More than six months after declaring on election night that "we've got to fix" long lines at the polls, President Obama announced the members of his commission on election administration Tuesday. Read More

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joins Saturday's "Melissa Harris-Perry"; the topics range from teen sexuality to voter suppression to military sexual assault. Tune in at 10am ET on MSNBC! Read More

Christie vetoed a measure that would have created a two-week window for early in-person voting, citing the cost as his primary complaint. Read More

Looks like the effort to block African-Americans' path to the voting booth backfired. Read More

“If they keep this up you can be assured, minorities of all stripes will never vote for anyone who makes it more difficult for them to exercise right to vote," he said in a speech at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies's annual gala. Read More

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted was very concerned with election unformity--except in elections that won't help Republicans when back the White House. Read More

Vice President Joe Biden is renewing his push on gun safety, as the NRA conference gets underway in Houston. Biden travels to South Carolina, an early 2016 primary state. Read More

Ohio Republicans have come up with a new plan that forces the state's schools to do the dirty work of voter suppression. Read More

Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor admits that perhaps the court "shouldn't have taken the case" which "stirred up the public" and "gave the court a less-than-perfect reputation." Read More

An AP analysis found that blacks voted at a higher rate than whites last fall, for the first time ever. But a demographer who helped conduct the AP's study wouldn't stand by that finding. Read More

North Carolina activists are planning a massive response to proposed voting restrictions, what Rev. William Barber called the 21st century "white southern strategy." Read More

The conservative jurist called a key part of the law an "embedded" form of "racial preferment." Read More

At a public hearing Wednesday in North Carolina, backers of a GOP-backed voter ID bill used the same arguments—in some cases, word-for-word—to bolster their case. Read More

He's known as a hero today, but Dr. King and those he worked with faced extreme opposition in the early days of their fight. Two of his colleagues, Rev. Joseph Lowery and Juanita Abernathy, explain how things have changed. Read More

" I know Dr. King would not yet be satisfied," Holder insisted. "We will not sit by and allow the slow unraveling of an electoral system that so many sacrificed so much to construct." Read More

In the works in North Carolina: Photo ID, cutbacks to early voting, scrapping voting on Sundays, and more. Republican lawmakers are "acting like the George Wallaces of the 21st century," says the state's NAACP president. Read More

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden lavished praise on each other at Tuesday night's Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, an event honoring leaders worldwide working to improve women's rights. Read More

The issue of voting rights has exploded into a high-octane partisan battle, with Republicans backing laws restricting access to the ballot, Democrats loudly crying foul, and no resolution in sight. But a new presidential panel aimed at fixing problems in the U.S. voting system could offer a way around the stalemate. Read More

The Republican controlled legislature has ignored the Democratic Governor's will, insisting the state spend $300,000 on a voter ID requirement that could disenfranchise voters. Read More