Early voting in California began Monday and a pair of propositions on the Nov, 3 ballot would expand voting rights in California - restoring the vote for some felons and allowing 17-year-olds to ...

In 2021, Republican-led states enacted a wave of restrictive voting laws. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats hope to open debate on voting rights legislation. The House OK'd a bill combining the John ...

As of July 14, at least 18 states have enacted election laws that would hamper voting access, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy group affiliated with the New York ...

The ongoing debate over a national standard for voting will reach its climax, for now, on Capitol Hill this week. Here’s what American voters should know about how new changes in key states and ...

On Feb. 18, 1965, voting rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was shot by a state trooper in Marion, Ala., while defending his family. In response to his death eight days later, ...

Democrats have tried for months to hold a voting rights debate on the floor, ... Section A, Page 18 of the New York edition with the headline: Senate Opens Voting Rights Debate With Defeat Looming.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, issued a letter Monday, urging Congress to find a bipartisan path forward to reauthorize the decades-old ...

With efforts to bolster the federal Voting Rights Act unlikely under Republican control of the new Congress, ... Oral arguments before an appeals panel are scheduled for Dec. 18.

ATLANTA — ATLANTA – The voting age in the United States is 18, but it hasn’t always been that way. We are one week from the deadline to register to vote in the 2020 Presidential election ...

Jan. 18, 2022. Credit... Illustration by the New York Times; ... If Democrats don’t deliver on voting rights protections, they may face blowback from a demotivated base.