voter suppression

Voting laws vary among all 50 states, and there was no simple tool to track all those differences. So NBCLX built one. Storyteller Peter Hull explains Project Democracy and the ballot access map, and we review some of the most striking differences in voting rights from Texas to Maine, with the help of Morning Consult senior reporter Eli Yokley.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that the Department of Justice will double the enforcement staff of its civil rights division in order to better protect the right to vote.

It’s not all bad news for those concerned about restrictive access to the ballot boxes going forward.

Voting rights advocates are actually piling up some wins in dozens of state capitals in their fight to expand access to mail and early voting ballots. States like Florida, Georgia, and Texas still present their biggest challenges in decades.

Georgia State Representative Park Cannon was arrested Thursday after knocking on Governor Brian Kemp’s office door to interrupt the signing of a controversial elections bill into law.

Texas Republicans are rolling out a slew of restrictive election bills, taking particular aim at early voting after Democrats enthusiastically embraced the practice last year

If a signature on a ballot doesn’t perfectly match the signature on the state’s voter roll – should that mail ballot count? And do elections offices even have experts qualified to determine if a signature is mismatched?

More than 100,000 legit voters likely had their legit ballots rejected this fall for messy signatures – and some states are pushing to increase those numbers next election. So NBCLX’s Noah Pransky explains why it’s so important we push our elected officials to carefully balance voter protections with voter fraud protections.

Stacey Abrams, founder of Fair Fight, talks about the 2020 presidential election and the Senate runoff in Georgia.

The U.S. government announced this week that Iran was likely behind threatening emails received by people across the country that appeared to come from a far-right extremist group called the “Proud Boys” ordering them to vote for President Trump. LX News was joined by Randy Pestana of FIU’s Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Kristen Clarke of the National Lawyers’...

With America roiling over questions of racial justice and a divisive election just days away, the AP Road Trip team made its way to Mississippi, and the scene of an infamous 1964 triple murder of civil rights workers fighting for Black voting rights.

The U.S. Constitution doesn’t explicitly grant the right to vote and initially left voting regulations to the states, which limited the right to different groups. Later amendments such as the 15th, 19th and 26th forbade state and federal governments from placing restrictions on voting based on a person’s race, color, sex and age.

Voter intimidation is an old tactic with a long and ugly history. And as voters begin lining up for early voting in states across the country, some behavior is already being reported – particularly by supporters of President Trump – that falls in the “gray area” between illegal voter intimidation and free speech. Here’s what to know when you go...

The British television network Channel 4 obtained voter files used by President Trump’s 2016 campaign, which showed that Black voters were placed in a category called “deterrence.” LX News spoke with Channel 4 investigative journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy about their findings.