-By Ryan J. Reilly August 31, 2012- A federal judge in Ohio on Friday restored early voting rights in the three days before the election, ruling in favor of the…

-By Gene Demby August 31, 2012- As the Republican National Convention drew to a close, Michael Steele, the party's former chair, said that his party needed to do a better…

-By Luke Johnson August 31, 2012- A federal judge sided with the Obama campaign and ruled Friday to order Ohio to restore three days of early voting before Election Day,…

-By Nathaniel Persily August 31, 2012- In the space of two weeks, two different courts have come to two different results in evaluating the legality of two similar voter identification…

-By Peter H. Stone August 28, 2012- TAMPA, Fla. -- A shift of power from the official Republican party apparatus to an informal coalition of megadonors, super PACs and nonprofit…

-By Paul Blumenthal

-By Sari Horwitz August 30, 2012- A federal court on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would have required voters to show photo identification, ruling that the legislation would impose…

-By Robert Barnes August 27, 2012- The decision could mean that thousands of votes that otherwise would have been rejected — most of them cast in urban areas where Democrats…

The civil rights icon issues a call—"All of us should be up on our feet"—to protest partisan voting restrictions this election season. -By Andrew Cohen August 26, 2012- And the…

-By Andrew Harris August 25, 2012- Ohio’s Republican secretary of state was sued by his Democratic predecessor over a directive that makes early-voting hours uniform in all 88 of the…

The Republican True the Vote project is a well-funded scheme with training sessions for activists across the country. Will it work? -By Steven Rosenfeld

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-By Ethan Magoc August 21, 2012- A growing number of conservative Republican state legislators worked fervently during the past two years to enact laws requiring voters to show photo identification…