Voting Rights

Andy Beshear has declared that he will restore the voting rights of thousands of felons when he signs an executive order on Thursday.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate blocked the latest attempt by Democrats to vote on a voting rights and election reform bill Wednesday.

The Kentucky Board of Elections must return names on a list of "inactive" voters to a master list, after a court ruling was issued in favor of the state's Democratic Party.

The City Council of Burlington, Vermont has passed a resolution that will allow non-citizens to vote in the city's elections.

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, paving the way for less oversight over local administration of elections.

The chorus marked a subtle shift in what has been a remarkably collegial race between the Democratic hopefuls, who have mostly avoided criticizing one another and focused their ire on Trump.

A national voting holiday, same-day registration, congressional term limits: Beto O'Rourke is out with a sweeping new plan to reform the democratic process.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said people need to consider how the prison system treats minorities when discussing taking away prisoners' voting rights.

Other democracies around the world—and two U.S. states—already allow prisoners to vote.

"What's the bumper sticker in 2020?" CBN chief political correspondent David Brody asked sarcastically, after Sanders publicly supported felons right to vote.

State Representative James Grant said when someone calls his bill a "poll tax," they "may as well spit in the face of people who lived through an actual racist, discriminatory poll tax."

Based on what Democrats have said will be in the bill, however, the chances of it being approved by enough Republicans in the GOP-controlled Senate and signed into law by Trump are extremely slim.

In a 5-4 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that Ohio and other states are allowed to purge voters who are inactive or do not respond to requests to confirm their residency from their rolls. 

Only a few states allow automatic voter registration beyond motor vehicle offices.

"Voters took matters in their own hands to ensure that their fellow Floridians...," Desmond Meade, one of the organizers for the campaign behind the amendment, said.

The Supreme Court will decide on a Trump-backed Ohio voting rights policy that has disenfranchised thousands of American voters by using lists to purge names of those who vote infrequently.

Could the president's "voter fraud" panel become even stronger in death than in life? Critics are worried.

The White House dumped the panel after resistance, lawsuits and a failure to produce evidence of widespread voter fraud.

The Republican governor signed a law in May that restored voting rights to some felons.

And what the president can nevertheless learn from the museum.

Disabled voters' ballots were tossed because of an "unintended consequence" in the state law, county commissioners said.

A member of what the president calls his "very distinguished voter fraud panel" is going back to court in an attempt to break through what he says is its veil of secrecy.

Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap says he can't get information about the voter fraud commission even though he's on it.

The former Kansas governor can't stand the thought of Republican Kris Kobach taking over in Topeka.

For every legitimate instance of double registration, the crosscheck database incorrectly identified 200 voters who were registered in only one state, a study found.

The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity caused a national outcry with its request for reams of personal data on all registered U.S. voters.

Many voters are purged from the rolls in New York, where the party enrollment deadline is more than half a year ahead of the primaries.

Kris Kobach tried to change federal voter registration laws to include proof-of-citizenship requirements as he imposed in Kansas.

The campaign to fight voter disenfranchisement was purposefully launched in Kansas, the home turf of Kris Kobach, who leads President Donald Trump's election fraud commission

If the Supreme Court strikes down a Wisconsin map for partisan redistricting gone too far, voting rights advocates win big