Retreat From Democracy

As laws making it harder to vote spread across the country, an additional and often unnoticed barrier comes with them: confusion.

Voter purges have become the right’s new voter suppression tool of choice.

Anita Earls has been the North Carolina GOP’s chief antagonist in the courtroom. Now she’s running for a seat on the state Supreme Court as a GOP threat to pack the court looms.

This year's election could determine how people vote in Georgia for decades.

Florida is one of four states with a constitution that permanently disenfranchises residents with felony records. This election could change that.

A constellation of liberal groups is trying to make voting rights issues like gerrymandering and automatic voter registration the ones that get voters to the polls.

The GOP has cried “voter fraud” for decades — and used it as justification to target minorities at the polls.

Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.