US news | The Guardian1d ago
Trump cries ‘steal’ over slow California vote count, but anti-fraud system works, say experts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/06/california-slow-vote-count #California #UsVotingRights #UsNews #WestCoast #UsPolitics #DonaldTrump
Trump cries ‘steal’ over slow California vote count, but anti-fraud system works, say experts

State’s tortoise-like pace is byproduct of system of verifications and opportunities for voters to fix errors

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World news | The Guardian4d ago
Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/supreme-court-alabama-map #Alabama #UsPolitics #UsSupremeCourt #UsVotingRights #UsNews #WorldNews
Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district

Court decision that represents win for Republicans comes after lengthy battle over state’s congressional map

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World news | The Guardian6d ago
Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters released from prison after sentence commuted https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/tina-peters-colorado-election-released-prison #Colorado #UsPolitics #UsElections2020 #DonaldTrump #UsNews #UsVotingRights #Democrats #UsCrime
Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters released from prison after sentence commuted

Peters, a conspiracy theorist convicted after 2020 election, served less than a quarter of her nine-year sentence

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World news | The GuardianMay 29
Louisiana Republicans pass new electoral map that guts majority-Black district https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/louisiana-republicans-electoral-map-voting-rights-act #Louisiana #Republicans #Democrats #UsNews #UsVotingRights #UsSupremeCourt #UsCongress
Louisiana Republicans pass new electoral map that guts majority-Black district

The GOP-friendly map approved by state lawmakers now goes to Republican governor who is expected to sign it

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World news | The GuardianMay 29
Utah releases state voter roll audit amid Trump administration lawsuit https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/utah-voter-roll-audit-trump-lawsuit #Utah #TrumpAdministration #UsVotingRights #UsNews #UsPolitics
Utah releases state voter roll audit amid Trump administration lawsuit

Audit finds 99.7% of those registered to vote are US citizens as DoJ presses for access to information citing low removals

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US news | The GuardianMay 27
‘We’re going backwards’: Black political power under threat in Alabama after Voting Rights Act gutting https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/alabama-voting-rights-act-maps #Alabama #UsVotingRights #UsNews
‘We’re going backwards’: Black political power under threat in Alabama after Voting Rights Act gutting

US supreme court ruling could eliminate two majority-Black districts and entrench Republican control from Congress to county school boards

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US news | The GuardianMay 20
‘We will not go back to Jim Crow’: thousand of Mississippians rally for voting rights https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/mississippi-voting-rights-rally #Mississippi #UsVotingRights #UsMidtermElections2026 #UsNews #UsSupremeCourt #Race
‘We will not go back to Jim Crow’: thousand of Mississippians rally for voting rights

Demonstration, held at historic location where the ‘Mississippi Plan’ was enacted, comes as southern states race to dilute Black voting power

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US news | The GuardianMay 20
‘A Jackie Robinson moment’: Jeffries echoes NAACP calls for college sports boycott over voting rights https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/may/20/hakeem-jeffries-naacp-college-sports-boycott #CollegeSports #Sport #UsSports #HakeemJeffries #UsVotingRights #UsPolitics #UsNews
‘A Jackie Robinson moment’: Jeffries echoes NAACP calls for college sports boycott over voting rights

The top US House Democrat called out SEC schools for their silence in the wake of a supreme court decision that has severely weakened the Voting Rights Act

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World news | The GuardianMay 19
NAACP urges boycott of college sports in south over voting rights https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/naacp-boycott-college-sports-south-voting-rights #UsVotingRights #UsNews #UsPolitics #Tennessee #Louisiana #Alabama #Florida #Mississippi #SouthCarolina #Texas #Georgia
NAACP urges boycott of college sports in south over voting rights

Eight states have moved to draw new maps after supreme court ruling that severely weakened the Voting Rights Act

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Opinion | The Guardian USMay 19
The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter | Jamil Smith https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/19/republican-party-erase-black-representation-november-election #UsVotingRights #UsNews #UsPolitics #Race #Republicans #Democrats
The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter

New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history

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