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Women of color at the forefront as Women’s March rally encourages voter registration

By Rebecca Oh

Thousands attended the Women’s March “Power to the Polls” event in Las Vegas, which kicked off a nationwide voter registration campaign.

Why Ohio’s way of purging voter rolls is at the Supreme Court

By PBS News Hour

A case challenging the removal of hundreds of thousands of people from voter rolls in Ohio went to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Special correspondent Karen Kasler of Ohio Public Radio reports what's at stake in the Buckeye State, and…

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Analysis: Voting rights and search and seizure heat up January’s Supreme Court term

By Marcia Coyle

Justices will return to, among other things, an issue that continues to roil national politics: voting rights.

Trump voting commission criticized for lack of transparency

By Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press

President Donald Trump's advisory commission on election integrity has integrity questions of its own.

Trump administration sides with Ohio on purging voter rolls

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press

Ohio's system for removing inactive voters from the rolls does not violate the National Voter Registration Act, the Justice Department said Monday.

New poll: 70% of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump took office

By Laura Santhanam

Americans broadly believe their country’s political tone has become less civil since Donald Trump was elected president and that fundamental rights are weakening, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.

Federal judges find Texas gerrymandered maps on racial lines

By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

Federal judges found more problems in Texas' voting rights laws, ruling that Republicans racially gerrymandered some congressional districts to weaken the growing electoral power of minorities.

U.S. ‘has not yet reached the mountaintop,’ says new civil rights commission chair

By Laura Santhanam

For Catherine Lhamon, it’s been an eventful introduction to her new role as chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Republican state lawmakers push for restrictions on voting

By Kathleen Ronayne, Associated Press

Lawmakers in at least 20 mostly Republican-led states are pushing to make it harder to register or to vote.

DOJ to dispatch more than 500 staffers to election polls, a reduction from 2012

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

The Justice Department said Monday it will send more than 500 staffers to 28 states on Election Day to monitor the polls, a 35 percent reduction from the number four years ago.