voter ID laws

GOP prosecutors say U.S. Constitution is clear in its direction to leave state elections up to the elected representatives of those states.

Nearly 2,000 bills related to voting have been drafted by state legislators across the country. One election expert says there are two reasons why Americans are seeing so many efforts to change election laws in 2023.

District and circuit courts were involved in key decisions as states revised voter ID and registration laws

A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge has waived the state’s photo ID requirement for November elections

Former Freedom Riders U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and 88–year–old Southern Christian Leadership Conference President C. T. Vivian strode down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, leading a loud, chanting, singing crowd. A burly white man parked his big American car, adorned with a Romney–Ryan sticker.

Sept. 25 will be the first National Voter Registration Day. Nonpartisan, nonprofit group Voto Latino “seeks to do for participation in democracy what Earth Day did for the environment,” said Dan McSwain, vice president of digital campaigns for Voto Latino, at a press teleconference sponsored by New America Media

A federal court on Thursday struck down a Texas law that would require voters to show photo identification to officials before casting their ballots in elections.

A contentious issue in this year’s elections is the voter ID laws passed in 33 states. Seventeen of these states require that the ID presented at the polls show a photo of the voter, according to the National Council of State Legislators (NCSL).

In a wave of states signing voter ID laws, South Carolina almost became the eighth state requiring a government-issued ID to vote, but that request was denied by the Department of Justice (DOJ) this past December.