Times-Tribune: Lackawanna County Prison and election bureau officials say they’re working to resolve an issue that could prevent inmates who are legally eligible to vote from casting mail-in ballots in the May primary election. Under the prison’s current mail policy,… Continue reading

The return to permanent disenfranchisement with a wholly discretionary process for the governor to grant re-enfranchisement has now drawn a federal lawsuit.

Mississippi Today with a piece on the legislature’s practice of restoring (or, in this year’s case, not restoring) voting rights to handfuls of specific individuals with convictions. 

Tampa Bay Times: Two Hillsborough County residents who were part of a statewide sweep billed as an effort to combat voter fraud pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony charges and received six months of probation. Hubert Jack and Michael Anderson each… Continue reading

Bolts: Governor Glenn Youngkin just gave himself a lot more power to pick and choose Virginia voters. The Republican governor’s administration told state lawmakers in a letter last week that he was rescinding his predecessors’ policy of automatically restoring the… Continue reading

AP: Restoring the voting rights of former felons drew national attention after Florida lawmakers weakened a voter-approved constitutional amendment and after a new election police unit championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis arrested 20 former felons. Several of them said… Continue reading

Bolts: The Howard R. Young Correctional Institution sits between a creek and Interstate 495 in Wilmington, Delaware. For the last ten years, the prison’s 1,281 residents were counted as constituents of Wilmington’s third city council district. But when local officials… Continue reading

Bolts: The state supreme court on Thursday held a hearing on whether North Carolinians should have the right to vote while on probation or parole. The case, CSI vs. Moore, is a challenge to North Carolina’s felony disenfranchisement law, which bars… Continue reading

Sam Levine deep dive for The Guardian: It was the morning after Labor Day and Pamela Moses was in a rush. All summer, the outspoken activist had been feuding with election officials in Memphis, Tennessee. She wanted to get her… Continue reading

NPR: Back in August, Florida officials announced they were charging 20 people with alleged voter fraud. It was the first big set of cases investigated by the state’s new election crimes unit, which was created at the urging of Republican… Continue reading

Tampa Bay Times: A week after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the arrests of 20 people for alleged voter fraud, his administration quietly made a change that some say could help the state go after more people.Starting in August, Floridians on… Continue reading