On Aug. 6, 2025, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, while recognizing we must not only preserve the ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in ...

Mail voting is popular despite rhetoric Roughly 30% of voters last fall used a mail ballot, a decline from the 43% who did so during the pandemic election in 2020 but higher than pre-pandemic ...

Like democracy, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 didn’t come with a lifetime warranty. The survival of both depends on our vigilance in protecting the vote, democracy’s most important lifeline.

Sixty years ago, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law, opening the doors of American democracy wider than ever before. Designed to eliminate racially discriminatory voting practices like ...

Mairekk Griffiths, a 26-year-old cook in a Denver suburb, doesn’t think he’ll ever pay a lot of attention to U.S. politics ...

As of Monday morning, only 15.5% of registered King County voters had turned in their ballots for the Washington primary.

The ruling was the second time the case had been in federal court. Earlier, a state court deemed the law unconstitutional.