Latest Voting rights News

Kansas unveils a mural honoring 'rebel women' who campaigned for voting rights

Jan. 29, 2025 16:59 PM EST

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted those rights across the nation. Gov. Laura Kelly and other state officials...

Voting rights groups are concerned about priorities shifting under Trump's Justice Department

Jan. 28, 2025 17:03 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — The Justice Department appears poised to take a very different approach to investigating voting and elections. Conservative calls to overhaul the department by removing career employees, increasing federal voter fraud cases and investigating the 2020 election are...