For the upcoming 70th edition in Vienna, hosted by ORF on May 12, 14, and 16, 2026, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has announced a series of significant updates to the voting rules, aiming to ...

Wood County Commissioners Jim Hamric and Jimmy Colombo went over registered voter numbers Monday with County Clerk Joe Gonzales as the Commission oversaw testing of the county’s voting systems. Early ...

Local and devolved elections will reveal fragmented party allegiances that cannot be fairly represented in parliament via first past the post Some results in local council and devolved elections this ...

Footage from key moments in the history of the Voting Rights Act.Credit... Supported by By Audra D. S. Burch Emily Cochrane and Jamie Leventhal The Voting Rights Act, among the most consequential ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement. By Sonia A. Rao The Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of ...

The US Supreme Court limited the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts in a major constitutional ruling that buttresses Republican efforts to keep ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais, much attention has been paid to its impact on the midterms and the partisan gerrymandering surge we can expect in the ...

The US Supreme Court sharply limited the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts in a major ruling that buttresses Republican efforts to keep control ...

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday vowed to fight back after the Supreme Court weakened a provision of the Voting Rights Act, potentially endangering majority-Black districts throughout the South.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Wednesday’s 6–3 party-line decision ...