Voting rights

1. Verifying the vote

Voter registration and the voter ID debate

Voter ID: where have we been, where are we going? / Amanda Zoch

80% of Americans support voter ID rules-but fewer worried about fraud, polls find / Alison Durkee

Voter ID bill clears Missouri legislature despite fierce criticism from Black Democrats / Rebecca Rivas

Hundreds of mail-in ballots are being returned to Texas voters because they don't comply with new voting law / Alexa Ura

2. Access to the franchise

The debate over felon disenfranchisement

States moving fast after Congress failed to expand felon voting rights / Zach Montellaro

Felon voting ban is racially motivated and unconstitutional, NC judges rule / Will Doran

Tackling felony disenfranchisement before the midterm elections / Benjamin Barber

Reeves ignores racist history of state's felony voting ban with vetoes / Bobby Harrison

Bernie Sanders is wrong: felons shouldn't vote from prison / John R. Lott, Jr.

There are good reasons for felons to lose the right to vote / Hans A. von Spakovsky and Roger Clegg

Texas court orders that illegal voting conviction against Crystal Mason be reviewed / Ashley Lopez

3. Electoral crime in America

The persistence of voter fraud claims

Poll: more Americas are concerned about voting access than fraud prevention / Domenico Montanaro

The battles over voting rights, preventing fraud and access to ballots-5 essential reads / Naomi Schalit

Trump's fraud claims died in court, but the myth of stolen elections lives on / Jim Rutenberg, Nick Corasaniti, and Alan Feuer

Read the never-issued Trump order that would have seized voting machines / Betsy Woodruff Swan

4. Voter suppression

Political manipulation of American democracy

Supreme Court blunts voting rights in Arizona-and potentially nationwide-in controversial ruling / Cornell W. Clayton and Michael Ritter

Voting and elections divide Republicans and Democrats like little else: here's why / Philip Ewing

If Georgia's election law was supposed to suppress the vote, it sure did a bad job / Joe Lancaster

The voter suppression lie / Ilya Shapiro

the new voting restrictions aren't as restrictive as many think / Sarah Isgur

5. New developments in the voting rights debate

Voting rights in 2022 and beyond

Some states are making it harder to vote, some are making it easier-but it's too soon to say if this will affect turnout in 2022 / Nancy Martorano Miller

Election worker safety and privacy / Sarah J. Eckman and Karen L. Shanton

New York is about to let noncitizens vote: it could reshape local politics forever / Erin Durkin

New York City's noncitizen voting law is struck down / Jeffery C. Mays

Only citizens deserve the right to vote, in Maine and beyond / Jacob Posik