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Voter Suppression

The Lede

How Arizona’s Maricopa County Became the Battleground for Election Conspiracies

The contest for an obscure political office partly responsible for administering elections has become the race behind the race, with stakes that could determine the Presidency.
Daily Comment

The Supreme Court’s Surprise Defense of the Voting Rights Act

The Chief Justice appeared impatient with the maximalist demands that partisans on the right are placing on a Court they seem to feel they own.
Daily Comment

The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper

In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases.
The Political Scene Podcast

Trump Tries to Return, and Nancy Pelosi Steps Aside

The Political Scene’s Washington roundtable assesses major announcements by the former President and departing House Speaker.
The Political Scene Podcast

Are We in Denial About the End of Election Denialism?

Candidates who attacked the U.S. voting system lost a number of key midterm races. Sue Halpern and Rachel Monroe discuss the system’s vulnerabilities and separate the facts from the conspiracy theories.
Daily Comment

The Ongoing Electoral Efforts to Up the Anti-Democratic Ante

Republican-led legislatures and right-wing activists alike are making things more difficult for election officials.
Comment

The Supreme Court’s Big New Term

There is a feeling with this Court that the conservative Justices could make a landmark ruling out of almost any case.
The Political Scene Podcast

The Legal Fight for Democracy

The attorney Marc Elias is working on two critical Supreme Court cases challenging voter suppression. He talks with The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern about the battle ahead.
A Critic at Large

American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic

The partisan redistricting tactics of cracking and packing aren’t merely flaws in the system—they are the system.
The Political Scene

Will Wisconsin’s Republicans Make Voting Meaningless, or Just Difficult?

Activists are combining voter suppression with election conspiracies to capture the state in 2022 and beyond.
The New Yorker Live

The Battle for Voting Rights and the 2022 Midterms

On March 29th, the Reverend Dr. William Barber and Janai Nelson, the president and director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will join the New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb to discuss gerrymandering and Republican efforts to disenfranchise voters of color. The conversation will be part of The New Yorker Live Spring Series, exclusively for subscribers.
Q. & A.

Is There a Future for Voting-Rights Reform?

After a failure of Democratic legislation, a voting-rights expert talks about options for safeguarding elections.
The Political Scene Podcast

How Arizona Became Ground Zero for Conservative Disinformation About Voter Fraud

Who is financing the most recent Presidential election audit in Phoenix, and what are they doing nationwide to undermine the electoral process in 2024?
A Reporter at Large

The Big Money Behind the Big Lie

Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win at all costs.
News Desk

Threats Against Election Officials Are a Threat to Democracy

“To have someone say you deserve a knife to your throat, that you should be executed, that they are going to eff up your family, shakes you,” a former city clerk said.
Q. & A.

Can Congress Insure Fair Elections?

The legal scholar Rick Hasen discusses the dangers of election subversion and voter suppression.
Comment

The Republicans’ Wild Assault on Voting Rights in Texas and Arizona

What began as thinly veiled attempts to keep Democrats from the polls has become a movement to undermine confidence in our democracy itself.
Satire from The Borowitz Report

DeSantis Says Florida Will Lift Coronavirus Restrictions to Focus on Voting Restrictions

“While the danger posed by the virus has largely dissipated, voting remains as dangerous as ever,” the Governor said.
U.S. Journal

Georgia’s Voting Laws and Coca-Cola’s Complicated History

Does the company’s belated statement on the Election Integrity Act represent a reckoning with its past or merely convenient posturing?
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Friday, April 16th

“The forsythia and Republican voter-suppression bills are in full bloom.”