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The polling place changes in East Baton Rouge Parish after the 2016 floods added confusion for voters already preoccupied with reconstructing their lives.
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In two of the hottest states in the country, poor communities are bearing the brunt of the consequences, an analysis by Columbia Journalism Investigations and the Center for Public Integrity found.
Madison Parish, Louisiana, and Jefferson County, Mississippi, are poor, majority-Black communities on opposite sides of the Mississippi River. But Louisiana's low-income residents benefit from ...
“We are in a very dangerous place due to the current, extremely high COVID baseline and limited hospital capacity,” the new coronavirus reports read.
The U.S. military is trying to come to grips with the likely loss of at least some control over the battlefield to artificial intelligence.
The country’s worst coronavirus surge is threatening hospitals’ ability to treat patients, but Americans and states still aren’t acting like it.
In the past two years, Oregon has improved multilingual access to ballot instructions, made it easier to register to vote and strengthened privacy and legal protections for election workers subject to ...
During the 2010 census, some responses were submitted to the government with bright pink stickers on the envelopes. The labels carried a request for the Census Bureau: include LGBTQ+ identities in the ...
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It was a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For decades, it gave the federal government the power to shut down potentially discriminatory voting changes ...