Rep. Ayanna Pressley Wants To Lower The Voting Age To 16
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) wants younger people to have a say in federal elections. On Wednesday, Pressley introduced an amendment to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 years…
Florida Just Enfranchised Over 1 Million People. They Still Face Big Obstacles To Voting.
Florida voters made history on Tuesday, amending their state constitution to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions once they complete their sentences. But there still could be…
Georgia Voters Face Hours-Long Waits As State Scrambles To Accommodate Turnout
Poll workers in Georgia appear to have been unprepared for the waves of voters who turned out on Tuesday. Officials were scrambling to bring additional equipment to the polls and…
Judge Orders Georgia’s Brian Kemp To Give Thousands More People A Shot At Voting
A federal judge in Georgia on Friday ordered state Secretary of State Brian Kemp to establish additional procedures to guarantee that voters flagged by the state as potential noncitizens can…
Trouble Voting? We Want To Hear From You.
HuffPost is partnering with ProPublica’s Electionland project as part of a reporting collaboration to write about access to the ballot box in the 2018 elections. And we need you to…
This Is What It’s Like When Oprah Knocks On Your Door To Get Out The Vote
To her credit, Denise appeared amazingly poised after being ambushed by Lady O, and even told the media mogul she has a plan for early voting. People on Twitter imagined…
Tennessee Black Voter Registration Group Fights For Access To Flagged Applications
A group focused on registering black voters in Tennessee reached a tentative agreement in a simmering dispute with local election officials to inspect thousands of voter registration forms the officials…
Georgia County Under Fire For Rejecting Large Number Of Absentee Ballots
Amid escalating tensions over voting rights in Georgia, a county in the state is facing scrutiny for rejecting an unusually high number of mail-in ballots. As of Monday evening, Gwinnett…
Civil Rights Groups Sue Georgia Over Discriminatory Voter Maintenance Practice
Civil rights groups sued Georgia in federal court on Thursday over a process it uses to verify new voter registrations, saying the procedure was unreliable and discriminatory. Georgia requires the…
Georgia County Can’t Back Up Its Excuse For Plan To Disenfranchise Black Voters
Officials in a majority-black Georgia county accused of trying to close almost all polling places to make it harder for black people to vote claimed last week that the locations…