elections. This term, the US Supreme Court will decide whether this practice, which disproportionately impacts people of color, is permissible.
Doug Jones’s win over Roy Moore in Alabama deserves a look—not just at the results, but at the coalition of voters and the nonprofits that were part of making the win happen in a state known for voter supression tactics.
An upcoming Supreme Court decision may very well set the stage for political appointees to transform the National Voter Registration Act into a “disenfranchisement device.”
One of the overlooked ways in which voters of color are disenfranchised is through the prison system. Even when voters are eligible, they may not have the opportunity to vote.
For anyone who has been watching the obvious chaos in and around the White House and in Trump’s voting commission, the risks of the whole endeavor appear worse than you may have thought—and quite scary.
Is the right to vote under attack from a presidential commission? Not if the states have anything to say about it.
Which is the real threat to democracy: Millions of illegal voters, or millions of voters prevented from exercising their franchise and whose votes have been undervalued?
Another study looking at the November election reaches a familiar conclusion that we are just not comfortable hearing: Racial attitudes are critical.
Some citizens still find it difficult to vote in Texas.
