By requiring jurisdictions with a history of vote discrimination to ... invented by the antebellum slave power to gut the Voting Rights Act? As Rutenberg explains, it's the culmination of a ...

The fight for voting rights has existed alongside campaigns to encourage voter registration and turnout. The National Museum of American History's online exhibition American Democracy: A Great Leap of ...

Voting Rights of Refugees develops a novel legal argument about the voting rights of refugees recognised in the 1951 Geneva Convention. The main normative contention is that such refugees should have ...

Our right to vote is the most basic promise of our democracy. In August 2025 our country will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. The right to vote for every eligible American ...

Holder. Shelby County effectively nullified Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which had forestalled certain jurisdictions (primarily in areas with a history of discriminatory voting laws) from ...

Sir, – I read Brianna Parkins’s piece on voting from abroad (“Many Irish have voted with their feet but can’t vote in the election. The reason is plain”, People, November 22nd ...

Pilar Kelly, a Duke senior who will graduate this month with a degree in public policy and minor in history, is the student voting coordinator of Duke Votes, a non-partisan, student-led organization ...