Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests in Selma, Alabama Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Park Guide April Baldwin discusses how poll taxes and literacy tests served as barriers to voting in ...

Missouri Solicitor General Joshua Divine, whom Trump has nominated to a district court judgeship, wrote a college op-ed in support of requiring prospective voters to pass a literacy test.

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

Voting rights in 1965 The backstory: During segregation, governments across the south disenfranchised blacks from voting. They used several techniques – one of the most striking was called a poll exam ...

Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to pause his voter purge program, seeking the removal of thousands of naturalized citizens from the state ...

Alabama has signed an agreement with Kentucky’s Board of Elections, the latest in a growing number of states to form a partnership that allows for the comparison of other states’ voter files.

The Justice Department sued Alabama on Friday over the state’s recent effort to remove more than 3,000 names from its voter rolls, arguing the move violated federal law prohibiting such action ...

Allen implemented the changes 84 days before, the DOJ alleged. Signs directing voters are seen outside a polling place on March 5, 2024, in Mountain Brook, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images) ...

The Biden administration filed a suit against Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen Friday, accusing the election official of violating federal law by purging voter rolls too close to Election Day ...

The lawsuit, filed on Sept. 27, states that Alabama violated the National Voter Registration Act by removing registered voters less than three months before the federal election. According to NPR ...

The DOJ says the state is violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and says Alabama cannot remove voters from its election rolls because the Nov. 5 general election is closer than 90 ...

In his opinion, Proctor acknowledged that SB1 disproportionately affected disabled and low literacy voters: “SB 1 unduly burdens the rights of Section 208 voters to make a choice about who may ...