On Emancipation Day 2010, President Obama calls on Congress to give representation to the District of Columbia and improve the Home Rule Charter.

Is President Obama ignoring "spectator states" in his campaign-style push for health care reform?

FairVote signs onto a coalition letter asking Congress to fully fund the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).

Right to Vote director Adam Fogel sets the record straight about universal voter registration.

The issue of DC Voting Rights was conspicuously absent from last night's State of the Union Address.

People convicted of felonies are permanently disenfranchised in two states--Virginia and Kentucky. History shows that felon disenfranchisement laws are a relic of the days of Jim Crow.

The past few weeks have brought us a lot of voter registration news that shows that we are moving closer and closer to a system of universal voter registration.

The D.C. City Council passed the final reading of the the sweeping Omnibus Election Reform Act of 2009.