A federal judge has upheld a portion of a controversial 2022 Georgia election law dealing with absentee ballots.

The judge ruled the state has a compelling interest in reducing voter confusion and increasing electoral efficiency.

Republicans are increasingly bullish they can whittle away at the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as Democrats renew a long-shot effort to broaden the landmark law that turns 60 next week. The Supreme Court ...

Khadidah Stone will never forget the day in 2023 she learned that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld voting rights in her home state of Alabama. She was in a store when her phone buzzed, flooded with ...

Barriers that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to eliminate have reappeared in modern forms as the country marks its 60th anniversary. The big picture: A backlash to the 2020 racial reckoning has ...

NCBCP President & CEO Melanie L. Campbell releases this statement on the 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: On Aug. 6, 2025 we pause to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the historic Voting ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of legislation in American history. The policy that finally, almost 200 years ...

In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil rights law, “Today we strike away the last major shackle…the Negro story and ...