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Three fully vaccinated members of the Texas House Democratic Caucus have tested positive for COVID-19, the delegation said Saturday.

House Democrats launched an investigation into Cyber Ninjas, a private company hired by Arizona Republicans to “audit” ballots cast during the 2020 election.

Amazon, Starbucks and Pepsi are among the companies that signed on to a letter calling on Congress to pass legislation that would expand the Voting Rights Act.

A federal judge declined to block some challenged sections of Georgia’s new election law ahead of two runoff elections next week.

The Department of Justice is suing Georgia over its election law that restricts the number of drop boxes in some populous counties with many minority voters. Lawyers are going to argue about whether the bill’s intent and effects are considered discriminatory under the Voting Rights Act, says USC political science professor Christian Grose.

Democrats and Republicans are fighting furiously over an issue that rarely sways elections, and that’s the mechanics of voting

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey talks with the candidates for Virginia Governor as they look to the fall election.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey talks with voters about their decisions in the primary.

The Virginia primary on Tuesday is attracting national interest. The races for governor and lieutenant governor are particularly in the spotlight. New4’s Julie Carey takes a last look at the candidates.

Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives walked out Sunday, killing the passage of a bill that would ban drive-thru voting, limit voting hours and add restrictions on mail ballots while boosting the powers of partisan poll watchers. The bill is just one of several voting bills that appeared in statehouses around the country after the 2020 election, Cliff Albright...

A restrictive voting bill in Texas that was on the verge of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk failed to pass Sunday night after Democrats walked out of the House chamber before a midnight deadline.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis could have 2024 political ambitions beyond the Sunshine State, depending on how his 2022 re-election campaign goes. Now he’s in the spotlight after signing a bill adding more restrictions on drop boxes and more, NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky explains.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a Republican-backed elections bill that places restrictions on voting by mail and ballot drop boxes while in South Florida on Thursday.

Voting rights advocates are actually piling up some wins in dozens of state capitals in their fight to expand access to mail and early voting ballots. States like Florida, Georgia, and Texas still present their biggest challenges in decades.

It’s not all bad news for those concerned about restrictive access to the ballot boxes going forward.

Ballot drop boxes were enormously popular during the 2020 election

DeSantis is now advocating a series of new changes to Florida election law that would change how mail ballots are requested, where they can be dropped off, and how many get rejected because of signature mismatches.

MIAMI, Fla. – When then-Congressman Ron DeSantis cast his mail ballot for Florida’s primary election in 2016, election workers in his hometown flagged the signature as a mismatch. When DeSantis provided the canvassing board a new signature as a backup to the signatures already on file, they determined that handwriting also had “no similarities” to the signature on DeSantis’ ballot…

“Emancipation,” a slave drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Will Smith, will no longer be filmed in Georgia due to the passage of a restrictive voting law.

Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on Democratic candidate for governor Terry McAuliffe being endorsed by Gov. Ralph Northam ahead of the June 8 primary.