Saturday caucuses can exclude Sabbath observant Jews, Seventh Day Adventists and other Saturday Sabbath observers. 

Judge Richard J. Leon heard oral arguments today in a challenge to recent overnight changes to voter registration requirements that could really harm voters in Alabama, Georgia and Kansas.  

The District of Columbia Republican Party extended polling hours for its Saturday presidential nominating convention, accommodating the religious practices of Sabbath observant Jews.

The Voting Rights Institute sent a letter this week to the Department of Justice calling on it to investigate the Daphne City Council’s possible voting rights violations

The current state of American elections is deeply troubling, and it’s the result of many failures in our government. But there are steps we can take now to ensure that democracy survives.

Voting changes at the local level now often go unnoticed and unchallenged – even though these changes could also drastically harm voters’ ability to access to the ballot.

Even though presumptive nominee Donald Trump spent much of the primary campaign blasting the current out-of-balance and “rigged” political system, the 2016 platform continues the GOP’s hostility toward reforming our democracy. 

Yale Law School’s Jack Balkin once wrote in The Atlantic that ideas are either “off the wall” or “on the wall.” Constitutional litigation, he explained, is all about the reasonableness of your ideas.

The Democrats unveiled a 2016 platform that includes robust and specific campaign finance reform language and strong protections for voting rights. Will they match their rhetoric with action? 

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced today that he has restored voting rights to 13,000 individuals who have served their time for felony convictions.  

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, while calling on his supporters to get out the vote on Election Day, has taken it one step further in urging them to “protect” the election from “cheating.” Voter intimidation tactics are not new, but they are illegal. 

Voters are challenging, under the Voting Rights Act, a 2012 city council redistricting plan that secures a white majority on the city council, even though Hattiesburg has a majority black population. 

More than 50,000 eligible voters in Georgia whose voter registration applications were improperly cancelled are now rightfully back on the voting rolls, just in time to cast a ballot in the 2016 election.

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s surrogates have doubled down on his calls for supporters to “make sure that this election is not stolen from us,” encouraging them to sign up as “Trump election observers” which voting rights advocates consider a call for intimidation. 

Leading up to the final presidential debate, this week’s headlines in the presidential election have revolved around candidate Donald Trump’s incendiary insistence that the election is rigged against him.