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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 restricted or denied, in law or in fact, to the poor, to nonwhites—particularly African Americans—and...
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.”