By Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Ark., March 13 (Reuters) - Arkansas lawmakers, following the lead of other legislators across the country,...
Virginia Republicans passed two voter-identification bills on Tuesday that would further tighten the state's already strict voting laws, MSNBC reports...
BOSTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that U.S. election officials should register eligible voters automatically a...
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter appeared on a panel Monday hosted by the Pew Center on the States to discuss the long lines and voter ID ...
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened v...
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND, Oct 21 (Reuters) - More than 140 billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin warning of the criminal consequences of vot...
Color of Change, the nation's largest online civil rights organization, is taking on media heavyweight Clear Channel over billboards that the advocacy...
MIAMI — Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling places have been blocked or delay...
Eric Bates was caught twice in the late 1990s driving with a suspended license, and then again in 2006. That third time, under then-Virginia law, Bate...
DENVER — Republican election officials who promised to root out voter fraud so far are finding little evidence of a widespread problem. State o...
WASHINGTON -- The combined effects of voter roll purges, demands for proof of citizenship and photo identification requirements in several states may ...
Longtime Republican politician Stanley R. Lawson Sr. says he knows a rat when he smells one. And what's going on politically around recently passed vo...
Two big events happen 25 September, and I'd like your help celebrating both. If I've ever helped you find a job or a place to live, I don't need or want anything for myself, just please pay it forward this way. Register to vote, and commit to vote.
Clarence Mingo, a rising star in Ohio’s Republican party, offered cautionary advice to an overwhelmingly white group of his colleagues during a GOP ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's attempt to screen voter rolls for non-U.S. citizens is yielding a smaller number than state officials had anticipated. ...
* New voting laws could spur new wave of lawsuits * Laws that have been struck down could affect Nov. 6 vote * Appeals s...
PHILADELPHIA — A plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Pennsylvania's tough new voter identification law has received the state-issued phot...
A Pennsylvania law that would turn away voters who don't have a valid photo ID would disproportionately suppress voting in Philadelphia's minority nei...
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Hundreds of demonstrators descended on Pennsylvania's Capitol on Tuesday to protest a tough new voter ID law, launching a daylong p...
With both a tradition of helping service members get their votes counted as well as a tight turnaround between its primary and general elections this...
When Edward and Mary Weidenbener went to vote in Indiana's primary in May, they didn't realize that state law required them to bring government photo ...
Yesterday's ruling is good news for Floridians. But Florida is not alone in its efforts to impose onerous regulations on those exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech by engaging in this staple of civic participation.
We often have to prove who we are to get what we want. I see no reason why that maxim doesn't apply to our right to vote.
If the Republican Convention determines not to enforce its party's rules on its constituent state parties, the Party will find itself with no rules left to enforce in the future.
A renewed assault on the Voting Rights Act fits right into the Tea Party's endless attacks on the federal government for alleged over-intrusiveness. It would also be set against the backdrop of the hotly contested 2012 battle for the White House.
