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Lamoille County Democrats will host their next monthly meeting on Monday, April 5, from 6:30-7:45 p.m.

After a noisy election season of discontent, Republicans see their road to recovery in discouraging eligible Americans from voting.

The Missouri House is hearing several bills to loosen and tighten restrictions on election laws.

After a noisy election season of discontent, Republicans see their road to recovery in discouraging eligible Americans from voting.

Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion Tuesdays Supreme Court arguments in a major voting rights case portend what appears to be the future of election law: The continuing withdrawal of the court from the role of policing elections for racial fairness. Call this the Roberts Doctrine. The chief justice has been pushing the agenda of judicial disengagement from voting rights issues since 2012, when he wrote a landmark decision in the case Shelby County v. Holder, striking down section 5 of th...

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared inclined to uphold two Republican-backed voting restrictions in Arizona in a case that could further hobble the Voting Rights Act, a landmark 1965 federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

The cases come as Republican state lawmakers in a number of states have proposed measures that restrict voting access.

ACCORDING to Article II, Section I of the Constitution of Virginia, a person who is tried and convicted of a felony offense automatically loses the right to vote: “No person who has been convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote unless his civil rights have been restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority.” That’s the case in most of the United States. Convicted felons retain their right to vote only in the District of Columbia, Maine and Vermont. The thinking ...

Constituents of Norman’s three state House representatives should be on the look out for three bills in particular over the course of the 2021 legislative session.

Democrats may only have one chance to stop America from becoming a one-party state Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter The United States has only lived up to basic standards of democracy for a few decades of its history. In parts of the South, the last scraps of Jim Crow tyranny were only rooted out through massive federal coercion in the mid-1970s. That said, there has almost always been genuine competition for national power between the two parties — the...