The sheriff in Wisconsin’s capital county will stop using dozens of AI surveillance cameras posted up across Madison and ...

Two redistricting experts answer your questions on the latest Supreme Court ruling that guts the VRA—did it kill Section 2, ...

After the state’s previous governor created a board to consider clemency for people sentenced to lengthy prison terms as ...

The U.S. Postal Service began piloting a cost-cutting plan in 2023 to remove the machines that sort and postmark mail from local offices and instead consolidate mail processing in regional centers. As ...

The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that ...

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will ...

When the supreme court in Wyoming struck down an abortion ban in January, it cited a state constitutional amendment adopted in 2012 that affirmed a right for people to make their own health care ...

The resounding defeat of Ohio’s Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would have undercut direct democracy in the state, received wall-to-wall coverage last week because it salvaged the prospect ...

This article is part of Bolts’ ongoing coverage of how the threats to the Voting Rights Act may affect local political power; read our coverage from Mississippi and North Dakota. It is published in ...

Voting rights advocates have sought for decades to reverse Virginia’s lifetime ban on voting for people with felony convictions, a 124-year-old Jim Crow relic designed to uphold white supremacy. In a ...