Supporters of Republican Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., have launched “Rand PAC 2016.” But because the super PAC uses the potential presidential candidate...

WASHINGTON -- In October 2011, John Canning, chairman of the Chicago-based hedge fund Madison Dearborn Partners, expressed his displeasure with Presid...

Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander (D) released a report Thursday indicating problems with the strict voter identification requirements containe...

Montana lawmakers dealt a blow to voter identification proponents by effectively killing a bill that would have limited voter ID options. The Hous...

Hours after a federal judge granted access to the names of provisional voters in one Kansas case, a county election official ruled in another case tha...

A conservative group that helped lead the legal battle that would eventually allow for the creation of super PACs is now working to overturn North Dak...

MIAMI — Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling places have been blocked or delay...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — On the morning of the primary here in August, the local elections board met to decide which absentee ballots to count. It was no...

MIAMI — It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in ...

* New voting laws could spur new wave of lawsuits * Laws that have been struck down could affect Nov. 6 vote * Appeals s...

Forty-seven years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law to prevent voter discrimination. But as we have seen, the law is not just history; it remains vital today to ensuring that every American can cast a ballot and have it counted.

Six states received the lowest grades for their abilities to accurately count election results based on their lack of access to paper ballots, accordi...

Voter education is a top concern heading into the presidential election for the newly elected president of an international organization of election o...

It looks like South Carolina's Voter ID law will get a day in court after Assistant U.S. Attoney General Thomas Perez again shot down the law under th...

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) defended the state's new voter identification law as a way to prevent election fraud during a stop in Wichit...

A hearing will be held Thursday in Columbia to discuss a lawsuit that stripped nearly 200 candidates off the ballots for the state's June 12 primary. ...

The path to the S.C. Statehouse just got a lot easier for dozens of candidates. And for dozens of others, it just became impossible - at least in 2...

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) told Democratic activists in the Charleston area on Tuesday that organization was the key to limiting the effects of "v...

The candidates include Republican Katrina Shealy, hoping to unseat incumbent Sen. Jake Knotts, Occupy Columbia stalwart and Democrat Walid Hakim, hopi...

What started out as a lawsuit that could impact the races of a handful of Lexington County candidates running for state and local-level offices is now...

A Republican lawmaker in Missouri denied that his bill to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote also contains a provision that wou...

On a voice vote, the Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives gave preliminary approval Wednesday to a bill requiring presidential and ...

House Speaker William O'Brien (R-Mont Vernon) called the video "a shocking exclamation point on the need for immediate reform to New Hampshire's elect...