Voting Rights
Vox’s coverage of gerrymandering, problems at the polls, and the state of voting rights in America.
The pivotal senator has released a potentially transformative plan to promote fair elections.
Nearly 1 in 5 election officials say they’ve been threatened because of their job.
Merrick Garland’s speech is a cry for congressional action.
Democratic campaigns can overcome some, but not all, of the Republican Party’s efforts to disenfranchise voters.
American democracy is in crisis. Breyer thinks now’s the time to scold his fellow liberals.
He needs nine more.
Manchin’s idea won’t fix America’s democracy, but it could solve some pretty significant problems.
Voting rights mean little if the Court refuses to enforce them.
No one can figure out why Republicans are shining UV lights on ballots, among other things.
Brands have taken to weighing in on social issues. Now, corporate America is starting to take a hard stance against voter suppression laws.
The debate over whether Georgia’s law really suppresses voting reveals just how imperiled American democracy is.
There’s a debate over whether some of the For the People Act’s provisions are misconceived.
Corporate America is starting to push back on Republican voter suppression efforts.
The very worst provisions enable partisan Republicans to seize control of election boards in Democratic counties.
Republicans are trying to dismantle their own mail-in voting systems.
Hice wants to bring Trump’s brand of anti-democracy to Georgia’s elections.
Senate Democrats don’t yet have the votes for reform, but they appear to be agonizingly close.
GOP lawmakers in states trending toward Democrats hope to arrest that trend by making it harder to vote.
Georgia Republicans passed no-excuse absentee voting in 2005. Now they want to end it.
The bill still faces a steep climb in the US Senate.
If the Voting Rights Act survives this latest challenge, thank bad lawyering on the GOP side.
A 6-3 Republican Court will hear one of the most aggressive attacks on voting rights since Jim Crow.
Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election is dead, but a terrible legal argument seeking to upend American democracy is still alive.
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s plan to make it harder to vote by mail, briefly explained.
A new Brennan Center report shows an unprecedented amount of legislation seeking to restrict voting access has been introduced in state legislatures this year.
Trump wants to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census. The result is a messy Supreme Court case.
Trump’s lawyers asked a judge to disenfranchise nearly 7 million voters. It ended badly for Trump.
If the United States chose its leaders in free and fair elections, Republicans would be firmly out of power.
Trump’s lawyers haven’t come up with anything that could plausibly flip the election.
It’s not even clear what Trump’s lawyers hope to accomplish if they win any of their lawsuits.
The case of the supposed 300,000 missing mail-in ballots isn’t what it seems.
The National Popular Vote compact scores a win.
Supporters of the initiative hoped it would depolarize the state’s elections.
This is not how the law is supposed to work.
Lots of voters followed the rules that were in place at the time when they voted. The Supreme Court may still disenfranchise them.
Here’s what you need to know about voting in person. First step: Don’t panic.
It turns out Americans really, really wanted to vote before Election Day.
It’s too late to vote by mail, but here are some tips if you’ve already sent your ballot back.
Judge Andrew Hanen is one of the most right-wing judges in the country. Even he thought this lawsuit could not fly.
First, make it illegal to count votes quickly. Second, paint the slow count as suspicious.