The Democracy Policy team is advancing an agenda to win structural reforms that strengthen the U.S. system and give everyone ...

The Houston school district, which has an at-large voting system for school board members, was ordered to create a new system ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

Both Republican and Democratic-led states have eased the voting rights restoration process in recent years. But some states have added complexities, such as Tennessee's 2023 change. In Florida ...

The bill also guarantees privacy, ensures language access, and affirms voting rights under the New York Voting Rights Act. This isn’t about changing who can vote. It’s about making sure everyone who ...

Tennessee Ties Gun Rights to Restoring ... Tennesseans — including 1 in 5 of the state's African Americans — who might otherwise be able to vote again. Voting rights and the right to bear ...

Bill Lee’s signature doesn’t do enough to clear hurdles for the nearly half-a-million disenfranchised Tennesseans — including 1 in 5 of the state’s African Americans — who might otherwise be able to ...

Up first: voting rights. What happens to US voting rights if the SAVE or, Safeguard American Voting Eligibility Act, becomes law ... the District—D.C. and five territorie are now compliant ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act ... Democrats denounced the bill as a threat to voting rights, criticizing the required paperwork as burdensome; about half of Americans ...

If you're a convicted felon in Tennessee and you want to vote again after paying your debts to society, you have to persuade a judge to first restore your gun rights ... 1 in 5 of the state's ...

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