Voting Restrictions

Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, commemorating 'Bloody Sunday,' criticized efforts to enhance election security as "burdensome...

An appeals court in Mississippi voted to uphold a Jim Crow-era voting restriction law Wednesday that strips convicted felons of their right to vote.

New GOP voter integrity law reveals 3,475 mail-in ballots didn't have valid voter identification.

Arizona senator says she won't support filibuster changes, as her floor speech is condemned by voting rights activists.

Senate Democrats have linked the Capitol protests anniversary to the necessity to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act as soon as possible.

The Texas Legislature sent a sweeping rewrite of the state’s election laws to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, dealing a bruising defeat for Democrats after a monthslong, bitter fight over voting rights.

Democrats hoping to stall a GOP-sponsored restrictive election bill ended a 38-day walkout on 19 August, allowing the legislature to reach a quorum, after a week earlier the Republican-led state Senate passed their version of the voting bill after a 15-hour filibuster by one of the Senate's leading Democrats. Sen. Carol Alvardo.

Democrats hoping to stall a GOP-sponsored restrictive election bill ended a 38-day walkout on 19 August, allowing the legislature to reach a quorum, after a week earlier the Republican-led state Senate passed their version of the voting bill after a 15-hour filibuster by one of the Senate's leading Democrats. Sen. Carol Alvardo.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a pair of Republican-backed Arizona voting restrictions do not run afoul of federal law, rejecting a Democratic challenge and dealing a blow to voting rights advocates.