After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they ...

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when ...

As the midterms draw closer, President Trump and his allies on the right have increased their attacks on mail voting while ...

SCOTUS allows states to keep accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day, even as conservatives on the court continue to ...

Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit ...

Editor’s note (October 2023): Robert Sutherland lost in Snohomish County ’s August primary. Julie Wise and Doug Basler will face off in King County on Nov. 7. Robert Sutherland and Doug Basler have a ...

Lorelei Cloud was born in 1967, three years before Native Americans living on tribal lands in Colorado were guaranteed the right to vote. Even once she turned 18, and for many years thereafter, she ...

After a busy stretch in May and June, the elections calendar is quieting down. Only one state is holding its regular primaries in July. It just so happens that this one state, Arizona, is hosting a ...

Editor’s note: Arizonans rejected this ballot measure in November 2024. An initiative to protect abortion access in Arizona has gathered more signatures than it needs to make the November ballot. If ...

The Texas supreme court closed out 2023 by blocking an abortion during a medical emergency, forcing a woman to flee the state. Just days before Christmas, Wisconsin justices struck down the state’s ...