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Voting Rights

Vox's coverage of gerrymandering, problems at the polls, and the state of voting rights in the 2020 election.

After Georgia, companies are banding together to condemn restrictive voting laws

By Terry Nguyen

Yes, the Georgia election law is that bad

By Zack Beauchamp

Why some Democrats are quietly unhappy with the House’s big voting rights bill

By Andrew Prokop

Why the MLB pulled the All-Star Game from Atlanta, briefly explained

By Cameron Peters

Georgia’s restrictive new voting law, explained

By Zack Beauchamp

How Republicans’ efforts to restrict mail voting could backfire

By Brittany Gibson

Jody Hice tried to overturn the 2020 election. Now he wants to be in charge of Georgia’s elections.

By Ian Millhiser

Filibuster opponents just got good news from a key Democratic holdout on reform

By Ian Millhiser

The new Republican war on voting rights, explained

By Ian Millhiser

Georgia Republicans vote to roll back no-excuse absentee voting after Trump’s loss

By Jerusalem Demsas

House Democrats’ massive voting rights bill, explained

By Ella Nilsen

The Voting Rights Act had a surprisingly good day at the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser

Two Supreme Court cases could destroy what remains of the Voting Rights Act

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court hands two final defeats to Trump

By Ian Millhiser

Florida Republicans want to impose new voting restrictions. They’re not the only ones.

By Cameron Peters

State GOPs have already introduced dozens of bills restricting voting access in 2021

By Gabby Birenbaum

Even Amy Coney Barrett appears skeptical of Trump’s latest attempt to rig the census

By Ian Millhiser

A Republican judge just tore into Trump’s election lawyers for their incompetence

By Ian Millhiser

America’s anti-democratic Senate, by the numbers

By Ian Millhiser

Why the Supreme Court is unlikely to steal the election for Donald Trump

By Ian Millhiser

Trump’s bizarre, haphazard legal strategy to disrupt vote counting, briefly explained

By Ian Millhiser

What’s really going on with the mail-in ballots the US Postal Service can’t trace

By Jason Del Rey

Colorado voters approve compact seeking to neutralize the Electoral College

By Ian Millhiser

Massachusetts voters reject ranked-choice voting in ballot initiative

By Kelsey Piper

How GOP lawyers intimidated a blue Texas county into shutting down 9 polling sites

By Ian Millhiser

The most important legal question looming over the election

By Ian Millhiser

Know your rights: The biggest threat to voting is not knowing the rules

By Jerusalem Demsas

Early voting numbers are truly astounding

By Alissa Wilkinson

Here’s how to check if your ballot was received and accepted

By Jen Kirby

An extremely conservative judge just rejected an effort to disenfranchise 127,000 voters

By Ian Millhiser

Trump’s plan to win by invalidating votes, explained

By Matthew Yglesias

If the Supreme Court decides the election, it will likely all come down to Brett Kavanaugh

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court’s latest decision looks like a win for voting rights. It’s really a threat.

By Ian Millhiser

Are long voting lines evidence of voter suppression? An expert explains.

By Jerusalem Demsas

4 upcoming Supreme Court cases will reveal who Amy Coney Barrett really is

By Ian Millhiser

The radical implications of the Supreme Court’s new ruling on Wisconsin mail-in ballots

By Ian Millhiser

How an anti-democratic Constitution gave America Amy Coney Barrett

By Ian Millhiser

Early voting in 2020 has already exceeded all of 2016’s early votes

By Jen Kirby and Rani Molla

Young people have a stake in our future. Let them vote.

By Kelsey Piper

7 movies and TV shows that explain US elections, from gerrymandering to hanging chads

By Alissa Wilkinson