August 10, 2020This article is part of Electionland, ProPublica’s collaborative reporting project covering problems that prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots during the 2020 elections.
July 23, 2020Restrictive “voter identification” laws pushed by Republicans, and widely regarded to be ineffective and discriminatory, have cost taxpayers at least $36m in just a few states.
July 21, 2020The department’s limited public activity has been striking, particularly as several states have seen voters wait hours in line to vote and jurisdictions are rapidly limiting in-person voting options because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
July 8, 2020The effort comes as voter registration efforts, both in Texas and around the US have effectively stalled just months before the presidential election.
July 7, 2020The ruling reinstates a Republican-backed law that allows local election officials to offer only two weeks of early voting before election day.
June 11, 2020Thousands of Georgians had their registrations put on hold and weren’t sure if they’d be able to vote. Some voters were wrongly flagged as non-citizens; others had their ballots rejected because poll workers told them they had the wrong ID. Hundreds of polling places were shuttered before the election, and other precincts had four-hour lines. Absentee ballots were rejected because of signature mismatches or other minor errors.
April 8, 2020Voting rights. The Republican Party “would rather try to keep people from voting than lose,” David Daley tells Bill. Daley is a reporter who has written extensively about gerrymandering and voting rights — and fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections.
October 24, 2017And possibly handed him the whole election.
August 4, 2015Our democracy is threatened when voting becomes a wedge issue between the parties.
November 5, 2014A quick look at the numbers shows that in several key races the margin of victory came very close to the likely margin of disenfranchisement.
