Eliminates the requirement that returning citizens pay off all outstanding court costs before their voting rights can b ...

Kareemah Hanifa just registered to vote for the first time in her life. As a juvenile, Hanifa, now 48, was sentenced to life ...

The series of laws, called the Readmission Acts, also barred states from constitutionally disenfranchising people convicted of crimes that were considered common law at the time. Under current law, ...

On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers stepped out of his Oldsmobile parked in the driveway of his Jackson, Mississippi home, carrying t-shirts that read, 'Jim Crow Must Go.' He had returned ...

US president continues to focus on election administration ahead of November midterms, sparking concern from critics.

Campaigners say they filed 750,000+ signatures to require proof of citizenship and photo ID in Michigan. State review now ...

Legal experts sounded the alarm on Thursday over actions from the Trump administration that they say could make it harder for Minnesotans to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.

At least 20 million Americans have served time. Most of them can’t or don’t vote, and that may distort some election outcomes, a political scientist argues.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kevin B. Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (THE CONVERSATION) If you gathered ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court denied an opportunity Monday to weigh the Second Amendment rights of those convicted of nonviolent felonies. The high court refused to hear the case despite issuing ...

Felony conviction reduces political engagement, sometimes entirely. Inmates are legally barred from voting in all but two states, Maine and Vermont. Ten states bar ex-felons from voting either ...