New Jersey Becomes 13th State to Adopt Automatic Voter Registration
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy exits the polling booth after voting at the Fairview School on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 in Middletown, N.J. Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Advance Media/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, New Jersey became the 13th state to adopt automatic voter registration—and the third to do so…
Member of Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Sued for Voter Intimidation
Election Day in Alexandria, Virginia on November 8, 2016. Dimitrios Manis via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A conservative activist and voter fraud alarmist is facing a federal lawsuit Thursday over dubious allegations of massive voter fraud in Virginia. A civil rights group and four Virginia voters filed a suit against J.…
A New Bill Would Give DC High Schoolers the Right to Vote
Thousands of protesters, many of them students, gather near the Capitol for the DC March For Our Lives rally on March 24, 2018.Erin Scott/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For two months now, teenage activists have been leading a movement to vote out of office politicians who stand in the…
Maryland Just Took a Huge Step for Protecting Voting Rights
A voting sign at the entrance of a polling station in Takoma Park, MD.Jose Luis Magana/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Maryland became the 12th state to enact automatic voter registration on Thursday after Republican Gov. Larry Hogan declined to veto a bill that had passed the Democratic-controlled Legislature. Maryland…
Voting Rights Advocates Just Won a Big Victory in Court
Voters wait outside the Supervisor of Elections office in Palm Beach County, Florida, to vote early in the 2010 midterm elections.The Palm Beach Post/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A conservative legal group’s crusade to purge voter lists across the country hit a setback Friday when a federal judge in Florida…
The White House Is Lying About the Census
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily press briefing on March 27, 2018.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Defending the Trump administration’s controversial decision to add a question about US citizenship to the 2020 census form, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters…