voting rights

A new Louisiana law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote went into effect Jan. 1, but so far there’s no guidance on what documentation is needed.

Attorneys representing Louisiana in a lawsuit against the state legislative redistricting plans passed in 2022 are arguing that a key piece of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional and should not be applied to the state.

A new report shows that more people with past felony convictions can vote in this election cycle than previous ones, but millions remain disenfranchised.

The week’s ‘Little Voices, Big Ideas’ explores how ‘Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box’ can shine a light on a turbulent period of American history–and on the promise of one voice, one vote, through the discussion of this book.

Alabama is headed to the first significant revamp of its congressional map in three decades after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the state’s bid to keep using a plan with a single majority-Black district.

Lawyers for the state defended Alabama’s new congressional map before a panel of judges who previously ruled the 2021 map violated the Voting Rights Act.

The Supreme Court has ruled against Alabama's defense of an electoral map drawn by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. Black voters had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.

Patrick Madden and Stephanie Grace co-hosted Friday's Louisiana Considered.Reporter Jack Stripling details a meeting that occurred in April 2019 in which…

This year in Louisiana almost 37,000 people became eligible to vote, thanks to a law that reinstated voting rights for formerly incarcerated people after…

On any given day there are an estimated 12,000 people in Louisiana being held in parish jails awaiting trial. For the most part, these are people who...