#Voting Rights

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Democratic presidential prospects flock to New York to court activists at Al Sharpton's conference — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  On the road to 2028, the Democratic Party's leading presidential prospects are warning African Americans that President Donald Trump is actively working to undermine their right to vote in 2026.

  Related: #Democratic Politics, #Civil Rights
• 🇺🇸 DNC and top Democratic leaders sue Trump over mail-in voting executive order — 02/04/2026 [USA]

  A coalition of major Democratic groups sued the Trump administration, seeking to strike down an executive order that would exert more federal influence over mail-in voting — including by creating list...

  Related: #Election Law, #Separation of Powers
• 🇺🇸 Trump signs a new executive order on voting. Experts say he lacks the authority — 31/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump has signed an executive order as part of an effort to end the practice of voting by mail in the U.S., though election law scholars say he doesn't have the authority.

  Related: #Executive Power
• 🇺🇸 White House says Trump to sign executive order limiting mail-in voting — 31/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Election Administration, #Executive Actions
• 🇺🇸 Utah GOP redistricting push fails to make ballot — 26/03/2026 [USA]

  A GOP-led redistricting push in Utah failed to make the ballot after opposition groups campaigned for voters to remove their signatures from a petition required to ensure the measure was included in t...

  Related: #Politics, #Elections
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Mississippi's law counts mail-in ballots sent by some voters if they were postmarked on or before, and received up to five business days after, Election Day.

  Related: #Election Law
• 🇺🇸 US Supreme Court conservatives lean toward Republican bid to limit mail-in voting — 23/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Supreme Court, #Elections
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court hearing dispute today over late-arriving mail ballots — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The Supreme Court is considering a challenge to a Mississippi law that allows ballots that are postmarked by but received up to five days after Election Day to be counted.

  Related: #Election Law
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court to decide if states count mail ballots arriving after Election Day — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Whether states can count ballots received after polls close on Election Day will land before the Supreme Court on Monday, bringing the issue of mail-in voting to the forefront in a case with major imp...

  Related: #Election Law
• 🇺🇸 Justices to Hear Challenge to State Mail-in Ballot Law — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  The case focuses on Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law, but the outcome could upend similar rules in more than a dozen states and territories.

  Related: #Election Law
• 🇺🇸 This week on the hill: Marathon debate on SAVE America Act enters second week — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  The Senate’s marathon debate on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act is set to enter its second week, as President Trump and conservative allies ramp up pressure to push the mea...

  Related: #Partisan Politics, #Legislative Process
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court to consider deadlines for late-arriving mail ballots — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  The Supreme Court will consider whether states can count mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after.

  Related: #Election Law, #Supreme Court, #Mail-in Voting
• 🇺🇸 How the Supreme Court Could Change Voting by Mail — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  The Supreme Court is ruling on whether ballots received after Election Day should be disqualified. Our national politics reporter Nick Corasaniti explains how a Supreme Court ruling could affect hundr...

  Related: #Election Law
• 🇺🇸 The Supreme Court Could Make it Harder to Vote by Mail in the Midterms — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  The Republican National Committee wants to toss ballots arriving after Election Day. Critics say thousands of votes — a majority cast by Democrats — are at stake.

  Related: #Election Law
• 🇺🇸 Justice Department forgets to serve its own lawsuit in voter rolls fight — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The Justice Department's quest to force states to turn over voter rolls has faltered in Washington state, where federal government lawyers seem to have forgotten to actually serve their lawsuit on sta...

  Related: #Legal Procedure
• 🇺🇸 Following Trump, Republicans in Congress Propose to Ban Most Voting by Mail — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  A restrictive voter I.D. bill under consideration in the Senate could severely limit mail-in voting. Conservatives are pressing to end the practice outright, taking aim at an option that is widely use...

  Related: #Political Legislation
• 🇬🇧 US Senate heeds Trump’s call to debate restrictive Save America Act voting bill — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Senate voted 51-48 to begin discussion on bill that would require proof of citizenship for new voters</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/mar/17/us-senate-voter-id-...

  Related: #Political Influence
• 🇺🇸 Senate launches bitter floor battle over voter ID legislation — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The Republican-led Senate on Tuesday voted to open what is likely to be a lengthy and rancorous floor fight over a bill to implement strict voter identification rules in federal elections.

  Related: #Political Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Republicans are launching a voting bill debate that could last days or even weeks — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Republicans are launching an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won't pass - an attempt to capture public attention on legislation r...

  Related: #Political Debate
• 🇺🇸 Republicans collide with Trump over no-excuse absentee voting, SAVE Act — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump's push to eliminate voting by mail without excuses such as illness or military duty, a component of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, has put him on a collis...

  Related: #Political Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Most Americans support requiring photo ID to vote. Democrats in Congress reject it. — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Republicans are aggressively touting a popular provision in their sweeping SAVE America Act to overhaul elections nationwide: requiring photo identification to vote.

  Related: #Political Division
• 🇺🇸 In Arizona, an Electric Utility Holds an Election, Open Only to Property Owners — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Turning Point is involved, as is the Sierra Club. But voting rules that seem to echo feudalism exclude renters, favor large landowners and limit who can influence a Phoenix utility board.

  Related: #Utility Governance
• 🇺🇸 US OPM evaluates cost of observer program looking at race discrimination in voting — 13/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Government Oversight
• 🇺🇸 Florida Republicans Pass Bill Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The proposed law, which would not take effect before this year’s midterm elections, was modeled in part on President Trump’s top legislative priority in Congress.

  Related: #Election Security
• 🇺🇸 How Trump's SAVE Act would reshape voting and why critics are concerned — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  President Trump vowed this week not to sign any bills into law until a sweeping voting bill is passed. White House correspondent Liz Landers takes a closer look at its prospects.

  Related: #Election Integrity
• 🇺🇸 Here's what's actually in Trump's voting bill — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  President Donald Trump has vowed not to sign any bills into law until the SAVE America Act is passed, escalating his pressure campaign to get a sweeping voting bill across the finish line before this ...

  Related: #Election Reform
• 🇬🇧 Tuesday briefing: Inside the increasingly heated debate about who can – and can’t – vote in the UK — 10/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>In today’s newsletter: In the wake of this year’s Commonwealth Day, a look at the complex framework of voting rules in different parts of the UK</p><p>Good morning. In the wake of the Green party’s...

  Related: #Political Debate
• 🇺🇸 Trump's voting bill ultimatum adds to pressure on Congress — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Morning Report is The Hill's a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today's issue: ▪ Trump puts pressure on Thune ▪ Iran chooses new supreme leader ▪ Trust in public health institutions drops ▪ Officials...

  Related: #Political Pressure
• 🇺🇸 Voting Rights Groups Raise Alarms About Case Before the Supreme Court — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  The groups are working to educate voters in the South about how they would be affected if the court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

  Related: #Supreme Court
• 🇺🇸 Decades after violence in Selma spurred the Voting Rights Act, organizers worry about its fate — 08/03/2026 [USA]

  Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns about the future o...

  Related: #Historical Legacy