Caroline has been a staff writer since 2021 and, in addition to her long-form content, writes the weekly On The Docket newsletter. Originally from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Caroline graduated from New York University Abu Dhabi in 2021. She is particularly passionate about the intersection between voting rights and the criminal-legal system and supports jail-based voting advocacy in the Bay State. In her free time, Caroline plays in a soccer league and spends too much time in local coffee shops.
On July 8, 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court released a 4-3 opinion banning ballot drop boxes in the state. Today, we are identifying and responding to particularly harmful conclusions reached by the majority.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case next term that embraces the independent state legislature theory, with significant implications for the future of American elections. Here’s what you need to know.
Trivial mistakes happen in voting and voter registration; the Civil Rights Act’s Materiality Provision aims to protect voters from unnecessary disenfranchisement because of these errors. Without a private right to action, the provision would become unenforceable.
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In our second Voter Testimony piece, we examine a case challenging Louisiana’s congressional map. We parse through the lawsuit to understand the very real harm that inadequate representation inflicts on Black communities in Louisiana.
As legislative sessions conclude for the year, the laws introduced and passed in 2021 compared to 2022 clue us into the shifting priorities of Republicans seeking to sow doubt into our electoral process.
Almost every state has a law outlining how a private citizen, elections officials or poll watchers can challenge a voter’s eligibility and right to vote. This creates an opening for disruptive and discriminatory challenges.
Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight takes on True the Vote, a right-wing group that challenged the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of Georgians in advance of the January 2021 Senate runoff elections. Here’s what voters have said of the experience.
Could Section 3 of the 14th Amendment keep Donald Trump off the ballot in 2024? So far, the novel legal challenges against a handful of Republican lawmakers have far from settled the debates around the clause’s use in future elections.
This November, there are 36 gubernatorial seats on the ballot. Republican candidates in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and elsewhere have indicated a willingness to subvert election results in future contests.
Ballot design can have significant impacts on elections — on whether ballots are rejected, whether individuals undervote, overvote or who they vote for.
