Many states took up proposals that would politicize, criminalize, and interfere in election administration. Introduction As one...
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Republicans have launched a “tidal wave of restrictive voting legislation”. Progressive activists and lawmakers frustrated by GOP gerrymandering...
It may be new to Americans, but ranked-choice voting has a long history, and it is spreading...
Only one, Grover Cleveland, was successful. A year after the election of 2020, Donald Trump flirts with...
The Freedom to Vote Act can halt this growing antidemocratic threat. Over the past few months, the...
Helen Hamilton Gardener turned President Wilson into a supporter of the Nineteenth Amendment, ensuring its passage in...
Republican-controlled state legislatures across the U.S. are enacting new restrictions on voter participation that target non-whites. America...
Most Americans want to make voting easier, not harder. We need to pass the For the People...
A record number of people voted in the 2020 presidential election. Now, GOP legislators across the country...
Determined to get around inaction on the issue, congressional allies included a provision for the 18-year-old vote...
Voting rights advocates sought to ensure and expand this most fundamental right of citizens. By Dr. Jennifer...
The For the People Act would make our democracy more inclusive and block efforts by state legislators...
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. This “act...
The struggle for equal voting rights dates to the earliest days of U.S. history. Introduction Challenges to...
For Milton Nicholas, the practical hurdle of illiteracy was exploited by election officials in order to manipulate...
The theft of our democracy doesn’t happen in a violent coup but in a thousand legalistic cuts...
Nonreligious voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in the November presidential race and were key in several down-ballot state...
The rise of secular voters is providing a potent counterbalance to the religious right. candidates have been...
Voters in small states actually have more Electoral College votes per capita than larger, more diverse states....
Blue looks good, but not by a landslide. Get out and vote because this is closer than...
Political parties in the 19th century thought of themselves as armies – disciplined, hierarchical fighting organizations. Introduction...
Early voting periods are not remotely new to the 2020 election. First Presidential Election There are many...
African Americans, women, Native Americans, and citizens between the ages of 18 and 21 had to fight...
Women’s historic struggles to vote continue to resonate as the country debates who should vote and how....
Hallie Quinn Brown and other “homespun heroines”. Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and...
She was a famous activist in her day, arguably the most famous in the world. By Tom...
Roughly fifty years after a handful of suffragists conceived the idea, it became a hard-fought reality. Introduction...
The more that efforts to suppress voting rights in America change, the more they remain the same....
Iowa is unrepresentative–disproportionately whiter, older, and more rural than the country as a whole. Every four years,...
The year 1824 was a political turning point in which none of the old rules applied. The...