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By GENE GOFFIN

I do this thing in my head with President Joe Biden. When he gets on my nerves, I often call him President. When I want something from him or want

ATLANTA — The first voting rights trial in federal court in Atlanta in more than a decade opened Monday.

ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is referring the cases of 1,634 people who tried to register to vote but could not be verified as U.S. citizens for

State Sen. Beverly Powell, D-Fort Worth, ended her reelection campaign Wednesday morning, citing an "unwinnable race" in a district that Republican lawmakers had redrawn to make a Democratic win impossible.

During a League of Women Voters of the Helena Area webinar on Montanas Constitution hitting the half-century mark, speakers warned listeners that the state’s voting rights are under attack.

Local, state and federal officials must do more to ensure Native Americans facing persistent, longstanding and deep-rooted barriers to voting have equal access to ballots, a White House report released

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday called on Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation before walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 57th anniversary

The vice president said she and President Joe Biden "have put the full power of the executive branch behind our shared effort" to protect voting rights.

ATLANTA — A federal judge has upheld the use of Georgias new legislative and congressional district boundaries for this years elections.