voting laws

The group plans to meet virtually during next week’s recess to find a path forward on issues from clarifying the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to protecting election officials from threats and intimidation.

The impact of a sweeping new voting law that Republicans pushed through last year over Democrats’ protests is drawing fire again.

Supporters of Donald Trump are trying to remove some of the guardrails that stopped him from overturning the 2020 presidential election that he lost.

For the third time this year, Senate Democrats tried to pass sweeping elections legislation that they tout as a powerful counterweight to new voting restrictions in the states

Conservative activists in Nebraska are turning to voters to enact a voter identification requirement, an issue that state lawmakers have blocked multiple times even though it’s now common in other Republican-led states

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law an overhaul of the state’s election rules following months of protests by Democrats.

Vice President Harris met with Texas Democratic lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Tuesday to thank them for their efforts to block a Republican-backed restrictive voting rights bill.

President Joe Biden delivered his speech in Philadelphia amid a push in many states to enact changes that have been described as vote suppression measures.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that the Department of Justice will double the enforcement staff of its civil rights division in order to better protect the right to vote.

As Republicans roll back access to the ballot, Democrats in certain states have been quietly moving to expand voting rights.

Texas Republican lawmakers advanced a sweeping elections bill early Friday following hours of discussion that would put America’s biggest red state closer to imposing a raft of new voting restrictions in the face of growing warning from corporations.

More than a dozen of the country’s top law firms have committed to join forces to challenge voting restrictions across the country NBC News reports, adding legal might to the corporate pressure campaign opposing Republican-led attempts to overhaul elections in the wake of former President Donald Trump’s loss. One of the effort’s leaders, Brad Karp, chairman of the law...

Black business leaders are calling on companies to fight back against the Republican push for restrictive voting laws in states.

In addition to their nationwide efforts to restrict voting access, Republican lawmakers in some key states are seeking greater control over the local mechanics of elections, from voter registration to certifying results

Arizona Republicans are proposing drastic changes to its mail voting systems, a move that echoes the flurry of election restrictions advanced in GOP-controlled legislatures in a number of states after former President Donald Trump’s election loss. Republican lawmakers in Arizona have introduced at least 22 restrictive bills, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. More than half the...