Forty-eight years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) into law, codifying the 15th Amendment’s guarantee of the right to vote free from racial discrimination.
North Carolina's restrictive voting bill not only makes it harder for seniors, minorities, and youth to vote, it ensures big money's influence in elections. Here's a look at six measures that are sure to drown out more voters' voices with special interest cash.
The North Carolina Senate Rules Committee votes today on House Bill 589, a wide-ranging piece of legislation that curbs poll access for working people, young voters, seniors, and the disabled.
July 1, 1971 marks the anniversary of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. While this opened the door for young Americans to vote, voting reforms are still needed to fully realize youth's voting power.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck at the heart of the most successful piece of civil rights legislation in American history when it invalidated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Congress considered 15,000 pages of evidence when it reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 2006. A divided Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the law in only 24 pages. Congress must now figure out a way to put it back together.
Even if it was not entirely unexpected, it is nonetheless shocking to read a majority of the Supreme Court sweep away a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, the most celebrated piece of civil rights legislation in our nation’s history.
Better ballot design is not the sole cause for the steep drop in overvotes in New York State elections in 2012 from 2010. Design for machines can matter just as much as the design of ballots in keeping overvotes close to zero.
The best, most reliable voting machine is worthless if a ballot is poorly designed. The dramatic drop in overvotes in New York State elections in 2012 from 2010 illustrate this design need to ensure that voter intent is recorded accurately.
Gov. McDonnell recently announced that VA is taking a first step in restoring voting rights to people with criminal convictions in their pasts. According to McDonnell, this will restore the right to vote to over 100,000 people. But we can go further.
