New Jersey and Virginia have critical and likely close elections for governor coming up in November and voter registration deadlines are quickly approaching. Yet both states, according to the most recent census, have huge numbers of unregistered Hispanic and Asian citizens. More...
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The voter ID debate was re-energized Thursday when the Indiana Court of Appeals struck down the Indiana state law requiring voters to show identification, considered the strictest voter ID law of its kind in the country. More...
Civil rights and voting rights groups are praising the Democracy Restoration Act of 2009, a bill recently introduced in Congress that would allow people released from prison to vote in federal elections. More...
Perhaps the most impressive recent success story in expanding political participation has been the dramatic turnaround in public agency voter registrations in some states. More...
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that requires a number of states and many local governments -- mostly in the South -- to get federal permission before changing their voting procedures. Judith Browne-Dianis makes the case for why that provision is still crucial today. More...
The U.S. Supreme Court avoided ruling on the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act -- in essence protecting it -- while agreeing to allow a small utility district in Texas to opt out of the provision. More...
In a decision praised by voting rights advocates, the Justice Department ruled against Georgia's voter verification program, calling the citizenship screening system flawed and unfair to minorities. More...
Passing voter ID laws is quickly becoming one of the GOP's top issues for the 2009 legislative session. From Texas to South Carolina, lawmakers are working to see the controversial voter laws take root in the South. More...
In a case from North Carolina, the high court ruled that the Voting Rights Act protects the voting power of minority groups only when they make up the majority of a legislative district's electorate, Christian Smith-Socaris of the Progressive States Network reports. More...
The Texas Democratic Party has dropped its courtroom challenges to Republican Linda Harper-Brown's narrow win over Democrat Bob Romano in a Dallas County state House race, making it more likely that the Republicans will maintain a narrow edge in the chamber. But the party is still pursuing its federal case over the counting of so-called "emphasis votes" cast on electronic machines. More...
The judge does not require them to be counted, and he leaves it up to the U.S. Justice Department and State Board of Elections to draw up a plan for preventing future problems. More...
Civil rights lawyers are asking a three-judge federal panel to revive a lawsuit challenging Georgia's voter ID law. Attorney Emmet Bondurant asked the panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday to reconsider a 2007 ruling by a... More...
A lawsuit filed under the federal Voting Rights Act over a state House runoff takes aim at a plan to let so-called "emphasis votes" -- votes cast for a particular candidate in addition to a straight-ticket vote for his or her party -- go uncounted when cast by machine. More...
The federal action originally filed by the GOP presidential campaign faults the state for sending ballots late to overseas service members. More...
The long lines that some voters across the South faced during the recent election have been called "the new poll tax" for their discouraging effect on voting. To help fix the problem, a Florida Congressman has introduced a bill that... More...
Georgia proved to be a hotspot for trouble in the recent elections, with concerns over the unusually high number of voter-identification checks submitted to the Social Security Administration, long lines at early voting locations, a decision allowing voters to contest... More...
Bloggers in Georgia have been questioning the large undervote in the Nov. 4 Senate race. As Jay Bookman reports over at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, there are some 168,785 missing voters in the Senate race. That would mean that more than... More...
Come January, President Bush will be retiring to a state that's becoming bluer.Earlier today, a bipartisan board began considering which provisional and overseas ballots to count in the race for the Texas House District 105 seat in the Dallas suburb... More...
The 2008 elections were the first big test for same-day voter registration in North Carolina, a reform passed by a coalition of advocates in 2007.NC's new law -- which allows citizens to register and vote at the same time during... More...
Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel has threatened to report Fulton County -- the center of metro Atlanta -- to the state Election Board for following improper procedures while counting absentee ballots. The county's final tally is crucial in determining... More...
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