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A previous effort to pass the legislation stalled during the 2022 legislative session.

The DNC is working to strip New Hampshire from hosting the first Democrat primary in the nation despite protests from local Democrats.

The DNC is working to strip New Hampshire from hosting the first Democrat primary in the nation despite protests from local Democrats.

“E” is for Eight Box Law [1882]. The Eight Box Law of 1882 was an election law designed to ensure white supremacy in South Carolina without violating the Fifteenth Amendment—which barred states from depriving their citizens of the vote on the basis of race.

With or without COVID-19, the U.S. Census will be taken in 2020. The results of that Census will drive a round of reapportionment and redistricting for congressional seats and many state and local governing bodies in 2021. Even if the distribution of those results is delayed, as may happen, new plans must be in place before the 2022 election cycle; otherwise, the districts will be too malapportioned to be used again. In that case, the courts would step in.

In the aftermath of 2013’s Shelby County v. Holder decision, the Obama Administration is likely to assert that another provision of the Voting Rights Act—Section 2—can be used to strike down voter integrity laws.

At stake in Moore v. Harper is the question of how elections should be run—and who should resolve the inevitable disputes when they arise.

Voting rights, voting rights, in U.S. history and politics, a set of legal and constitutional protections designed to ensure the opportunity to vote in local, state, and federal elections for the vast majority of adult citizens. The right to vote is an essential element of democracy in any country, and the proportion of adult citizens who exercise that right in free, fair, and frequent elections is one measure of how democratic a country is. For much of U.S. history, the right to vote was restr...

Voters on Navajo, Apache, and Hopi reservations helped swing Arizona for the Democrats in 2020. In response, the Republican governor and state legislature have curtailed ballot access for an already marginalized constituency.

Federal judges have refused to toss out a lawsuit alleging Florida's congressional redistricting is “intentionally racially discriminatory.”