Judicial retention elections in Kansas have typically been apolitical and uncontested — until Kansans for Justice entered the fray earlier this month. Now the state's grappling with a new kind of dark money.

Whitney Ball, who oversees DonorsTrust, a conservative fund of $100 million, benefited from her father's unethical handling of an elderly woman's estate.

"You cannot understand what’s going on with Ferguson today without knowing this history."

There are efforts, some flying beneath the radar, to expand the electorate and get out the vote this November 4.

Two experts on American elections talk to Bill about the plot to keep citizens away from the ballot box.

The Republican-dominated board of elections in North Carolina has pushed to move polling locations for early voting, which starts today, farther away from college campuses.

A court dominated by Bush appointees has issued some extreme opinions on abortion, voter ID and the death penalty.

The New York Times reports that the subprime loan industry has gotten its way in a number of state legislatures.

"The greatest threat to public confidence in elections," Ginsburg concluded, would result from "enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law."

When the Supreme Court fails to protect our elections from partisan and racially motivated manipulation, the burden may fall disproportionately on some, but we will all pay.