MICHAEL WINES

The relationships between big cities and rural-dominated legislatures have often been hostile. But a rift between Nashville and the Tennessee Legislature suggests the nation’s partisan...

A three-judge federal panel unanimously ruled that South Carolina’s redrawn First Congressional District illegally removed 62 percent of the Black voters in Charleston County.

Voters rebuffed the most aggressive efforts to weaken democracy in the midterms. But battles over election districts and ballot restrictions that could prove crucial in...

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today on a legal theory that holds that state courts cannot review their legislatures’ rules for federal elections, even...

In a North Carolina case, the court is being asked to decide whether to dramatically expand the authority that state legislatures have over election maps...

This is the first election in which a substantial number of candidates for major offices are election deniers or conspiracy theorists.

This is the first election in which a substantial number of candidates for major offices are election deniers or conspiracy theorists.

Pivotal issues like abortion, gerrymandering and voting have been tossed into state justices’ laps. Politicians, ideological PACs and big money are following.

For decades, the courts and Congress have taken the lead in expanding the legal right to vote, but the founders never explicitly included it.

Officials coordinating the November vote vow to be ready. But lawsuits, demands for voting records and unbending believers that elections are rigged are making it...