We are witnessing the beginning of a nationwide voter-suppression campaign, led by the White House and enabled by Congress and the Department of Justice.  By Ari Berman.

Strategists often warn that special elections are not good harbingers of midterm success.

Compare them to Oregon’s, which make voting incredibly easy. By Ari Berman.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has long exaggerated the minuscule threat of voter fraud while promoting policies that make it harder to vote — and his efforts have already had an impact on elections in Southern states. By Sue Sturgis. (May 17, 2017)

The ruling is the latest in a series of decisions against the excessive use of race in redistricting. The court has said Republican lawmakers have gone too far in packing black voters into some districts. By Richard Wolf.

Voter suppression works, but President Donald Trump’s new election integrity commission is unlikely to do anything about the problem…especially because it is chaired by a prominent architect of voter suppression laws. But we have some ideas that would help. By Donkeyhotey and Klaus Marre.

Computer experts have no confidence in Georgia’s election results. By Lulu Friesdat.

It will be led by Mike Pence and Kris Kobach, who have a very long history of making it harder to vote.  By Ari Berman.

But letting people use the internet to register to vote is a start. By Bruce Schneier.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Texas seeking to revive the state's strict Republican-backed voter-identification requirements that a lower court found had a discriminatory effect on black and Hispanic people.

North Carolina attracted legions of new workers on the promise of a progressive lifestyle in the New South. But they feel betrayed by a dramatic political shift.

The party sent a press release to reporters on Sunday trumpeting the fact that fewer black voters cast early ballots this year than they did in 2012. "African American Early Voting is down 8.5% from this time in 2012," the release read. "As a share of Early Voters, African Americans are down 6.0%." The statement also cheered the rise in white voters as compared to 2012. "The once dynamic Obama Coalition [is] crumbling and tired," said Robing Hayes, the North Carolina GOP chairman, saying the party's "motivated statewide volunteers and extensive ground game" are the reason for the good news.

A Reuters survey found local governments in nearly a dozen, mostly Republican-dominated counties in Georgia have adopted plans to reduce the number of voting stations, citing cost savings and efficiency.

In July of this year, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down major parts of the overhaul. The three-judge panel ruled those changes targeted African-Americans "with almost surgical precision." Now, voting rights advocates say some Republicans will try to sidestep that decision on Thursday, when the State Board of Elections will consider new plans that technically follow that ruling but raise other issues.

He explained that the new wave of voting restrictions is about disenfranchising black voters, not stopping voter fraud.

Lower courts are emboldened by a 4–4 split and the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling to strike down specious voting laws. By Mark Joseph Stern.

Don't like voting at a mosque? Then fight for secular alternatives.

Wisconsin Republicans were "giddy" about a voter identification requirement enacted in 2011 that they saw as an opportunity to drive down Democratic turnout at the polls, a former chief of staff to a GOP state senator testified Monday in a federal trial targeting that law and others.

As candidates lavish love on Brooklyn, a WNYC analysis of voter enrollment statistics found active registered Democrats dropped by 7 percent there — the largest decline statewide.