Wondering How Ranked-Choice Voting Works? You’re Not Alone.
The New York City mayoral primary is coming up this Tuesday, June 22, and with it will come one of the most high-profile uses of a new voting reform: ranked-choice voting.
The New York City mayoral primary is coming up this Tuesday, June 22, and with it will come one of the most high-profile uses of a new voting reform: ranked-choice voting.
Republican legislatures in the states will continue to try and limit access to the ballot box no matter what. Until we have federal legislation like the For the People Act, our voting rights are in the hands of the courts and the people.
Five states hold statewide off-year elections. In today’s Explainer, we walk through which states have off-year elections in 2021, why they have them and how the delayed redistricting process could upend expectations.
New analysis from the Voter Study Group. “Voices on the Vote,” published in May 2021 takes a look back at voter confidence in the 2020 election, and polled Americans about the barriers they faced at the ballot box.
There are constitutional protections mandating that the right to vote not be abridged. But in practice, women of color still face massive inequities and institutional racism that prevents them from making their voices heard.
The voter transportation ban and absentee ballot organizing ban do not make Michigan elections more secure, but instead disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters who rely on get-out-the-vote efforts.
Republicans are determined to make it even harder to cast a ballot in 2022, despite state election officials pulling off a historic election in the midst of a pandemic with no documented cases of voter fraud in 2021.
It’s clear that the U.S. Supreme Court’s striking down of the Grandfather Clause did not significantly protect Black voters in Louisiana from disenfranchisement — the state government just came up with new ways to target them.
It can be hard to get an overall picture of how relatively easy or difficult it is to cast a ballot where you live. A new study attempts to quantify exactly how much the process of voting “costs” a voter in each of the 50 states.
Cooper v. Harris, and the extensive litigation that followed it, exemplifies the duality of federal gerrymandering lawsuits: racial and partisan gerrymandering. The courts have treated these types of cases very differently.