US Policy & Elections

A Los Angeles County judge granted Santa Monica's motion to dismiss a decade-long challenge to its citywide at-large council elections. The plaintiffs...

A Democratic candidate is asking a court to remove Miami-Dade's elections chief from a recount in a race where he trails by 1,090 votes. The lawsuit...

Black voter turnout surged across southern states where Republicans were accused of redrawing maps to diminish Black political power. Key details:

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Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin filed a motion on November 5 to end a decades-old federal consent decree that created special judicial election...

A spot on a calendar means a bill is eligible for floor action, not that a vote is scheduled. Here's how to read the other signals:

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Kobach is trailing in the Kansas attorney general race, though it hasn't been called. With about 99% of votes counted, Democrat Chris Mann leads by...

A federal court has dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit against Utah's election officials after the state refused to hand over unredacted voter...

Black youth cast early ballots, stood in long lines, canvassed neighborhoods, and organized their peers this election week. The article credits their...

The proposed Ballot Box Protection Act, H.R.10927 in the 119th Congress, would amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prohibit destroying or damaging...

The long-term record of Section 2 suggests the stakes reach well past this year's elections:

• Private plaintiffs drove enforcement: Seaman's study...

Rucho closed federal courts to claims about partisan ends, but this essay argues it did not immunize every method used to pursue them. Courts still...

Voters and the Coalition for Good Governance asked the Eleventh Circuit to revive their challenge to Georgia's electronic in-person voting systems....

Brady wants Congress to pass universal background checks and a federal assault weapons ban, and to keep funding community violence intervention. The...

Virginia's wins fit a broader, mixed pattern in which voters backed some election changes and rejected others.

• Virginia approved all three...

Jimmy Ellis joined the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, and he recalled camping on the St. Jude campus before marching to the Capitol under the...

Virginians will decide whether to make sweeping changes to the state constitution. Three proposed amendments cover reproductive healthcare, same-sex...

Housing affordability is a central flashpoint in three high-profile races: the California governor's contest and the Los Angeles and Washington, DC...

Felony voting rules can play out very differently for different people. In Kentucky, Christopher Lindsey says poll workers turned him away at early...

No single company controls U.S. voting machines. Several private firms make them, while states and localities generally buy and run them, and the...

Social media posts claiming the Supreme Court will strike down state laws that count mail ballots arriving after Election Day are false. In June, the...