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As GOP restricts voting, Democrats move to expand access

Last year, for the first time in more than a quarter-century, Democrats in Virginia took control of the statehouse and the governor's mansion. Since then, one priority has become clear: expanding voting rights.

Business

Navajos say new Arizona restrictions will complicate voting

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Arizona Republicans say the voter restrictions they're pushing after President Joe Biden's win in the state last year are designed to strengthen the integrity of future elections.

Government and politics

Democrats search for a strategy to combat GOP voting laws

A small group of civil rights leaders gathered at Vice President Kamala Harris’ ceremonial office last week, discussing how to combat a wave of new Republican-backed laws restricting voting in several states.

Politics

Inside Arizona’s election audit, GOP fraud fantasies live on

PHOENIX — On the floor of Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where Sir Charles Barkley once dunked basketballs and Hulk Hogan wrestled King Kong Bundy, 46 tables are arrayed in neat rows, each with a Lazy Susan in the middle...

Georgia

‘Chaos in Georgia’: Is messy primary a November harbinger?

ATLANTA — The long-standing wrangle over voting rights and election security came to a head in Georgia, where a messy primary and partisan finger-pointing offered an unsettling preview of a...

Primary elections

The Latest: Elections chief blames counties for voting snags

WASHINGTON — The Latest on the 2020 primary elections (all times local):

General News

The Latest: Montana outbreak tied to Schwab country club

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...

Stacey Abrams

Q&A: Stacey Abrams is ready to serve but not on top court

ATLANTA — Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams says she's ready to serve presidential candidate Joe Biden in whatever capacity he needs, as long as he doesn't want to put her on the Supreme...

Virus Outbreak

Federal trial opens over Florida’s felon voting law

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Betty Riddle took her place at the head of the line at a Sarasota community center early one morning in March, butterflies rising in her stomach. In and out of prison for...

Voting

As mail voting pushed, some fear loss of in-person option

ATLANTA — Scrambling to address voting concerns during a pandemic, election officials across the country are eliminating polling places or scaling back opportunities for people to cast...

Virus Outbreak

Voting-rights disputes in virus era spark court battles

Wisconsin's chaotic primary may just be the beginning. Both major parties are preparing for a monthslong, state-by-state legal fight over how citizens can safely cast their ballots should the...

Virus Outbreak

Parties ready for court battles over virus-era voting rights

Wisconsin's chaotic primary may just be the beginning. Both major parties are preparing for a monthslong, state-by-state legal fight over how citizens can safely cast their ballots should the...

Primary elections

Switching remaining primaries to vote-by-mail not so easy

Voting rights groups and the head of the Democratic National Committee want the states with remaining primary elections to offer voting by mail as a way to ensure that voters can safely cast their...

General News

Civil rights: The road to Bloody Sunday began 30 miles away

MARION, Ala. — Della Simpson Maynor remembers the mounted police officer cracking her elbow with a baton. She recalls the panicked marchers unable to escape the onslaught, and the scuffle...

Voting

Big Super Tuesday prizes a study in contrasts over voting

The two biggest states participating in Super Tuesday represent another story aside from what happens in the Democratic primary: Voting rights.

General News

The Latest: Biden not worried about Trump refusing to leave

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Latest on the Democratic presidential primary contest (all times local):

Stacey Abrams

Bloomberg meets Abrams while working to build broad campaign

ATLANTA — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg came to Georgia on Friday to meet influential Democrat Stacey Abrams and then rally a white-collar crowd of supporters around his...

Stacey Abrams

Stacey Abrams book on voting rights to be published in June

NEW YORK — Stacey Abrams has a new book coming out next summer that will focus on her signature cause, voting rights.

Local elections

Voting site reopened in Georgia after grassroots fight

HAZLEHURST, Ga. — When local election officials shut down a polling site in a predominantly black area of a rural Georgia county, displaced voters couldn’t look to the federal government to...

Mississippi

Mississippi felons push court to restore voting rights

NEW ORLEANS — The man at the center of a Mississippi case pushing to restore voting rights to felons said Tuesday that he’s fighting to restore his rights as a “human being” and stressed that...

General News

The Latest: Buttigieg takes hits on issue of his experience

ATLANTA — The Latest on the Democratic presidential debate (all times local):

Stacey Abrams

Abrams’ group aims to reach Georgia voters who may be purged

Stacey Abrams’ voting rights organization is aiming to reach Georgia voters who could be purged from the state’s election rolls as soon as next month.