So far, Virginia’s noble stride toward enfranchising its citizens who have been convicted of felonies with the vote has resulted in... very few convicted felons actually registering to vote.
Earlier this year, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order granting the right to vote to 206,000 convicted felons who had completed their sentences and probation. Now, Republicans in the state’s legislature are fighting to take it back again.
It’s primary day in New York—did you know you can take two hours off to go “vote” and there’s not a thing your boss can do about it?
Today, American voters can finally head to the polls to exercise their hallowed democratic right: the right to actively participate in destroying their own dreams of a better country.
In the first election in which Saudi women could both vote and campaign as candidates, women scooped up a total of seven municipal council seats.
Thanks to an executive order from Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear today, 140,000 people convicted of nonviolent felonies in the state will have their voting rights restored, effective immediately. Previously, a felony conviction carried a lifetime voting ban in Kentucky.
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor who has been one of America’s most active voices in the fight to reform campaign finance laws, is running for president.
I understand that America is fucked up. I understand you’re angry about it. Still, you might as well vote.
You wouldn’t want “abcde” to be the password standing between a hacker and your computer, and you don’t even do anything important on your computer. So why was it ever all right for hardware that facilitates American democracy to be so stupidly vulnerable?
There are 14.7 million registered Hispanic voters in the United States—but only one of them is the WASP scion one of our country's foremost conservative dynasties. Yes: John Ellis "Jeb" Bush, the Connecticut-bred president's son and president's brother (and distant relative to the actual British monarchy) is—according…
On today's edition of the intellectual roundtable Fox and Friends, the hosts agree that "they should have a test before you vote."
As President Obama voted in Chicago on Monday, a man casually told him not to flirt with his fiancee, who was casting her ballot next to the president. "Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend," the man said as he walked past.
The Supreme Court ruled early Saturday morning that Texas could enforce its voter ID requirement law, SB 14, in upcoming elections in early November, Dallas News reports. The decision comes in the wake of a federal judge’s ruling last week that the law was unconstitutional. An appeals court has since put that ruling…
The Supreme Court delayed the start of early voting in Ohio today in a 5-4 vote. Early voting in the Buckeye State was supposed to begin on Tuesday but was shut down by the high court's decision to postpone it, despite civil lawsuits that argued reducing voting days would make it difficult for low-income families to…
How many times has voter-identification fraud really happened in the United States? As many as 31 times out of 1 billion ballots cast since 2000, one law professor's new research shows. The incidents may account for up to 234 ballots, or 0.0000234 percent of all the voting in America.
Look well upon the chart above these words. This proves that we're all hypocrites, or unable to control our political destinies, or both.
Earlier this week, a student at McGill University in Montreal tried to register to vote. The student—who remains anonymous—lives in Montreal 49 weeks of the year. And for no apparent reason, he was rejected—one of several McGill students that have been prevented from registering in the city where they live and study.
The mayor of a mile-high town in Utah will keep his job for another two years after "forgetting" to inform residents that it was time to hold municipal elections.
Voter ID legislation is notorious for making it difficult for minorities, the poor, and basically anyone who might not vote Republican to vote at all. But don't tell that to Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman! As far as he's concerned, if you didn't vote, you just didn't want it enough.
Late Wednesday night, Room Eight broke the major story that millionaire author and recap muse Lena Dunham did not vote in the last election, despite starring in that controversial pro-Obama get-out-and-vote ad last fall. So, huge scandal, right? Maybe. From Room Eight, who really dug deep for this one:
