Supreme Court hears arguments on whether states can consider race in Congressional districts
Lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump administration say it's time to stop grouping voters based on their skin color. Jan Crawford reports from Washington.
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Lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump administration say it's time to stop grouping voters based on their skin color. Jan Crawford reports from Washington.
Whether you're voting in-person early or on Election Day, some voters may be asked to prove their identity.
Just weeks before the presidential election, new rules are going into effect in some states that can jeopardize people's right to vote, from challenges to voter registrations, to limits on when and how ballots may be cast.
The new law would also increase ballot access for voters with disabilities and service members overseas.
Critics warned that some of the measures might run afoul of the Massachusetts Constitution.
Somerville 16- and 17-year-olds may get the right to vote if the city council has its say.
A ballot item would let 16- and 17-year-olds vote in local elections.
The National Commission on Voting Rights will hold a hearing in Boston to hear testimony on challenges, successes and opportunities for reform in all aspects of voting in New England.
A New Hampshire House committee is going to decide whether to back the District of Columbia's grassroots effort to win voting rights.
It is not news when Republicans try to block access to the ballot box for poor, minority and elderly voters. What is unusual is that Republicans are admitting it.
It has been argued that "granny" might not be able to vote if they make her have a voter ID. But seriously, why all the concern about taking the extra measure of a voter ID to make sure that every vote cast in a United States election is a legally qualified vote, including "granny's"?
Yesterday the Obama administration put in place provisions of the DREAM Act that brought many young people out of the shadows to participate in the American Dream. On the same day a judge in Pennsylvania let stand what may be the most egregious attempt at voter suppression in a generation.
Pennsylvania Republicans have betrayed their country and devised a scheme to potentially disqualify nearly one tenth of the states' electorate.
Felony disenfranchisement is nothing more than Republican continuation of Jim Crow voter suppression laws.
In right wing politics, ALEC serves as the nexus between corporations and aspiring Republicans always eager to find access to additional campaign cash.
Republicans by creating onerous barriers to voting, including strict ID requirements and shortening of early vote periods have created what amounts to a new version of Jim Crow era poll taxes.
In Texas Republicans have taken efforts to restrict access to voting a step farther. Texas Republicans are calling for the repeal of the Voting Rights Act.
