What’s in Michigan’s Push to Expand Voting Rights
From today’s PBS News: When Kenia Flores goes to the polls, she listens to her ballot choices with headphones and uses an accessible machine to cast her ballot. This device…
From today’s PBS News: When Kenia Flores goes to the polls, she listens to her ballot choices with headphones and uses an accessible machine to cast her ballot. This device…
From today’s Washington Post: Voting in Michigan will be easier for many people this fall than it was four years ago. There will be nine days of early voting. All…
From today’s CBS News: The Minnesota Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday over a challenge to the state’s restoration of voting rights for felons. The law passed last year…
From today’s Flathead Beacon: A coalition of local officials in Flathead County is rallying around two statewide ballot initiatives that seek to reshape Montana’s election system. Led by former Kalispell…
From today’s NPR News: The Voting Rights Act had a roller-coaster year in the courts in 2023, and legal challenges to the landmark law are set to continue this year.…
From today’s NPR News: Civil rights organizations are asking the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a ruling by a three-judge panel that threatens to make it…
From today’s AP News: A pro-Trump Minnesota judge declared a new state law restoring voting rights for convicted felons unconstitutional, drawing a sharp rebuke from Minnesota’s attorney general and secretary…
From today’s New York Times: After George Hawkins completed a 13-year term in a Virginia prison for attempted murder, he asked the state last spring to restore his right to…
From today’s CBS News: Federal judges on Thursday selected new congressional lines for Alabama to give the Deep South state a second district where Black voters comprise a substantial portion…
From today’s New York Times: A panel of three federal judges last week issued a scathing opinion directing the state of Alabama to comply with the Voting Rights Act. It…