Jen reports on threats to democracy in states across the country. She previously covered elections and local government at the Houston Chronicle and at Houston’s NPR station. She loves voting early on Halloween.
Black voters’ 2023 victory blocking Georgia’s congressional and state legislative maps proved fleeting after the 11th Circuit sent the case back to a lower court to be reconsidered in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision gutting the Voting Rights Act provisions guaranteeing political representation for minority voters.
A federal court has blocked for now an Ohio law that makes voting more difficult by requiring residents to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
A right-wing legal group is not entitled to access Wisconsin’s new voter registration lists, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
Missouri’s grueling, nearly year-long battle to block a Republican congressional gerrymander is entering its final weeks, with a Sept. 8 ballot deadline looming.
Indiana has only days left to resolve disputed ballots that will decide the winner of a state senate seat currently held by an incumbent who bucked President Donald Trump’s demands for a last-minute gerrymander before the midterms.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein killed a sweeping GOP elections bill that would have shortened early voting, extended the time period to challenge votes and expanded voter roll maintenance.
A federal judge rejected a Republican attempt to eliminate a Black-majority local judicial district in Mississippi, ruling that it was too close to the November election to make the change.
A federal court will decide at an upcoming hearing whether Mississippi can move forward for now with a gerrymandered GOP map for its 2027 elections without waiting for input from a district court or the legislature.
Only a fraction of Alabama voters turned out this week to vote in an unusual second primary election, though more than half of the state’s congressional districts were on the ballot.
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R), an election denier and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, won the Republican nomination for Wisconsin governor, clearing the way for a high-stakes general election fight in a major swing state.
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