There is still time to protect voting rights. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., has already reintroduced, would ensure American citizens have an ...

And it’s not just democracy advocates who support this move — two-thirds of Coloradans agree. A new poll from the State ...

The most recent effort is embodied in a two-part coverage formula in the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which was introduced in 2019 and only slightly amended in 2021 and 2023–24. This ...

Voters wait in line during the first day of early voting at a polling station in Wilmington, North Carolina, US, on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.

The SPLC urges U.S. Election Assistance Commission not to implement an executive order that would disenfranchise millions of ...

including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which has protected Americans’ right to vote since the civil rights era. Yet, in this time of uncertainty and national instability ...

while Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are continuing to push for the passage of the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore and modernize the protections of ...