Voting rights, specifically enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of different groups, has been a moral and political issue throughout United States...

of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised. 1789 The Constitution...

Voting rights of citizens in the District of Columbia differ from the rights of citizens in the 50 U.S. states. The United States Constitution grants...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed...

professor and rights activist, Ron Hayduk, wrote in 2006 a book entitled Democracy For All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States, presenting...

Voting rights of United States citizens who live in Puerto Rico, like the voting rights of residents of other United States territories, differ from those...

In the United States, a person may have their voting rights suspended or withdrawn due to the conviction of a criminal offense. The actual class of crimes...

the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and...

The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to...

original Voting Rights Act.[vague] Fourteen states had new voting restrictions in place, including swing states such as Virginia and Wisconsin. In early...

governments in rural areas of the United States as a polling station. Dedicated voting houses have been used since the second half of the 19th century. The advent...

Voting rights of citizens in Guam differ from those of United States citizens in each of the fifty states. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Guam...

minimum voting ages after Nixon signed the 1970 extension to the Voting Rights Act. Opponents to extending the vote to youths questioned the maturity...

voting age must be 18 older) Voting rights in the United States Informational notes However, in Ex Parte Yarbrough (1884), the Court allowed individuals...

In the United States, human rights comprise a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly the...

The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 (H.R. 14) is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis. The...

Constitution of the United States". senate.gov. June 2, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015. Vose, p. 112. "D.C.: Chasing Full Voting Rights Since 1801," Auerbach...

enfranchised in practice throughout the United States by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution...

(LGBT) rights in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, with public opinion and jurisprudence changing significantly since the late...

A gender gap in voting typically refers to the difference in the percentage of men and women who vote for a particular candidate. It is calculated by subtracting...

restricting voting rights. The laws often included a grandfather clause, which allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific...

Democratic backsliding in the United States has been identified as a trend at the state and national levels in various indices and analyses. Democratic...

In the United States, the Electoral College is the group of presidential electors that is formed every four years for the sole purpose of voting for the...

expand the franchise for poor whites, but most black people could not vote until after passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Ratification in 1964 of the Twenty-fourth...

The following timeline represents formal legal changes and reforms regarding women's rights in the United States except voting rights. It includes actual...

right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American...

laws in the United States are laws that require a person to provide some form of official identification before they are permitted to register to vote, receive...

The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would have given the District of Columbia...

Postal voting in the United States, also referred to as mail-in voting or vote by mail, is a form of absentee ballot in the United States, in which a ballot...

the single-transferable vote, cumulative voting, and limited voting. Proportional voting systems, such as those used in all but three European states...